ToeJam & Earl-serien lider den stille død

Tekst: Thomas Tanggaard
Publiceret 2004-08-25

Et af de ubetingede sjoveste og mest skæve spil på Segas Megadrive, var uden tvivl det oprindelige ToeJam & Earl-spil. Og selvom opfølgeren ikke var i helt samme klasse, så var der mange på redaktionen der glædede sig til Xbox-udgaven.

Denne floppede dog som bekendt, og det har tilsyneladende fået TJ&E Productions til at stoppe udviklingen af flere spil i serien og samtidig lukke udvikleren ned for altid. Seriens fader Greg Johnson sagde følgende til Game Gossip:

"Sorry to say there are no further plans for TJ&E games. Our plan was to go directly on to other ports of the game after the Xbox version, and then on to sequels, but sales on the Xbox version were not so great and Sega pulled the plug on all further TJ&E development. We do have the rights to the IP and could conceivably do more in the future if we found someone interested in funding the development, but the team that built TJ&E3 was forced to disband. A studio in Hollywood did option the rights for movies and TV and there remains a small possibility that there could be a TJ&E movie. If that happens then I'd say chances of more games are pretty good. In any event it won't be soon. They don't even have a script yet."

Dermed stopper et af de mest anderledes udviklingsstudier med en elsket serien - desværre.

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