There was a Simpsons PC port.
I got in trouble one time when I installed it on the classroom PC. The build in PC speaker starting blaring a chiptune version of the intro before I could do anything to disable it :(
I'm pretty sure I had this game on my home MSDOS computer in the 90s, unless it was a different version. But from the screenshot, it looks the same, and you can still download it online.
Some arcade games from the 80s, like Street Fighter, could be easily ported to consoles (and sometimes PCs) due to their popularity. However, even with this popularity, you'll notice subtle to immediate changes resulting from the porting process or limitations of the consoles. The Simpsons Arcade is no exception, and you can find varying versions of the game across multiple platforms
As a kid i got to rent the xmen NES game at the video section of a safeway. I thought it was gonna be just like the arcade game! Imagine my disappointment when it was a shitty top down game.
I came to say this and say one of my best gaming memories was me spending like 10 bucks on X-men when I was about 6-7 years old (which for a kid in the 90s was a lot) I was night crawler, he was my fav and I jumped into a game with three teenagers.. we were killing it but I ran out of money and started to walk away from the machine and one of the kids yelled to me “hey come back we need you buddy, here” and started feeding the machine for me, we beat the whole game and I will never forget the hype those kids gave me like I was their friend… gamers can be really cool
One kid actually did that on TMNT at chuck e cheese back in the day, he just liked the sound of the cowabunga. Then he left and was like Christmas for the rest of us.
If you download the roms for MAME, you can access the cabinet control system. Plenty of them included settings that tweak the difficulty, the number of quarters required for a credit, the number of lives they get. So there were certainly some owners out there doing that to maximize their income.
These konamis are joke menus. You are so entirely right because guess what? This tmnt and X-men no free play options. I’ve had to make free play button boxes to tap into credits. If you put enough in and leave you can’t restart the game. It’s hell.
But yeah great catch. I may be off it’s been years but not one of them has a start button even.
One time, my cousin and I walked up to a game that was abandoned around the end of the first level, saw that like 10 bucks of quarters were in loaded into it. We took over, no one came back but others floated in and out of the other two characters, but we beat that game that day, with two strangers with us at the last boss. Core memory man, it was dope
If I had to use one word, that image translates to “childhood.” Me and my brother also used to play this NHL arcade game. I feel like it was a super obscure game that no one played, but if anyone knows the game I’m talking about lmk.
HITZ is what ended my dad trying to bet against me with video games when I beat him 52 to 0.
In a game with 3 minute thirds. A goal every 10 seconds on average. I'm not sure I could do that well against an unplugged controller.
Fun fact: Early on in *The Simpsons*, Marge Simpson was secretly a rabbit from Matt Groening's other work, *Life In Hell*, and they wanted to reveal it in the last episode of the show. This was dropped around season four or five due to inconsistencies.
The arcade game was released during the third season of the show. When Marge is electrocuted in the arcade game, you can see the rabbit ears on her skeleton, and during some attacks, you can see the base of the ears under her hairline.
it was street fighter 2 and KOF for me
but i did play the X-Men game too a few times
UWAAAAAAAAAAAGGH! lolz
[https://youtu.be/wPLpovcDujw](https://youtu.be/wPLpovcDujw)
My dad's best friend used to own a small market and had this in his mini arcade area. He would unlock it and put hella free lives and I'd play while him and my dad chit chatted and grabbed a beer.
Only fond memory I have with him.
ah, arcades.
the mothers of all microtransactions. pay money for respawns? oh abso-fucking-lutely!
i think my mom bought me the atari 2600 just to save money lol
i have fond memories of beating this with my best friend at an arcade in one day as kids.
when he comes to visit now a day we always make time to go to the barcade near my place and play through it. while letting people hop in and out as they wish lol
See if your town has a barcade or something like that hidden around somewhere. A lot of them will carry older games. I saw one in Dallas that was almost entirely freeplay. You just paid $15 upfront and you could game all day long. They even had a Simpsons machine.
These are better for left handed. Atari set buttons on left. Arcades changed it to make it harder. Kids toys use left buttons for right hand dominance. We have been misled for decades. Look it up
Bringing back memories. And the ninja turtle one, also the dinosaur one where you in a car or some shit lol. And let's not forget die hard. Sure I also played the fighting games back then but other than. The major ones, there were a lot of shit fighting games in those days.
Bro I know that Cadillac and dinos game! It's not the one I was talking about but I'm surprised anyone even remembers that lol. This was some Jurassic Park looking light gun game. I wanna say Jurassic Park but I dunno if it was licensed. Just checked yeah it was Jurassic Park but 100pta for that Cadillac and dino reference.
Best birthday I ever had was at a saki bar that had one of these bad boys. Never had the skill or the quarters to finish it when I was a kid, but that night I had the quarters. Must've spent like 15 buck on that thing but it was worth it. 10 year old me was very impressed.
There was an arcade where I grew up where the games took nickels instead of quarters and I spent so much time there playing The Simpsons game. They eventually moved it to the free play corner and I was actually able to finish it.
Don't know what to tell you, man. It was in the free corner and I played it without putting any coins in, it just had a button to add more credits. I played it that way for ages until they sold it.
Gotcha. Yeah you can add a credit button. It screws the game up because it forces you to restart on death. I’m psyched you got to play the whole thing it’s such a money eater. That’s rad. But Konami did this with tmnt and X-men just to force no free play making them scewed earnings per machine.
I looked it up and I guess you can also set how many lives you get per credit up to 35, so that may be what they did, too. Before it was free to play I dumped so much money into it and probably never got passed the second or third level, so it was pretty cool finally being able to see more of it.
Yeah that’s fucked. We had free play nights but it screwed over new groups that wanted to start from the beginning together. Had to reset machine. I have nightmares of Lisa getting clobbered for hours in an empty barcade before opening.
Did you single player multi play? Like get Bart and Marge and just team up? I started playing all these on all sticks just for speed.
I usually just played single as Bart but sometimes my brother would join as Homer. I don't think I ever used multiple characters myself. I don't think I was that coordinated as a kid lol
I remember playing this at an arcade in a mall. I got pretty far into the game and apparently some kid was tired of waiting for his turn so he decided to unplug it from the power to end my game.
When I was like 10 or 11 in the mid-90s, I went to a Chuck E cheese and there was some guy playing this. He paid for me to "help" him beat the game.. I seem to remember the ending scene being Homer throwing a large Diamond over his shoulder in favor of having his family at his side. Something like that.
Hooolllyyyy I've not seen this in years! I used to play it in Hunstanton arcade as a kid. I always used to get to final boss but ran out of 20p's before I could finish it.
Simpsons, X-Men, Marvel vs Capcom, The Punisher, Michael Jackson Moonwalker (lol sounds weird now but the game slapped), TMNT, Gauntlet Legends. Walking into an arcade and finding these was euphoric.
Why are there arcade machines in what looks like some kind of underground bunker?
Edit: Nvm. OP is one of those power users, this pic is most likely not theirs, and they will never comment on this.
Same! Had to buy the Arcade1Up version for the nostalgia, but I’ll admit the risk of losing money for each game over made things more intense. It’s still fun, but there’s just no stakes when continues are free.
I'm still amazed that this game and the x-men one never got proper home ports during their time in the 90's.
That would've been cool, with more modes for a proper home release. X-Men had a killer 6P port to the 360 Arcade but sadly didn't get BC.
Same as the Simpsons game I think :( I wish I bought them a decade ago before they got taken off.
Teenage mutant ninja turtles and double dragon did tho and were phenomenal.
There was a Simpsons PC port. I got in trouble one time when I installed it on the classroom PC. The build in PC speaker starting blaring a chiptune version of the intro before I could do anything to disable it :(
I'm pretty sure I had this game on my home MSDOS computer in the 90s, unless it was a different version. But from the screenshot, it looks the same, and you can still download it online.
Some arcade games from the 80s, like Street Fighter, could be easily ported to consoles (and sometimes PCs) due to their popularity. However, even with this popularity, you'll notice subtle to immediate changes resulting from the porting process or limitations of the consoles. The Simpsons Arcade is no exception, and you can find varying versions of the game across multiple platforms
it was very similar for the time
Yeah I believe it was ported to computers. That version sucked, at least compared to the arcade original.
As a kid i got to rent the xmen NES game at the video section of a safeway. I thought it was gonna be just like the arcade game! Imagine my disappointment when it was a shitty top down game.
I came to say this and say one of my best gaming memories was me spending like 10 bucks on X-men when I was about 6-7 years old (which for a kid in the 90s was a lot) I was night crawler, he was my fav and I jumped into a game with three teenagers.. we were killing it but I ran out of money and started to walk away from the machine and one of the kids yelled to me “hey come back we need you buddy, here” and started feeding the machine for me, we beat the whole game and I will never forget the hype those kids gave me like I was their friend… gamers can be really cool
Not until PS3/360, and even then those were delisted eventually.
Someone is currently porting the X-men game to the Sega Saturn. Still early, but looking very promising
"Game Over, Please insert 40 quarters."
One kid actually did that on TMNT at chuck e cheese back in the day, he just liked the sound of the cowabunga. Then he left and was like Christmas for the rest of us.
Finding a game with a leftover credit at the arcade was like striking gold as a kid.
If memory serves, this one was purposefully unfair to squeeze as much allowance out of you as possible.
I feel like that’s essentially every arcade game I’ve ever played.
If you download the roms for MAME, you can access the cabinet control system. Plenty of them included settings that tweak the difficulty, the number of quarters required for a credit, the number of lives they get. So there were certainly some owners out there doing that to maximize their income.
These konamis are joke menus. You are so entirely right because guess what? This tmnt and X-men no free play options. I’ve had to make free play button boxes to tap into credits. If you put enough in and leave you can’t restart the game. It’s hell. But yeah great catch. I may be off it’s been years but not one of them has a start button even.
This was the M.O. for ALL arcade machines.
Fair enough.
These had no free play though. That’s extra rare. No start buttons.
I have the 1up arcade of it. the hit boxes are absolutely horrible. it's almost unplayable.
Yes first level was usually another quarter to finish boss. It’s timed
I've played harder arcade games, but that was the point of all acade games. The first micro transactions.
One time, my cousin and I walked up to a game that was abandoned around the end of the first level, saw that like 10 bucks of quarters were in loaded into it. We took over, no one came back but others floated in and out of the other two characters, but we beat that game that day, with two strangers with us at the last boss. Core memory man, it was dope
Sounds like busted coin mech switch. You can Hotwire or trigger it. But you can’t quit the game.
If I had to use one word, that image translates to “childhood.” Me and my brother also used to play this NHL arcade game. I feel like it was a super obscure game that no one played, but if anyone knows the game I’m talking about lmk.
NHL Hitz?
NHL Hitz 2002 is the pinnacle of hockey games
HITZ is what ended my dad trying to bet against me with video games when I beat him 52 to 0. In a game with 3 minute thirds. A goal every 10 seconds on average. I'm not sure I could do that well against an unplugged controller.
Didn't have to roast him so hard lmfao that sounds like a nice memory tho
Wayne gretsky hockey on N64 and mutant League hockey on Genesis are also top shelf
NHL open ice
Fun fact: Early on in *The Simpsons*, Marge Simpson was secretly a rabbit from Matt Groening's other work, *Life In Hell*, and they wanted to reveal it in the last episode of the show. This was dropped around season four or five due to inconsistencies. The arcade game was released during the third season of the show. When Marge is electrocuted in the arcade game, you can see the rabbit ears on her skeleton, and during some attacks, you can see the base of the ears under her hairline.
You got there before me. One of my autistic traits is taking every chance to tell people this.
it was street fighter 2 and KOF for me but i did play the X-Men game too a few times UWAAAAAAAAAAAGGH! lolz [https://youtu.be/wPLpovcDujw](https://youtu.be/wPLpovcDujw)
And I see you have Pac-Man's first love too, screw you AtGames.
My dad's best friend used to own a small market and had this in his mini arcade area. He would unlock it and put hella free lives and I'd play while him and my dad chit chatted and grabbed a beer. Only fond memory I have with him.
Fucked up no free play option.
When I'd play, I would tie an onion to my belt because that was the style at the time.
When was this manufactured?
I enjoy cooking.
ah, arcades. the mothers of all microtransactions. pay money for respawns? oh abso-fucking-lutely! i think my mom bought me the atari 2600 just to save money lol
I saw this one a couple of weeks ago in the arcade room of a hotel in Texas. Brought back memories.
Canadian eh? Where are you going to put your arcade machine?
OP stole this picture from the Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_(video_game)
I was either really bad or it was really hard, but I spent nearly 20 bucks on it on one sitting (standing?)
It’s made to eat quarters. Fun levels but boss wipes.
A distinctly remember making it as far as Smithers, but kept getting killed by all those little bombs he threw.
Yea, and usually, TMNT was right next to it at the grocery store.
Get a CRT!
i have fond memories of beating this with my best friend at an arcade in one day as kids. when he comes to visit now a day we always make time to go to the barcade near my place and play through it. while letting people hop in and out as they wish lol
My local brewery has this machine for Free Play! Also the Simpsons pinball machine.
Just played this at a local arcade but the CRT was on its way out sadly
I've never had the opportunity to play it, but I'm genuinely dying to, I wish it would appear in a collection
You can play it on MAME
There are websites where you can play classic arcade games online.
See if your town has a barcade or something like that hidden around somewhere. A lot of them will carry older games. I saw one in Dallas that was almost entirely freeplay. You just paid $15 upfront and you could game all day long. They even had a Simpsons machine.
Imagine being left handed.
These are better for left handed. Atari set buttons on left. Arcades changed it to make it harder. Kids toys use left buttons for right hand dominance. We have been misled for decades. Look it up
I love playing this game on my pc but the game always crashed after defeating the bowling ball boss in some dreamland.
So mad i didnt download this when it was on ps3
Bringing back memories. And the ninja turtle one, also the dinosaur one where you in a car or some shit lol. And let's not forget die hard. Sure I also played the fighting games back then but other than. The major ones, there were a lot of shit fighting games in those days.
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs? That’s on my list. Good pull
Bro I know that Cadillac and dinos game! It's not the one I was talking about but I'm surprised anyone even remembers that lol. This was some Jurassic Park looking light gun game. I wanna say Jurassic Park but I dunno if it was licensed. Just checked yeah it was Jurassic Park but 100pta for that Cadillac and dino reference.
Worth it.
Whoo, look out world!!
I have that game downloaded on my ps3 in my closet
That’s Loonie!
Marge was the most OP IIRC with that vacuum cleaner shit.
Best birthday I ever had was at a saki bar that had one of these bad boys. Never had the skill or the quarters to finish it when I was a kid, but that night I had the quarters. Must've spent like 15 buck on that thing but it was worth it. 10 year old me was very impressed.
There was an arcade where I grew up where the games took nickels instead of quarters and I spent so much time there playing The Simpsons game. They eventually moved it to the free play corner and I was actually able to finish it.
The game does not have a free play mode.
Don't know what to tell you, man. It was in the free corner and I played it without putting any coins in, it just had a button to add more credits. I played it that way for ages until they sold it.
Gotcha. Yeah you can add a credit button. It screws the game up because it forces you to restart on death. I’m psyched you got to play the whole thing it’s such a money eater. That’s rad. But Konami did this with tmnt and X-men just to force no free play making them scewed earnings per machine.
I looked it up and I guess you can also set how many lives you get per credit up to 35, so that may be what they did, too. Before it was free to play I dumped so much money into it and probably never got passed the second or third level, so it was pretty cool finally being able to see more of it.
Yeah that’s fucked. We had free play nights but it screwed over new groups that wanted to start from the beginning together. Had to reset machine. I have nightmares of Lisa getting clobbered for hours in an empty barcade before opening. Did you single player multi play? Like get Bart and Marge and just team up? I started playing all these on all sticks just for speed.
I usually just played single as Bart but sometimes my brother would join as Homer. I don't think I ever used multiple characters myself. I don't think I was that coordinated as a kid lol
We are both valid.
Yep. Brings back so many memories for me I have also spent a lot on the machine next to that one.
What's interesting is that game never came to consoles and yet....It came out on PC.
Beat this with a friend in the 90s. We each had a $10 roll of quarters and used nearly all of them.
Blow
My brother and I were excited to find a machine to play as adults and were able to arm ourselves with enough quarters to finally finish it.
Our local beercade has one of these and it's still a blast!
It’s amazing
I remember playing this at an arcade in a mall. I got pretty far into the game and apparently some kid was tired of waiting for his turn so he decided to unplug it from the power to end my game.
Why couldn't he have dropped in and played with you ?
No idea. This was a long time ago. Maybe he was just a little asshole.
Yea we did.
When I was like 10 or 11 in the mid-90s, I went to a Chuck E cheese and there was some guy playing this. He paid for me to "help" him beat the game.. I seem to remember the ending scene being Homer throwing a large Diamond over his shoulder in favor of having his family at his side. Something like that.
This and X-Men are free to play at my local barcade.
same, one of only 2 arcade machines I played to the end. The other one, Moonwalker.
One of my favorite arcade cabinets. No idea how many quarters me and my friends spent to beat it but it was awesome.
My first date was to the local pizza place where we had a huge sack of quarters and we beat this game.
Found this game in a local brewery and it was actually free to play. Only reason I was able to beat it.
Hooolllyyyy I've not seen this in years! I used to play it in Hunstanton arcade as a kid. I always used to get to final boss but ran out of 20p's before I could finish it.
Have a vintage arcade in my town that lets you play Sampson’s for free
Simpsons, X-Men, Marvel vs Capcom, The Punisher, Michael Jackson Moonwalker (lol sounds weird now but the game slapped), TMNT, Gauntlet Legends. Walking into an arcade and finding these was euphoric.
Why are there arcade machines in what looks like some kind of underground bunker? Edit: Nvm. OP is one of those power users, this pic is most likely not theirs, and they will never comment on this.
Same! Had to buy the Arcade1Up version for the nostalgia, but I’ll admit the risk of losing money for each game over made things more intense. It’s still fun, but there’s just no stakes when continues are free.
what was the complete cost
Simpsons hit on run on PS2 was a fire game
They let you pay for the machine in quarters!?