[Arcade - Beat'em Up] The Simpsons: The Arcade Game

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The Simpsons: The Arcade Game is an arcade game developed by Konami in 1991. It is a beat 'em up based on the cartoon series of the same name. The voice actors of the immediate family (Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, and Yeardley Smith)
provide their talents for their respective characters. It uses the same
engine and therefore has similar overall gameplay as the very popular
1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game, also made by Konami. The game was ported to the Commodore 64, and PC.

Plot

After stealing a giant diamond from Springfield Jewelers for Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers bumps into Homer Simpson, whose family is conveniently walking down the street. The encounter knocks the diamond out of Smithers' hand, and Maggie
snatches it in her mouth (in place of her pacifier), prompting Smithers
to grab Maggie (rather than just the diamond) and run off. The Simpsons
must give chase, but hundreds of goons in matching suits stand in their
way.
The game ends having the player defeat a "double boss": Smithers,
then Mr. Burns in a plutonium-powered suit. Maggie appears and the
family walks off. The family walks in a loop while the credits roll.

Gameplay

The player chooses from one of the remaining four Simpsons: Homer, who punches and kicks; Marge, who swings her vacuum cleaner; Bart, who wields his skateboard; and Lisa, who uses a jump rope like a whip.
They must fight through the employees and chase Smithers as he escapes
through various Springfield landscapes. The game's levels are based on
the streets of Springfield, Krustyland, a graveyard, Moe's Tavern, Springfield Gorge, a dream world, the Channel 6 studio, and the Power Plant. Each level ends with a boss whose speed and strength would increase after taking a set amount of damage.
In Stage 4 (Moe's Tavern), there are several arcade machines, including one of the Simpsons arcade game. There was also an Aliens arcade game that revealed the Alien to be Marge wearing a costume. Aliens was made in 1987 by Konami.
Although the game is one of many beat 'em ups produced after Final Fight,
it contained many innovations, including the option for two players to
team up and attack enemies in tandem, with the exact attack differing
slightly depending on which two characters were being used. Food could
be used for healing, and various weapons and items could be obtained
for use for a short time or for a one-time projectile attack. These
items were often brought into the game by other Simpsons
characters, and the Simpsons' own pets could be used as thrown weapons
at various points in the game. The Japanese version of the game also
included small scale nuclear bombs that, when thrown, clear all
on-screen enemies, as well as a life bar that can be doubled by eating
food when your character's health was full. The main characters also
retained their voice actors from the show (although Burns and Smithers'
voices are noticeably different).
The game features two occurrences of a minigame
between two of the levels, in which players competed against each other
to be the first to finish a task (inflating a balloon shaped like their
character in the first game, waking up their character in the second).
The minigame was based on repeated button-pushing, with the player who
pushed the buttons fastest winning. If less than four players were
present, the player or players competed against 1-3 computer-controlled
characters in these minigames.
The game featured many strange enemies, ranging from the infamous
men in the purple suits, to battles with Bongo-like rabbits. The game
included battling fat, old men; miniboss-like firemen; and even giant
donuts.
When electrocuted, Marge's skeletal silhouette shows rabbit ears similar to the Life in Hell rabbits. According to several DVD commentaries, before The Simpsons became a full series, Marge was supposed to be a Life in Hell rabbit in disguise as an in-joke.

Developer(s)
Konami

Publisher(s)
Konami

Composer(s)
Kazuo Hanzawa

Platform(s)
Arcade, Commodore C64, PC DOS

Release date(s)
1991

Genre(s)
Beat 'em up

Mode(s)
Up to four players, simultaneous

Input methods
8-way joystick, 2 buttons keyboard

Cabinet
Standard

CPU
KONAMI (@ 3 MHz)

Sound
Sound Chips: YM2151 (@ 3.579545 MHz), K053260 (@ 4 MHz)

Display
Raster, 288 x 224 pixels (Horizontal), 2048 colors

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