Nope, not paying $10.for this as I did it for XMen and regretted it, thanks but no thanks.

I'll get it for free with PS+, so I don't really care if its worth the $10. I'll get it no matter what.

This game is just as good as four player X-Men Arcade.

oh fuck off. this game is still fun.

kind of disappointed in the price though so may wait on this one.

This game is great, mainly because of the animations. I remember playing this in arcades a ton of times in the 90s. A really fun beat em up.

@ArbitraryWater said:

They should just go the whole way and release an XBLA port of Gauntlet Dark Legacy. Not only is that beat-em-up repetitive and four player, it's also like 20+ hours long.

Fuck. Yes.

You forgot to mention that you can combine characters to make super strong attacks. This is one of the few beat'um up's I actually managed to beat in the arcade. Man, I could buy an original cabinet of this with the money I've dumped into them.

@Meltbrain said:

@whistlebottom said:

I piss myself with joy.

My nipples explode with delight!

My asshole prolapsed from sheer ecstasy!

Get outta here Alex! Simpson Arcade game and Turtles in Time were konami beat em up gold!

@doublezeroduck: Agreed. Especially Aliens Vs Predator.

So much coins lost with this one, Good times!

God dammit Alex, I don't care how great of a Simpsons reference that is. The Simpsons arcade game IS a classic.

Well, I got X-Men and Final Fight when they went on sale for like three dollars each, so I don't feel too bad about that.

Still want Gauntlet Legends in some form. I'm not a fan of the price though, $5 would have been perfect, but they know diehard fans would buy it. And Alex hates fun, more at 11.

Never played it, should i play it?

This is the best news.

I went to my mall last year that has the arcade machine. I didnt like it, but I still love Final Fight. Strange

haha I knew this would show up eventually.

I recall liking a pretty bad SNES Simpsons game...it was a side scroller kind of like Final Fight. It made virtually no sense from what I remember of it, but I didn't know any better at the time.

@matti00 said:

Screw you Alex, I loved Bart vs The Space Mutants.

That game was fucking awful. I knew it was bad even when I played it when I was 8 or 9 years old, when I had no real discerning taste. It was that terrible.

Nostalgia aside, all of the Konami beat'em ups are pretty terrible and have literally zero mechanics to them. All you do is mash the attack button and watch your character do all kinds of crazy shit. With a friend or two and maybe a few strangers gathered 'round and the ambiance of an arcade booming all around you while you try desperately to make the mere five dollars worth of quarters in your pocket last more than 15 minutes, they were all incredible experiences. Sitting on your couch at home playing online with unlimited continues, though? No thanks.

Besides, MAME had you beat by, like, ten years.

Hey, this is great news! I was worried that this game would be lost to the bygone years of the arcades, but it's so cool to hear that it's being resurrected as a download! I have fond memories of it back in the 90s- can't wait to relive them again (inb4 nostalgia goggles, etc).

After TMNT I learned that these classics belong in the arcades. There's just not enough to them to be played at home where you can hit "continue" without any hesitancy. Arcade games are designed to get quarters out of the player. If that economic question is removed, some of the challenge goes with it.

YES!

YES!

YES!

YES!

.....................YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I never thought it would happen

Also yeh I understand these games are crazy shallow. That's why I skipped out on X-men and TMNT for XBLA. However, even though this is pretty much the same game as those, this is a different FUCKING STORY. I must have this one, I loved it too much not to. And I still never fucking beat it. So many quarters....

I dont get it, why all the hate against Game Room. If you want games that came out when you gran-daddy still was young then there you go! Whats so wrong that...

Less Alex please.

hell yesssssssssssssssss

Hey wait, I'm a Bartman...

Made my day

I played the hell out of this game when I was a kid and think it's great that it's coming out for a modern platform for people to relive those memories. That said, I wish people were this enthusiastic about new products that come out. There are many fantastic downloadable games on XBLA/PSN/PC that don't sell well. We get re-releases and sequels because people will buy this up day one and ignore great games that they lack familiarity with. Show this kind of love for new games. If you want new games and fresh ideas reward the publishers and developers for more than just remakes.

Wish I could be excited about this. Having played it in arcades recently, I'ma stick to my memories.

@GaZZuM said:

"'Tis a fine enough beat-'em-up, but sure 'tis no classic, English."

I got that reference instantly, one of my favourite lines from any Simpsons episode ^^

D-oheth!

Me too!

My nephew and I were dumping quarters into a Simpsons Arcade game at the local pizzeria last week. Heck yeah I'm buying this. (On the other hand, I think it says it all that this is best aimed at 8 year olds.)

As long as we're talking about retro-releases encumbered by corporate ownership questions, where's my SNES Shadowrun! (Genesis Shadowrun's overworld combat doesn't do it for me.)

I used to love seeing this game animate.  It was so beyond all of the other stuff I had seen at the time.  I don't even care if it was any good or not, I just really enjoyed how it looked and what it sounded like.  Fed it coins every chance I got.

Good memories of this arcade game at the local pizza place. I know I will get bored of this quick, but I need that nostalgia.

I love my Playstation Plus account. While I don't think I ever expected to make my PS3 a device for downloadable games, I get crazy discounts and awesome freebies.

Have you seen those XBLA deals? They aren't super great in comparison. :(

What we need is some old goody 16 bit games on XBLA an PSN without any HD remakes!

Simpsons will be fun but where is

Mega Man X, Looney Toons games even Chip and Dales Rescue rangers, wait that was 8bit... Still why dont they exploit these great old classic games!

Damn you disney for not taking advantage of me and my money! WHERE IS THE LION KING!

@doublezeroduck said:

Less Alex please.

I wish you people would get over yourselves

Nostalgia goggles are in full-effect. I wonder what the achievements will be like to get? (That TMNT Arcade Game had one that was pretty borked.)

I played the game X-Men arcade game for several hours after getting all the achievements. There's just something about it...

Anyway, buying this as soon as it comes out.

Never had nostalgia for this game. The only arcade beat-em-up I want is the Dungeons and Dragons arcade games, with the loot system and branching paths.

@doublezeroduck said:

Less Alex please.

Less you please.

The one thing this game did differently were the INSANE, over-the-top team-up moves that could be done with any combination of characters. That was really cool. But I'm with Alex, this game isn't going to hold up as well as anyone remembers AND is going to be over way faster than anyone thinks.

Oh and the game itself seems like it was designed by people who were shown images of The Simpsons, but had never actually seen an episode. Which is kind of crappy, but kind of awesome too.

im getting this!

still bummed that i missed the teenage mutant ninja turtles game...

I enjoyed playing this at the arcades when I was young (there is a surprising amount of arcades near where I live that are still going today, though I haven't been in them in a long time) but I don't think it'll be the same fun experience now.

I remember hearing about a version of this on the app store with updated graphics, I wonder if it's the same here.

I remember playing this as a kid at the local Chuck E. Cheese...only to get my quarters raped over and over again by the first boss.

"And also like most other four-player arcade games that have come to consoles as downloads, this port will undoubtedly seem like a really awesome idea until you and your friends beat it in less than an hour, and then immediately forget about it like those digital copies ofX-Men Arcade,Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game, andFinal Fightyou still have on your hard drive, yet haven't touched since the week you bought them."

When I was done reading that passage, I felt like Alex may have been a psychic...

And now I want to build a barn out of a pool. Thanks, Alex.

This game was legendary when I was a kid. We'd pay to get into a roller rink just to play their cabinet (well, that and Primal Rage).

A few months ago I saw it in an arcade, which was set to free play. Finally, I'd be able to finish this and join the elite! You see, when I was little, I ran out of money at the last boss and watched my friend get all the glory. A secret resentment was born.

So I beat the first level, got halfway through the second, and I had my fill. It was a sad day :(

I have to side with Alex here, even when the Simpsons was a new game it was always a bizarre mess. It was so out of place for the franchise. Say what you want about game's such as Virtual Bart or Itchy and Scratchy the game, but at least they made sense within the universe. Marge using a vacuum cleaner to pummel her enemies to death is every bit as bad and exploitative, as those lame Bart Simpson T-shirts were.