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| That's right, Greg Johnson and his team are officially funded and making it happen! |
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Just look at those Funky Grooves!
Actually, they might just need to tinkle. |
If you don't know, ToeJam & Earl was the bomb back in the 90's. I only knew of two TJ & E games available for the
Sega Genesis; ToeJam & Earl (1991) and ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron (1993), but apparently they also made an appearance on a game called
Ready, Aim, Tomatoes! for the Sega Genesis using the
Menacer, Sega's Gun Peripheral.
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| Doesn't look like I missed out on much with this game. |
The two full games were very different from each other and you might be a fan of both like me, or as it seems to be the case for many people, you might love one and not the other.
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| This is Greg Johnson's original vision |
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| And this is Sega's influence on the series |
From what I can gather, creator Greg Johnson felt that the 1st game was closer to his idea of what he wanted TJ & E to be. Sega wasn't convinced that keeping that formula would work for the 2nd game so they pushed him into making it more of a platformer game in order to sell more as they felt that most gamers wanted platformers back then. I think both games were awesome and I have fond memories of playing both.
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| Random image but it can't be unseen and I wanted to share this golden nugget of knowledge with you. |
In 2002, they also released a game on the Xbox 360 called
ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth which received a very mixed bag of reviews.
They had their fair share of positive reviews such as...
Computer and Video Games which commented on it's "superb sense of humor and the kind of offbeat gameplay that shows up every other identikit shooter, stealth 'em up and extreme sports title as imagination-devoid shams."
Others not so positive...
GameNOW derided the game's hip-hop dialogue, and
Electronic Gaming Monthly found it repetitive; the latter also believed that Latisha was an unnecessary addition.
Game Informer found the hip-hop theme to be embarrassingly dated, and likened the game to
In Living Color and
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. The reviewer also believed that its randomly generated levels necessitated "simple and arbitrary" mission goals.
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Gotta love that split screen Co-op gameplay though. Don't get a chance to see many of these gems anymore.
ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove is being developed as an indie game, which means that Greg Johnson and his team are really making the game that they and the fans want. With their successful kickstarter reaching over $500K, they still have stretch goals and you can get in on the action to not only help make this game better, but also get a sweet package of goodies and junk for doing so.
Link to kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1578116861/toejam-and-earl-back-in-the-groove/description
Link to TJ & E Website : http://tjebackinthegroove.com/
So far, it looks like Greg and the team are taking a lot more from game 1 but they're also putting in a whole lot of the great elements that the fans loved from games 2 and 3.
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Go to their site and check out what Greg and the team are putting together for us. Let us know what you think and I hope you're all as excited for this game as I am. This is gonna be a great one to sit down and play on the couch with your favorite player 2.
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| Kicking it old school! |
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