Simpsons - Arcade Game
Platform: Commodore 64
Region: US
Media: Disk
Controller: joy
Genre: Beat 'em Up, Arcade Machine
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1991
Developer: Konami
Publisher: Konami
Players: 1-2
Programmer: Tamás Kovács & Miklós Tihor
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Waylon Smithers has just stolen a diamond from Springfield Jewelers for Mr. Burns. While trying to make a getaway he crashes into Homer, causing the diamond to leave Smithers' hand and it flies into Maggie's mouth, prompting Smithers to grab Maggie (and with her, the diamond) and run off. The Simpsons decide to go after him, but Mr. Burns has tons of his henchmen to prevent the Simpsons family from getting their daughter back.

The game is a conversion from the arcade game. It's basically a side scrolling four player beat-em-up featuring the Simpsons characters. The player can choose to play as one of the four Simpson's characters. Homer, who punches and kicks; Marge, who swings her vacuum cleaner; Bart, who wields his skateboard; and Lisa, who uses a jump rope like a whip. Other weapons such as hammers and bowling balls are also available to use. The game's levels are Downtown Springfield, Krustyland, Springfield Discount Cemetery, Moe's Tavern, Springfield Gorge, Dreamland, the Channel 6 studio, and the Power Plant. Each level ends with a boss whose speed and strength would increase after taking a set amount of damage. End level bosses include the wrestler Professor Werner von Brawn, a hot air balloon shaped like Krusty the Clown, a pair of bouncers, a drunk at Moe's Tavern, a henchman in a bear suit, an imaginary gigantic bowling ball, and a martial arts sensei dressed like a kabuki actor. Of course there's also the showdown finale against Smithers and Mr. Burns in a robotic outfit.

There are also 2 minigames between between levels where the player can compete against the other characters to be the first to inflate a balloon or to be the first to wake up their character.

Trivia
The rabbit-like characters you see often in the game are Binky (the two-eared rabbit) and Bongo (the one-eared one), two of the characters from Matt Groenig's Life In Hell, a newspaper comic strip.

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Description from the packaging:

The arcade hit featuring the family that plays together. But will they stay together?
Make room in your house for America's most animated family. The Simpsons sensational action arcade game is here for the home computer. With Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa racing to reunite the family after Maggie's nabbed during a jewel heist. So choose a Simpsons character and trek through all eight arcade levels and both hilarious bonus stages. Krustyland, Springfield Discount Cemetery, Moe's Tavern, the Nuclear Power Plant, it's all here. Theme music from the hit television series is also here, as well as crisp 3-D graphics with The Simpsons unique, vibrant animation. So follow those jewel thieves and bring the Simpsons together again.

In Dreamland, The Simpsons stream of unconsciousness is filled with bizarre obstacles like the painful notes from Lisa's saxophone, menacing power plant employees and the pin-spitting bowling ball.

Pair-up with a friend for twice the fun. There are plenty of space mutants, zombies, thugs and robots to go around.
Maggie's held captive in the Nuclear Power Plant, where a sinister Smithers bombards you with explosives from his cloak.

Take on the oversized bruiser at the end of each level, including the samurai, the wrestler, the piggyback goons and a bionic Mr. Burns.
Hurl whatever's handy at the enemies, including sidewalk signs, trash bins, bar stools, even cats, dogs and raccoons!

Krustyland theme park features the runaway tea cup ride, crazy clowns and a giant Krustyhead that'll clobber you.


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