This game is a fucking masterpiece and I'm tired of pretending it's not

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Anonymous Sat Mar 12 15:52:50 2022 No.8708634 [Reply] [Original]

This game is a fucking masterpiece and I'm tired of pretending it's not

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 15:56:42 2022 No.8708642 Purple things.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 15:58:33 2022 No.8708650 >>8708642 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJzlr1TsyqQ

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 15:58:44 2022 No.8708651 bart i pour boiling oil on your skull

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 15:59:23 2022 No.8708652 I suppose you csn enjoy that shitty jumping mechanic. I cannot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 15:59:55 2022 No.8708654 I don't think it would get the hate it does if run and jump weren't the same button. It's unique though

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:04:01 2022 No.8708662 I prefer the Swamp Thing reskin

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:05:12 2022 No.8708668 >>8708634 >controls would be tolerable for a hybrid adventure/platform game >it drops the adventure game element after level 1

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:09:41 2022 No.8708678 >>8708634 >This game is a fucking masterpiece And you've been smoking crack.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:11:52 2022 No.8708690 You make this thread constantly. It's time to stop.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:12:53 2022 No.8708693 >>8708690 Get over it, early 90s Simpson vidya is kino. I'll start making threads for praising Bart's Nightmare, because it's a masterpiece of a game.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:14:59 2022 No.8708704 >>8708634 the level design beyond 1 is severely lacking. Except 3, Krustyland is okay but still not as good as 1. Bart vs. the World is a superior game

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:17:04 2022 No.8708710 >>8708693 >Bart's Nightmare >masterpiece absolutely, great soundtrack, colourful graphics, varied gameplay. it's an amazing party.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:18:33 2022 No.8708716 >>8708710 Based, you get my point. Plus the strolling through dreamy Springfield part is just atmospheric as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:21:22 2022 No.8708724 File: 350 KB, 999x649, 3 stooges amiga.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8708693 Bart's Nightmare and Virtual Bart are underappreciated stooge-em-ups

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:22:05 2022 No.8708725 I like the sound the game makes when you take damage

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:24:19 2022 No.8708731 (crappy shovelware) is a masterpiece because it does (unconventional thing)

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:26:38 2022 No.8708737 >>8708731 The glasses mechanic and the spray mechanic was a legitimate cool action-adventure approach. Someone needs to do a ROMhack of Bart vs Space Mutants and add more levels like the first one.

Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:27:49 2022 No.8708742

>>8708710
i meant party game.
we'd pass the controller at sleepovers, since we were all good at different levels. I could do Itchy & Scratchy and the Bloodstream. my friend Joe could do Bartman and Bartzilla and my brother was the only one who "got" the temple of doom.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:30:20 2022 No.8708748 >>8708724 this might be my favorite genre

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:31:49 2022 No.8708756 >>8708668 I genuinely like the first level but the mall always filtered me. I think I made it to the circus by sheer luck exactly one time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:36:08 2022 No.8708767 >>8708693 Enjoy your b&

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:37:21 2022 No.8708772 >>8708767 >you will be banned for posting about retro games ok, you will be banned for announcing a report!

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:38:23 2022 No.8708774 >>8708724 The correct term you’ll find is actually ‘Curleyvania’

Anonymous Sat Mar 12 16:44:51 2022 No.8708786

>>8708693
>Get over it, early 90s Simpson vidya is kino.
>I'll start making threads for praising Bart's Nightmare, because it's a masterpiece of a game.

In some weird way, I want to see an HD remaster of Bart vs the Space Mutants. But done in a style that looks like season 1 and 2 of the TV series and is still set in in the season 1 and 2 time frame. No Simpsons references beyond season 2, basically.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 17:42:01 2022 No.8708976 Why did all the acclaim Simpsons game feel like some weird fever-dream take on the show? After playing shit like hit and run, I realize I grew up in a very odd time for Simpsons games.

Anonymous Sat Mar 12 18:49:01 2022 No.8709218

>>8708724
>Virtual Bart
I always thought that gag with Mad Max Bart coming into a destroyed house with the rest of the family's skeletons on the couch was from a Treehouse of Horror segment. It wasn't until fairly recently I found out it was a half remembered scene from this game.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 21:17:16 2022 No.8709638 >>8708976 The Simpsons had a different vibe at first. The whole show felt like a surreal fever dream, instead of a regular sitcom with yellow people.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 21:32:03 2022 No.8709684 >I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum man, don't have a cow

Anonymous Sat Mar 12 21:39:45 2022 No.8709715

>>8709638
>The Simpsons had a different vibe at first. The whole show felt like a surreal fever dream, instead of a regular sitcom with yellow people.

I actually think the earliest seasons were the most grounded, as far as characters go. The series didn't get 'wackier' until season 3. But even then, the original show did feel a bit surreal. Though, I remember when "Do the Bartman" was a hit single. Also the song was written by Michael Jackson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc8foK41qmo

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 21:41:57 2022 No.8709728 >>8709715 Will Smith wrote the lyrics for "Deep Deep Trouble": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF-DVr74eVQ

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 21:47:07 2022 No.8709741 File: 7 KB, 162x129, 35345.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8709715 >>8709728 >these video clips So fucking kino bros... what happened...

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 21:56:31 2022 No.8709763 EAT MY SHORTS

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 22:52:44 2022 No.8709909 File: 4 KB, 256x224, Simpsons, The - Return of the Space Mutants V2 by Macbee (Swamp Thing Hack).2017-11-13 00.40.07.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8708662 I perfer the Simpsons reskin of the Swamp Thing

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 07:01:15 2022 No.8710905 >>8709741 It didn't respectfully end in the early- to mid-00s, and instead kept living, becoming a shambling zombie, then eventually skeleton. If you mean in-general, that's a whole other story for another board.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 10:01:25 2022 No.8711197 I rented virtual Bart all the damn time and I'm not sure why. The tomato throwing mini game was genuinely fun though.

Anonymous Sun Mar 13 10:09:13 2022 No.8711214

>>8708634
I had it on the Mega Drive, but not knowing English at the time I didn't have a clue what I was supposed to do, so I never got through the first stage.
>>8711197
>The tomato throwing mini game was genuinely fun though.
Yeah, I loved that shit. Would always try to land on it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 12:25:13 2022 No.8711512 Is there any documentary or dev interview about this game?

Anonymous Sun Mar 13 13:31:25 2022 No.8711646

>>8709741
>So fucking kino bros... what happened...

I had the Simpsons Sing the Blues tape when I was a kid. That 'album' came out in late 1990, like even before the release of Bart vs the Space Mutants. Super early Simpsons. I wish I could find a 4:3 of Do the Bartman. Everyone I find is 16:9 cropped.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 13:41:59 2022 No.8711669 >>8709741 There was a hard ratings drop in the middle of season 10 it never recovered from, that's all you need to know. Double-digit Simpsons seasons aren't worth watching.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 16:44:25 2022 No.8712130 >>8711646 >I wish I could find a 4:3 of Do the Bartman. Everyone I find is 16:9 cropped. Well, thank you InternetArchive... https://archive.org/details/Simpsons_Do_The_Bartman

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 17:03:06 2022 No.8712181 >>8709909 Gonna need to know more about this!

Anonymous Sun Mar 13 17:19:46 2022 No.8712229
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>>8712130
>Well, thank you InternetArchive...
>https://archive.org/details/Simpsons_Do_The_Bartman

I think they said that they had to use a different animation studio for this music video. Yeah, Michael Jackson stealthy produced the song. I think he wrote lyrics for it, and maybe performed some background vocals? IDK. It has some great animation.

Anonymous Sun Mar 13 17:42:25 2022 No.8712280

>>8711669
I'd argue that though the show was well past its golden and silver age by season 10, it had a fair bit of pretty good stuff going still up to around season 14 or so, even if it's not even close to as good as the stuff from before season 10, and then with some occasional good stuff here and there up to the movie (which was kind of ok, but not that memorable).
After the movie, it started to feel more and more painfully mediocre, and eventually bad.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 17:58:24 2022 No.8712314 They should have made a Simpsons themed Harvest Moon clone based on the Sneed episode.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 18:01:54 2022 No.8712326 >>8712314 >They should have made a Simpsons themed Harvest Moon clone based on the Sneed episode. Sneeds Moon Harvest Seeds Formally: Chuck's

Anonymous Sun Mar 13 18:43:54 2022 No.8712415

>>8708634
I said it before and I'll say it again, I wish they had made a Simpsons game similar to the Beavis & Butt-head game.

>Pick between Homer and Bart
>visit iconic places in Springfield
>Bart has to solve a puzzle that requires an item from a place forbidden for him (strip club/power plant/bar)
>Homer gets the item and drops it
>Bart picks it up
>Bart solves the puzzle but gets into trouble
>Homer has to.. wait I think I just summed up Maniac Mansion with the Simpsons.

Well, something like Beavis & Butt-head meets Maniac Mansion with some platforming/action stuff here and there anyway.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 19:10:16 2022 No.8712483 >>8712181 It's just Swamp Thing with the sprites swapped out for Bart vs. Space Mutants sprites.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 20:06:21 2022 No.8712619 >>8712483 Gonna need a link to the patch! Is it on romhacking.net ? I just.. dont wanna check.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 20:07:50 2022 No.8712625 >>8712619 You're annoying

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 20:11:45 2022 No.8712638 >>8712314 >>8712326 Would make a fun romhack. Should include Tomaco and Buck Breaking.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 20:16:32 2022 No.8712650 >>8708634 You can tell Imagineering were ambitious here, but probably trying something that was too much for the NES to handle.

Anonymous Sun Mar 13 20:30:22 2022 No.8712691

>>8712650
But the NES could handle the first level just fine, which is the one people like. They tried to make it more action-centered but they just weren't good enough coders for action controls, however they had some fun ideas in terms of concept/puzzle elements.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 20:50:38 2022 No.8712746 File: 148 KB, 283x200, 1647219038093.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8712625

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 20:57:59 2022 No.8712765 Why not fucking shit all over and make everything brown?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 22:04:46 2022 No.8712938 >>8712619 It goes by "Simpsons, The - Return of the Space Mutants V2 by Macbee (Swamp Thing Hack)"

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 22:40:33 2022 No.8713062 >>8712938 Aah neat, thank you.

Anonymous Sun Mar 13 22:44:32 2022 No.8713075

>>8712691
>They tried to make it more action-centered but they just weren't good enough coders for action controls
Not even most Japanese developers were good at action controls, the fluid physics of first party Nintendo titles are not at all typical if you play enough NES games.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 22:51:09 2022 No.8713095 >>8712938 >>8713062 That was already in the filename of the first image this clown responded to. Do you want /vr/ to go to complete shit? No? Then stop spoonfeeding retards.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 22:59:18 2022 No.8713125 >>8713095 Didn't see it, nobody can be perfect 100% of the time. So suck my balls.

Anonymous Sun Mar 13 22:59:53 2022 No.8713128
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>>8713095
he says on the thread saying "Bart vs. The Space Mutants is a fucking masterpiece"
There's soul to 2 levels (Springfield and the natural history museum. The mall has soul in the enemies and that's it) and the rest is mediocre.
The gameplay is SHIT

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 23:01:50 2022 No.8713137 >>8713125 >>8713128 Go back to /v/ you little crybaby zoomers.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 13 23:50:03 2022 No.8713306 >>8712765 He's just one kid. He can't produce that much waste in the time he's given.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 00:34:54 2022 No.8713442 >>8709909 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc0Foq-lfCM Awesome hack

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 01:39:51 2022 No.8713580 >>8713128 The museum is a disgrace of a stage.

Anonymous Mon Mar 14 01:48:28 2022 No.8713606

>>8712415
you're talking about the Genesis Beavis & Butthead game at the beginning. but B&B meets Maniac Mansion actually exists. It's called Virtual Stupidity, came out for Windows 95 PC, and is excellent.
https://youtu.be/INzXO48oh20

It's a shame cartoons and comedy franchises got forced into being poorly executed action games. Point-and-click adventures for the Simpsons, Ren & Stimpy, Rocky & Bullwinkle, and other dialog-heavy comedy shows, would have been better than the games we got.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 03:08:29 2022 No.8713814 >>8713580 I said soul not well-designed

Anonymous Mon Mar 14 03:16:27 2022 No.8713830 [SPOILER]

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>>8709715
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc8foK41qmo [Embed]
>>8712130
>Well, thank you InternetArchive...
>https://archive.org/details/Simpsons_Do_The_Bartman

The uncut "Do the Bartman" video is so much better. It does have scenes missing from the 16:9 cut. Though I can see why with the twin towers in one missing scenes, and another with French people dancing, and another with people dancing around the Berlin wall.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 03:28:27 2022 No.8713856 >>8708634 The first level was cool, that's the only one I played anyway

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 16:05:15 2022 No.8715580 >>8713814 Surely the amusement park had a bit of soul. I agree though, the museum was one of the standouts in that respect

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 20:50:14 2022 No.8716130 >>8713128 >There's soul to 2 levels (Springfield and the natural history museum BASEDBASEDBASED

Anonymous Mon Mar 14 21:26:24 2022 No.8716182

>>8715580
The amusement park ALMOST has soul, if not for the sure fact that nothing in it feels original. Even on the NES, SMB3 was 3 years old at this point, and the Ferris Wheel has to black out and load the top half like it's Super Mario Bros on the PC-88

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 22:31:05 2022 No.8716328 File: 7 KB, 496x431, 3AF0B41E-90C1-4DAF-AFD3-196BDFE65B71.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] when i was a kid world was too hard and i struggled with parts of space mutants but i absolutely annihilated matts radioactive man over and over again

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 15 10:01:23 2022 No.8717491 >>8708634 I literally grew up with this game and even thought/think it's shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 15 10:04:52 2022 No.8717498 >>8708693 >>8708710 Bart's Nightmare is unlike any other game I've played

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 15 10:39:39 2022 No.8717597 What if you playl these retro sinsons games all at once?

Anonymous Tue Mar 15 11:14:24 2022 No.8717654

>>8712280
Season 7 is where it started falling apart. By 1997 it wasn't even the same show, the characters had different personalities. I can't believe its still running, the only one I watched in the last 2+ decades was about 12 years ago and pure shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 15 11:24:20 2022 No.8717668 I wonder if so many 8-bit games were shovelware because the men making it were ultra-autists, as those were the only people who could learn programming at the time. How else could anyone get platforming controls so wrong after Super Mario Bros?

Anonymous Tue Mar 15 11:43:43 2022 No.8717709

>>8717668
I don't think it was as easy to fine-tune controls. Check out the SMB3 port by ID Soft. They're supposed to be tech wizards, and their attempt at SMB3 on PC is sad, compared to the original.
I don't think western platformers got good controls until Donkey Kong Country. Maybe M.C. Kids was the best one before that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 15 11:56:55 2022 No.8717741 >>8717709 >I don't think it was as easy to fine-tune controls. I'm not even talking about physics, but fucking button assignments. Mario showed us how to fit dash, jump, and shoot onto 2 buttons, but Imagineering thought their shit was better?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 16 07:07:28 2022 No.8720159 >>8717741 I don't think they necessarily thought they were better than Nintendo, just.... they didn't try to make a SMB-type game. They knew they couldn't.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 16 08:36:14 2022 No.8720329 >>8720159 >they didn't try to make a SMB-type game They made a sidescrolling platformer with dashing, jumping, and shooting...

Anonymous Wed Mar 16 09:45:02 2022 No.8720442
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>>8708634
Came with my Genesis when I bought it about 15 years ago
Played it once and never again
Is it actually worth another shot?
It still sits on my shelf by my copy of DJ Boy

Anonymous Wed Mar 16 13:06:12 2022 No.8720961

>>8720442
>Is it actually worth another shot?

No, its just one of those games you want to own because its very well known (notorious perhaps) but its not worth playing more than once.

>>8717654
I recently watched some new episodes, its like a whole different show.. there's no warmth to the animation anymore since everything now has that equalized? computer color shit going on whatever its called.
and story wise.. the slapstick is gone, its brought in a totally different way.

>original simpsons
>family eating: omnomnomnom
>homer with mouth full: so then Lenny said I should get a watch!
>family laughs
>homer: oh that lenny

>New Simpsons
>episode starts with some tv show host rinning the doorbell
>Marge: (horrible raspy voice) we've won an all expenses paid trip to hawaii???? WITH KATY PERRY AND ORLANDO BLOOM?
>Lisa: oh boy, they're such great defender of *cause*
>Female sounding Bart: ughhh but I was gonna play in the springfield xbox marathoooooooooooooooon (long whine)
>Homer: OH BOY A FREE TRIP WITH FREE FOOD!!!
>Lisa: the food isnt free dad.
>Homer: DOH!! (homer like food, thats funny)

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 16 17:09:53 2022 No.8721778 >>8720329 You have a point.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 16 22:21:24 2022 No.8722634 >>8708634 It's not because angry youtuber man told me it was bad!

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 16 22:22:26 2022 No.8722640 >>8708634 I always thought the puzzle / adventure aspect was neat.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 17 02:36:33 2022 No.8723173 >>8708634 I don't mind some 90s Simpsons Not sure about that show now though

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 17 07:15:23 2022 No.8723581 >>8723173 90s Simpsons only Simpsons.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 17 07:49:10 2022 No.8723623 >>8708634 Meds

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 17 10:49:47 2022 No.8723939 >>8723623 what's your problem?

Anonymous Thu Mar 17 13:28:59 2022 No.8724296

>>8723173
>Not sure about that show now though
It's terrible, the comedic timing has shifted towards nu-comedy (see thing and be mad about it) and they gave Carl & Dr Hibbert new voice actors and it sounds so fucking weird.
It should have been cancelled 20 years ago.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 17 13:44:03 2022 No.8724338 >>8723173 The bestest stuff is in the 90s, it becomes completely unwatchable by the mid 2000s.

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