Earthworm Jim occurs as platform game starring an earthworm who battles evil with a assist of an "ultra-high-tech-indestructible-super-space-cyber-suit". It was developed by Shiny Entertainment, released for the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive outside North United states of america) inside 1994, and later for the SNES, Game Gear, Game Boy, Mega CD, Game Boy Advance, and Microsoft Windows. Upon its release it was praised for its elaborated, humorous animation and polished gameplay, and becoming the foremost game ever for a 100% read around Games Master magazine. The favorite edition of the game was freed for the Sega CD, which featured CD quality music, better graphics, & expanded levels [http://curmudgeongamer.com/article.php?story=20021219163453983].

A plot line included numerous colorful characters. Jim himself (the character designed by Doug TenNapel) was at first an average Globe angleworm world health organization did super earthworm-like items such as flee from either crows and eat dirt. Of these day, in a space above Globe, the evil Psy-Crow had cornered a rebel spaceship pilot who had stolen an ultra-high-tech undestroyable extremely space-cyber-lawsuit, built by Professor Monkey-For-A-Head. A lawsuit got been commissioned per evil Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-filled, Malformed, Slug-for-a-Butt so that it would make her when beautiful when her twin sister, Princess What's-Her-Name. In a following space fight, the lawsuit was dropped to Globe, & fell in Jim. By a stroke of luck, Jim managed to l& inside a collar of the lawsuit, & it ended higher mutating him into the big and intelligent (at least by crawler standards) superhero he is now. Jim overheard Psy-Crow talking to Queen Slug-for-a-Butt all about the scorch marks left per lawsuit, you said it she would before long become when beautiful when Princess What's-Her-Title. Jim so placed intent on rescue a princess, fighting numerous enemies along a way, like Evil the Cat and Bob the Killer Goldfish.

Sequels
The sequel, Earthworm Jim Two, was freed inside 1995 for the Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, Sony PlayStation, SNES and PC, and the port was down the road freed for the Game Boy Advance. Both farther games, Earthworm Jim 3D (1999, PC, Nintendo 64) and Earthworm Jim: Menace Two a Galaxy (1999, Game Boy Color), were produced without a involvement of Shiny and were met with mediocre to unfortunate reviews.

Shiny's game Sacrifice involved an earthworm-like god called James.

Other media
An animated television series based on the games was produced & created by Doug TenNapel, and aired from either 1995 to 1996, with Dan Castellaneta providing the voice for the title character. More voices were provided by Andrea Martin and Ben Stein. These are ordinarily considered when existence one of a better cartoons based on video games.

Both separate Earthworm Jim comedian were published: of these in the United States, and 1 in the UK. A latter was depending extra on a cartoon series than the original games. Aside from either featuring a equivalent characters, them comedian were wholly unrelated.