LGR - The Simpsons Arcade Game - Arcade, C64, DOS PC Game Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Nagytika
Actually Novotrade was a company wichs profile was, to import/export everything through the iron curtain(it was half legal/half illegal but the goverment just let it happen because of the benefits.
So it even managed to forward programing orders from outside to the hungarian programmers. Thoose time they said, -if you need something good and crazy fast, you hire hungarians- (Even nintendo hired them for some porting job)
Wich I don't know by heart if there were one or more team contracted with the Novotrade, but they could be hired to make/finish game with a very extremly short deadline.
Did you know that the actual first ep of the Last Ninja was developed by Hungarians and only the graphics were made in the UK? (They finished up like 70%-80% and they ran out of the time because meanwhile they were ordered to do it multi platform (C64, Amiga, and the fact that they waited for the graphic guy a lot of because the disk went by plane so sometimes the project just stood for 1-1 week. But after they ran out of time the publisher took away the project and finished it wich ended up with the buggy final boss and even the Novotrade helped to wipe out the contract so they could'nt even get any credit for their work.
And the publisher blamed -some hungarian university students- for the final boss(they told everyone those nasty kids done the end of it. (To be fair it was 5-6 Guys with diplome of Programming, Math, and even Physics.
They never worked as programmers again.
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Actually Novotrade was a company wichs profile was, to import/export everything through the iron curtain(it was half legal/half illegal but the goverment just let it happen because of the benefits.
So it even managed to forward programing orders from outside to the hungarian programmers. Thoose time they said, -if you need something good and crazy fast, you hire hungarians- (Even nintendo hired them for some porting job)
Wich I don't know by heart if there were one or more team contracted with the Novotrade, but they could be hired to make/finish game with a very extremly short deadline.
Did you know that the actual first ep of the Last Ninja was developed by Hungarians and only the graphics were made in the UK? (They finished up like 70%-80% and they ran out of the time because meanwhile they were ordered to do it multi platform (C64, Amiga, and the fact that they waited for the graphic guy a lot of because the disk went by plane so sometimes the project just stood for 1-1 week. But after they ran out of time the publisher took away the project and finished it wich ended up with the buggy final boss and even the Novotrade helped to wipe out the contract so they could'nt even get any credit for their work.
And the publisher blamed -some hungarian university students- for the final boss(they told everyone those nasty kids done the end of it. (To be fair it was 5-6 Guys with diplome of Programming, Math, and even Physics.
They never worked as programmers again.
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ShadowPresident
I remember seeing a review of this game back in the day, in Video Games and Computer Entertainment magazine. It listed the systems for which the game was available, and I figured the listing of the C64 must have been a misprint. But nope, the C64 version actually looks VERY respectable given the hardware they had to work with. Hell, I bet most of the individual character sprites in the original arcade game are larger than the entire 64K system RAM of the C64. Leave it to eastern European developers to push hardware to its absolute limit. Hungary in 1991 was just emerging from the Soviet bloc, and people didn't have much money. It's no surprise that machines like the C64 would be popular there still, years after they'd been mostly relegated to attics and closets in the west.
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I remember seeing a review of this game back in the day, in Video Games and Computer Entertainment magazine. It listed the systems for which the game was available, and I figured the listing of the C64 must have been a misprint. But nope, the C64 version actually looks VERY respectable given the hardware they had to work with. Hell, I bet most of the individual character sprites in the original arcade game are larger than the entire 64K system RAM of the C64. Leave it to eastern European developers to push hardware to its absolute limit. Hungary in 1991 was just emerging from the Soviet bloc, and people didn't have much money. It's no surprise that machines like the C64 would be popular there still, years after they'd been mostly relegated to attics and closets in the west.
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Dick
I had a school trip to a theme park where we could do unlimited rides, and like a fool i literally played through this 3 times that day and missed out on all the rides. The only ither game to do this was alien v preditor where i finished it but went back for the high score only the guy with the high score hadnt finished it as he turned up. We both played our hearts out with loads of people watching and came out on top. I hated gowing up poor so these were real treats for me. I got grounded when someone told my mother i didnt go on any rides as i was on the simpsons all day lol
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I had a school trip to a theme park where we could do unlimited rides, and like a fool i literally played through this 3 times that day and missed out on all the rides. The only ither game to do this was alien v preditor where i finished it but went back for the high score only the guy with the high score hadnt finished it as he turned up. We both played our hearts out with loads of people watching and came out on top. I hated gowing up poor so these were real treats for me. I got grounded when someone told my mother i didnt go on any rides as i was on the simpsons all day lol
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Lee
Wow, I had no idea there was a C64 version of this game! If I'd known that at the time I would probably have bought a C64 just to play it. You mentioned that you didn't like the music on the MS DOS version but you forgot to mention that it has no sound effects! That totally ruins the game!
Also, I'm curious as to why you said that this was -actually- the first Simpsons video game, like that's some kind of surprise? I definitely didn't play any Simpsons games before this came out in 1991. And Space Mutants wasn't until the following year.
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Wow, I had no idea there was a C64 version of this game! If I'd known that at the time I would probably have bought a C64 just to play it. You mentioned that you didn't like the music on the MS DOS version but you forgot to mention that it has no sound effects! That totally ruins the game!
Also, I'm curious as to why you said that this was -actually- the first Simpsons video game, like that's some kind of surprise? I definitely didn't play any Simpsons games before this came out in 1991. And Space Mutants wasn't until the following year.
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Fernie
I once encountered this game in an arcade, sometime in the early 2000's, and started playing it with some other person who was there. Playing as Lisa, along with a second player, was already fun as hell, but within a few minutes, two other people joined. It was one of the most fun gaming experiences in my entire life, and I still resent how I was forced to abandon the game halfway through because my family was leaving. Still, it was amazing while it lasted.
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I once encountered this game in an arcade, sometime in the early 2000's, and started playing it with some other person who was there. Playing as Lisa, along with a second player, was already fun as hell, but within a few minutes, two other people joined. It was one of the most fun gaming experiences in my entire life, and I still resent how I was forced to abandon the game halfway through because my family was leaving. Still, it was amazing while it lasted.
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BurlapAndPlywood
Man! In the late nineties and early 00's, the Chuck E Cheese in Austin, TX had an original Arcade version. Every trip we'd go on, I used to have so much fun buddying up with 3 other random kids playing through this whole game, pooling our coins together to keep playing together. That Chuck E Cheese is long gone now but I would love to find that arcade version and buy it if possible. Playing it alone on a port would never be the same.
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Man! In the late nineties and early 00's, the Chuck E Cheese in Austin, TX had an original Arcade version. Every trip we'd go on, I used to have so much fun buddying up with 3 other random kids playing through this whole game, pooling our coins together to keep playing together. That Chuck E Cheese is long gone now but I would love to find that arcade version and buy it if possible. Playing it alone on a port would never be the same.
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Alexander
we had this fair coming around our town every 6 months and they had this arcade cabinet, i absolutely loved it
we also have this bird theme park which had a little arcade hall in it, where i could get arcade my fix too, as they had afterburner, space harrier, terminator 2, buggy boy and some others i don't remember as clearly anymore
and we have this snack bar that has a neo-geo MVS with like 4 games in it even to this day
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we had this fair coming around our town every 6 months and they had this arcade cabinet, i absolutely loved it
we also have this bird theme park which had a little arcade hall in it, where i could get arcade my fix too, as they had afterburner, space harrier, terminator 2, buggy boy and some others i don't remember as clearly anymore
and we have this snack bar that has a neo-geo MVS with like 4 games in it even to this day
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Joey
Great game I have the PS3 version. The reason the Konami version didn't get a release on consoles was because of Acclaim ownin the rights to Simpsons games on consoles. so instead of SNES and Genesis ports of the fun arcade game we got Bart V. S. the space mutants and Bart V. S. the world or other crap. The Simpsons hit and Run and The Simpsons game by EA (Yeah that EA) are really good as well
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Great game I have the PS3 version. The reason the Konami version didn't get a release on consoles was because of Acclaim ownin the rights to Simpsons games on consoles. so instead of SNES and Genesis ports of the fun arcade game we got Bart V. S. the space mutants and Bart V. S. the world or other crap. The Simpsons hit and Run and The Simpsons game by EA (Yeah that EA) are really good as well
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Pheebyjeebies
Wish they-d released it on SNES/Mega Drive rather than the homeconsole games we got in the end, they would have been strong enough to do the arcade voice samples too. Had the XBLA version until breakdown recently but i-ve been using Mame on my SNES mini since due to the expense of getting the actual arcade cabinet. It-s amazing how natural this game feels with that controller.
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Wish they-d released it on SNES/Mega Drive rather than the homeconsole games we got in the end, they would have been strong enough to do the arcade voice samples too. Had the XBLA version until breakdown recently but i-ve been using Mame on my SNES mini since due to the expense of getting the actual arcade cabinet. It-s amazing how natural this game feels with that controller.
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Axel's
When I was a kid I used to always play this when my parents would bring me to an arcade. Usually they would only give my brother and I a few bucks but one time after a lot of nagging they gave each of us $10. We really wanted to beat this game so we both spent all the money on the game. From what I remember we got to the very last boss and ran out of quarters.
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When I was a kid I used to always play this when my parents would bring me to an arcade. Usually they would only give my brother and I a few bucks but one time after a lot of nagging they gave each of us $10. We really wanted to beat this game so we both spent all the money on the game. From what I remember we got to the very last boss and ran out of quarters.
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