It seems like it was only yesterday we were reminiscing about Data East's original cave man ninja duo, and now news of a MSU1 audio enhancement patch by Kurrono Kei has dropped like one of the game's many pterodactyls after a good bashing.
The Super Nintendo version of Joe & Mac was released back in 1991, the same year the arcade arrived at salons and featured a few key extras tailored for the home market, like the Super Mario World-style stage selection world map; it was a solid home conversion that saw Super Play hand out a respectable 72% upon release. Now it has an enhanced soundtrack to enjoy; you can hear it in the video below.
We certainly welcome the chance to replay Data East's colourful and humorous prehistoric platformer. Considering there is a new SNES coming out in a few weeks and issue 48 of Super Play is in stores right now, news of these fan efforts means that the Super Nintendo era never quite ended.
Shout out in the comments if you rescued those "cave babes" back in 1991.
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My name is Joe, and my favorite color is blue. I hated how this Joe did not have the blue hair. I was a finicky little kid!
Thanks for this! I always liked the music, so this is neat.
Definitely one of those games I wanted to play but never actually got around to getting
I had the NES version at one point, or loaned it off someone.
My reaction was 'A' for attack 'B' for jump? What kind of tomfoolery is this?!?'
Going by the reviews in SuperPlay 48 it's now a 52% lol
Data East? You sure the company's not called Data Weis? Always sounded like Data Weis to me. Oh well, the announcer had probably an off day.
Got that reference, guys?
Loved this game as a kid...but I had the horrible NES version. Wish they'd remake or re-release the SNES version on the Switch...
Loved this game so much as a child and so did my wife apparently because when we finally moved in together we were going through old stuff and found her copy of the game she played as a kid! We ended up playing through it together on the same night, that was a fun time!!
It sounds worse to me in some respects. Like, the cool voice samples in the track for the stage select screen are gone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYpHAiSbjzY
It's a game that always sounded fine to me, and I'm not sure these new tracks improve anything. At best it sounds different.
I never figured how they managed to mess up the NES version so bad when they managed to shoehorn everything neatly on the Game Boy... which was the first time I met these two.
Let's have the coin-op version on Switch please!
I wouldn't mind playing this again for old times sake.
Remaster this game,my early teens was awesome
@GoldenGamer88 this was DATa east
Wish this would get a Switch enhancement!
Why nobody here is wrighting about Hideki Kamiya mentioned Bayonetta 3 and Wonderful 102 in his twitter?
I believe the SNES version was actually a remake rather than a port of the arcade version as most other consoles got, with the Genesis version probably being the closest of said ports.
I only played a bit of the arcade version but it seemed to be closer to a brawler than a platformer, while the SNES game was definitely a platformer.
I did rescue them in '91 and I wanna do it again on the Switch!!!
Must...save...cave babes...again!!!
Why doesn't anyone ever make an MSU-1 hack of Earthworm Jim 1 or 2? Imagine the CD version of EWJ, but with a cleaner and better color palette and better voice samples?
This was such a fun game on Sega Genesis. A classic!
Man I always disliked this game, not sure why it’s so nostalgic for people. Either way, cool that it got the great audio treatment!
@kolt We are all waiting for official news....
Never played it. I'd like to though.
It wasn't a great game, but being an early SNES release, it rode on the excitement of the system's novelty, so I have fond memories of it nonetheless.
Effing loved this game never managed to complete it tho
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