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Over the course of eight stages, you’ll battle all sorts of goons while picking up food items and weapons, ranging from bowling balls to living animals, like Snowball II. In the game, you choose from Bart, Lisa, Homer or Marge as they set out to rescue baby Maggie, who’s been kidnapped by Smithers after she interrupts their jewel heist and gets a big diamond stuck in her mouth. But kudos to the developers at Backbone Entertainment, who have not only retained all the glory of the original coin-op, but added some great bonus goodies to boot.

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Of course, it was a smart business move on their part, since both Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and X-Men: The Arcade Game did fairly well on the download front. Now, 21 years after the arcade game’s release, we finally get a meaningful home port, courtesy of Konami.

Konami was just able to “get” that certain something that made them click, rather than surrounding them with lame gameplay aspects. Granted, that’s mostly because the home games featuring the likes of Homer, Bart and the rest of the clan have outright sucked, namely garbage like Virtual Bart and Bart vs. Konami’s 1991 arcade take on The Simpsons is, without a doubt, one of the best video games the animated family has ever seen. It's unfortunate that the sequel was cancelled, there's been a lack of Simpsons games the past decade, I'm starting to think we may not see another one.It’s been requested for like the longest time, and for good reason. It was a really fun co-op game, with great levels and hilarious game spoofs.

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It wasn't quite Hit and Run 2, (something we all still want to see) but it was worthy of its own stature in the series of Simpsons games we've seen. Each level also has a time challenge, they are relevant timed missions to each story level you already completed. Comic Book Guy pops up to tell you you're doing generic things in video games, like double jumping and combos, they're in the form of game cliché collectables. Each character has their own collectable item, that'll help improve their powers and health bar. All the notable sites are there, as well as hundreds of the characters to see.

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Outside of the main story, you're given the opportunity to explore Springfield in free roam. Some levels are featured right from the show itself, Homer returns to the Land of Chocolate, killer dolphins rise up once again and Lard Lad returns to life attacking Springfield. You can also see a bunch of video game posters spread out clearly parodying other games like Need For Speed and Mortal Kombat.Īcross their journey through video games, The Simpsons music free their 8-bit selves as they're cast away and left to die, stop Will Wright, (The creator of The Sims) defeat Matt Groening, (The creator of The Simpsons) stop an alien invasion and win a dance of with God. Each level is completely different and you can't wait to see what's next, what games will be parodied.

A lot of the action gameplay is just beat-em-up and completing puzzles to get to the next section. Split screen co-op is the perfect way to play. It can be frustrating to play alone, constantly switching between characters to complete puzzles. It's an action platformer, with a lot of puzzles. The character set ups change every level, two Simpson family members are paired up together and it's also co-op. The enemy's aesthetics change every level to keep in theme, most enemies will look like they're taken right out of other games, Madden and Street Fighter are two games in particular. Grand Theft Auto, Medal of Honor and Pokémon are three games that are directly given a level based on their worlds. Some levels transport you right into a parody of an in game world. You will notice hundreds of small nods to some of the biggest games in history. The game is one big parody of video games. Lisa can use her saxophone to stun enemies and her Buddhist hand to attack and freeze enemies. Bart becomes BartMan and uses his powerful slingshot and flying ability. Marge can use a megaphone to recruit Springfield citizens in to do her bidding. Homer has the ability to turn into a ball and roll into enemies as well as turn into a gooey homer and fire projectiles. The playable characters are Homer, Marge with Maggie, Bart and Lisa. The Simpsons family discover they are characters in a video game and are in possession of super powers. It released in 2007, the same year as The Simpsons Movie, but not a tie in with the game. The Simpsons Game was developed by Visceral Games.

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