The Simpsons Wrestling - The WORST Wrestling Game Ever Made

bad... just so bad...
Also yes, I know I spelt willie wrong
Music by Kevin Macleod
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[@evanhanley6437]

Being the massive Simpsons fan that I am and that I have played every Simpsons game apart from the Acclaim games, I actually really enjoyed the game despite how terrible it was. I got in touch with a former Big Ape designer and he gave me a lot of info on the game. -Big Ape Productions were really excited to work on the game. -A planned but removed arena called Springfield Elementary was cut due to the Columbine Shootings. -There was a lot of problems with the producer and he left midway through development leaving the team to make their own decisions. -The original select screen was supposed to be 3D and the characters could talk to each other and smack each other. This was dropped and used still images for the select screen instead. -It was sadly rushed. -He is aware of the games reputation and admits its a bad game but says it was a learning experience and some people still contact him saying how they enjoy it.

[@TheTundraTerror]

Lemons into lemonade, at least.

[@CabezasDePescado]

Is so stupid that they removed the arena because of that. The game is enjoyable is you play with friends actually, you will get some laughs.

[@erainmartinez8175]

well this sucks

[@LeonardoGomez0523]

Nice info! Kinda a good reason for the arena removal

[@Larry]

The VS Match Mode isn't exhibition Dude, it's the 2 player mode, it's not highlighted as you didn't have a second controller plugged in! 😂

[@AlexWebb101]

Well I feel very dumb, thank you for letting me know mate

[@Larry]

@@AlexWebb101 Lol, no worries. I didn't want to be one of those "Ackshually" people :P

[@AlexWebb101]

It’s fine man, actually quite cool to see bigger creators watching some of my stuff

[@PeopleEqualShit6661]

Thinking the same thing 😂

[@Mr_Leo_DS]

That actually makes it even worse

[@latino5272]

I remember going to gamestop trying to buy it as a kid and the employee would not let me and I remember leaving mad lol. But I'm sooooo glad that employee looked out for me lol.

[@camerondavila5881]

Played wrestling games growing up as kid but I'm.glad I skipped this one

[@Mr_Leo_DS]

Why? Were you less than 3 years old?

[@doncolioni6052]

Don’t know you, but i’m sure this isn’t true! 🙄

[@ComicBookGuy420]

I call bullshit

[@ranii7895]

@@doncolioni6052 I mean the game was rated teen there not supposed to sell teen rated games to kids lol

[@musicfanforlife5280]

Theory: why is The Simpsons Wrestling so bad with its... well, wrestling? Simple: it's because none of the playable characters are trained professional wrestlers, so obviously they wouldn't have a clue what to do once they got in the ring aside from things from possible snippets of wrestling they might have been exposed to.

[@juliemillington9907]

I'd of definitely liked a family guy wrestling game they actually have fights in the show so it more of a hit for them than the Simpsons especially if they made itnstead of the back to the multiverse game and made family guy wrestling with every single character in there but make it a good game and feel like a wrestling game

[@MobileTech296]

That could probably have been worked into a half decent game. Simpsons characters aping half remembered things from TV wrestling as a satire of the genre.

[@ryuride8499]

The Simpsons Characters don’t know what they are doing in this game cause they never were known for being trained Pro Athletes or Wrestlers

[@LVSkinny]

I ain’t gone lie. I enjoyed playing it 😭😭 I just wanted to fight 😭😭

[@dbadgones]

ikr, it sucks SO HARD now that I see it well but back in the day it was kinda cool D:

[@youngspartan420]

Same I played this game so much it was fun to me

[@Mr_Leo_DS]

Kids will like anything that involves a cartoon

[@cheemscheemson1782]

I had some fun with it but I also knew that it was complete fart sound.

[@sunshine_bypolar8769]

ok

[@demitriuscovington370]

I can’t believe you didn’t talk about how busted Flanders is

[@derjude5758]

I dont think he played long enough to unlock him lol

[@dandandan01]

I would go round my mates house to play this and he would always rush to pick Ned. The friendship didn't last too much longer.

[@DrooledOn]

I loved this game when I was a kid, me and my school yard friends had a bunch of fun with this game lol

[@randomloser4674]

I dunno when I against played Flanders ai I felt he was kind of easy. The only thing annoying was the flying forever bibles, and him having two lives. His lightning was pretty easily avoided. If any I felt late stage Lisa was harder then most bosses. If you rng her early she was easy, but if you got her late say like 1 fight before the last boss she was insanely hard. Between constant stun locking from sax spams, and being invulnerable every time she latch on and bite you she was a pain in the butt. More so then Flanders ever was lol.

[@matthwe3468]

I know right. Lisa is a pain.

[@prod.gregupnext2958]

10:21 boy slapping him like crazy😂

[@tomtheslipknotfan]

I loved playing this game as a kid

[@PrinceOfMadness]

Your reviews are amazing! How do you not have more views and subscribers?!

[@AlexWebb101]

Cheers man ❤️

[@D-U-K]

"THATS NOT HOW A PIN WORKS!!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Laynel8]

While the game itself is undeniably bad, it's definitely not the worst Simpsons game in existence. Simpsons Skateboarding is much worse than this.

[@craigrobertson1629]

As someone who has played both, Wrestling on an emulator and Skateboarding on the PS2, Skateboarding is way better. I completed Skateboarding and had a relatively good time with it. Once you understand the mechanics and how the game works, it's actually quite fun and unique. Wrestling on the other hand isn't good. The controls are whack, the moves are awful, the A.I is bad and just overall a bad experience. Genuinely one of the worst games I've played.

[@kingofcowards1321]

bro your channel deserves so many more subs, your reviews are so well made!

[@olduhh]

No they aren’t

[@sixoutof7dwarfss686]

Shame you didn't get to Ned Flanders. You'd have lost your mind.

[@jiyere]

I'm not even into wrestling games but your narrating and video editing is so fun I came to watch it!

[@TheLokiBiz]

0:25 - There's actually an episode of The Simpsons where Bart finds out Abe Simpson used to be a Gorgeous George-esque pro wrestler called Glamorous Godfrey back in the 50s... This leads Bart to become a wrestling heel himself called Beautiful Bart. It's honestly a pretty good episode for being so late in the show's run (it's in season 24). I might be a bit biased just because i'm a wrestling fan myself - But I thought it was fun, and I usually hate modern Simpsons.

[@retrocysper3709]

I consider this as a Fighting Game with a bit of Wrestling. Decent Controls Decent Graphics Decent Gameplay. Pretty Balanced but this game is really fun to play and that's why I love this game. I really don't understand why people hating this game. Ah yeah because of Graphics. Is that what matters for you when you look at Video Games? I always look at Gameplay First and I think it's pretty decent. It doesn't deserve the hate.

[@TheTundraTerror]

You and I have vastly different interpretations of "decent".

[@MrGuy-ri6zm]

People don’t like it because it’s fucking shite, not because it’s ugly.

[@neosname1074]

Flanders was so OP in this game for some reason. 😭😭

[@Samladdy]

I remember getting this game for my Birthday one year and I completed everything in it and it’s quite easy to do. Play as Willie in the “starters cup” and spam the trap attack to beat all the other opponents, then at the end of every cup you unlock a character, use that newly unlocked character in every next cup and they all have a move which perfect for spamming then winning with Flanders God smiting being over powered as heck. Absolute awful game but I remember more of it than most games I played in my childhood some how.

[@DrooledOn]

I remember playing itchy and scratchy, not a great game but I had fun with it.

[@Wheresmyvape11]

I rented this game when I was a kid. It was actually fun!

[@Exphanz]

How

[@qdakid7776]

@@Exphanz he was probably like 7

[@Blue_Shift421]

@@qdakid7776 prob when it wasnt buggy and old

[@IDK-L642]

WWE 2k20 make this game look like a masterpiece

[@korhol2065]

He forgot one detail, Ned Flanders is the most op shit I’ve seen in a wrestling game

[@tubster105]

I loved this game as a child It's one of those so bad it's good games I don't think it's really meant to be taken seriously.

[@professorlamp]

Meh, I liked this game as a kid, it kept me entertained for hours and the humour definitely appeals to children

[@TheKHHero]

I know I am a year late, but I just recently discovered your channel and I am beyond amazed you dont you have more subs, you're genuinely hilarious and I love your content

[@sonicswag90]

1:41. By the time you said “Big Ape” and followed it up with “Celebrity Deathmatch” I already knew where this was going

[@Omeganed0]

"If you wanna make a Simpsons game, make a SImpsons game. If you wanna make a Wrestling game, make a Wrestling game." I mean almost every game is a different genre, I really don't get why wrestling would be out of place next to the car games and the platformers and the skateboarding games. I had this as a kid and... well no, nostalgia doesn't save it. And I actually thought it was a bit older, so I get the 'worst game' thing even more. Also the toast hammer made me giggle.

[@bulletpaste]

You deserve so much more then you get. Keep working hard. 👍

[@MarshalaYams]

This is hilarious, cheered me up a bit.

[@brettswenson594]

Flanders is a beast

[@bry0n642]

I remember this game fondly as a kid

[@quentinwade8506]

Did you seriously refer to The Undertaker as Boogeyman?

[@AlexWebb101]

Boogeyman was the antagonist in that RTWM, I thought he turned Santino into a zombie then realised it was the other way round with taker, so I corrected myself in the edit

[@djcease1996]

@@AlexWebb101 You're all good man. Love the content.

[@bossboymarroquin5775]

@@djcease1996 wait you have to account's?

[@djcease1996]

@@bossboymarroquin5775 I do. I had to make a new one

[@Dudebrotheguy]

For one summer in my childhood me and all of my friends ware obsessed with this game We played it all the time, figuring out how to do "combos", what characters were good against what; literally playing it all day and night Once school started we never spoke of it again, it was like a non-verbal agreement to never acknowledge its existence

[@showtime9508]

3:18 Willie= comedy gold I wish there was more Willie puns

[@dylankeville1026]

I’ve never laughed so much at one of your videos 😂😂😂

[@potatoboy8607]

watched all your videos, keep it up man

[@AlexWebb101]

Potato Boy Appreciate it bro ❤️

[@potatoboy8607]

Hope you don't stop due to the lack of viewers, you're insanely underrated

[@AlexWebb101]

Potato Boy I’m not planning on stopping mate. Just trying to balance doing KZbin on top of everything else I do, should have a video out before new year

[@BonnieBeats]

Ngl Big Ape made "gauntlet dark legacy" as I just seen on that list, one of my favourites ever growing up.

[@madhausen]

Yooo I loved MTV Celebrity Deathmatch as a kid played through the whole thing. It's probably not as good as an adult though, I'm afraid to revisit it.

[@JomasterTheSecond]

_"Marge launches Maggie at you."_

[@CJ-tx3tm]

WWE and the Simpsons were the two most marketable programs for merchandise sales in the late 1990’s. Makes sense they tried to combine the two. Obviously didn’t work lol

[@alexpalko2247]

I still remember my disappointment renting this at Blockbuster. Simpsons and wrestling that should of been a match made in heaven

[@heiselproductions_01]

Big Ape made The Phantom Menace game. That bodes well.

[@comixproviderftw_02]

TFS has endured so much with that game...

[@shanenewby5219]

Willie is Shaemus

[@SJxPVR]

Omg I totally remember some games freezing for a second on the ps1 on almost every start Menu 🤣

[@EpicGeopolitics]

I was 8 when this game came out and i remember enjoying it. I really liked how they made each character kind of unique.

[@wolfsrainpet]

I loved playing this game Idk why people give it a hard time The original voice actors

[@starbreaker269]

Because it's bad

[@mariofanalex4455]

I still wanna play this strangely.

[@justalex528]

Bro did NOT mention Ned Flanders in this video-

[@kmaru80]

KZbin Explore did something right for a change. Subscribed

[@Heimdall2010]

Funny story. I begged my mom to buy me this game as I was a huge Simpsons Fan but never heard of Wrestling. I enjoyed it and had so much fun with it. Playing as Willy and hammering everybody with his rake. Fastforward to 2005 and I glimpsed an Episode of Smackdown and the mexicools are the first wrestlers I ever saw and they came down on lawnmowers and gardening equipment. I was instantly super hooked and still am a huge wrestling fan but since then never have seen the use of gardening equipment ever again.

[@XAUDERINO]

ok im gonna give my humble and 3th world opinion, but this game gives me actually pretty good memories as a child, here in chile the ps1 was insane, but for the wrong reasons, the piracy. The games here during that days were so cheap that sometimes games come in a pack of 3 or 5 disc, but that was only in the big cities, not my case, because i remember being in groups of 7 or 9 kids in the hood waiting and watchin how each others plays and having such a great time, but when everyone gets tired of playing wining eleven or mk or gran turismo, yes, there it comes this game. And was fun for us as little kids only 4 or 6 years old, i remember making jokes about bart beating marge, and saying "WILLIE IS SO FUCKIN BROKEN NOBODY HAVE TO PLAY IT", so yeah this game is shit, but for some kids in a little city of a little country this game gives some great play nights

[@kevinfightsbears]

Ned was broken af

[@JustnVids]

6:47 that was just straight child abuse yo! lol

[@MrVukasino]

U missed some of the moves when you're jumping on opponents head, you can press triangle and circle as well for different attacks, if u do circle it knocks the opponent down also when you grab you can do the same thing.. U can go and use the knocback from the ring to combine it with square triangle or circle and knock ur opponent down or stun them

[@wearealldoods]

Just needs a *modern 4K 60fps* retouch imo

[@reecec2265]

Man I had great time playing this game

[@opticillusion8750]

You dserve wayyyyyyyyy more

[@fonnyjootball512]

still better than wwe 2k20

[@Journey_Awaits]

So when's MTV Celebrity deathmatch

[@Omegajunior2658]

Hi Alex Webb, thanks for showing your video. I've heard The Simpsons Wrestling is not really good as the other Simpsons games. Thankfully I never played it on Sony PS1. Not even when I was a kid nor a teenager. I'd better off without playing it.

[@MrCupONoodles]

I fucking loved this as a kid, wrestling and Simpson’s in a game, blew my little mind

[@MikeJohnson-pb9uh]

This game really wasn’t that bad.

[@aaronleigh4252]

I love the music

[@keegansaur458]

Plz do a wwf no mercy review. It was my favorite wrestling game of all time

[@PleaseTryAgainLater]

3:07 *This is what a corn field looks like honey!* *Mmmmmm!* Hm? *AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

[@smoke0ne209]

I remember ahpu or how ever you spell his name was one of the hardest guys for me to beat

[@ffgoose6363]

The lines were from the show, the voice actors weren't involved

[@akii3880]

Still waiting On a new video!

[@madarauchiha9774]

Wait this is a wrestling game

[@toks1c]

I had this game growing up. I remember flanders being OP.

[@s.m.withtheak3024]

Game was fun .

[@aranope]

I used to have fun playing this game as a kid

[@brokenboy351]

I had fun playing this game on PS1 as a kid lol

[@haileyshannon7548]

Krusty: I Do Cocaine!

[@Juandooo]

Celebrity death match for Xbox was elite

[@jmdnelson4891]

I disagree. I think the Simpsons and Wrestling are a great idea for a game!! It just sucks that it didn't stick the landing.

[@TiffanyStarrxxx]

I played this game for awful game August on twitch and beat it in an hour using Ned Flanders. He's super OP. While it was a really bad game it was FAR from the worst I played that month.

[@Eazycastro]

I don’t think that was exhibition it literally says vs match which I’m assuming was VS for two controllers

[@icegaming1711]

how about celebrity deathmatch?

[@qblanson17]

I’m sorry but I thought that was actually a well thought out and good joke. Lol 3:52

[@petermeatballs6252]

what if there was a mario wrestling game

[@jayjaymyers5276]

Lool I remember this game as a child

[@DigimontamerB]

I will say I disagree with the idea that a wrestling game out of the Simpsons was a bad idea from its core. Hit and Run honed in on some of the crazy driving and all the vehicles in the Simpsons, but that's hardly what the Simpsons is "about". But it was a perfectly good framework to hang a game around these characters. Meanwhile, I could absolutely see an episode where Springfield starts getting into backyard wrestling. It's far more likely than say, the story in the Simpsons Arcade Game. Mr. Burns isn't really likely to steal a diamond from a diamond store. Plus Simpsons games tend to be at their best when they're applying the Simpsons spin other games in order to parody them. Like SImpsons Hit and Run. Though I think Wrestling missed the mark on that one. Not defending the game, just playing devil's advocate on the premise.

[@dicloniusgames]

Flanders: Known as one of the worst characters in all of gaming history....unfairly OP.

[@deivisonmackowiak123]

This game was awesome during his time

[@kennylover2236]

Ned jesus f christ Ned Ned is the most op character.

[@xBoxBoOmer]

Don't judge myself as when I was little wee boy in the early 2000s, I actually loved coming home after playing outside for a while to play this particular game. Tbh I can't remember who I picked most of the time but I remember the burping FAT guy.

[@zahliqgs8874]

Nah your mad funny 😭

[@smallpp9150]

He would have actually killed someone if he fought Flanders

[@scottgaultney]

Not going to mention The Simpsons Wrestling's very own Ned Flanders, who has auto-resurrection like Gill (Street Fighter), meaning to win against him you need to beat him twice on one healthbar? Which, I want you to know, he keeps when you play as him in 2-player mode, meaning he's the most broken character in the game.

[@kennyrodriguez9200]

This game was my childhood I loved it so much but tbh the game was literally made for the fun of it all and tbh there wasn't many good mechanic's on the games but it will always have a soft spot in my heart

[@gregorianallanheavans8095]

It's always a shame that everyone who reveiws this game gives up in mid campaign. There are three consecutive campaigns - pretty much the same but longer. But I gotta say that the unlockable characters were at least funny and worthy of an afternoon playing with friends. The standard roster suck

[@Babyboy_Matt]

Even worse than backyard wrestling?

[@Arcademan09]

Wrestling was popular at the time and I think the Simpsons Arcade was still seen as a popular game so they probably thought they could combine the two. OR the developers had no time and they just copy pasted their previous work

[@perkgambit1627]

Can't lie this game was actually fun when I was 10 years old 🤣🤷‍♂️

[@mr.y.mysterious.video1]

Popeye wrestling on the zx spectrum is infinitely worse than this. Think it was released as Popeye 3

[@KareemHillJr]

Simpsons Arcade and Hit and Run are for sure the best Simpsons games.

[@Perfectpixel35245]

I was laughing so hard at this part 3:00

[@NoBoundariesFitness]

I remember this game being fun...I think calling it the worst wrestling game of all time is a bit dramatic. WCW Thunder and WCW backstage assault were way worse.

[@adudoky]

2:42 For EA It Makes Sense

[@shawnbrooks2081]

Also Ned Flanders is the most overpowered character in this game. Just another reason why this game is trash.

[@shanenewby5219]

He's got the power of the holy spirit

[@homersimpson6585]

Tbh Ned Flanders js ripped

[@masterx1907]

I loved simpson wrestling!!!! It was so funny playing willy lol