No more jammin'

Post by **Segaholic2** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:57 am

ToeJam & Earl are <A HREF="http://www.gamegossip.com/comment.php?id=9416">dead</A>.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:09 am

Rest in peace, lumpy, hip-hop, alien, heroes.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:27 am

Was the Xbox one any good? I only played a demo, but it didn't really do it justice.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:27 pm

Was the Xbox one any good?

Not especially, but if you were any kind of a fan of the original, then yeah. Spam and I played I think about 2/3 of the way through the Xbox one, which is about as far as we ever made it in the original way back when.

I think TJ&E Productions only ever did some educational software outside of the TJ&E games, but I must admit it hurts my soul to hear that they've disbanded. On the plus side, it looks like the series is going to remain - as it was in the past - an obscure cult favorite. That may be for the better.

aso · Post by **aso** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:37 pm

That's a shame. When I finally got around to playing their first game, it was a lot of fun. At least it won't be horribly, horribly diluted like other series.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 5:22 pm

I loved the first two despite never actually owning them. It just didn't have the same feel on the Xbox.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 8:02 pm

It just didn't have the same feel on the Xbox.

Yeah it did. That was kind of the problem.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 4:46 am

TJ&E was always one of those "like-it-or-loathe-it" games for me. Imagine Marmite but in videogame form. You couldn't really play it as a casual gamer, you couldn't be just "Meh, might as well play it". It was either that you really, really loved playing it, or you fucking hated it and wouldn't desecrate your Mega Drive with it. I only ever played it seriously once, and then never again...the novelty wore off after a hundred stages all the same.

I think I'll miss the characters more than the games.

Rlan · Post by **Rlan** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 6:45 am

I only played the demo of TJ&E3, I didn't like the inclusion of Latisha, it should have just been a Buddies game.

I didn't like how Toe Jam repeatedly said 'Aight?'.

Shame. If they could make the games a little less repetitive, they could easily make a game similar to the first on the Nintendo DS, two screens would work wonders for this game, and the Multiplayer.

Post by **Popcorn** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:52 pm

I downloaded the roms of both TJ&E games on the Mega Drive when TJ&E3 hype started going around. I always knew about them, but never played them. They seemed pretty uninteresting. I never got around to playing the third... in fact, I don't think I've ever seen it come into the shop, and for a primarily second-hand gamestore we have a pretty regular circulation of stock.

BlazeHedgehog · Post by **BlazeHedgehog** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:44 pm

I think I'm one of the very rare people who enjoy TJ&E 2 over TJ&E. TJ&E 3 never looked suitably interesting to me, especially since they decided to update the characters for today's audience. Giving ToeJam a Wifebeater just ain't cool.

Post by **G.Silver** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 12:38 am

I actually beat TJ&E once. It took about two hours and I think less than 30 levels, I just assume I got really lucky with the placement of the ship parts. I thought the ending was excellent.

I didn't understand why "updating" the characters meant "make them black." I've gone on this before, and it's possible that the characters were always intended to be black in the first place and only now did it reveal itself, but being a white and growing up in a decidedly white community must've made me horrible and racist, 'cuz any connection I had with the characters (I favored ToeJam) in 1991 sure didn't carry over to the Xbox version.

Post by **Esrever** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:06 am

But, Toejam has a big freakin gold chain and medallion! JUST LIKE ALL BLACK PEOPLE.

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:17 am

Maybe like all AMERICAN black people, but not like all black people.
Am I being racist?

Post by **Squirrelknight** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:07 pm

I have never seen a black person in real life wearing anything gigantic or gold around, and the last time I saw a black person wearing something like that on t.v., it was as a joke, or it was from a music video from the late eighties/early ninties.

Everybody knows its platinum or nothing these days, anyway.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:15 pm

Vector needs to get with the times.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:10 pm

I didn't understand why "updating" the characters meant "make them black." I've gone on this before, and it's possible that the characters were always intended to be black in the first place and only now did it reveal itself, but being a white and growing up in a decidedly white community must've made me horrible and racist, 'cuz any connection I had with the characters (I favored ToeJam) in 1991 sure didn't carry over to the Xbox version.

It was a game about Hip-hop aliens. Except in a single case (the Beastie Boys), hip-hop is generally a music genre exclusive to African Americans. They were always kind of black-ish. Even back in the first game.

Post by **Esrever** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:10 pm

Well, technically it was a game about "Funky" aliens. But I gather that the developers aren't too keen on the differences between Funk and Hip Hop... at least, not if the 3rd game is any indication.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:44 pm

Well, everybody knows:

White Man Can't Funk

Post by **Delphine** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:51 pm

Zeta wrote:Well, everybody knows:

White Man Can't Funk

No kidding.

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:03 am

Seriously, you'd never want to hear some of the funk shit made here in Brasil. Just look in the net for:
EgÃƒÂ¼inha PocotÃƒÂ³
CadÃƒÂª as Cachorras? (It kinda copies Baha Man/Men)
Jonanthan da Nova GeraÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o
and see for yourselves...

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:59 am

White Man Can't Funk

Wild Cherry, bitch.