Back in 1991 Sega released Toejam and Earl, a top down, 2D, dungeon crawl game. The game became an instant success and its eponymous characters became second tier mascots alongside Sega’s latest creation: Sonic the Hedgehog. However, the company initially cited Toejam and Earl as a commercial failure due to fairly poor initial sales. It wasn’t until the 1991 Christmas spike that the game began to pick up popularity, word of mouth spread about a thoroughly odd game starring two rapping aliens. Over time it became a very early cult game and over the years has picked up something of a cult following. The game was re-released on Nintendos virtual console back in 2006 and in November 2012 was given the green light for an Xbox Live Arcade release. And that, dear readers, is where our review begins.
Aggro Sky of Gaming Rebellion Writes: Video Game Yore is a series of articles which attempts to ascertain the exact release dates of classic video games. Living in the information age, we are now used to literally having boundless data at our fingertips at all times. One would think that with this amazing tool, it would be simple to find something as trivial as the release date of a video game, right? Well, as it turns out, you can’t always find everything you want easily on the Internet. This series of articles is ultimately about investigative journalism and our best attempts at answering the burning question: When was that game released?
A brother and sister play 'ToeJam & Earl' and drink Moosehead; hilarity ensues.
Are these two Genesis classics still funky after 20 years?
Here is a snippet:
"Very few platformers in this era had any kind of story, and whilst it isn’t exactly delivered in huge, flowing cut-scenes, there’s a really nice, well developed set of characters in ToeJam& Earl. The two aliens are horribly dated, but back in the early 90’s, it was as if two versions of the Fresh Price of Bel Air had been transformed into aliens and brought back to earth."
