I also did a review of The Simpsons Game recently hooray (probably should have mentioned this at the end of the video whoops) ua-cam.com/video/_63eGK_25CI/v-deo.html
People should watch Jerma985's S:H&R playthrough of over 10 hours STRAIGHT. It is a descent into madness at the last mission! ua-cam.com/video/fNNBbFQ0Sq0/v-deo.html
This game shows that density and hidden details in mapS are better than one big map with nothing much to do in half of it. Great video, that audio mic quality is making me jealous.
My favorite example of that is the signs you see that say "Don't eat beef" and then you keep driving and a little bit later you see a sign that says "Eat deer". The game is jampacked with tiny details that help it breathe.
@@MGrey-qb5xz The map isn't that bad...the City area is fun but there should have been a 2nd one in the west/east of the map Paleto Bay and Sandy Shores have no real purpose after the story is finished. Hope GTA 6 won't follow the bigger the better trend further. A map as big as GTA V but with a much bigger urban area.
As a kid who was obsessed with early Simpsons, the amount of easter eggs and references in this game was amazing. All the cars and costumes being straight from the show was perfect as well. Great vid 👍
"SImpson's themed toybox" was exactly how I played it as a kid. Aside from doing all the missions I'd often just play around and explore the world or act out some nonsense plot in my mind using the game. I really loved it
Yeah i made marge dump homer and made her work at the kwik mart and park her car at the trailer park and walks into krusty burger after working at the kwik mart
@@Early2000sPs2games holy shit I used to do stuff like this too 😂😂 I had homer in a different house. I made him go to work everyday and drove as if I were obeying traffic laws.
My only exposure of hit and run was at the hospital ( was in and out of hospital for my chronic illness), they had a starlight console system with a ps2 and a gamecube inside. I used to sit for hours on that thing to distract me from the long stays in hospital, thats why this game is so near and dear to my heart.
"Everything feels qoutable" I don't know why but "GET ONTO THE ROAD AND OFF OF THE SIDWALK" in the exact cadence and accent has been burned into the back of my brain for the last 13 years
I have some quotes ingrained into my brain too - Bart saying "I'll never lose these love handles" (which always comes up whenever I'm trying to do any sort of exercise), Homer saying "It was like that when I got here!", and Apu saying "Who put this here? It makes no sense" are some that come to mind right now EDIT: Also - "I'm a lean, mean, vindaloo machine!" and Homer's equivalent "I'm a lean mean speed thingy!"
I remember playing the PSP version, but I got stuck at the end, due to a game bug. I later on send the game to Gamestop for money/store credit. I had previously played Sims Busted Out on a Nokia N-gage in a shop or restaurant in Berlin, 2004.
In the UK, Simpsons Hit and Run has the record for being the second longest game in history to remain consistantly in the Top 20 charts... Over three years. Second only to Robocop on the ZX Spectrum/Amstrad/C64 of all things. DId Radical also do the much hated SImpsons Skateboarding? They really loved jumping on the popularity bandwagon back then!
@@minimme Oh I know Code Monkeys, They destroyed their company thinking The Gizmondo would be the future of gaming. Also, have you seen Doc Hollywood yet? 😆
I didn’t get new games often when I was a kid so when my parents got me Hit and Run as a treat for being good at the dentist when I had some teeth taken out, I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. They even let me have the rest of the day off school to play it! Next day I went into school and there was a popular kid saying he had the game and he was talking about all these features that I knew weren’t in it so I called him out on it and he was proper embarrassed. Hit and Run will always be one of my childhood favourites. I replay it once a year. The atmosphere is palpable! The music (which you criminally didn’t mention!) is insanely catchy and fits the tone so well. And that gameplay is so fast and crazy addicting. Every time I replay it I end up blitzing the whole thing and getting 100% in a couple days. It’s that damn good
Danny Sweeney yeah the modding group if anyone is interested is called "The Donut Team" The speedrunning is also good fun, and I myself have even gotten into it recently :)
Mordo I heard the new Xbox Gen, the Xbox Series X will support backwards compatibility for all three previous Xbox gens, so that’ll definitely be the Xbox to play this amazing game on
It was a GTA clone at a time when that was very unique for a kids game. Nowadays open worlds are common (even in kids games with stuff like Lego) but back then it was really cool. Also Simpsons were hugely popular
I never completed this game as a kid because of the last mission, only level that wasn't skippable I think. When I went back to it completed it first try, I was dreading that level for my whole playthrough getting PTSD flashbacks to missing the alien ship by like a second and remembering the pure frustration I was having as a kid. Being able to complete it so much easily when I was older rubbed salt into the wound, no joy, just disappointment in child me.
I think what I like most about this video is that it's not from someone who played this as a kid and is gushing like most videos on Hit and Run (guilty as charged...). It's a look through fresh eyes. I'm just happy those of us who are nostalgic for it aren't wrong haha
I wasnt allowed GTA as a kid so I spent countless hours playing this. There was something special about being able to play both on foot and in vehicles back then
I remember having an xbox magazine disc that had a save file for Simpsons Hit and Run that unlocked every level and every car in the game, you could also drive all the special vehicles from the phone booth in any level too.
Fun fact: The show's writers didn't actually write the dialog for this game at all, that was just a marketing ploy. Instead, it was written almost entirely by a guy called Chris Mitchell who worked at Radical Entertainment. Arguably he did a better job than the _actual_ writers.
Clippygoat Only 7 years? You young buck. I remember buying the very first issue back in 2000 along with Disney Adventures magazine (which I was already collecting). It's probably been 16-17 years since my last K-Zone.
As a Kiwi who is rounding out his third year living in Canada, I got an abnormally great sense of joy from the phrase "mucking around" that you dropped at 40 seconds. Thank you for the nostalgic blast :)
Pretty sure I played this game so much that my Xbox DVD Drive eventually gave up the ghost... Honestly top game of my childhood, well and Fable. Top Video
The first meta jokes I remember ever hearing were from Bruce Campbell in the tutorials of the Raimi Spider-Man games. Ironic that it started with a Marvel character who wasn't Deadpool.
I’ll never forget the Friday afternoon in October 2003 that I got off school and walked to the local video store with my dad on the way home and rented this on the PS2 for the weekend.
Ayy, Ii remember K-Zone! Since Aussie and New Zealand have a close relationship, we had K-Zone too. I remember entering a TMNT board game pack competition, and I won. It took like a year to arrive, and I honestly forgot about it. But on that day when it did arrive, I saw this big box outside my front door, when coming home from school, and I was so surprised that II won the competition. It was the first and last thing I've ever won to this day.
One little fact I learned about the development is that, towards the end, the devs were asked to increase the gravity because management didn't like how it felt to go off ramps. This is why so many jumps are super easy to overshoot!
Nah. It’s already been made just fine. So much so that if you were to make it again, you’d almost certainly piss people off. Through a change of graphics, controls or general PC pandering. Just leave it alone, please 🙏
I first found out about this game in the 3rd grade when a friend told me about it in class, he mentioned you could steal cars and jump a volcano(the flaming tire pile) and that blew my mind I was such a big simpsons fan. The next week I went to GameStop and they had one copy for the GameCube and the game is now part of my top 5 most favorite games of all time and I still have the same copy that I bought 11 years ago. 😄😄😄
"Hmmm, minimme, must get buzz minimme." I remember finding your channel 5 years ago when you reviewed Driver 3 (one of my childhood games). It feels like things are coming full circle with your review of The Simpsons Game and Hit and Run (another games I grew up playing). Your reviews are great and it's great to have seen your growth over the years.
I like the story a lot, at least the concepts of it and how it impacts the setting. Over the course of the game, as the story becomes more complex and chaotic and relating to treehouse of horror, the levels progress through the time of day, beginning in the morning with homer, and book ending once again with homer at midnight in a true treehouse of horror level. If you listen closely, the Homer 2 theme is just the "Homer's Day" theme from Homer 1 and Marge, except sped up and played with horror type instruments like the Theremin, electric guitar, and coconut shells. This progression through the time of day is so great, and even if people dislike the alien plot for being boring, surely the setting changes is something they enjoy. Hit and Run is so nearly perfect, I just wish they had more time to finish Homer 2, polished up the rest of the missions in the game to make progression better, and if there weren't a lot of rewrites throughout development, it could have been made a lot better. I really hope the Donut Team remakes Homer 2 soon. It's my favorite level in the game, but those missions need to be fixed. I love how hard the last mission is, so I'd like that to stay the same, but there should be more levels throughout the game that have cars with that kind of wonky driving. Also the last 3 missions shouldn't be the same mission again. ALSO there's a bug in the final mission that makes the mission harder than it should be, instead of adding time, the mission resets the time once you escape the alien sedan, making it better for you to not run away from it as soon as possible. It's little things like that that make Homer 2 so buggy. I remember clipping out of that level so much.
Oh wow, I entered that same K-Zone competition too! Needless to say I did not win. I ended up picking Hit and Run when it came out on Platinum and it was really quite hard to find (think toilet paper in 2020). Now that I brought the PS2 out of the box my better half, also a massive Simpsons fan, is finally getting her first chance to play this game for the first time - I'm insanely jealous.
this game is easily in my top 10 games of all time but i think most of that comes from how me and my dad would sit down after skipping all the hard missions and play the apu garbage mission, the goldfish mission and of course set to kill and i have such fond memories of satisfaction and trying to find all the gags and street races. so what i came here to say is. PLEASE EA WE NEED A REMAKE
When I was young, I accidentally deleted my brother’s save and for a long time felt kinda bad about it. So one day I picked it up and beat it for him. I dunno, in retrospect that seems kinda dumb.
One of my fondest memories of playing this game was waiting to see of those coins would despawn after a certain amount of time. It took longer than expected.
Yea, I played through this for the first time last year and its been fun to slowly work my way through it in bursts. It's always hilarious to play and I can see why this was such a big game while I was growing up.
It randomised characters around the town so you could actually have two of the same character in the screen. Mainly happens when you need to meet that character in a certain spot but their 'bot' character is walking around the same place
My friend raged quit the final mission with Abe Simpson. He asked me to do it, and I showed him the double short cut on evergreen terrace. Then turned on the final jump to the flying saucer, and glided right into the tractor beam, and he was so angry I did it first try.
You can just remind me that k-zone exists without warning me first. Deadass I won 6 books through a competition in K-zone when I was a kid and I still have them
This was actually the last game I ever played on the PS2 before moving onto next-gen. Something about driving around the sunset docks was always soothing, dunno. This was a really well made game and i'm glad i got to experience it.
I also did a review of The Simpsons Game recently hooray (probably should have mentioned this at the end of the video whoops)
ua-cam.com/video/_63eGK_25CI/v-deo.html
Moar sim(pson)s content
Amateur. Just kidding, I love you being the weird ports/licenced games channel. It's a hidden gem.
@@MrGamelover23 🙄🤷
Hahahaha; np dude !
People should watch Jerma985's S:H&R playthrough of over 10 hours STRAIGHT. It is a descent into madness at the last mission!
ua-cam.com/video/fNNBbFQ0Sq0/v-deo.html
“Licensed game connoisseur” he says with questionable pride
That's why we love him.
what a shameful title
I think he is still questioning his entire channel tbh
Simpsons and that one king kong game are the only licensed games I liked ^^
and alien isolation.
@@Iguana5kgodfather 2 is a pretty decent game
Driving through Mr Burns' mansion in the rocket car was the best feeling
When I was a kid, my brother used to tell me it was Hersheypark. I still don’t know why to this day.
crunchy because of the backyard, hersheypark had the chessboard
BAD VIBES I honestly feel like it was just him fucking with me for the sake of fucking with me, but regardless I appreciate the reply.
Mr burns mansion
Rocket car
Pick one
Maaaaann the fucking rocket car
This game shows that density and hidden details in mapS are better than one big map with nothing much to do in half of it.
Great video, that audio mic quality is making me jealous.
My favorite example of that is the signs you see that say "Don't eat beef" and then you keep driving and a little bit later you see a sign that says "Eat deer". The game is jampacked with tiny details that help it breathe.
Reminds me of the Yakuza games
gta 5 comes to mind,what are boring fucking open world with nothing to do in it.
M.Grey I agree, GTA IV felt so much more lived in. I much prefer those 3 islands than the big open nothing that GTA Vs map is
@@MGrey-qb5xz The map isn't that bad...the City area is fun but there should have been a 2nd one in the west/east of the map
Paleto Bay and Sandy Shores have no real purpose after the story is finished.
Hope GTA 6 won't follow the bigger the better trend further.
A map as big as GTA V but with a much bigger urban area.
It's a sad day for generic characters everywhere
BirdsofDestiny it’s a reference turdburger
Do do do do duo duooooo
@@birdsofdestiny6816 There's more to that meme than just typing "ok boomer," it has to actually fit the situation, otherwise it's just nonsense.
So that's what he said
As a kid who was obsessed with early Simpsons, the amount of easter eggs and references in this game was amazing. All the cars and costumes being straight from the show was perfect as well. Great vid 👍
"SImpson's themed toybox" was exactly how I played it as a kid. Aside from doing all the missions I'd often just play around and explore the world or act out some nonsense plot in my mind using the game. I really loved it
Yeah i made marge dump homer and made her work at the kwik mart and park her car at the trailer park and walks into krusty burger after working at the kwik mart
@@Early2000sPs2games holy shit I used to do stuff like this too 😂😂 I had homer in a different house. I made him go to work everyday and drove as if I were obeying traffic laws.
6:00 "The amount of main story platforming missions can be counted on one hand."
Does that hand only have four fingers because it's The Simpsons?
"Moe Moe Moe, shouldn't the weapons defend people who actually have loved ones?"
"Yea, yea i guess so"
Ruthless
Poor moe, I'm sad his midget girlfriend broke up with him, he was so happy in that episode.
CoreisusBand (Like Toys-R-Us but with CORE) "Well, time to comb my hair before the zombies get here.... ugh my life stinks"
My only exposure of hit and run was at the hospital ( was in and out of hospital for my chronic illness), they had a starlight console system with a ps2 and a gamecube inside. I used to sit for hours on that thing to distract me from the long stays in hospital, thats why this game is so near and dear to my heart.
Starlight consoles were a life saver
That's a very cool story! Hope you are doing allright at the moment, wish you all the best :)
"Everything feels qoutable"
I don't know why but "GET ONTO THE ROAD AND OFF OF THE SIDWALK" in the exact cadence and accent has been burned into the back of my brain for the last 13 years
Eeeyah getta your face outta mah face
Which is funny, because he actually says "OFF THE ROAD AND ONTO THE SIDEWALK!"
@@TenshiCat thats literally the joke
@@angreedarmor1396 how'd you like a newspaper upside ya head
I have some quotes ingrained into my brain too - Bart saying "I'll never lose these love handles" (which always comes up whenever I'm trying to do any sort of exercise), Homer saying "It was like that when I got here!", and Apu saying "Who put this here? It makes no sense" are some that come to mind right now
EDIT: Also - "I'm a lean, mean, vindaloo machine!" and Homer's equivalent "I'm a lean mean speed thingy!"
This, Battle for bikini bottom and Chamber of secrets were like the trinity of licensed ps2 games
Flying around the grounds of Hogwarts in Chamber of Secrets blew my young mind.
Absolutely agreed.
I'd say replace Chamber of Secrets with LotR.
@@anthonya.jumelles7103 LOTR was great too, they just don't make em like they used to
Spider Man 2, don't forget that
Sims 2 DS when
PLEASE OH MY GOD I love that game
UBADESHNAR!!!
I remember playing the PSP version, but I got stuck at the end, due to a game bug. I later on send the game to Gamestop for money/store credit. I had previously played Sims Busted Out on a Nokia N-gage in a shop or restaurant in Berlin, 2004.
Oh no...
maybe if you got some manners... smh
“Everything that the character yells is really quotable”
Comic book guy: “ooh thanks alo-....”
I AM SO SICK OF THIS HAPPENING
"Spines don't bend that way!"
“How would you like a newspaper upside your head?”
AWWW I WANTED A PEANUT
“Breaker breaker, this is Bart Simpson requesting one pimp ride ASAP.”
In the UK, Simpsons Hit and Run has the record for being the second longest game in history to remain consistantly in the Top 20 charts... Over three years. Second only to Robocop on the ZX Spectrum/Amstrad/C64 of all things.
DId Radical also do the much hated SImpsons Skateboarding? They really loved jumping on the popularity bandwagon back then!
Actually Skateboarding was made by a company named The Code Monkeys - I think Radical were a little too competent to release that game! haha
@@minimme Oh I know Code Monkeys, They destroyed their company thinking The Gizmondo would be the future of gaming.
Also, have you seen Doc Hollywood yet? 😆
Hi im in uk too, level 3 is nostalgic
Nice to see you here Larry, love your videos.
Over 3 years on Top 20? Why they didn';t made another???
*mmm, forbidden minimme*
"Eat asphalt, asphalt eaters"
Also, I really enjoy the music in this game. The lvl1 and lvl2 ones really stuck with me.
I didn’t get new games often when I was a kid so when my parents got me Hit and Run as a treat for being good at the dentist when I had some teeth taken out, I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. They even let me have the rest of the day off school to play it! Next day I went into school and there was a popular kid saying he had the game and he was talking about all these features that I knew weren’t in it so I called him out on it and he was proper embarrassed.
Hit and Run will always be one of my childhood favourites. I replay it once a year. The atmosphere is palpable! The music (which you criminally didn’t mention!) is insanely catchy and fits the tone so well. And that gameplay is so fast and crazy addicting. Every time I replay it I end up blitzing the whole thing and getting 100% in a couple days. It’s that damn good
Uploaded 33 seconds ago. I have arrived not a moment too soon.
"... you just master it pretty quickly"
Jerma would like a word with you...
local compact streamer fails to master video game for children
@@ConroNorock jerma is literally 100x better than this channel lol
@@steveharvey3351 l e a v e
@@steveharvey3351 B E G O N E
Is that the guy who got angry at a children’s game ON STREAM?
I loved this game but some of the missions were so frustrating i've never dropped more f bombs.
This game still has a really strong speedrunning scene.
And a modding scene that's been making a pretty big boom as of recent
Danny Sweeney yeah the modding group if anyone is interested is called "The Donut Team" The speedrunning is also good fun, and I myself have even gotten into it recently :)
Yeah even I've speedran it and I don't speedrun shit, the only other exception is bloodborne
And re conneing the ps2 sence to play this again
I was somehow thinking meanwhile watching this video that this game is one of those speedrunning type of games and here is your comment :D
"I'm scared and disoriented!!"
Man I can hear that shrill voice and I havent played it in years.
Augh! Why is this happening!?
I really wish they would make this game backwards compatible on Xbox One
I would love to see that too!
Mordo I heard the new Xbox Gen, the Xbox Series X will support backwards compatibility for all three previous Xbox gens, so that’ll definitely be the Xbox to play this amazing game on
ExtremeYTGaming SKATE 2 SKATE 2 SKATE 2
It plays on the 360 if you still have one
I thought they remastered it
It was a GTA clone at a time when that was very unique for a kids game. Nowadays open worlds are common (even in kids games with stuff like Lego) but back then it was really cool.
Also Simpsons were hugely popular
“The simpsons were hugely popular” who are you explaining that to? A five year old? Lol
Loved kzone when I was a kid. Lots of nostalgia with this game as a magazine cover
Wait, this isn't feet. Didn't people ask to see feet this year?
feet comments are all going through to my spam filter now lol
Someone pleas make a Wikifeet profile of minime
Maybe Quentin Tarantino, but not minimme!
Simpsons: Springfield Andreas
Great video and Happy New Year, Minimme!
Really looking forward to your Driver 2 review.
I never completed this game as a kid because of the last mission, only level that wasn't skippable I think. When I went back to it completed it first try, I was dreading that level for my whole playthrough getting PTSD flashbacks to missing the alien ship by like a second and remembering the pure frustration I was having as a kid. Being able to complete it so much easily when I was older rubbed salt into the wound, no joy, just disappointment in child me.
A friend of mine in elementary school turned me onto this game. Shit was a blast and played extremely well.
I'd love to see a review of the Starsky & Hutch game on Ps2.
I bought it recently for this reason! Just need to get lightguns going haha
@@minimme Sweet! Looking forward to it.
Wait. The Starsky and Hutch game had lightgun sections?
Dude you just opened up a generation of memories in the back of my head Holy shit
Ah yiss.
I think what I like most about this video is that it's not from someone who played this as a kid and is gushing like most videos on Hit and Run (guilty as charged...). It's a look through fresh eyes. I'm just happy those of us who are nostalgic for it aren't wrong haha
I wasnt allowed GTA as a kid so I spent countless hours playing this. There was something special about being able to play both on foot and in vehicles back then
The last time I was this early The Simpsons was still funny
I remember having an xbox magazine disc that had a save file for Simpsons Hit and Run that unlocked every level and every car in the game, you could also drive all the special vehicles from the phone booth in any level too.
Loved that game back then, this truly needs a remaster
Fun fact: The show's writers didn't actually write the dialog for this game at all, that was just a marketing ploy. Instead, it was written almost entirely by a guy called Chris Mitchell who worked at Radical Entertainment. Arguably he did a better job than the _actual_ writers.
‘It’s a sad day for generic characters everywhere.’
**Mentions K-Zone**
Oh God, it’s been 7 years since the last time I bought a K-zone magazine...
Clippygoat Only 7 years? You young buck. I remember buying the very first issue back in 2000 along with Disney Adventures magazine (which I was already collecting). It's probably been 16-17 years since my last K-Zone.
dude i love all your freakin videos keep it up much love❤️❤️
I did some work for K-Zone! That was a long time ago
As a Kiwi who is rounding out his third year living in Canada, I got an abnormally great sense of joy from the phrase "mucking around" that you dropped at 40 seconds.
Thank you for the nostalgic blast :)
remember when jerma died playing this
Pretty sure I played this game so much that my Xbox DVD Drive eventually gave up the ghost...
Honestly top game of my childhood, well and Fable.
Top Video
'gave up the ghost'. i think my pig whistles!
The first meta jokes I remember ever hearing were from Bruce Campbell in the tutorials of the Raimi Spider-Man games. Ironic that it started with a Marvel character who wasn't Deadpool.
I and My brother were stuck in the final mission for months but when we passed it, was absolutely GLORIOUS
I remember when my mum got it for me for Christmas. I spend the whole day playing it
I had a ton of K-Zone magazines, they're all in the bin now
I’ll never forget the Friday afternoon in October 2003 that I got off school and walked to the local video store with my dad on the way home and rented this on the PS2 for the weekend.
"I'm a lean, mean, speed thingy"
Moral of the story: Games don't have to be a Sweatfest to be rewarding.
as much as I hate hearing my fav game as a kid isn't as good as I remember, your reviews are very detailed and extremely accurate. Love the channel!
The only thing this was missing is things catching on fire for no reason after you hit them.
Ayy, Ii remember K-Zone! Since Aussie and New Zealand have a close relationship, we had K-Zone too. I remember entering a TMNT board game pack competition, and I won. It took like a year to arrive, and I honestly forgot about it. But on that day when it did arrive, I saw this big box outside my front door, when coming home from school, and I was so surprised that II won the competition. It was the first and last thing I've ever won to this day.
The one game that seriously needs a HD remake from the ground up 😁 I love this game. First game I owned on Playstation 2 and still own to this day ❤
I discovered this channel about a week ago, and it's easily one of my favourites
This is perfect minimme content. Ace
The narrator sounds so familiar. Do you know if he does work on other channels?
One little fact I learned about the development is that, towards the end, the devs were asked to increase the gravity because management didn't like how it felt to go off ramps. This is why so many jumps are super easy to overshoot!
Great game lots of fun I still enjoy playing it! I do love the fact that you can go into Mr. Burns Mansion and tear it apart.
THIS GAME SHOULD BE REMADE WHO IS WITH ME
YESSSSSIRRER SPAGHETTIO
Nah. It’s already been made just fine.
So much so that if you were to make it again, you’d almost certainly piss people off. Through a change of graphics, controls or general PC pandering.
Just leave it alone, please 🙏
A remaster would be a more propper treatment.
One of the many games my brother traded in as a teen that I will never forgive him for.
One of my favorite gta clones
I refuse to die until I see the sequel or successor of Hit and Run get announced.
I grew up with it, I always loved it. The fact you could drive about any car and unlock so many things made my little mind go nuts.
I first found out about this game in the 3rd grade when a friend told me about it in class, he mentioned you could steal cars and jump a volcano(the flaming tire pile) and that blew my mind I was such a big simpsons fan. The next week I went to GameStop and they had one copy for the GameCube and the game is now part of my top 5 most favorite games of all time and I still have the same copy that I bought 11 years ago. 😄😄😄
"Hmmm, minimme, must get buzz minimme."
I remember finding your channel 5 years ago when you reviewed Driver 3 (one of my childhood games). It feels like things are coming full circle with your review of The Simpsons Game and Hit and Run (another games I grew up playing). Your reviews are great and it's great to have seen your growth over the years.
I wish they did a remastered version of this
As A kid I was stuck on the last mission taking grandpa to the plant, On PC a few years back I completed it first time.
5:02 "Not only did GTA prove how fun police chases can be..." That's a strange way of spelling Driver :P
First video of 2020. Let's go boys.
I like the story a lot, at least the concepts of it and how it impacts the setting. Over the course of the game, as the story becomes more complex and chaotic and relating to treehouse of horror, the levels progress through the time of day, beginning in the morning with homer, and book ending once again with homer at midnight in a true treehouse of horror level. If you listen closely, the Homer 2 theme is just the "Homer's Day" theme from Homer 1 and Marge, except sped up and played with horror type instruments like the Theremin, electric guitar, and coconut shells. This progression through the time of day is so great, and even if people dislike the alien plot for being boring, surely the setting changes is something they enjoy. Hit and Run is so nearly perfect, I just wish they had more time to finish Homer 2, polished up the rest of the missions in the game to make progression better, and if there weren't a lot of rewrites throughout development, it could have been made a lot better. I really hope the Donut Team remakes Homer 2 soon. It's my favorite level in the game, but those missions need to be fixed. I love how hard the last mission is, so I'd like that to stay the same, but there should be more levels throughout the game that have cars with that kind of wonky driving. Also the last 3 missions shouldn't be the same mission again. ALSO there's a bug in the final mission that makes the mission harder than it should be, instead of adding time, the mission resets the time once you escape the alien sedan, making it better for you to not run away from it as soon as possible. It's little things like that that make Homer 2 so buggy. I remember clipping out of that level so much.
This game is the defintion of my childhood! I feel sorry for kids these days that never grew up on such masterpieces.
New Zealand got Kzone too. I loved it as a child. Great Times.
pretty sure we just got the aussie version
0:20 Good old K-Zone, we got those in KiwiLand too, as with most Aussie things.
WHAT A LOVELY UPLOAD FOR MY BIRTHDAY thank u minimme
wow I jumped around that monorail often but never thought it was an actual vehicle
Oh wow, I entered that same K-Zone competition too! Needless to say I did not win. I ended up picking Hit and Run when it came out on Platinum and it was really quite hard to find (think toilet paper in 2020). Now that I brought the PS2 out of the box my better half, also a massive Simpsons fan, is finally getting her first chance to play this game for the first time - I'm insanely jealous.
There seems to be a wave going around, one person reviews an old game and then a thousand other chanels make videos saying exactly the same thing
This, Road Rage, and Simpson's Skateboarding had been my favorite games at the time.
I was not prepared for the nostalgia hit that came when you brought up K-Zone. Oh my goodness that takes me back.
This game was my first interaction with UA-cam gaming back in the late 2000s
Hey Minimme, please can you look at Road Trip Adventure in a future video?
I 100% will do this and hold me to it
@@minimme Did you end up doing one because I can't find it. If not are there any plans to do one in the near future?
this game is easily in my top 10 games of all time but i think most of that comes from how me and my dad would sit down after skipping all the hard missions and play the apu garbage mission, the goldfish mission and of course set to kill and i have such fond memories of satisfaction and trying to find all the gags and street races. so what i came here to say is. PLEASE EA WE NEED A REMAKE
I honestly prefer this game's humour to The Simpsons Game's. It's way more subtle and more reminiscing of the superior earlier seasons.
I have this game on my original xbox and it's pretty good! Glad you played it!
Now i remember how satisfying it is to be able to control your car even tho' you're not behind the steering wheel like Lisa does at 8:57
When I was young, I accidentally deleted my brother’s save and for a long time felt kinda bad about it. So one day I picked it up and beat it for him. I dunno, in retrospect that seems kinda dumb.
One of my fondest memories of playing this game was waiting to see of those coins would despawn after a certain amount of time. It took longer than expected.
My older brothers and I have been quoting this game for the past 15 years lol
Our favorite one has always been “Learn to drive, dumbass!”
K-ZONE FUCK YEAH
I actually won a backpack out of there once... it was shit.
I entered every competition and won quite a lot of stuff, and sold most of it on my parents ebay account to buy videogames haha
That pun is too good to be relegated to the description !
Yea, I played through this for the first time last year and its been fun to slowly work my way through it in bursts. It's always hilarious to play and I can see why this was such a big game while I was growing up.
That last level with granpa and the barrel IS the source of all my issues.
This wasn't made by the original writers, it was checked over by real staff members that did say it was written like real episodes.
Yes Peter. I've never actually played the game as a kid, too, so it's good to see a fresh review on it
It randomised characters around the town so you could actually have two of the same character in the screen. Mainly happens when you need to meet that character in a certain spot but their 'bot' character is walking around the same place
My friend raged quit the final mission with Abe Simpson. He asked me to do it, and I showed him the double short cut on evergreen terrace. Then turned on the final jump to the flying saucer, and glided right into the tractor beam, and he was so angry I did it first try.
You can just remind me that k-zone exists without warning me first. Deadass I won 6 books through a competition in K-zone when I was a kid and I still have them
This was actually the last game I ever played on the PS2 before moving onto next-gen. Something about driving around the sunset docks was always soothing, dunno. This was a really well made game and i'm glad i got to experience it.