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Jeremy: Patron Scott Rothman joins us (myself, Kevin Bunch, and Stuart Gipp) again for this episode, wherein we take a dive into the weirdly innovative Toe Jam & Earl series. It will never cease to amaze me that the first proper distillation of Rogue's principles into an action milieu came in the form of a wacky action game about weird-looking aliens with a predilection for rap music. An unlikely pairing! But, as we explain here, an extremely good one.

Art by Greg Melo; edits by Greg Leahy.

08:18 - ToeJam & Earl: ToeJam Jammin'

22:22 - ToeJam & Earl: Big Earl Bump

32:47 - ToeJam & Earl: Rapmaster Rocket Racket

42:41 - ToeJam & Earl: Funkotronic Beat

51:48 - ToeJam & Earl: ToeJam Slowjam | Panic on Funkotron: Lewanda's Love

1:03:56 - "Fresh Prince of Funkotron" from ZombieRaccoon on YouTube

1:14:13 - Panic on Funkotron: Aquajam

1:30:16 - Mission to Earth: Character Select (Latisha)

1:38:20 - Back in the Groove: Alien Breakdown

1:45:00 - Back in the Groove: Peabo's Party Jam

Closing - Panic on Funkotron ("Sega Tunes" CD Album): Theme Song

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Michael Castleberry

Never finished the game, but I have a lot of good memories hanging out with my neighbors playing it at their place. Its a great "hangout game"

Kevin OReilly

I had this game new, my brother was Toejam, I was Earl, we played all the time and finished it several times. We let a friend borrow it and never saw the cart again. One of the best Genesis games for co-op multiplayer, for sure. The little clips from the soundtrack in this episode have me looking for YouTube soundtrack videos.

Max du Coudray

I’m surprised Jeremy seems to treat rogue-lite as being “subjectively some amount divergent from Rogue.” I always thought rogue-lite was a clear term, indicating meta progression. Since there is no permanent progression between games of TJ&E, I believe it would go in the rogue-LIKE bucket.

Craig

“If only someone had written about every single Game Gear game ever made”

Sean Ryan

No mention of Macaulay Culkin's involvement in Back in the Groove? Shame shame...