Earthworm Jim is a classic. Ever since his arrival on the scene back in 1994 he has been held up as one of the stalwart heroes of video games and helped make David Perry and others household names in the gaming community.

Now he’s back, in HD for Xbox LIVE Arcade with a remake of the original game that will see you riding rockets through asteroid fields, whipping lawyers with briefcases and duking it out with the likes of Psy-Crow, Major Mucus and Evil the Cat among others.

So what’s new? Well for one thing the graphics are completely revamped as one would expect from and HD-monikered game. There are some bonus levels, multiplayer, leaderboards and achievements. Everything we have come to expect from updated versions of our old favorites.

Also included is the old frustrations where certain parts of the levels will catch you in a sort of chain-of-pain where you get hurt again and again until you manage a way out of the situation. But that’s not to say it’s not good ole Earthworm Jim as we remember him (if you’re old enough). There’s still cow launching, head whipping, granny shooting action. Plus all the humor of the original is still there as well.

Jim started out as an earthworm. One day, in the space above Earth, the evil Psy-Crow had cornered a rebel spaceship  pilot who had stolen an "Ultra-high-tech-indestructible-super-space-cyber-suit" built by Professor Monkey-For-A-Head. The suit had been commissioned by the evil Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-filled, Malformed, Slug-for-a-Butt so that she could further conquer the galaxy. In the ensuing space fight, the suit was dropped to Earth, and fell on Jim. By a stroke of luck, Jim managed to land within the collar of the suit, and it ended up mutating him into the large and intelligent (at least by earthworm standards) superhero he is today. (thanks Wikipedia).