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Thank you. of one of our exclusive episodes. So yeah, that was a brief history of the character.

And now let's move on to the games.

We will be covering all of them.

But we're going to focus more on the first two because these were made by shiny.

They are the best examples.

And honestly, I think one of these games you probably never have heard of.

So that'll be mildly fun to talk about. So the first Earthworm Jim launches October of 94 for Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. And again, the Shiny episode is on the way. I'm thinking about it now. But I'll give some more context as to like how this came into being this first game. David Perry, the founder of Shiny Entertainment,

he's one of those teenage microcomputer wizards who made a name for himself in the 80s

with a lot of games published in the UK

and eventually created his own take on the 2D platformer

in the early 90s with games like Global Gladiators,

that is the MCKids sequel,

CoolSpot and Aladdin, which is the Genesis Aladdin.

And if you played any of those, you basically understand how Earthworm Jim functions.

Now, Stuart, you have more knowledge of the UK scene, perhaps in the 80s.

Do you know anything about David Perry's work at that time?

At that time, no, not particularly.

He came into prominence, really, with global gladiators,

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