Earthworm Jim (The Whole Can 'O Worms - PC/DOS) 1st Level

Remember this guy? While not technically a guy or even a human being, everybody thought he was cool when the game came out. It was very popular and it was even made into an animated series for kids. This game features one of the most insane stories and insane gameplay. Space pirates had stolen the Super Suit, property of Queen Slug-for-a-Butt (I'm totally not kidding), twin sister of Princess What's-Her-Name (still not kidding). Psy-Crow (a crow, the sadistic archenemy of all living worms), a bounty hunter working for Slugbutt, tracked the pirates and shot at them, causing the suit to fall off on a worm, Jim. The Super Suit mutated the worm into a super-powered anthropomorphic being. Since Slugbutt planned to use it for her own evil plans, she wants it back. Armed with a plasma blaster which was conveniently placed on the belt of the Super Suit, Earthworm Jim, the hero, is born. He goes on a fight against evil and for his own survival. The game is clearly made to look like a cartoon, with a nice 16-bit soundtrack, and it's packed with wacky action platforming where you blast or whip your enemies with your own worm head. What more can you ask for? It's one of the funniest and most entertaining game from that time period. Originally released on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and subsequently ported on the SNES, Sega CD, Game Boy, Sega Game Gear, PC/Win95/DOS, Sega Master System, Game Boy Advance. The Genesis/Mega Drive version was more recently released for the Wii's Virtual Console, but this video is of the PC/DOS version from the Earthworm Jim 1 & 2: The Whole Can 'O Worms compilation. The PC version improves on the console versions mainly by featuring a CD quality soundtrack. There is a Special Edition, released for Sega CD and Windows 95, featuring slightly expanded levels and a new level as well as the CD quality soundtrack. The Whole Can 'O Worms version has a smoother display than the Special Edition for Windows 95 (and also features the sequel Earthworm Jim 2), but it is sadly missing the expanded levels and the new level. By the way, the intro of this video also comes from the PC version, but you will notice that it's the same one they used in the animated series, only in lower quality since it's compressed to fit on the disc along with the game, but also maybe for the lack of better video codecs at the time.

Note: If you watch the high quality version of this video, you will notice faint dark lines in the cartoon intro which are not present in the normal quality version. This is caused by the resolution which is not the same between normal and high. When you play the game on your computer, the intro is stretched from 320X240 to 640X480 pixels. To do this stretching, the game does this very noticeable interlacing (the darker lines) which doubles the number of pixels in a not so great looking way. The resolution is low for YouTube's normal quality version, so it effectively eliminates the interlacing issue, but it still needs to do a little bit of interlacing for the high quality version which is of a higher resolution than the normal version. There's no interlacing issue for the rest of the video and none of that is my fault anyway, so I just wanted to clear that up.

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[ZOMGX3]

How did you manage to run this game on DOSBox? I've tried several methods to run the game, including mounting the cue file on a virtual drive. If you could send me a PM telling me how to run the game, I'll really appreciate that a lot.

[DarkEvil87]

@ZOMGX3 Some people seem to have this problem with this game in particular. I'm not sure at all, but I might have had to burn the game on a real CD instead of mounting on a virtual drive. Anyway virtual drive or not, don't forget to mount CDROM like this : mount d: d:\ -t cdrom. From this point, if it doesn't work, send me a PM and I can try to remember as best as I can how I got it to work.

[Btushinsky83]

This was from the Whole Can of Worms Pack Insn't It

[DarkEvil87]

@Btushinsky83 Yep.

[Ostnizdasht206]

The music sounds like it was edited with the vid.

[DarkEvil87]

It's like this in the game by default, at least on DOSBox.

[kanumbra]

oh wow. this brings back memories...

[TrollSlayer2001]

This version should have been on PlayStation and Sega Saturn.

[xRikux]

I played this when I was a kid. XD I had never watched the cartoon, though...o_o

[nik0o99]

GROVY¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ 

[damprumpan]

The GBA version sucks!

and also...

@MrBillyMaze EARTHworm jim

[wolborgZ]

lol I went to get the cd-rom for this I got my parrents to buy me 14 years ago, I put it in my laptop and it just runs LOL!

[MrBillyMaze]

Wow, this person is so good at spaceworm jim.

[roman6a]

lol i renember playing this exact same game when i was like 5 and my grandpa had this (right now old and dead) computer and playing this until stage 2... damn it was good. i died so many times but the graphics and the music was awesome at that time.

[GWKTM]

Where did you download that game? Version, i downloaded about that game, didn't work although i used DosBox

[ZOMGX3]

@ULtimateTailsFan213 Ah, i see. Thanks for letting me know then.