{"id":270656,"date":"2024-01-12T03:10:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T08:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=324369"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:14:34","slug":"why-is-the-first-video-game-of-the-simpsons-so-good-even-though-it-completely-ignores-the-original-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/why-is-the-first-video-game-of-the-simpsons-so-good-even-though-it-completely-ignores-the-original-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the first video game of ‘The Simpsons’ so good even though it completely ignores the original series?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On December 17, 1989, ‘The Simpsons’<\/a> premiered on FOX, the series based on a series of short films that were aired as segments on the Tracey Ullman Show. A year and a half later, on March 4, 1991, the first game based on the series arrived in arcades across the United States<\/strong>, a beat’em’up that would arrive much later in Spain and that took the basic elements of the series to invent everything else. And yet, it is a great and hilarious classic. Why?<\/p>\n\n\n

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It can’t be said that the yellow family has had good luck with video games: either the proposals were ramshackle and absurd (‘The Simpsons Wrestling’) or they could have been starring any other character (‘Bart vs the Space Mutants’). But their first beat’em’up<\/a> could only have been starred by them<\/strong>, each one with their specific power. Absurd? Yes. But with presence and personality. And that, whether you like it or not, sells a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some reason, the thing started with Smithers stealing a gigantic diamond for Mr. Burns and kidnapping Maggie after she used it as a pacifier.<\/strong> Eight screens with bosses that had nothing to do with the series, something that was completely normal: in its season 1, Springfield was still very small and had a long way to go before being filled with hundreds of supporting characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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