In fact it’s both of those things and this: the original ToeJam & Earl game, which earned a beloved underground following that’s not so underground anymore, was created in a “stream of consciousness” way, Johnson says. It’s not just the case because the game was the creation of Greg Johnson and Mark Voorsanger.
But that’s not the case just because the original game focuses on the two crash-landed aliens, ToeJam and Earl.
As the name might suggest, the story of the popular 1991 Sega Genesis video game, ToeJam & Earl, is dual-pronged.