Back in 1991 ToeJam & Earl appeared on the SEGA Megadrive. Taking control of the aforementioned alien space-rappers, who had unceremoniously crash landed on Earth, it was your mission to gather their ship back together and get the heck back to Planet Funkotron. This may sound like an episode of The Mighty Boosh, but ToeJam & Earl was and still is one excellent game. ToeJam & Earl spawned two sequels, the last appearing in 2002, since then there have been a number of re-releases and whispers about a new game doing the rounds for a long while. Today however, Greg Johnson – founder of HumaNature Studios – has announced that coming this Autumn is the next installment in the series titled, “ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove”.
Greg Johnson’s statement regarding the upcoming release of ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove reads:
“We ARE releasing this year!! Right now we have our sights set on a fall release. We will be making a specific release plan announcement in regards to dates as soon as we have that nailed down.
Going forward Adult Swim Games is no longer going to be our publisher. Instead we are going back to self-publishing! Adult Swim Games has some other big titles they plan to launch this summer so when Back in the Groove pushed back, we both agreed that it made sense for them to hand us the reigns, rather than taking a chance on this getting pushed back any more. Also I’d like to say how deeply grateful I and all of us here at HNS are to Adult Swim Games. We wouldn’t have gotten this game to this point without them…seriously. Thank You Adult Swim!!
We are also going to be opening a closed beta within the next couple weeks for our early-access backers, and we’ll be looking for your feedback! Also, the Nintendo Switch version of the game is just about ready to be submitted for certification by Nintendo, and the other console versions are not too far behind. I’ll give you more details about all of this before this update is done.”
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What are your memories of ToeJam & Earl? Are you looking forward to the upcoming ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove let us know in the comments below?
