![]() ![]() True to Playmates' intentions of turning the series into a multimedia sensation, the series also spawned a cult-classic animated adaptation, a short-lived (3 issues) comicbook mini-series by Marvel, and a line of action figures to match, all of which fared significantly better than similar attempts such as Battletoads, Bubsy, or Cheetahmen. All the while, Jim is pursued by Psy-Crow, Queen Slug-for-a-Butt's right-hand man who is intent on getting the suit back. His adventure takes him from the scrap heaps of New Junk City to the sweltering fire-pits of Planet Heck (home of the aptly-named Evil the Cat) to Level 5, the lair of the evil Mad Scientist who invented Jim's super-suit, Professor Monkey-for-a-Head. The title character (created by cartoonist Doug TenNapel) is an earthworm mutated by a mechanical super-suit from space into a somewhat awkward super-hero, who takes it upon himself to stop the machinations of the Evil Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-Filled, Malformed Slug-For-A-Butt and rescue the beautiful Princess What's-Her-Name. A much-loved 2D action-platformer from Shiny Entertainment, formed when Playmates Toys approached Virgin Software alumnus Dave Perry (who had developed Cool Spot and Aladdin for Virgin) to create a marketable videogame franchise to build a new multimedia sensation upon, in the spirit of their previous success, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. ![]()
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