In a story we never thought we'd be writing, American actor and musician Macaulay Culkin has been named as an executive producer for ToeJam & Earl: Back In The Groove.
Best known for playing Kevin McCallister in Christmas classic, Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin has actually been rather vocal about his love for the series online. Going by the name @IncredibleCulk on Twitter, he tweeted about the fact that he would rather play the game than watch the Oscars early last year.
According to a press release announcing the news, Culkin has "brought plenty of input to the table, representing the loyal fanbase and making sure the game would be as groovy and funky as the original title while receiving plenty of modern updates". We'll have a full review of the game for you on the site in just a few hours' time, so make sure to stick around to see if we agree.
ToeJam & Earl: Back In The Groove launches on Switch tomorrow for $19.99 / £15.79.
Are you excited for this one?
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Macaulay Culkin Home Alone playing toejam and earl, hoping it'll make an Uncle Buck and make him Ritchie Rich.
Err... What ?!
Kevin from Home Alone 1 & 2 as Executive Director of ToeJam and Earl ?!
April's Fools Day has came earlier this year?
He’s a good man!
He was on AVGN last year wearing a Toejam and Earl t-shirt and I'm pretty certain he talked about this around then either on the movie review or his own channel. I'm looking forward to this game tomorrow and waiting patiently for my backer code for Switch to be emailed, absolutely loved the original on the Megadrive
Mac! Wow awesome.
That's weird. I guess it's good to have a guy who understands the appeal of the original as a player on-board, though. This is a game that I'll be spending a lot of time with this year. I've been wanting a proper follow-up to the original Genesis game for a long time.
I didn't even know how well he knew games and movies until a couple of shows he did with Cinemassacre. He was already a cult figure and shot up my nerd list real quick after that. Good on him, hope it turns out to be a decent game worthy of its namesake.
He has been a fan of the game since he was a kid .. going by watching his instagram photos and videos from time to time over the years.. in a non creepy stalker type way
@NintendoFan4Lyf staged I think, look at the dresser on the right and the curtains on the left. There's no way someone colour coordinates like that then leaves their room looking like a sty. maybe to make him more relatable to us? Who knows, cool guy though, I like him, wish he was in more stuff but he's doing fine and seems happy.
I always thought it was pure stupidity buying a game before reviews are out. After all... it's not the 90's no more.
@Aneira That is why Demos are so important, and if a game doesn't have one I use nefarious means to obtain said game to figure out if I want to buy it or not.
It looks great, but I ordered the physical version, so it'll be awhile until I can play it.
That's cool to hear that he was into the original game. Toejam & Earl was one of my favorite Genesis games and one that I was very excited to play after seeing it on a TV commercial despite not knowing much about it. I revisited it a few years ago, including dragging a friend along. We had a great time. I will be having a good look at the new one.
I'm thinking about checking this out I liked the original back on genesis even though I didn't have a genesis this was one of the games i played on a friends.
He wears a Toe Jam and Earl shirt in one of the AVGN episodes he showed up in
He kinda represents the 90s faithfully, so it's a good match.
Me:
https://youtu.be/xZXvHPL3AGI
Looks like he's Back in the groove (see what I did there). Looks like he has sorted his problems out, wich is great.
Sorry for joining the party so late.
Yes, The Mac Attack has always been VERRRRRRY into Toejam & Earl. From what I understand, he’s had one brother and a couple of friends wrapped up in the decades long obsession with him.
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