Rip-offs in Jazz2
 

Screenshot from Earthworm Jim 2 (produced in 1995, shown here is GBA version from 2002 but it's basically the same):


Metroid game theme (1986):
http://www.heliotis.net/thanos/crap/...roid-theme.mp3

I'm sure there are more. Go find'em!

Inferno and Labrat. Also from one or another installment of Jim.

Cool! Those look like electro blasters!

The EWJ stuff is not very surprising, since the game's artist is a self-proclaimed EWJ Freak.
And if you dont beleive me, go read the intereview in the characters section of J2O

Those EWJ versions of the jj2 tilesets look great..

Earthworm jim also had a move similar to jazz's copter ears.

I don't see the resemblance in the Metroid theme song...

Also, we're all forgetting the other fast, miscolored forest animal.

Monkey?

No, Sonic the Hedgehog.
And then Sega pulled a fast one and created their own speedy forest animal with a gun, Shadow.

It resembles the JJ1 Lagunicus theme.

I thought of Jazz2 water level, but it seems that one fits too. =P

What's EWJ?

Earthworm Jim.

Lagunicus doesn't sound much like the Metroid theme, IMO.

 

Regarding the Jazz2 water level theme:

In the original module, the samples are listed as follows

Jazz Jackrabbit 2
Water Level Music

(c)1996
Alexander Brandon



Respects to Hip Tanaka

The metroid theme mixes in at pattern 2 in XMPlay and doesn't sound at all like it after pattern 5.

But it's a sweet arrangement.

Another reference was the buttstomp, which was inspired from a move you can use in Super Mario World.

75% of jump&run games have a move like that. =l

The raven of JJ2 looks a lot like the one from Earthworm Jim aswell.

Uh, I might try to get the old EWJ game work on my PC again. The memories. =)

Seeing as Nick was a EWJ freak, it's safe to assume the move was pulled from EWJ.

I was re-reading this and remembered that there were also Ravens on Exoticus in JJ1. Since many enemies returned from JJ1, I guess the raven did also.

Didn't know. Back then when I was very young and owned JJ1 I never made it through Technoir. ;D

By the way, Jim's basic weapon is also called Blaster strangely.

And Spaz's looks like a recolor of it.

Those mice on Candion look more than a bit like Spazz, and Bloxonius had a giant stuffed toy Spaz in it...