Earthworm Jim is a relic of mid-1990s game design at its most deliberately strange: a platformer about an ordinary worm rocketed to super-heroism by a high-tech space suit. The original and its sequel, built by Shiny Entertainment, paired tight side-scrolling action with surreal humor, oddball enemies, and a cartoon sensibility that ran loud through every level. Later entries, including a 3D installment and an HD remake, kept the character alive with diminishing returns.
The personality carried easily to television, and a 1995 animated series turned the same absurd tone into Saturday-morning form. The throughline is attitude over realism, a property that was always more interested in being weird and funny than coherent. It spans games and TV, with the games as its home.
The Earthworm Jim franchise spans 1 series, 4 games in the CrossBinge catalog.