ToeJam & Earl 1991

Released: March 1991
Genres: Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3 · Linux · Wii · Sega Mega Drive/Genesis · PC · Mac
Developer: Johnson Voorsanger Productions
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Is it still worth playing?

Johnson Voorsanger Productions' 1991 action game for the Sega Genesis. ToeJam and Earl, alien rappers who have crash landed on Earth, try to escape by collecting pieces of their wrecked spacecraft. It references and parodies urban culture of the 1980s and early 1990s and is set to a funk soundtrack. It has a three quarters view of a 2D world, with single player and two player cooperative modes. Playing with two reveals dialogue and jokes between the characters. Earth is shown as randomly generated islands floating in space, each a layer above the last and connected by elevators, and you collect 10 pieces of wreckage to win. The protagonists can only attack with thrown tomatoes, one of many temporary, randomly generated power ups. Each escape still has its own route, since the levels are different every time.