Earthworm Jim: Special Edition (1995). Play online

Summary

Earthworm Jim’s Special Edition on the Sega CD upgrades the classic Genesis platformer with a suite of fan‑focused enhancements. It keeps every original level but adds extended sections and a brand‑new stage called “Big Bruty,” plus roughly a thousand extra frames of animation that make Jim’s jerky movements feel surprisingly smoother.

A fresh Red Book CD‑audio soundtrack remixes the familiar tunes, and the CD medium lets the game offer two quirky alternate endings—one for Easy, where a narrator rambles absurd worm “facts,” and another for Difficult that delivers a dead‑pan congratulations. Those endings are exclusive to the Special Edition. Finally, Activision later repackaged the whole experience for Windows 95, bringing the extra content to a PC audience.

Storyline

In Earthworm Jim (the Sega CD Special Edition), Jim starts out as an ordinary earthworm until a mysterious super‑suit plummets from the sky. The suit becomes his limbs and torso, letting him move and fight like a human while his worm body serves as a head. Suddenly, a host of antagonists appear, all eager to reclaim the powerful suit, forcing Jim to dodge, battle, and outwit them across bizarre levels. Amid the chaos, Jim’s mission expands to rescuing Princess What’s‑Her‑Name, who he eventually reaches after a series of frantic confrontations. In a darkly comic twist, the princess meets her end when a cow Jim launched into space at the game’s start crashes back down, crushing her before any romance can blossom.