Developer: HumaNature Studios
Publisher: HumaNature Studios
Release: Out now
On: Windows, Mac, Linux
From: Steam
Price: 15, $20, 17
I never played Toejam & Earl in 1991. I didn’t own a Mega Drive, and my friends with one never had it. And, children, in 1991 we didn t have a The Internet in our houses back then, not even a bit. So I grew up in a world where it simply didn t exist. Playing this revival of the series – Toejam & Earl: Back In The Groove – almost incomprehensible in its strangeness, I m a bit sad that was the case.
There was a 1993 sequel, also on Mega Drive, and then almost a decade later, peculiarly, an Xbox only release in 2002. I didn t have an Xbox either. It s been a game of cat and mouse. I didn t even notice that Sega released both the first two games on Steam in 2012. But now, at last, we are united. Gosh, it s odd. It s definitely not very good.