ToeJam & Earl

ToeJam & Earl is a game featured on Top 5.

Game Information
ToeJam & Earl is a 1991 roguelike action dungeon crawler game developed by Johnson Voorsanger Productions and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis. It centers on the titular ToeJam and Earl, alien rappers who have crash-landed on Earth and must attempt to escape. Players can control either character and collect pieces of their wrecked spacecraft. Its design was heavily influenced by the role-playing game Rogue and took from it such features such as random generation of levels and items, it references and parodies 80s and early 90s urban culture and is set to a funk soundtrack.

Positively received by critics, ToeJam & Earl was praised for its originality, soundtrack, humor and two-player cooperative mode. It attained sleeper hit status despite low initial sales, and its protagonists were used as mascots by Sega. It was followed by two sequels: ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron and ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth, released for the Sega Genesis and Xbox respectively and to mixed commercial and critical success. A fourth title, ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove, was released in 2019 with funds from Kickstarter.

The game was re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console in December 2006 and re-released again on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade in November 2012.