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DoubleGJ
Sep 2, 2005, 07:51 AM
Screenshot from Earthworm Jim 2 (produced in 1995, shown here is GBA version from 2002 but it's basically the same):
<img src="http://www.impulsegamer.com/igversion01/gba/earthwormjim2screen03.jpg">

Metroid game theme (1986):
http://www.heliotis.net/thanos/crap/%5Bnintendo%5D-metroid-theme.mp3

I'm sure there are more. Go find'em!
cooba
Sep 2, 2005, 07:54 AM
Inferno (http://www.pbhb.com/wallpaper/ewj-whattheheck.png) and Labrat (http://www.gametronik.com/site/rubriques/mega_cd/Jeux/Earthworm%20Jim%20Special%20Edition/Earthworm%20Jim%20-%20Special%20Edition.png). Also from one or another installment of Jim.
ShadeJackrabbit
Sep 2, 2005, 02:05 PM
Cool! Those look like electro blasters!
n00b
Sep 2, 2005, 02:13 PM
The EWJ stuff is not very surprising, since the game's artist is a self-proclaimed EWJ Freak.
And if you dont beleive me, go read the intereview in the characters section of J2O
FQuist
Sep 2, 2005, 03:31 PM
Those EWJ versions of the jj2 tilesets look great..
EvilMike
Sep 2, 2005, 03:39 PM
Earthworm jim also had a move similar to jazz's copter ears.
Radium
Sep 2, 2005, 03:41 PM
I don't see the resemblance in the Metroid theme song...

Also, we're all forgetting the other fast, miscolored forest animal.
MSB3000
Sep 2, 2005, 03:50 PM
Monkey?
n00b
Sep 2, 2005, 03:51 PM
No, Sonic the Hedgehog.
And then Sega pulled a fast one and created their own speedy forest animal with a gun, Shadow.
FQuist
Sep 2, 2005, 03:51 PM
It resembles the JJ1 Lagunicus theme.
DoubleGJ
Sep 2, 2005, 11:52 PM
I thought of Jazz2 water level, but it seems that one fits too. =P
White Rabbit
Sep 3, 2005, 12:26 AM
What's EWJ?
Fawriel
Sep 3, 2005, 01:12 AM
Earthworm Jim.
ThunderPX
Sep 3, 2005, 06:16 AM
Lagunicus doesn't sound much like the Metroid theme, IMO.
cooba
Sep 3, 2005, 06:38 AM
Lagunicus doesn't sound much like the Metroid theme, IMO.I thought of Jazz2 water level&nbsp;
UNKNOWNFILE
Sep 3, 2005, 08:14 AM
Regarding the Jazz2 water level theme:

In the original module, the samples are listed as follows

Jazz Jackrabbit 2
Water Level Music

(c)1996
Alexander Brandon



Respects to Hip Tanaka

The metroid theme mixes in at pattern 2 in XMPlay and doesn't sound at all like it after pattern 5.

But it's a sweet arrangement.
Newspaz
Sep 3, 2005, 11:03 AM
Another reference was the buttstomp, which was inspired from a move you can use in Super Mario World.
LittleFreak
Sep 4, 2005, 11:32 AM
Earthworm jim also had a move similar to jazz's copter ears.

75% of jump&run games have a move like that. =l

The raven of JJ2 looks a lot like the one from Earthworm Jim aswell.

Uh, I might try to get the old EWJ game work on my PC again. The memories. =)
n00b
Sep 6, 2005, 11:00 AM
Seeing as Nick was a EWJ freak, it's safe to assume the move was pulled from EWJ.
n00b
Sep 25, 2005, 10:46 AM
The raven of JJ2 looks a lot like the one from Earthworm Jim aswell.
I was re-reading this and remembered that there were also Ravens on Exoticus in JJ1. Since many enemies returned from JJ1, I guess the raven did also.
LittleFreak
Sep 26, 2005, 04:28 AM
Didn't know. Back then when I was very young and owned JJ1 I never made it through Technoir. ;D

By the way, Jim's basic weapon is also called Blaster strangely.
DoubleGJ
Sep 26, 2005, 07:38 AM
And Spaz's looks like a recolor of it.
Doubble Dutch
Sep 27, 2005, 02:59 AM
I was re-reading this and remembered that there were also Ravens on Exoticus in JJ1. Since many enemies returned from JJ1, I guess the raven did also.

Those mice on Candion look more than a bit like Spazz, and Bloxonius had a giant stuffed toy Spaz in it...