It’s fresh, it’s fun, and best of all it’s a challenge that provides hours of high-energy arcade action. These little touches may not add up to much on their own, but Earthworm Jim pulls it all off with a style that’s unmatched in most videogame conversions. During the many multi-tiered levels and bonus rounds, you’ll have to become skilled at everything from maze navigation to a Zaxxon-style shoot-’em-up aboard Jim’s famous Pocket Rocket. Instead of piling on level after level of jump-and-shoot nonsense, Earthworm Jim has some truly bizarre variations on classic PC and console titles. Shiny Entertainment deserves a lot of credit for designing a game that presents a unique brand of tongue-in-cheek style of gameplay. But the thing that sets Earthworm Jim apart from most arcade titles is that it features some of the most bizarre, challenging and hilarious antics in a side-scroller. Sure, you jump around a lot, collecting things, working your way through mazes, and shooting tons of bad guys before you move on to the next level for more of the same. However, she is crushed by a cow that Jim launched into space at the beginning of the game.Isn’t Earthworm Jim just another side-scrolling platformer? Yes and no. The game plays out with Jim succeeding in his quest of meeting Princess What’s-Her-Name. Jim now must evade the game’s many antagonists, who want the suit back. Jim is a normal earthworm, until a special “super suit” falls from the sky and allows him to operate much like a human, with his worm body acting as a head and the suit acting as a body. Failure to do so results in Peter lashing out at Jim, taking away from his health. For example, the level “For Pete’s Sake”, involves making sure the computer-controlled Peter Puppy character gets through the level unharmed, which is accomplished by whipping him to make him jump over pits, and defeating enemies before they can damage him.
Some levels have additional requirements beyond merely getting to the end of the level. The whip move also allows the player to grab hold of, and swing from, certain hooks in the game.
The player can use Jim’s gun as a method of shooting enemies, or his worm body as a whip for whipping enemies. The player controls Jim and must maneuver him through the level while avoiding obstacles and enemies.
The game plays as a 2D sidescrolling platformer with elements of a run and gun game as well. The game was released for the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System, before being subsequently ported to a number of other video game consoles. Earthworm Jim is a 1994 run and gun platform game developed by Shiny Entertainment, featuring an earthworm named Jim, who wears a robotic suit and battles the forces of evil.
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