ToeJam & Earl Productions

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ToeJam & Earl Productions is an American video game developer. Founders Mark Voorsanger and Greg Johnson formed the company in 1989.

At the beginning the company was known simply as Johnson Voorsanger Productions, or just "JVP" as they were credited in the original ToeJam & Earl and in its sequel Panic on Funkotron. After the success of the ToeJam & Earl games, the company was renamed into the more iconic brand of ToeJam & Earl Productions.

JVP introduced the ToeJam & Earl series with the original ToeJam & Earl, followed by Ready-Aim-Tomatoes (a mini-game for Sega's light-gun The Menacer), and the platformer-sequel ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron. Each was developed exclusively for the Mega Drive/Sega Genesis and published by Sega of America. The newest title of the ToeJam & Earl series they created was ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth.

TJ&EP also created Orly's Draw-A-Story, a multi-award-winning CD-ROM for kids 5 to 14. Orly was designed for PCs and Macs, and is published by Broderbund.