Sega’s ill fated Genesis Poll has fallen on its face once more, with its second user-picked winner Toejam and Earl unlikely to materialise on XBLA any time soon due to Sega having “got ahead of themselves a little bit”. The poll’s original winner Eathworm Jim’s release was denied days after its triumphant announcement when Gameloft chimed in with their own. No doubt Sega already discussed but forgot the publisher’s plans to revitalise the Shiny classic.

In an interview with Joystiq, series creator Greg Johnson excused Sega’s over-excitement as “an easy mistake to make” in the same way that a Jack Russel terrier in a characteristic bout of energy mistakes your letters as acceptable chew-toys. Despite the hiccup, Johnson assured Joystiq that while the deal was not off, responsibility lay with Sega to renegotiate the re-release, sitting as he is, “waiting to hear back from them to pick up the conversation”.

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As you may have heard, Sega has been running a poll to let us, the gamer, decide which Genesis game is released next on the XBLA to ‘˜celebrate’ the 20th anniversary of the Genesis. Unfortunately the poll had to be reset due to apparent ‘˜unforeseen circumstances’. Personally, I found this poll a little pointless anyway; I don’t doubt that we will see all these games released further down the line anyway, so the order in which they come seems irrelevant.

Nevertheless the game leading the poll, Earthworm Jim, had to be removed due to ‘˜licensing issues’. The ‘˜licensing issues’ in question would be that Gameloft has announced that it will be bringing the Earthworm Jim game to several platforms, including the XBLA.

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