Homer can belch toxic fumes and has the power of his donut-gulping appetite to become a rolling and demolishing ball of flab. More important to Bart, though, it says they can access special superpowers to save their pixelated Springfield from an impending attack by space aliens.īart, for instance, can transform into Bartman and use his cape to float while jumping. If this mysterious book can be trusted, it seems to convey that he and his family are little more than characters in a video game. It all begins when young Bart sets off to buy an M-rated video game from the corner game store and stumbles over a manual for a game called The Simpsons Game. ![]() Gameplay in this episodic adventure is lightweight and essentially a lot of platform jumping, puzzle-solving and simple fighting. But get ready to either take another bite of (mmmm!) donut or have a cow, because I can say without hesitation that EA Games, teamed with the TV show’s Emmy award-winning writing team, have finally nailed the worldview and rough-edged sitcom-style humor of all things Springfield in The Simpsons Game.Ī Game Within a Game About a TV Show About You More often than not, it hasn’t been pretty. Over the years, there have been a number of attempts to capture the Simpson family’s animated panache in a video game. (D’oh!) And I, personally, am looking more and more like Homer with each passing year. This popular animated riff on Middle America has even initiated words and catchphrases officially incorporated into the Oxford English Dictionary. ![]() Whether you’ve been a closet Homer and Marge fan since their Tracey Ullman Show origins or you’re more inclined to picket Fox for giving this yellow-skinned, thickheaded family their own prime-time slot, there’s no denying that The Simpsons have had quite an impact on America’s TV viewing culture.
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