Earthworm Jim sur Gameboy met en scène Jim, un ver de terre ayant hérité d'un costume aux pouvoirs extraordinaires. Dans ce classique parmi les jeux de plates-formes, le joueur dispose d'un pistolet laser comme moyen de défense. Jim a aussi une large palette de mouvements pour parvenir à franchir des niveaux variés.
She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday. The word was appropriate to the moment. My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was, - as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough, - conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.
