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Party like it's 1994.

An iPhone version of classic platformer Earthworm Jim is now available in the App Store.

Earthworm Jim was first released for the Megadrive and SNES a whole 15 years ago. Players control the titular character as he battles evil crows and the like in a bid to rescue Princess What's-Her-Name.

In the iPhone version, Jim is controlled using a virtual d-pad and action buttons. There are racing levels where you control your vehicle by tilting the phone left and right. But otherwise you can expect the usual collection of cows, snot, intestines, bungee jumping etc.

Earthworm Jim is priced at Ł2.99, which was the average house price in 1994.

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Rirekon #1 2 years ago

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Virtual d-pads make me sad
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photoboy #2 2 years ago

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They're not all bad, Carmack made an excellent virtual analogue stick for Wolfenstein 3D and the port of Megaman 2 has an excellent d-pad (after a patch, the first release was terrible).
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presh #3 2 years ago

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review please - maybe in the retro section?
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photoboy #4 2 years ago

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I just downloaded it and gave it a play and it's quite good fun. The controls seem OK but I think the game feels a bit laggy in terms of framerate. The platforming doesn't seem to require precision like Mario or Megaman (yet) but it's a bit hard to work out where to go with all the layers of graphics. The humour is still there, albeit maybe a bit childish for some- the fire level seems to have farting noises whenever a flame erupts...

I never played the original so I don't know how it compares, but I think it will provide a decent diversion if you're a fan of 16-bit era platformers.
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kinky_mong #5 2 years ago

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I remember Eartworm Jim, it was that game with the horribly misjudged difficulty level for its target audience.
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photoboy #6 2 years ago

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This one has Easy, Medium, Hard and Original difficulty, in that order. So I assume that means even hard isn't as difficult as the original game. Certainly the levels I played so far were pretty easy.
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uglygamer #7 2 years ago

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[link url=http://toucharcade.com/2009/10/20/earthworm-jim-groooo ovy/
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review for you guys
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JJrabbit #8 2 years ago

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I'll wait for this to come on XBLA before I buy an EWJ game. But I will buy an EWJ game.
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Razorus #9 2 years ago

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I can't imagine how impossible to play the iPhone version is. I downloaded the Megadrive version on the Wii VC, and I was shocked by how hard the game is! Did we (age 22 for example) really used to finish these games as kids? Have I become shit? Why do men have nipples?
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uglygamer #10 2 years ago

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They have different difficulty options in teh iphone version
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smelly #11 2 years ago

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"The humour is still there, albeit maybe a bit childish for some- the fire level seems to have farting noises whenever a flame erupts...
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Wait till you get to the snot levels!!! And it's only childish to children.. grown ups dont care about such things
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smelly #12 2 years ago

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"So I assume that means even hard isn't as difficult as the original game."

The original game is one of the few megadrive games i owned that i beat.. it wasnt hard at all.
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