The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of Acclaim's 1991 license-based action game for the NES, The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants.
Developed by Imagineering for Acclaim, Bart vs. the Space Mutants’ carries the same quirky sense of offbeat humor as A Boy and His Blob, Ghoul School, and even Barbie.
Late one night, Bart spies a massive UFO hovering over a clearing in Springfield. He creeps nearer to eavesdrop on the invaders’ conversation and learns that they have plans to enslave humanity. Conveniently enough, Bart just so happens to be wearing his handy X-Ray glasses, meaning that he is the only one who can see through the invaders’ convincing human disguises. Surmising that he is humanity's best shot at survival, Bart decides to save the world.
The aliens seem to have arrived unprepared for their hostile takeover, so they program their doomsday machine to accept purple objects as the main components from which they will fashion their weapon of mass destruction. The first stage, taking place on the streets of Springfield, tasks Bart with destroying or covering up as many purple objects as possible in order to thwart the aliens' attempt.
This unique (and ludicrous) setup provides an interesting mixture of puzzle and platforming action. Avoiding contact with the roving aliens, Bart must find cans of spray paint in the hopes of hiding anything purple from view. For things that cannot be simply painted, a bit of creative thinking will usually reveal another solution: using a wrench on a fire-hydrant will douse the tool shop’s purple door awning, making it appear red, while launching a cherry bomb at the window of a pet shop will send the purple bird fleeing in terror.
As he's vandalizing everything in reach, Bart can also use his glasses to see if anyone he comes across is an alien. If you see tentacles, you can jump on them to steal their orb thingies, and if you collect enough of them to spell out the name of the family member whose picture sits in the bottom-left corner, they'll help you out during that stage's boss fight.
Once Bart has taken care of the streets of Springfield, he'll move on to the Springfield Mall to find hats, the fairgrounds to find balloons, and the Museum of Natural History for exit signs. Finally, the last stage has him searching the maze-like interior of the Springfield Power Plant for fuel rods, which need to be collected and placed in the cooling pool in the basement.
The series’ trademark humor shines brightly in the first stage through constant references to events in the show: Moe’s Tavern can be prank called, the Jebediah Springfield statue gives advice, and the whistle can summon Grandpa Simpson to his window at the retirement home. Unfortunately, though the streets of Springfield are loaded with sight-gags and subtle allusions, the first stage seems to have received the lion's share of the team's creative juices, and the fun fair stage got what was left. The other three stages feel uneven and uninspired in comparison. They aren't bad, but they feel much more rote in their design, as if the developers didn’t have the resources to complete the game as they’d originally intended.
I really enjoyed the puzzles in the first and third stages - they remind me of the type of thing you'd see in PC graphic adventures. They took me quite a long time as a kid to figure them out, but I remember having a blast experimenting with everything until it all clicked into place.
The gameplay itself is fairly janky and takes some getting used to thanks to the awkward control layout. Since an item is usually assigned to the B button, running is done by holding the jump button, and a running jump requires pressing both buttons at the same time (hopefully not wasting ammo in the process). It's not broken - it works quite reliably - but it is far more awkward and clumsy than it should be.
The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants is far from being the perfect game, but it keeps itself respectable with its unconventional challenges, clever humor, and its refusal to rehash every other platformers' mechanics. While it doesn’t succeed at everything it tries to do, I do feel that Bart vs. the Space Mutants is a fun, original, and personable game. I've always enjoyed it, warts and all, and I know I can't be the only one!
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[@mstrikesback168]

Nostalgia ends when he gets to level 2.

[@Andy_0L]

Lol

[@josephhedgecoe]

Yep

[@xhacorerdx]

Facts

[@Smirgelius]

Only for those who never played the game through. 😎

[@danserrano2251]

😂

[@jbarriossandrea]

So you are telling me that someone actually finished the first level of this game?

[@geilor]

I've played it through on the Amiga 500. And it was hard as f...

[@johnmutz9919]

Ive made it to the museum a few times, but never past that.

[@Femaiden]

first level is easy. It's the second level that's almost impossible. . .

[@animemaster4861]

I think I did on the Sega Genesis

[@rsquared9444]

I'm just as surprised as you are 😳

[@Omniblade_Gaming]

This has the feel of a Friday night. Home work is done pizza is ordered and we just rented this game. That’s why I like this game. Has the feel of nostalgia

[@DemocracyManifest]

Sounds like a childhood well enjoyed mate 👍

[@michaelreyes1337]

You gotta down broski... it was usually little ceasar pizza for me or us at home lol

[@digitaldigdug7811]

@@michaelreyes1337 My older sister used to manage a Little Caesar's and brought home the leftovers pretty much every night. Sure that took a few years off my life. But as a kid seeing free pizza....

[@arananation]

@@issacharezechias2209 you just made because you couldn’t beat the game

[@penguinszn1317]

The simple times as a kid I loved this game! Very happy I got to be a kid in the 90s

[@NintendoComplete]

I don't care how much the internet seems to hate Bart vs. The Space Mutants. I've always really enjoyed playing it.

[@darkfocust2467]

same here, couldnt get far but would always rent it

[@HiddenInTheTruth]

If the whole game had been like stage 1 I'd agree. But the fact that most of it is just a collect-a-thon platformer is so disappointing. I was so hype for the environmental puzzles as a kid, and super excited when I finally got to stage two, only to be disappointed at it turning into a platformer. My lack of skill and enthusiasm prevented me going further. Shame, I might have been more excited if I knew the fair had puzzles again.

[@marrainemamounette4901]

I love this game bro...

[@thecunninlynguist]

@@HiddenInTheTruth I think the closest is stage 3, the fair. But yeah...would've been funner if it was more like the first stage.

[@danielsantana540]

I actually think Bart vs the space mutants is a good game .

[@KrashmanVonStinkputn]

Goes to show just how random, bizarre, and absolutely damn difficult these NES games were compared to modern games.

[@RodrigoLonguinho]

Este jogo émuito difícil, mas é muito divertido this game 🎮 🕹️ is very difficult but very fun

[@insertu5ernamehere]

@@RodrigoLonguinhothis game sucks bro stop the cap and nostalgia lying. I would rather watch all the episodes in one of the newer Simpsons seasons than play through this

[@Eman-vp5wk]

Check out "ET" for the Atari

[@soloenlibros]

All the things he does in the first 5 minutes took me months to discover. Great memories!

[@arrocitodrums]

All this years and still remember clearly I never made it past the first level.

[@BDG96]

Facts. I was totally confused. I think in was too young to understand. I knew I just like the Simpsons. I thought I had gotten the one we played at arcades and we got this.😂

[@justinaqua9653]

omg Ikr XD I still remember playing this game, sonic, earthworm jim, ristar, Ren And Stimpy and the other one Taz in Escape from Mars those are the only ones I remember by heart the other one I seem to not remember the name of was like some gargoyle thingy not too sure about it though XD

[@MrParkerman6]

I eventually did thanx to internet help, bit then got slaughtered on The Second Level.

[@JamesJones067]

Same!! Far too hard for a kid to figure out with no internet videos to guide u. There are no instructions in the game that tells u to do all these tasks. Lol.

[@franckjames9052]

same, I never had the idea to paint with the spraypaint ^_^

[@bluehealer81]

This is the first game I ever beat on the NES. Every day I would come home from school and take a crack at it. Little by little, every day, I would get a tiny bit further in the game. When I finally beat it my family actually stopped what they were doing to come watch. I think this is my favorite NES game.

[@jonathanturbide2232]

As a kid I could never pass the first level, yet I played this one like crazy and was really proud to have it in my NES collection. I liked the colorful cover too lol. 😂

[@hYBRYDcOBRA]

Man I thought I was the only one lol

[@Dorian_Scott]

The old Simpsons games always had great cover art. They really captured the spirit of the show.

[@Tsol345]

I could beat the first level every now and again as a kid but never made it past the mall

[@stevesearle9144]

Same. I rented it several times as a kid and never made it passed the first level. I could never get passed the barricade at the end of the skateboard part.

[@connorlayman8331]

SAME! I never beat level 1 until I was 17!

[@ongosk]

I sure wish we had KZbin walk throughs back then. I wandered around aimlessly trying to figure it out.

[@7Roeth]

Me too, as a kid i never did figure it out, it became known by me and my buddies as the game nobody knew how to play lol.

[@knightshousegames]

My game design professor always told me you can learn a lot more about game design from playing bad games than playing good ones. This game has all the classic hallmarks of a game from this era in terms of cutting corners on design. The first level seems like it got all the attention, while the second and forth levels look like Bart is on drugs. There is SO much inconsistency in terms of what you can and can't jump on, they love these secrets where you just jump on something random and something random happens, and theres just so many situations where it is completely unclear what you are supposed to do, and the solution is completely unintuitive, something the player NEVER would have guessed on their own. Also, they keep rewarding you with coins long after they have any use, since you only seem to be able to spend them in the first level. And not at the mall....which would actually make sense. Every single boss is a dude who throws something at you, with pretty much no variation except I guess Sideshow Bob. The final level, instead of being a proper puzzle, crutches on how cumbersome they made getting between the floors as the main obstacle rather than something more clever. I had this game as a kid. I could never get past the first level. But I always felt smart when I figured out one of the weird solutions to some of the problems, like using the payphone to call Moe's. I remember asking my mom about all the different joke names and she wouldn't explain them, so it took years before I finally got it, ha ha.

[@Dorian_Scott]

I can agree with your professor in this case. I *_really_* hate this game. The graphics, cover art, and 8-bit theme song are fine. But the monotonous gameplay, the droning original music, and that horrid control just make for another game cartridge to destroy.

[@NintendoComplete]

I can agree there. Pretty much everything wrong with the game can be traced back to the lack of a consistent design and a concrete ruleset. And yeah, those ledges in the tar pit exhibit were merciless. The coins do serve another purpose, though. You get extra lives for collecting them. I think it awards one per 14 or 15 coins? I can't remember the exact number.

[@plawson8577]

@@NintendoComplete Acclaim hyped this game like Crazy because they had secured a Licensing deal with Fox when Simpsons was barely a year old. In ‘90, it was a NEW IP. I remember seeing and reading about all about its hype and anticipation from Summer CES 1990, and then finally renting it brand new during the Holiday season and then being completely letdown and frustrated as hell.

[@basedmenace1727]

I had never made it past the shopping mall stage and I don’t personally know anyone else who did, so watching the game play out like this is pretty incredible!

[@Shibafi]

wait there is a shopping mall stage? hahaha first level for me till this day

[@benbendingrodriguez5572]

Was difficult to play on my black and white TV 😵

[@BDG96]

Yall remember the Dominoes Pizza "Noid" game? The older kids had it and I only got a chance to play a few times.

[@fivebearrugs]

I had Yo! Noid, lol; the boss fights were pizza contests, and some levels were more fun than others.

[@SoulDelSol]

Ya lol. Avoid the noid! In intro stage there was the word Doom written on wall with arrow pointing to starting door

[@opo3628]

I *LOVED* discovering the candy bar trick in the mall, letting you skip that utterly miserable platforming experience. Heck, it's crazy just how many secrets are crammed into this game...a few of them I'm seeing for the very first time right now!

[@rgr2508]

Almost thirty years later... I discover you can pick up those top hats from the ground.

[@penguinszn1317]

This game was very difficult but pure nostalgia loved being a kid in the 90s!

[@CalvinTennessee]

Man the carnival level was SO much fun as a kid. I never got past it but having those side games to play was REALLY cool.

[@JohnnyOTGS]

The game is a Parody to the one time movie: They Live, starring "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. They also used some of the spund effects from the first Ghostbusters 2 game.

[@jonathanturbide2232]

Someone on the writing team must have been a Piper fan, I remember in one episode Willie is shown on tv as Rowdy Roddy Peeper. 😂😂😂

[@sarfaraz.hosseini]

Glad to read the comments and learn I was not the only one who never made it passed the 1st level, one of the worst game designs, but boy there's a lot of nostalgia.

[@oosha2000]

ikr

[@DwayneAPurple]

It's impossible to get through the museum without losing a life because the timer is so short on your first life.

[@bra-c-ket4175]

The furthest I ever got was the very start of the museum this was very satisfying to watch the end finally.

[@maxmax5103]

First level is a masterpiece, so many things to do and fan service, this game is a pure gem

[@yusakug]

It was the first Simpsons game, so kids were required to like it at the time, since we had nothing to compare it to. A good friend of mine growing up had this (and later Bart vs. the World), and I remember playing this a lot at his house. But after the Simpsons arcade game came out, I couldn't really go back to this.

[@Dorian_Scott]

@yusakug I Got this game on release day as a kid and it is the *_ONLY_* Simpsons game that I absolutely refuse to go back to. I was a huge Simpsons fan at the time and it really tore me up inside just how bad the gameplay and the controls were. The boxart, graphics, and 8-bit rendition of the theme song were fine, but everything else... bleh! I pity your childhood with this game. :(

[@Malachor01]

As a kid the dinosaur always gave me palpitations. That jump......... Took me years to complete this.

[@NintendoComplete]

The jumping feels so bs at times in this game.

[@nubianprincess5192]

This was the hardest game to actually win. It took me months just to finish the 1st level.

[@AustinTXSlasher]

That museum level drove me nuts as a kid!

[@thecunninlynguist]

Never owned this, but rented the hell out of it. Never could beat it. Think the farthest I made it as a kid was the museum. It wasn't until I got into emulators I beat it with saved states.

[@NorthStarBlue1]

The museum's where I got stuck too. Those disappearing block jumps were the bane of my existence for quite some time.

[@murrfeeling]

The controls in this game were not great and the hit detection was spotty. Those jumping platform challenges in the museum were just MEAN.

[@vandamme84]

What a nostalgic feeling.. I used to play with it when I was a kid.. so difficult game. Sometimes I reached the circus..

[@bowmaj8666]

I just realized something. In the first level you have to get rid of everything purple, and yet Bart's shorts are, for some reason, purple! Does that mean that Bart was forced to eat his own shorts?

[@Zolega89]

2:52 The aliens would never think to look under those towels

[@BlessedWarrior]

I could never pass the shopping stage LOL Good childhood memories :)

[@blaketindle4703]

There’s more than one level in this game????

[@jopar024]

Unbelievable, I remember renting this game from the video store back in the day and spending hours only playing the first level. I had no clue you could do a fraction of the things this person is doing lol.

[@devonwilliams5738]

When it comes to Simpsons games, you take what you can get when it comes to games that aren't utter garbage.

[@jonathanturbide2232]

Hit and Run is the only great Simpsons game, I think.

[@Dorian_Scott]

@@jonathanturbide2232 What about the Arcade game? That game kicks a@@!

[@jonathanturbide2232]

@@Dorian_Scott Oh right! I meant console game, but you're right it's a classic! 😃👌

[@Dorelaxen]

Take a moment and think about the fact that The Simpsons have been on through FIVE different decades (late 80's through now, even though it's actually been on the air for 31 years) and that the first game was for the NES. Kind of mind blowing.

[@markassnigga]

I'm counting 4...

[@Dorelaxen]

@@markassnigga 80's, 90's, 2000's, 2010's, 2020's. First debuted in '89.

[@markassnigga]

@@Dorelaxen fuck

[@bebebebota11]

Yeah. When I started watching it I was Lisa's age. Now I'm Homer's...

[@nickclone]

Had this game as a child, never even got close to beating the second level. Didn't even know about all of the secrets in the first level. Thanks, great video. You've earned a thumbs up and a subscriber.

[@susanfit47]

The Simpsons: Bart vs. The Space Mutants is the second video game based on the animated television series The Simpsons, and includes the theme music from the show.

[@plawson8577]

Nope. It’s the First Simpsons licensed video game. The VERY first one.

[@randallyoderjr3477]

1:31 The original 1980's War Of The Worlds TV Series aliens.

[@ThePhonequeen3]

Until now i never realized that Gary Kitchen and David Crane made this game. It's strange but somehow this obscure game makes more sense to me now. The game mechanics, music and sound effects are so similar to A Boy And His Blob. They even have Bart standing on crocodile heads in a nod to Pitfall which I have to believe was deliberate.

[@tonguelessghostofsin]

Completing this game when I was a kid was one of the highlights of my childhood, but this game was insanely difficult. I still remember being at the power plant, having failed multiple times at finding the last rod, finding Maggie and just randomly jumping into her....and that was it!

[@robertcroxtonjr.7623]

now here's someone who knows how to play this game like a true professional. i need a few tips on how to find the secret passages and shortcuts to beat bart vs the space mutants.

[@hetaes]

We never got to the end of the museum. We died collecting keys. Lol. Thanks for showing the end of the game.

[@professors84]

I got this game for a Christmas gift in 1991 so I've always had a soft spot for it. The puzzle solving stuff is the best part of the game and it's a real shame it's bogged down by lousy platforming.

[@NintendoComplete]

I'm the same way. I rented it a few times and then I asked for it for my 9th birthday in 1991. I thought it was great :) It was no Mario or Contra, but it was fun.

[@Dorian_Scott]

The puzzles are one of the worst aspects about this game. It's just boring.

[@plawson8577]

1990.

[@Tornado1994]

@@NintendoComplete The Game Shipped in December of 1990. Now, Bart VS the World, that Shipped in The Spring of 1991.

[@dinitis]

my brother and I got to the 3rd stage fairly often. Was a slog though.

[@Katiaegustavo]

Jogo este game desde 1997 e até hoje não consegui zerar, graças à este vídeo acho que vou conseguir! Abraços! 🇧🇷

[@chrissaldana4519]

I’m playing it literally right now and it’s one of nes hardest games

[@Dracolino]

Um dos jogos mais injustos kkkkkk joguei o de Master System, não sei se conseguiu, mas boa sorte

[@deepny01]

After all these years I thought I was no good at the game for not finishing the first level but after reading the comments, I don't feel so bad😮

[@juniorlucena3767]

The stage 1 must be one of the most original stages in history of videogames... Only passed it as a kid because I read how to in a magazine. Thanks for this upload!

[@gbrown932]

Anyone else notice Bart is wearing purple shorts?!? I noticed that at age 11 years old and no one has talked about it since.

[@Iwidelyoutliveeverything]

Somebody ate the blue ones

[@gbrown932]

@@Iwidelyoutliveeverything but the aliens needed purple items.

[@pyratorside5711]

The colors dosent fit on multiple way

[@ElvisFerbeyre]

Memories of my childhood, this game was tough I beat it but it took me some time.

[@roningarrison]

Why did the sega version make the aliens look so different? I actually preferred this version as some elements looked waaaay better. than the others. One of the few games I could play from start to finish, good times.

[@elick0]

Underrated game

[@wilverbal]

This game was my first lesson about Acclaim's habit of making bad games. Ridiculously hard game, this one.

[@mark6302]

Acclaim video games all look and feel like they were slapped together late on a friday

[@JoeAndrewsWorth]

Proudest moment was beating this game before my dad. We had a load of NES games like this, Rad Racer etc, he would beat them all and I used to suck but one game he never beat was this

[@miesvaillanykyisyytta3252]

My dear dad gave me this game as a christmas present in the 90's. I have fond memories of it but looking back now it sure had some repetitive music.

[@jamesl.anderson1384]

Bart wearing X-ray glasses, kinda like the movie They Live.

[@hexagon1970]

Man, that background at the forest sure is impressive as hell, specially for a NES game! Great use of colouring. I love this game, even though it's one of the few I could never finish.

[@alanharper4910]

After reading comments I’m glad I was not the only who could not get past the first level

[@beatlesfan1990]

I had this game when I was a kid. Played it primarily between ages 5 and probably 8 or 10. Could get as far as late museum - if memory serves, I'd get past the tar pits, but that T-Rex mini boss I think was always just a skeleton. Didn't attack and I couldn't get past it.

[@noneyabidness9644]

I loved this game so much as a kid. Still watching it and love it. Thank you for the memories.

[@jhonmarshton9163]

this game scared me as a child

[@oosha2000]

Indeed, Bart looks cursed here

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

The aliens peeking from behind the T.V. tho. Bet that use to scare kids back in the Day.

[@BjornStyrmir]

So many memories are coming back from being 11

[@GalitUnggoy]

I remember being excited bringing it home from Blockbuster. Man that was a frustrating weekend.

[@jaadea]

Bart vs the world

[@jessestuchlik7758]

No way I was gonna figure out all the convoluted stuff I got stuck on first level as a kid

[@mattydips2887]

The problem with this game is the difficulty is exactly the same for every level. It doesnt get harder as you go its at max difficulty right away and stays consistent throughout

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

Picture playing this at night for the aliens to just show up from behind the T.V. set?😰

[@veronicaubach1312]

Wow...I used to play it like a mad when I was a child but Ive never found out how to ' kill the dinosaur '...so now I ve seen the end of this hard game! Thanks for uploading!

[@megabolt5898]

The fact that The Simpsons has an NES game should tell you exACTly how old this show really is...

[@wonderguardstalker]

Always thought it was weird that it got a NES game since Simpsons came out at the perfect time to develop the game for SNES. Though there are even some first party Nintendo games that came out on NES long after the SNES so who knows

[@megabolt5898]

@wonderguardstalker People weren't as accepting of "next gen systems" yet so, NES had a longer lifespan.

[@rsmith317]

Once I past the first level and got to the shopping mall level, that was a wrap for me.

[@Scyber_Official]

I used to play this at my cousin's house and never wanted to leave because my parents wouldn't let me have a gaming system until I was 12. Do you know how shitty it felt to literally be the only kid in my neighborhood and probably class that didn't have a Nintendo or Sega in the late 80s and early 90s.

[@Kris-ez2qp]

That’s wack.. my best memories was sitting in front of my little azz box tv playing NES

[@eduardobarrezueta5247]

Damn i remember i played this gane when i was a 6 years old Kid and scared the hell out of me.

[@HongYee1024]

This game should on Nintendo switch online.

[@epicthundermedia5334]

The X ray glasses that Bart has is a reference to the movie " they live"

[@dasteelerz7413]

part of my life is complete now that ive seen this finished lol

[@garthdavis4320]

Nobody ever talks about the Space Mutants in the series anymore.

[@dannyleo4791]

I would always die at the museum haha. Never could get past that level.

[@nodakamakadon]

Looks like the collision boxes are much more fair on the NES compared to DOS.

[@timmyturner5864]

Is it the size of the purple object that matters, the purpleness, or are all purple objects equal? These are the questions that haunt me to this day

[@NintendoComplete]

I've always wondered why every purple object but the Keep Off sign can be collected. I spent so long as a kid trying to get that sign, convinced that I was missing something.

[@opo3628]

@@NintendoComplete - To this day I'm convinced that the sign is a red herring...put there *just* to waste your time.

[@elbarry7016]

Attracted by cover, avoided by gameplay xDD

[@shawndamccormick278]

Like how we didn't think anything like. "Ok next ingredient is hats, how unrealistic is that!" Our mission was hats so hats it was! Such a fun game! "Game" is the key word! Souls still be today! GAME, FILM, ok i wrote this a year ago and haven't a clue what i was trying to say. But... I stand by my words, lol.

[@brianb2565]

I love watching videos like this and I see things that I remember from my childhood but couldnt remember where I saw it from. I mustve used a game genie because idk how younger me couldve gotten through this game.

[@superfurryfox1]

I got to the museum as a kid

[@jkvelasquez84]

A Friday evening...about 65 degrees and just left Pizza Hut with the family....trip to Blockbuster or the local video store and played this game until midnight when I was around 9 years old.

[@holtridge7337]

Beings back so many memories.

[@jamesborlan2850]

I’m sure your not the only one who likes this game Btw the arcade game is a great game but not the only good Simpsons game Hit and run road rage and the Simpsons game are also really good games based on the animated series

[@NintendoComplete]

Yeah, I liked both of those. I also really liked Escape From Camp Deadly and Bart's House of Weirdness.

[@AirForceDunn]

Mental finding out all these years later that everybody had the same experience not getting past level 1 🤣🤣

[@jeffcox6539]

Thanks. Now I can say I beat it.

[@lierx.agerate8230]

This is one of the most well designed games even in 2024

[@roc2256]

One of the best NES games thks for the walkthrough

[@howtoyoutube4520]

This is one of the games that all my friends had .... It was one of the first games I downloaded when I realized emulation was a thing back in middle school. Even on emulation with save states I don't think I've beaten it.

[@Natureboy8383]

I remember renting this from blockbuster as a kid thinking it was the arcade version, I was so pissed. Same thing happened to me with TMNT lmao.

[@solarflare9078]

This game feels like all of its budget went to the first (and maybe third) stage. Imagine if someone remade this game (as a fan game) to make all the later stages as good as the first. (Especially since there’s more Simpsons material to reference these days)

[@sr.blanco5191]

OMG. I'd never passed first part of level 1. 😂 You're awesome.

[@simonn5651]

as if people are still playing these games , made by my uncle and his company way back when (arc developments)

[@oosha2000]

It took for me more than 10 years to find it, I remember playing it on my pc using NES emulator.

[@black2785]

One of the best rentals of the day

[@Dorian_Scott]

More like another cash cow rental. I like the cover art, graphics, and the 8-bit Simpsons theme. But literally everything else in this game sucks. I don't get how people defend this game.

[@black2785]

@@Dorian_Scott most NES games in the day were cash cows

[@miguelsosa2434]

Is a good game!!! But... very difficult to me in the past...

[@Nick_A_Bacher]

I'm here from an IG video that my brother sent me of a guy talking about how hard this game was and barely anyone beat it. So much time has passed that I actually thought me brother and I beat it. But he assured me that we DID NOT make past the 3rd level.😂🤣😂. I guess I blocked it out because watching this video made me KNOW he was correct.