Earthworm Jim 3D - What Happened?

#mattmcmuscles #earthwormjim #whathappened

[hayden_duvall]

Thanks for the PTSD attack - I worked on both HEDZ and Earthworm Jim 3D - so many stories. VIS was housed in a re-purposed maternity hospital - one of the guys had an office in the room where he had been born :)

[MetsCatDad]

I remember H.E.D.Z
1998 Christmas: My cousin and I were propositioned by our uncle to choose between two wrapped gifts. My cousin bullied for first pick. He got H.E.D.Z and I got Baldur's Gate

Get Owned Cuzzo

[thegreatmightyd]

It's actually pretty sad how many beloved 2D game franchises didn't survive the 3D transition...

[CreepsMcPasta]

Man I forgot this jumpin' bopper existed

[KuronekoBonbon]

Imagine an alternative universe where Earthworm Jim is at the hands at Wayforward and they make a great game out of it.

[stilnoxVisions]

Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, also voices Earthworm Jim in the cartoon. I miss EJ.

[EctoTron]

Have you ever heard the story of Wha Happun with 2009's Ghostbusters: The Video Game?
While the game itself was pretty good, the fact that it exists at all is nothing short of a miracle due to all the behind the scenes craziness.

[HouwariAttack]

3:00 Considering Gaikai got sold to Sony for $380 Million, I'd say it was a good move

[Spindash]

How’d we get through this whole episode without hearing “GROOO-VY!”?

[cwilliams]

Funnily enough I remember HEDZ because I owned it. A former friend of mine in middle school straight up gave it to me when I was over his house one day. I actually remember politely declining thinking that was overly generous, but he insisted and feeling too awkward to be persistent about it, I took it. I took it home and found it to be a fairly uninteresting and not very good game and mostly forgot it. Despite that experience, it is now nearly two decades later when I realized that it was not a gift at all and my friend probably just wanted to get that piece of shit out of his house, which I mean....fair enough, I suppose haha.

[richard_gonzalez]

"This sequel that you might have rented, but were definitely disappointed by"
That is literally what happened to me with this game. I still remember renting it from blockbuster years ago and I think I stopped playing it after a day or two

[UFG_Studios]

I feel like a great way for Earthworm Jim to make a great comeback is pulling the Banjo-Kazooie route with appearing in Smash Bros. He still has a huge cult following and he would make a rather unique character in Smash.

I will forever hope for the Earthworm in Smash.

[mephisto]

I always thought Hedz was something I'd dreamed one night

[acethurman]

Jim was never the same after he started to hang out with sonic, tails and eggman...

[matygoo]

No sequels is such a painfully stupid policy, You make lots of games to see what sticks and if you’re lucky enough to get a franchise going it’s a blessing. You can still be creative within it

[hauntedworldofcw]

I literally get so excited when I see a Wha Happun in our notifications. Great way to start the day!

[Dipshit_The_Clown]

One of my favorite episodes you've done, Matt. Funny, entertaining, perfect. Thank you for making videos. 3 years in and I am still surprised and entertained by everything you make.

[gddish]

Moral of the story:

Never sell the ip of something that was the top of your career.

Don't try to be nostalgic to where you have to put ports of other consoles when you're only good at making games of one of them

[worldofthought]

"Drag the earthworm into the third dimension"
I honestly thought this was going to be follwed by a DBZ Ocean infamous vegeta dub 'Send you to the next dimension!'

[BoonMcNougat]

I was an Earthworm Jim fan as a kid even though I could barely get past the first couple of levels on SNES. I remember watching my older brother get to 'hell' and that fuckin' orchestrated music, man, that scared the shit out of me as a kid paired with the visuals. I only just now, in the process of making this comment, found out the level is called 'What the heck?', so I guess it was very much meant to be hell. I played the shit out of N64 Jim3d, but never beat it. As a youngster I thought I was playing it wrong. I've always wanted to right this wrong, but the PC versions of EJ3D just aren't up to snuff and have many technical issues in the modern day. As a kid I was too dumb to realise it was a shit game, so I played it a lot and progressed a fair bit, but the Video Ezy rental period was not long enough for gamer kid me to build up the gamer muscle to gamer game this gamey game game. What was I talkin' about? Oh yeah, we used to wear onions on our belt, as was the style at the time...