puppy love revisited

snot a balloon

balloon fight. note the fish.


earthworm jim level "snot a problem"


aside from the fish, this level is definitely a joustlike

thanks to dark age iron savior for the tip

defeated!/very cool!

the trash can man in new junk city strikes me as a mash up of a couple of bosses from treasure's first game, gunstar heroes. this is the only time you get "warning" onscreen and the only time you are applauded for killing a midboss ("very cool!" as opposed to gunstar's "defeated!"). the tcm is also the only multisprite boss in the game, which fit the design of treasure's bosses. the starting form bears some resemblance to gunstar's bravoo man, but the tcm's patterns, and the simple fact that he does change forms, are clearly based on the seven force from gunstar's second stage. compare the tcm's cannon form to the seven force's gun form.

dracula revised

puppy love

earthworm jim 2, "puppy love"


 a game & watch design sheet

dissecting jim

this is a blog about earthworm jim. the two 16-bit games have a lot of curious segments which seem to reference older games. this blog is about matching the references to their sources. and maybe other tidbits about earthworm jim's history, if i can find them.

here is a commercial for the first game: