How is nobody talking about the fact that The Simpsons Arcade Game got home ports to DOS and Commodore 64 but not NES, SNES or Genesis -- and didn't arrive on console until Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3?

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• Redkey@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Even crazier, the C64 version was only distributed in North America, ignoring the majority of potential buyers. And it apparently runs OK on PAL machines without modification.

  One of the big draws of the game was all the detail in the backgrounds, and the little touches of animation. The C64 version being disk-only allows it to retain a surprising amount of this. As a tape game, the already long inter-level load times would’ve blown out and ruined the game.

  I don’t think that an NES or Master System port could’ve covered the game even as well as the C64 version. But I agree that it is strange that there was no Mega Drive or SNES version. The SNES in particular could’ve replicated a lot of the arcade’s scaling effects with a minimum of trickery.

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• drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How is nobody talking about the fact that

  What is this title?

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  • werewolfborg@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s very similar to a clickbait article. I mean, it worked because I clicked on it to see what people said, but man, that title is super corporate.

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    • atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, a super corporate title would be “Analyzing the Platform Disparity: The Unconventional Release Trajectory of The Simpsons Arcade Game Across Home and Console Systems”

      Which you’d probably find less clickbait but would be absolutely perfect for aligning synergies.

      If your critique is that I tried to wrote an interesting title, guilty as charged. But who doesn’t try to be interesting?

      Thing is, this being Lemmy, there’s no incentive to click. Clickbait literally implies a reason to click. The pertinent thing worth seeing is already in your feed.

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• whotookkarl@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The story just broke on corporate news networks, I heard the president of video games is going to make an address

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• son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wonder if it was a rights issue. Konami made the arcade game while all of the Simpsons games on the NES/SNES/Genesis/Game Boy/Game Gear were published by Acclaim.

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• weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I know this is not a popular take, but in my opinion The Simpsons Arcade wasn’t a very good game. I believe it’s purely a novelty product, it falls short when compared to almost any other well known beat’em up from the era.

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  • Zarxrax@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would disagree. I think it really improved upon the gameplay that we saw in the first TMNT arcade game. You got combo attacks with the different characters, and you could pick up various items and weapons. It also had some really huge bosses that were kind of impressive at the time, and had some mini games between stages. There were also a lot of interesting things that happened within the stages.

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• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who wants to feel old?

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  More time has passed since the 360/PS3 release than had passed between the arcade release and the 360/PS3 release.

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• calavera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fuck them… I’d have loved this game back when I had my Mega Drive…

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think either PS1/Saturn/N64 or PS2/Dreamcast/Gamecube would be the first time I’d trust a console to run the game authentically.

  An NES version would be so stripped down it would feel disappointing.

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  • RetroGoblet79@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Absolutely. My disappointment is owning a NES and buying a game based on me playing it at the arcade.

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  • atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    True, but the C64 version definitely wasn’t authentic. 😅

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• meliante@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fantastic game. Spent many afternoons playing it.

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• Zarxrax@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remember reading in a gaming magazine that Konami was bringing the Simpsons to the SNES. I just knew it was going to be the arcade game, and I was so hyped for months just waiting and waiting for it. And then I got Barts Nightmare.

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