Today has been a great day in the world of the Virtual Console! Not only was River City Ransom released, but Interplay just confirmed it will be bringing four of its classic Genesis games to the Wii’s retro download service by the end of the year: Earthworm Jim, Earthworm Jim 2, Boogerman and Clayfighter.
Yes, I love Earthworm Jim (and its awesome sequel) more than words, but let’s talk about Clayfighter, shall we? The craptastic fighting game may be the worst thing ever in most people’s eyes, but it holds a very special place in my retro heart. You know the place I am talking about: the one reserved for things like Showgirls and reruns of Small Wonder.
As of now, no release dates outside of “sometime in 2008” have been announced.
What do you think? Like me, did you just rip off your shirt in excitement? Is Bad Mr. Frosty the greatest videogame character of all time?
[Via IGN -- Thanks, ryanrab1]
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7:52 PM on 04.21.2008
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Oh, Earthworm Jim. Don't murder me or anything, but I never liked it that much. I do admit everything was pretty good about it, but it just never clicked with me.
Earthworm jim is the only game out there where i can happily blow up a cow or two, if i remember it right.
Clayfighter....are they gonna keep the freaky elvis-face background level?
Though I recognize that Clayfighter wasn't actually a good game, it holds a special place in my heart.
Also at least clayfighter had some style to it.
Vigo Chad is Appeased!
Nobody gets fired from Nintendo! As of yet...
EWJ is a no brainer though. The games were awesome, and I was also a fan of the show. I have a bunch of tapes and action figures somewhere. Good times.
Also, I agreee wholeheartedly with Clayfighter. I poured hours into the 63 1/3rd game.
I can not wait for this to come out on VC.
"Go to your closet, Viki."
Ah, good times!
I'll be getting Boogerman and Earthworm Jim 1 & 2. Boogerman was the shit back in the day!
Fuckin' WIN!
Oh, and Blue Suede Goo
chad, i do have the pic without the name crediting shoop
Earthworm Jim is still an awesome, challenging game.
SO if you couldn't 1up me on that, then you would be pretty bad.
Oh god, I played the holy hell out of those games.
Clayfighter ... I wish I could say I'd never played it, but I did. I think when you're a kid you can play really crappy games and enjoy them. It has a crappy sort of charm, which is 100% nostalgia, but I wouldn't mind remembering how hilariously bad and slow it is.
Not sure this will get them the capital they need for a Fallout MMO, but you can bet I will be getting Jim and maybe Jim 2. I wonder which version they will be doing? The Mega CD version is the 'complete' version (I am fortunate enough to have played it) but I guess the SNES version is most likely.
I want a 16-bit era version of Smash Bros, with Jim and Sparkster and such agaist Sonic and Mario. Could be glorious.