Let’s Talk About That ONE Good Simpsons Game
And how it paved the way for future licensed games.
It’s usually expected for most popular television shows and movies to eventually get a video game based on the original media. However, more likely than not, most of these spin-offs are just low quality titles used as a quick cash grab to convince uninformed parents to easily gift their kids a game based on something they watch. And aside from the Atari 2600 title “E.T.” singlehandedly causing The Video Game Crash of 1983, one of the most notorious franchises for making terrible licensed games is The Simpsons.
The renowned television show has 27 installments of video games across game consoles, mobile phones, and PC starting back in 1991 with “Bart vs. The Space Mutants” on the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is worth mentioning though, a large quantity doesn’t necessarily mean good quality. Most of these installments, regardless of the amount of sales or what genre, were strictly to make a quick buck. Many games seemed to follow a similar pattern of putting together the formula of a mediocre experience, and inserting The Simpsons characters into it to cover up the mistakes.
However, The Simpsons’ team finally found a formula that worked in 2003 when Radical Entertainment developed their first Simpsons title “The Simpsons: Hit & Run”. Hit & Run is an…
