![]() ![]() ![]() As with most other Konami beat-em-ups, everyone plays pretty much the same, with only slight differences in reach resulting from their weapons. Each one has his or her weapon of choice: Homer’s fists, Marge’s vacuum cleaner, Bart’s skateboard, and Lisa’s jump rope. One to four players can take on the roles of the aforementioned members of the Simpsons clan. Character cameos and scratchy-but-authentic voice samples abound (including an odd boss taunt borrowed from TMNT), not to mention charming low-res pixel art that perfectly matches the show’s style. Smithers still boggles the mind after all these years, but even with such weird touches, this feels very much like a Simpsons game. Naturally the Simpsons family wants her back, and so Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa set out to rescue their kin. Baby Maggie ends up with the diamond, and rather than slow down to sort things out, Smithers kidnaps her along with the jewel. Waylan Smithers and his gang (?) have just stolen a valuable diamond when they crash into the Simpsons family. Like the TMNT and X-Men arcade games before it, Simpsons Arcade takes an American property and translates it into a game through a slightly skewed Japanese perspective. Once again, fans of scrolling from left-to-right and smacking dudes up are in for a treat. Now they’ve ported The Simpsons Arcade Game, a 1991 hit that seemed equally unlikely to ever see a home release. When’s the last time Capcom ported one of its licensed brawlers? But Konami had the savvy to go back to Marvel and set it all up, much to the benefit of genre and comic book fans. Licensing issues have traditionally kept many classic beat-em-ups from receiving the re-release treatment.
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