Dave Perry: Selling Earthworm Jim was the 'dumbest move ever'

by Jason Dobson { Sep 29th 2008 at 2:25PM }

Dave Perry has been feeling a twinge of seller's remorse since washing his hands of former platforming icon, Earthworm Jim. More than that, actually, as the Shiny Entertainment founder admits in a recent interview that, in hindsight, selling off the rights to annelid-made-superhero was probably the "dumbest move ever."

The outspoken Wii detractor lays the blame for the miscue largely on the industry's transition away from 2D and into the third dimension in the 90s, his animators at the time unwilling to lay down their pencils in favor of the almighty polygon. Of course, the team eventually went on to create the fabulously tongue-in-cheek action epic, MDK. Now, like Perry, we're left to sit and wonder what might have been as we wait for Interplay to push Jim up from the soil once more.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mr Khan @ Sep 29th 2008 2:36PM

Earthworm Jim was a great game, but came at a time when the market was too crowded with mascot titles. The early part of the 3D era was awash with them

Though 3D mascotting was a more colorful era at least than the "ultra-realism with extra brown" design fad we have now...