i see the comment a lot but i dont see EA doing anything with the simpsons IP other than shitty mobile games till disney (like if they care) wants risk money on game development. there was going to be a 2nd hit and run game but higher ups at their publisher didn't wanna do it and fox looked elsewhere for the lisence (Ofc EA picked it up and aren't doing anything with it)
Something I find that goes very rarely mentioned about Hit & Run is how damn good the soundtrack is. All the tracks were so perfectly composed to match the series' style. Some of my all-time favourite tracks come from that game, especially Lisa's driving music and the Halloween level driving music.
Even though it's one of the hardest missions in the game, I love the song that plays during the "set to kill" mission. It has that nu metal/post grunge vibe
@@CoryHawthorneCharmGames Hmm. Marc possibly study his 2000’s pop punk because my mind can see Green Day, Simple Plan and Sum 41 covering the soundtrack greatly!
@@magicthegavining Not sure if you missed my reference to the Simpsons Movie or just stating really believe there will never be a better Simpsons game. Either way, aye caramba.
@@professorkittyhawk Me personally, I caught the reference! So whatever happened to the idea of a movie sequel? The movie exceeded all my expectations so I was really looking forward to the follow-up.
@@duranfanvr882 No idea but the movie did exceed my expectations as well. First half felt better than the second but was still a solid movie as while compared to recent seasons. If they were to do another of the same quality and caliber, I'd be there with my Mr. Sparkle shirt on.
@@zenandtheartofskateboarding Yeah I had it on xbox 360 and thoroughly enjoyed it. Gameplay is not perfect but def wouldn't say its frustrating as its pretty easy going and the humour and references to both Simpsons and retro games is so spot on.
I was surprised to see 'Virtual Springfield' ranked at #5. I worked on that game back in the 90's. All of us at the studio had lots of fun working on it, but many of us were skeptical that it would do well, not actually being a real "game", it's really just an interactive collection of early Simpsons trivia. The studio that developed it for Fox Interactive that I worked for, went out of business shortly before the game was finished. Maybe we had too much fun making the game. A little technical trivia... One of the first "cel shaders" was made for that game. We built the entire city of Springfield in 3D Studio version 4, (an ms-dos based application before it became 3DSMAX on windows). Then we pre-rendered segments along every block, up and down every sidewalk, and saved them as gifs. The whole game engine is essentially just many gifs stitched together at intersections. I spent several hours a day, watching scenes of an episode in order to study the buildings in the city and re-create them in that 3D program. It was tricky, because, being a cartoon, many of the houses and buildings in the tv show do not look completely the same shape from all sides. Thus, are difficult to build in actual 3D. The Simpson house totally did not match up from front and back views, we had to fix that for the game. same for a lot of other buildings. I miss the 90's....
@@peterbelanger4094 Virtual Springfield probably scored so high because it focused on trying to recreate the Simpsons' world rather than being some random genre game with the Simpsons license slapped on to it. That was one of the main drawback of 90s license games or even in general today. Some licenses work very well with some genres such as action movies with FPS for example but too many games became uninspired platform titles that were perhaps okay at the time but no competition to original IP competitors. Personally I always felt the Simpsons would have worked best as some kind of adventure game, each of the family members have their own little adventure and it all coming together at the end of the game in big finale. What do you miss about the 90's?
The Simpsons game (DS) and hit and run will always have a special place in my heart. Especially the first level of the Simpsons game (DS), it's just so nostalgic.
Krustys Fun House is a great game. Controls, visuals, sound and level design are really good. You just have to accept it’s a puzzle game. Shame they couldn’t take this quality and put it into a platformer.
I loved Virtual Springfield and I was really hoping it'd be in here - so thanks. Also, this video is the exact right amount of sarcastic. I will never forget the bit of VS where you click on the bathroom door and Homer sings "I'm singin' in the shower just a-washin' ma butt!" Creased me when I was 11.
@@stonecold6521 that's how layered the writing on the Simpsons used to be. Often several steps past where you expect the joke to go. Now it's just basic and lazy.
Am i the only person who grew up playing hit and run and is unconditionally in love with it but feels deep down that the simpsons game is just a better game
Okay, side-by-side comparison time: Gameplay: SHAR has responsive driving physics, more arcade-like than realistic though I don't think that's a bad thing, and passable platforming considering that it's not principally a platformer. TSG has platforming that's no better than SHAR's, with little else to back it up. SHAR wins. Level design: SHAR's big open worlds to explore, versus TSG's linear levels with extra invisible walls, TSG just feels like a game where the designers have an idea of exactly what you ought to do and are trying to stop you doing anything else. In addition, TSG's wonky physics means that puzzle solutions that really look like they ought to work don't, often because of those invisible walls. I don't like trying to work out what the devs were thinking when their ideas are so poorly conveyed. SHAR wins and it's not even close. Story: both are wacky, irreverent slices of Simpsons, they have the sort of plots a Simpsons game should have. This one's a tie. Humour: this one's mostly a matter of taste, but for me TSG's self-referential humour gets pretty saturated. I particularly get annoyed by the "cliches" which the game points out about how bad it is - a better game could get away with it, but this one is just pointing out its own already-obvious flaws. SHAR's humour is more balanced, there are lots of different types of jokes, rather than a bunch of variations on one theme. I also prefer jokes to be incidental things in levels (eg the random comments by run-over pedestrians in SHAR) rather than drawn-out cutscenes. Visuals: I've gotta give this to TSG, I do really like its cel-shaded art style and IMO is the game's best attribute. SHAR looks fine for its era, but not especially interesting. Soundtrack: the biggest landslide for SHAR out of all the categories. I can't even remember any of TSG's music, whereas SHAR's totally slaps. I believe Danny Elfman composed for SHAR but not TSG, and you can tell. Overall, SHAR wins by four to one, with one tie.
@@alexpotts6520 Yeah theyre all fair points, i just find although i play hit and run more often, I can play through the entirety of TSG more because the missions in hit and run are usually the same thing over and over again in a different context
15:46 The Bart as a baby minigame in Virtual Bart might be a reference to Lisa's First Word in that scene where Bart was swinging around a clothes line.
Road rage was my jam back in the day. Everything came together to make a game I would spend hours trying to get better and better at. I remember loosing my shit the first time I broke a 30k score. Never had hit and run, so road rage is my fav.
I played Road Rage on my GameCube as a kid and I didn't have a memory card, so I would literally play the game just to get to the other maps in the game. I loved the downtown map And the map where you had to drive up a woods with hills.
Bart's Nightmare is a nostalgic game from my childhood. I remember me and my cousins trying to get as many pages as we could, but we never managed to get more than four. Later, my cousin gifted me his Genesis and the game, so whenever I had free time I would play it, and eventually I was able to get all pages. It's a difficult, but very fun game!
As a kid who'd never played (or probably even heard of at the time) Crazy Taxi, I always loved renting Road Rage from Blockbuster. There was also a story mode that, while I honestly don't remember too much of it, changed up the formula a bit and was a nice change of pace from the arcade mode of just getting the best score.
Glad to see the arcade game in the #2 spot. I remember dropping many a token into that machine as a kid at Chuck E. Cheese. Then seeing it on ps3 was very exciting and nostalgic, but of course, Hit & Run was on a whole other level. Both games definitely earned their place at the top.
I remember playing Road Rage and Crazy Taxi when I was about 8. I never made the connection that they were basically the same game until several years later.
There are certantly a lot of "Bart does whatever" games, aren't they? But hey, at least most of the following games focus on the family as whole (H&R and TSG being the best examples I can think of)
The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield was myyyyy game back in 1997. I played it so much. Then Hit and Run was the only game I owned on the brand new original Xbox for agees too LOL. What a childhood!
I worked on that game. I worked on the 3D models of the building in town that were pre-rendered for all the outside walking. It's nice to know someone really enjoyed it.
Just as a note: the Simpsons pinball table I'm familiar with, Simpsons Pinball Party by Stern, is actually one of the most well-regarded modern-style pinball tables of all time. Like, it's almost WILDLY deep, hard as nails, and really fun to play, too. It feels a little silly to consider it on the level of Tiger handhelds, as it would probably rank pretty high had y'all included it.
always a joy to see lists like these. also, coming off of Star Wars day, if you are feeling bold about a big every game list to rival spider-man and batman's list, maybe every Star Wars game ever list? also, i really need to track down Futurama some day because i have heard the game is some glorious fanservice, even if it is a bit rough
2:13 the Thompsons wrestling 3:14 the Thompson skateboard 4:04 the Thompson bort Thompson the beanstalk 4:55 the Thompson bort house of a weirdness 5:52 itchy & scatchy 6:46 Thompson bort Thompson escape from camp deadly 7:44 the Thompson bort vs space mutant 8:47 the Thompson bort vs the world 9:48 the Thompson bort vs the juggernaut 10:55 bartman meet radioactive man 12:00 the Thompsons road racing 12:58 krusty funhouse 14:11 the Thompson night of the living tree House of horror 15:12 virtual bort 16:14 Thompson bowling 17:09 itchy scratchy mayhem a mini golf 18:06 the Thompson game 18:56 the Thompsons road racing 20:04 the Thompson bort nightmare 21:07 Thompson virtual springfield 22:14 the Thompson game 23:14 Futurama 24:24 Thompson arcade game 25:36 Thompson hit runner
I’m surprised you didn’t bring up the super meta second half of The Simpson’s Game where you get to save the 8-bit Simpsons family and kill Matt Groening in a boss fight!
Here are some “Ranked” lists I want to see in the future: “Every Disney Game Ranked” I have a feeling this will end up being longer than the Batman & Console lists. “Every Marvel Game Ranked” “Every Castlevania Game Ranked” “Every James Bond Game Ranked” “Every Looney Tunes Game Ranked” It should also include the “Tiny Toons” & “Animaniacs” games as well, since the Looney Tune characters have made appearances / cameos in those shows.
I could never get into Lego city undercover... Admittedly the dialogue and cut scenes are funny (Like all Lego games), but the gameplay itself is tedious.
@@benpardoe2425 Sad to hear that. The reason behind my comment is that I find the two games to be very similar in many ways. Not just the focus on lighthearted humor, but also similar mission structures, light platforming elements and collecting various stuff.
I'm kind of surprised to see Simpsons Escape from Camp Deadly so early in this list. It was actually really good for it's time. It was at least better than any of the NES games.
I agree, Camp Deadly is definitely underrated. Yes, it's sometimes very challenging and unforgiving and has a few flaws, but once you get used to it, it's quite fun to play, and the graphics and controls are quite impressive for a 1991 Game Boy title.
The Simpsons Arcade Game has an impressive conversion on the Commodore 64, including pretty much EVERYTHING from the arcade game with some clever work-arounds to make them fit. The graphics may not look like much, but anyone who has ever programmed a C64 game can tell you that it's mind-blowing for what it is.
Glad to see Virtual Springfield so high, that was a great game. Even if it is more of a tour of Springfield than a game. So many nice nods to different episdoes.
I was the Lead Designer on the Simpsons Game. Don’t get me started on the camera. There are specific reasons handed down to us by Gracie Films that made it impossible to make a good camera .
@@cratedivizion I got it about a year ago and have beaten it around 7 times. I then got Bart and the Beanstalk and beat it after a couple of days. Then I got Bart Versus the Juggernauts a week ago and it was god awful. It might be the worst game I have ever played in my life.
@@chesspunk489 I'm thinking about picking up Bart and the beanstalk. The price tag right now though, ugh. Ah man....I kinda like Bart vs the juggernauts but the "shove-fest" and some of the later mini games are infuriating.
@@cratedivizion Luckily I got Bart and the Beanstalk for 40 bucks from a bid not that long ago. It's good except for the final level where you're falling down the stalk. I usually lose all of my lives on that part. I can't get past the electric basketball mini game in Bart vs the Juggernauts. I have tried at least 60 times. I can't find a pattern. The floor just changes at random and I end up taking a hit.
Me: *just watched the almost 2 hour long worst to best wwe games list* Ah, that was a long one, time for something a bit different. Ooh, a simpsons worst to best. Triple Jump: Number 24: The Simpsons Wrestling Pain
Basically, for a Simpsons experience you only need 2 of these: Hit & Run and The Simpsons Game. All the side-scrollers feel more like Simpsons-themed games. Whereas these two give you the feeling of inhabiting The Simpsons universe.
True. These two are the only ones that were actually designed to be Simpsons games and really carry the charm and humor of the show - while the other ones are just video games that have the Simpsons as characters.
Thank you for making this. Right back to my childhood lol. Couldn't remember all the Simpson games i played on my Sega seems like they were the only ones i rented back in the day
I found the bowling game in the arcade at my mall, I had no idea this one was actually rare to run into! I didn't know about the frame 10 begging since it was in free play mode.
I love that I only owned 4 games from this list and 2 of them were the bottom 2 on the list (Road Rage and Hit & Run being the other 2). FYI, I actually really liked Simpsons Skateboarding. Simpson's wrestling is cult classic, let's be honest.
The arcade game cost us a fortune. I remember my step dad at the time trying to impress me and just banging pound after pound into the machine until we completed it!
Zoidberg also appears in The Simpsons Game - the 2nd to last level has Homer and Bart fight Matt Groening, who summons clones of Zoidberg and Bender to attack you during his boss fight.
I was thinking you were being cleverer than that when you said "the only Simpsons game to include Dr Zoidberg... almost" since you obviously forgot that later entry, "the Simpsons Game" DOES include Dr Zoidberg at one point. But instead you were referring to the Futurama game which... isn't a Simpsons game. I've heard some duff excuses for plonking something on a list before but that really is the lamest one I've heard in a while. "We couldn't fit it on any other list". Um... so what next? 20 greatest life apple crumbles, 5 of which are actually banana pie recipes, because you don't have a banana pie recipe list to put them on? Come on guys that was ridiculous.
Is no one gonna mention the minor error in the 20:03 timestamp where the Bart is misspelled with a K instead of an R so it looks like it says BAKT'S NIGHTMARE. Hopefully they could fix that issue.
I loved the simpsons wrestling as a kid. The music in there is still all fun. What i really loved doing was using gameshark to unlock Itchy and Scratchy
I must be the only person that loves Virtual Bart, and I spent hours on it as a kid. Then again I haven’t played it in 5-10 years and nostalgia could be kicking in
The main senior developer of Hit and Run said he'd very badly wants to port a remastered version of Hit and Run to the current consoles, and specially the Nintendo Switch. I'd buy it day one for the switch no questions asked. He also said he'd want to improve both the camera and gameplay via on foot parts. Also felt having the game clocked at 60 fps would be more ideal over putting more $$ into overhauling the graphics.
Love hit and run but gotta say the arcade was my favourite lol. Remember getting funnel cakes and shakes at the drive in and playing it with friends. Some of the best times of my childhood.
Ah yes, my favourite family; Bort, Midge, Home Simulator, Visa, and Maggie. Tbh the only ones I played were The Simpsons Game (DS), and Hit & Run (PS2). I really like both of them and I still have my copy of TSG DS, and I remember quite a bit from it. Game Over (The last level) was pretty damn hard though, I gotta say.
"Putting the Simpsons pinball machine at the very bottom." Sir, I'd like to note that The Simpsons Pinball Party is one of the greatest pinball machines of all time. That's just a note, nothing to do with the list or the games, I just wanted to point that out. No hate at all.
It's a good list. The only thing I have to say against it is that you called Road Rage a Crazy Taxi clone so many times and yet never even mentioned that Hit and Run is a GTA Clone.
boonski but it’s not. Like at all. Just because you drive around in an open are doesn’t mean it’s a gta clone. There’s platforming, no shooting, no gang wars. Besides driving, it’s nothing similar
I just remember enjoying the heck out of Simpsons Wrestling as a kid and whooping on fools as Barney, blind them with a burp cloud and just wail on them! Just an overall fun experience which is more than I can say for ANY of the handheld games
Hit and Run being at the top certainly not a surprise I don't think. I haven't played much of the Arcade game at number 2, but I think the few times I've been to the arcades it certainly seemed like a good game. Simpsons Road Rage, man my best friend got the game one time and we played it into the ground. I cannot believe how much we played it and I did not even like it. Somehow the game just eventually grew on us and sort of laugh at the idea that we played it as much as we did. We haven't really played it since. I was wanting to pull my hair out at how much we played it(in a day and plus more) considering Metal Gear Solid 2 was the newest game to come out pretty much. Can you imagine we were playing The Simpsons Road Rage over MGS2? My best friend just had to want to play it, because it involved vehicles and it involved The Simpsons. That was pretty much the whole reason behind it. Great times.
I actually played and enjoyed 13:09 a lot as a kid. Probably had low standards for games back then, though. But still remember it fondly as a pretty fun game that was weirdly hard from puzzles maybe not being designed all too intelligently.
I remember really wanting Virtual Springfield when I was a kid. Although my mum gave me a choice between that and Tomb Raider for Christmas and I went for the latter 😂
I had the Atari ST version of Bart vs. The Space Mutants and I quite liked it. The controls were a bit crap but that wasn't unusual at the time. I felt that the difficulty of the game was very fair since almost every time I played it, I got further than the previous time. I had no idea that there were so many Simpsons games so this was very interesting.
It's far from being a bad game, it has great graphics and good ideas. Its only flaw is that it's poorly programmed which makes many stages even way harder than they already are. Once you get used to it it's quite fun though.
I played at a cousin's house back in the days and to be frank, I loved but I played recently and while I didn't hated it, I noticed way more the flaws and the horrible graphics
I remember playing the Simpsons hit and run all the time I loved that game. Thankfully I watched this video before downloading it because I got road rage and hit and run mixed up at first.
Awesome video! Brought back a lot of memories. You should do the best Warriors/Musou games of all time ranked from best to worst... There's a lot out there. Been slowly posting each one in chronological order on my Instagram and I regret my life choices.
I want Simpsons Hit & Run Remastered. I doubt i'm the only one.
I would totally replay it if it got ported to PS4/PS5. :')
This was like actually a good game not just a good TV show game or whatever u wanna call it
Just wish the original Xbox version was added to backwards compatibility on Xbox One.
And road rage and wrestling! A collection of remasters would be perfect!
i see the comment a lot but i dont see EA doing anything with the simpsons IP other than shitty mobile games till disney (like if they care) wants risk money on game development.
there was going to be a 2nd hit and run game but higher ups at their publisher didn't wanna do it and fox looked elsewhere for the lisence (Ofc EA picked it up and aren't doing anything with it)
Something I find that goes very rarely mentioned about Hit & Run is how damn good the soundtrack is. All the tracks were so perfectly composed to match the series' style. Some of my all-time favourite tracks come from that game, especially Lisa's driving music and the Halloween level driving music.
“2468 you suck I am great” made laugh so hard when I was little and playing this game
@@cadecurrent344 I am so smart SMRT doh I mean SMART
Even though it's one of the hardest missions in the game, I love the song that plays during the "set to kill" mission. It has that nu metal/post grunge vibe
That would be Marc Baril who wrote that score. He was the audio lead and ocmposer on the game.
@@CoryHawthorneCharmGames Hmm. Marc possibly study his 2000’s pop punk because my mind can see Green Day, Simple Plan and Sum 41 covering the soundtrack greatly!
"The Simpsons Hit and Run is the best Simpsons game ever made."
The best Simpsons game made SO FAR.
Kittyhawk no just ever
@@magicthegavining Not sure if you missed my reference to the Simpsons Movie or just stating really believe there will never be a better Simpsons game. Either way, aye caramba.
@@professorkittyhawk Me personally, I caught the reference! So whatever happened to the idea of a movie sequel? The movie exceeded all my expectations so I was really looking forward to the follow-up.
@@duranfanvr882 No idea but the movie did exceed my expectations as well. First half felt better than the second but was still a solid movie as while compared to recent seasons. If they were to do another of the same quality and caliber, I'd be there with my Mr. Sparkle shirt on.
@@professorkittyhawk And I'd be wearing my "Champions of winning, superb!" shirt too haha
I'll give Simpsons Wrestling this much: seeing Flanders throw Barney Gumble around would make for an hilarious episode.
And Also.
WHY IS FLANDERS OP IN SIMPSONS WRESTLING?
@@PeterRH432 god's on his side.
@@PeterRH432 Flanders is secretly buff. Haven't you seen any of the episodes with shirtless Flanders?
@@DarkAurora2002 hell yea but he ain't vain though he do show it off
No
We all know Simpson hit and run is going to be number 1 unless they want the walrus clan and non subscribers to riot.
yeah not putting hit and run as number 1 is definitely a sin
@duckbread Hit and run was a lot a kids gta growing up.
I actually played hit and run again, it's still a lot of fun.
Hit & Run is the only Simpsons game you should know. And it's the best one. Everything else is pure shitfest cashgrabs.
It’s way to easy, that’s my problem with it, as a kid you could breeze through it, needs to be remade.
The Simpsons Game is the best imo. One of the best games on PS3, and it was hilarious
I agree. This list is pretty much spot on for me apart from I would move The Simpsons game from 4 to 1.
Seriously? I’m thinking about getting it but the actual gameplay looks so clunky and frustrating. Is it actually fun to play tho?
@@zenandtheartofskateboarding Yeah I had it on xbox 360 and thoroughly enjoyed it. Gameplay is not perfect but def wouldn't say its frustrating as its pretty easy going and the humour and references to both Simpsons and retro games is so spot on.
Agree, my all time favourite.
"One of the best games on PS3" oh come on, let's not get carried away now.
The fact that the games don’t become ‘good’ until around no.7 is very upsetting and doesn’t do the top 5 justice of how good they really are
I was surprised to see 'Virtual Springfield' ranked at #5.
I worked on that game back in the 90's. All of us at the studio had lots of fun working on it, but many of us were skeptical that it would do well, not actually being a real "game", it's really just an interactive collection of early Simpsons trivia. The studio that developed it for Fox Interactive that I worked for, went out of business shortly before the game was finished.
Maybe we had too much fun making the game.
A little technical trivia... One of the first "cel shaders" was made for that game. We built the entire city of Springfield in 3D Studio version 4, (an ms-dos based application before it became 3DSMAX on windows). Then we pre-rendered segments along every block, up and down every sidewalk, and saved them as gifs. The whole game engine is essentially just many gifs stitched together at intersections.
I spent several hours a day, watching scenes of an episode in order to study the buildings in the city and re-create them in that 3D program. It was tricky, because, being a cartoon, many of the houses and buildings in the tv show do not look completely the same shape from all sides. Thus, are difficult to build in actual 3D. The Simpson house totally did not match up from front and back views, we had to fix that for the game. same for a lot of other buildings.
I miss the 90's....
@@peterbelanger4094 Virtual Springfield probably scored so high because it focused on trying to recreate the Simpsons' world rather than being some random genre game with the Simpsons license slapped on to it.
That was one of the main drawback of 90s license games or even in general today.
Some licenses work very well with some genres such as action movies with FPS for example but too many games became uninspired platform titles that were perhaps okay at the time but no competition to original IP competitors.
Personally I always felt the Simpsons would have worked best as some kind of adventure game, each of the family members have their own little adventure and it all coming together at the end of the game in big finale.
What do you miss about the 90's?
@@peterbelanger4094 wow you worked on this game?? You have no idea how much joy this game brought me. Thank you so much!
@@peterbelanger4094 That's so cool. I used to love that game as a kid, you really did Sprigfield justice. Thanks for your hard work :)
The Simpsons game (DS) and hit and run will always have a special place in my heart. Especially the first level of the Simpsons game (DS), it's just so nostalgic.
Krustys Fun House is a great game. Controls, visuals, sound and level design are really good. You just have to accept it’s a puzzle game. Shame they couldn’t take this quality and put it into a platformer.
Agree, they were way too hard on it. It's not a masterpiece but saying it's trash is just wrong.
Agreed
I loved Virtual Springfield and I was really hoping it'd be in here - so thanks. Also, this video is the exact right amount of sarcastic.
I will never forget the bit of VS where you click on the bathroom door and Homer sings "I'm singin' in the shower just a-washin' ma butt!" Creased me when I was 11.
The Simpsons games are like modern Simpsons episodes, mostly bad but there are a few hidden gems within it
Most modern Simpsons episodes are fantastic!
@@dazsin I disagree but I respect your opinion
@@dazsin I disagree and I DONT respect your opinion. AT ALL. Like, I actively disrespect it and call you an ignorant.
@@sideskroll absolutely ridiculous comment 😂😂😂
@@dazsin Thanks for noticing.
Dr Zoidberg is also in The Simpsons game. Also I remember having some kind of Simpsons scene maker for Pc as a kid.
SIMPSONS CARTOON STUDIO! It was soooooo gooooooood (when I was a young child... I don’t know how it would hold up now!)
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Elliott Wooster yeah it was a lot of fun
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Moleman: Please kill me!
Marge: That poor man... I hope someone does kill him.
That made me laugh out loud😂
Me too man. Thought the joke was over then we see Marge. I expected her to say "Poor man" but not the rest. Amazing.
@@stonecold6521 that's how layered the writing on the Simpsons used to be. Often several steps past where you expect the joke to go. Now it's just basic and lazy.
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@@aVerySmugeaf your a hero
@@MrV41N what don't we get?
I thought you would mention that Dr. Zoidberg shows up towards the end of the "The Simpsons Game" (#4 on the list).
oh i didnt expect you on this video
Came here to comment this tbh
Same but with Bender
During a boss fight with Matt Groening himself.
Regarding the "Super" in Krustys Super Funhouse, games on the SNES that appeared on other formats would often have "Super" in the title.
Am i the only person who grew up playing hit and run and is unconditionally in love with it but feels deep down that the simpsons game is just a better game
Hit and run got too hard, too fast imo
@@RON_FBG The simpsons game got harder as well but not super hard.
Okay, side-by-side comparison time:
Gameplay: SHAR has responsive driving physics, more arcade-like than realistic though I don't think that's a bad thing, and passable platforming considering that it's not principally a platformer. TSG has platforming that's no better than SHAR's, with little else to back it up. SHAR wins.
Level design: SHAR's big open worlds to explore, versus TSG's linear levels with extra invisible walls, TSG just feels like a game where the designers have an idea of exactly what you ought to do and are trying to stop you doing anything else. In addition, TSG's wonky physics means that puzzle solutions that really look like they ought to work don't, often because of those invisible walls. I don't like trying to work out what the devs were thinking when their ideas are so poorly conveyed. SHAR wins and it's not even close.
Story: both are wacky, irreverent slices of Simpsons, they have the sort of plots a Simpsons game should have. This one's a tie.
Humour: this one's mostly a matter of taste, but for me TSG's self-referential humour gets pretty saturated. I particularly get annoyed by the "cliches" which the game points out about how bad it is - a better game could get away with it, but this one is just pointing out its own already-obvious flaws. SHAR's humour is more balanced, there are lots of different types of jokes, rather than a bunch of variations on one theme. I also prefer jokes to be incidental things in levels (eg the random comments by run-over pedestrians in SHAR) rather than drawn-out cutscenes.
Visuals: I've gotta give this to TSG, I do really like its cel-shaded art style and IMO is the game's best attribute. SHAR looks fine for its era, but not especially interesting.
Soundtrack: the biggest landslide for SHAR out of all the categories. I can't even remember any of TSG's music, whereas SHAR's totally slaps. I believe Danny Elfman composed for SHAR but not TSG, and you can tell.
Overall, SHAR wins by four to one, with one tie.
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@@alexpotts6520 Yeah theyre all fair points, i just find although i play hit and run more often, I can play through the entirety of TSG more because the missions in hit and run are usually the same thing over and over again in a different context
15:46 The Bart as a baby minigame in Virtual Bart might be a reference to Lisa's First Word in that scene where Bart was swinging around a clothes line.
"The games difficulty spikes are..."
Me: "...spikier than Bart's hair?"
"...spikier than they have any right to be."
Me: "Oh."
Road rage was my jam back in the day. Everything came together to make a game I would spend hours trying to get better and better at. I remember loosing my shit the first time I broke a 30k score. Never had hit and run, so road rage is my fav.
Josh Heckman yes road rage is really good
I played Road Rage on my GameCube as a kid and I didn't have a memory card, so I would literally play the game just to get to the other maps in the game. I loved the downtown map And the map where you had to drive up a woods with hills.
Yessss thisss!
road rage is funny but the gameplay gets boring fast
@@razkable admittedly it's more aimed toward high score junkies, but outside of that I get your point.
Bart's Nightmare is a nostalgic game from my childhood. I remember me and my cousins trying to get as many pages as we could, but we never managed to get more than four. Later, my cousin gifted me his Genesis and the game, so whenever I had free time I would play it, and eventually I was able to get all pages. It's a difficult, but very fun game!
As a kid who'd never played (or probably even heard of at the time) Crazy Taxi, I always loved renting Road Rage from Blockbuster. There was also a story mode that, while I honestly don't remember too much of it, changed up the formula a bit and was a nice change of pace from the arcade mode of just getting the best score.
Glad to see the arcade game in the #2 spot. I remember dropping many a token into that machine as a kid at Chuck E. Cheese. Then seeing it on ps3 was very exciting and nostalgic, but of course, Hit & Run was on a whole other level. Both games definitely earned their place at the top.
I remember playing Road Rage and Crazy Taxi when I was about 8. I never made the connection that they were basically the same game until several years later.
No Simpsons Cartoon Studio? I'd say that counts if Virtual Springfield does.
My first thought. I remember playing that as a kid making videos I'm sure were garbage lol
It was supposed to be "every simpsons game " after all....
SPAGETT Simpsons cartoon studio is my most favourite.
yup yup yup
Definitely should have been included.
I forgot how much we were supposed to like Bart, he's more a relic of a different time now.
Do the Bartman, if you can-can, dude.
Don't have a cow man
Yeah...I'm glad the franchise has moved away from touting Bart as its headliner character and redistributed the focus across the show's ensemble cast.
@@de132 EAT MY SHORTS
There are certantly a lot of "Bart does whatever" games, aren't they?
But hey, at least most of the following games focus on the family as whole (H&R and TSG being the best examples I can think of)
The arcade game will always be my favorite. So much button smashing fun back in the day
Same. When I was a kid my mom would play this with me at movie theater, and she doesn't even like video games. Good times.
Well it is kinda equal to Hit and Run
The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield was myyyyy game back in 1997. I played it so much. Then Hit and Run was the only game I owned on the brand new original Xbox for agees too LOL. What a childhood!
I worked on that game. I worked on the 3D models of the building in town that were pre-rendered for all the outside walking. It's nice to know someone really enjoyed it.
It really helped that Virtual Springfield came out around the time of the very best, classic, Simpsons episodes.
Me: The top three should be The Simpsons Game, Arcade Game, and Hit and Run
Me, after the video: I'm still gonna say I called it
its an easy call really, those are the only even halfway decent simpsons games.
Hit and run was amazing
I'm so glad I've nabbed Simpsons arcade game before it was de-listed
Just as a note: the Simpsons pinball table I'm familiar with, Simpsons Pinball Party by Stern, is actually one of the most well-regarded modern-style pinball tables of all time. Like, it's almost WILDLY deep, hard as nails, and really fun to play, too. It feels a little silly to consider it on the level of Tiger handhelds, as it would probably rank pretty high had y'all included it.
Also, pinball is an understandable exclusion, as real-life pinball tables aren't video games.
always a joy to see lists like these. also, coming off of Star Wars day, if you are feeling bold about a big every game list to rival spider-man and batman's list, maybe every Star Wars game ever list? also, i really need to track down Futurama some day because i have heard the game is some glorious fanservice, even if it is a bit rough
well if you find the game disc of the OG xbox, it can be played on whatever xbox you have now
2:13 the Thompsons wrestling
3:14 the Thompson skateboard
4:04 the Thompson bort Thompson the beanstalk
4:55 the Thompson bort house of a weirdness
5:52 itchy & scatchy
6:46 Thompson bort Thompson escape from camp deadly
7:44 the Thompson bort vs space mutant
8:47 the Thompson bort vs the world
9:48 the Thompson bort vs the juggernaut
10:55 bartman meet radioactive man
12:00 the Thompsons road racing
12:58 krusty funhouse
14:11 the Thompson night of the living tree House of horror
15:12 virtual bort
16:14 Thompson bowling
17:09 itchy scratchy mayhem a mini golf
18:06 the Thompson game
18:56 the Thompsons road racing
20:04 the Thompson bort nightmare
21:07 Thompson virtual springfield
22:14 the Thompson game
23:14 Futurama
24:24 Thompson arcade game
25:36 Thompson hit runner
I’m surprised you didn’t bring up the super meta second half of The Simpson’s Game where you get to save the 8-bit Simpsons family and kill Matt Groening in a boss fight!
Here are some “Ranked” lists I want to see in the future:
“Every Disney Game Ranked”
I have a feeling this will end up being longer than the Batman & Console lists.
“Every Marvel Game Ranked”
“Every Castlevania Game Ranked”
“Every James Bond Game Ranked”
“Every Looney Tunes Game Ranked”
It should also include the “Tiny Toons” & “Animaniacs” games as well, since the Looney Tune characters have made appearances / cameos in those shows.
I'd love a Hit & Run remake.
I recommend Lego City Undercover to anyone who loves that game.
I could never get into Lego city undercover... Admittedly the dialogue and cut scenes are funny (Like all Lego games), but the gameplay itself is tedious.
@@benpardoe2425 Sad to hear that. The reason behind my comment is that I find the two games to be very similar in many ways. Not just the focus on lighthearted humor, but also similar mission structures, light platforming elements and collecting various stuff.
I remember spending HOURS and HOURS with Virtual Springfield. I really appreciate the inclusion!!
I'm kind of surprised to see Simpsons Escape from Camp Deadly so early in this list. It was actually really good for it's time. It was at least better than any of the NES games.
I agree, Camp Deadly is definitely underrated. Yes, it's sometimes very challenging and unforgiving and has a few flaws, but once you get used to it, it's quite fun to play, and the graphics and controls are quite impressive for a 1991 Game Boy title.
The Simpsons Arcade Game has an impressive conversion on the Commodore 64, including pretty much EVERYTHING from the arcade game with some clever work-arounds to make them fit. The graphics may not look like much, but anyone who has ever programmed a C64 game can tell you that it's mind-blowing for what it is.
In what universe does Crazy Taxi: Catch a Ride look and play better than The Simpsons Road Rage on GBA?
Simpsons road rage gba was a masterpiece
If anything, the backgrounds scaled far worse in CT than it did Road Rage GBA
Great list! No one else has ever tackled this huge list of games...
Glad to see Virtual Springfield so high, that was a great game. Even if it is more of a tour of Springfield than a game. So many nice nods to different episdoes.
I was the Lead Designer on the Simpsons Game. Don’t get me started on the camera. There are specific reasons handed down to us by Gracie Films that made it impossible to make a good camera .
The Simpsons: Hit & Run was a fun game & They should Remake the game for modern consoles. lol
Lol?
Escape From Camp Deadly is underrated. The spitball boomerang system really makes the game unique. It is also very beatable.
Just played this and beat it today. Fun game.
@@cratedivizion I got it about a year ago and have beaten it around 7 times. I then got Bart and the Beanstalk and beat it after a couple of days. Then I got Bart Versus the Juggernauts a week ago and it was god awful. It might be the worst game I have ever played in my life.
@@chesspunk489 I'm thinking about picking up Bart and the beanstalk. The price tag right now though, ugh. Ah man....I kinda like Bart vs the juggernauts but the "shove-fest" and some of the later mini games are infuriating.
@@cratedivizion Luckily I got Bart and the Beanstalk for 40 bucks from a bid not that long ago. It's good except for the final level where you're falling down the stalk. I usually lose all of my lives on that part. I can't get past the electric basketball mini game in Bart vs the Juggernauts. I have tried at least 60 times. I can't find a pattern. The floor just changes at random and I end up taking a hit.
I’ve wanted a simpsons hit and run remake for years now. Loved that game
I second that. An updated version of that game with today's technology would certainly be awesome.
Me: *just watched the almost 2 hour long worst to best wwe games list* Ah, that was a long one, time for something a bit different. Ooh, a simpsons worst to best.
Triple Jump: Number 24: The Simpsons Wrestling
Pain
Basically, for a Simpsons experience you only need 2 of these: Hit & Run and The Simpsons Game.
All the side-scrollers feel more like Simpsons-themed games. Whereas these two give you the feeling of inhabiting The Simpsons universe.
True. These two are the only ones that were actually designed to be Simpsons games and really carry the charm and humor of the show - while the other ones are just video games that have the Simpsons as characters.
I love Simpsons Road Rage. Crazy Taxi clone, sure, but it was a ton of fun. Played it with most of my friends and we all enjoyed it.
I'm so glad to see The Simpsons Game (Console) so high on the list. Although Hit & Run is probably better, TSG will always be my fav.
This is blasphemous!
It's a decent game 😊
C.K.C hit and run was rather dull tbh.
The Simpsons game (x360-ps3) IS better than hit and run.
I don't understand how they put simpsons virtual better than the simpsons game.
Thanks for taking your time and making this video. You earned a subscribe
Thank you for making this. Right back to my childhood lol. Couldn't remember all the Simpson games i played on my Sega seems like they were the only ones i rented back in the day
I found the bowling game in the arcade at my mall, I had no idea this one was actually rare to run into! I didn't know about the frame 10 begging since it was in free play mode.
I love that I only owned 4 games from this list and 2 of them were the bottom 2 on the list (Road Rage and Hit & Run being the other 2).
FYI, I actually really liked Simpsons Skateboarding. Simpson's wrestling is cult classic, let's be honest.
i literally have the bookends of this list.
hit and run and wrestling.
The simpsons hit and run is such a legend it can't even be compared with any other game mentioned
The arcade game cost us a fortune. I remember my step dad at the time trying to impress me and just banging pound after pound into the machine until we completed it!
Zoidberg also appears in The Simpsons Game - the 2nd to last level has Homer and Bart fight Matt Groening, who summons clones of Zoidberg and Bender to attack you during his boss fight.
"This is the best of the Game Boy games."
*Later shows another Game Boy game ranked higher*
I was in love with the Simpsons Arcade game when I was a kid. Glad it hit number 2
I love that you guys have been making the VOs work from your homes. Well done. :)
I was thinking you were being cleverer than that when you said "the only Simpsons game to include Dr Zoidberg... almost" since you obviously forgot that later entry, "the Simpsons Game" DOES include Dr Zoidberg at one point. But instead you were referring to the Futurama game which... isn't a Simpsons game. I've heard some duff excuses for plonking something on a list before but that really is the lamest one I've heard in a while. "We couldn't fit it on any other list". Um... so what next? 20 greatest life apple crumbles, 5 of which are actually banana pie recipes, because you don't have a banana pie recipe list to put them on? Come on guys that was ridiculous.
Exactly. These dumb UA-camrs didn't even play the Simpson game up to the point where you fight Zoidberg and Bender.
Who cares. pick up a foot ball
@@brageok I care. The Simpsons game is underrated and hit and run is overrated.
You’re so right that was bullshit it’s not even simpsons related
The Simpsons Game is my favourite with Road Rage and Hit and Run tied for a close second.
Is no one gonna mention the minor error in the 20:03 timestamp where the Bart is misspelled with a K instead of an R so it looks like it says BAKT'S NIGHTMARE.
Hopefully they could fix that issue.
Feel like tapped out could of made an exception because it’s legitimately fun
I loved the simpsons wrestling as a kid. The music in there is still all fun. What i really loved doing was using gameshark to unlock Itchy and Scratchy
I have fond memories of spending hours playing Simpsons Hit & Run I wish they would do a remaster
I must be the only person that loves Virtual Bart, and I spent hours on it as a kid. Then again I haven’t played it in 5-10 years and nostalgia could be kicking in
Dr zoidberg and bender both appear in the 2nd to last level of the Simpsons game
The main senior developer of Hit and Run said he'd very badly wants to port a remastered version of Hit and Run to the current consoles, and specially the Nintendo Switch. I'd buy it day one for the switch no questions asked. He also said he'd want to improve both the camera and gameplay via on foot parts. Also felt having the game clocked at 60 fps would be more ideal over putting more $$ into overhauling the graphics.
The Simpson's hit and tun equals the Simpson's GTA
Not really other than the driving everything else is different
Love hit and run but gotta say the arcade was my favourite lol. Remember getting funnel cakes and shakes at the drive in and playing it with friends. Some of the best times of my childhood.
Ah yes, my favourite family; Bort, Midge, Home Simulator, Visa, and Maggie.
Tbh the only ones I played were The Simpsons Game (DS), and Hit & Run (PS2). I really like both of them and I still have my copy of TSG DS, and I remember quite a bit from it.
Game Over (The last level) was pretty damn hard though, I gotta say.
Road rage is such a great game but the load times really kill it
Load Rage
*sees video title*
"WOOHOO!!!!!!"
"Putting the Simpsons pinball machine at the very bottom."
Sir, I'd like to note that The Simpsons Pinball Party is one of the greatest pinball machines of all time. That's just a note, nothing to do with the list or the games, I just wanted to point that out. No hate at all.
What about The Simpsons: cartoon studio? I bloody loved that game growing up, literally wasted hours making my own episodes. I was not good at it.
Thanks for the video! I really appreciate your work!
It's a good list.
The only thing I have to say against it is that you called Road Rage a Crazy Taxi clone so many times and yet never even mentioned that Hit and Run is a GTA Clone.
boonski but it’s not. Like at all. Just because you drive around in an open are doesn’t mean it’s a gta clone. There’s platforming, no shooting, no gang wars. Besides driving, it’s nothing similar
How is hit and run a gta clone?
I just remember enjoying the heck out of Simpsons Wrestling as a kid and whooping on fools as Barney, blind them with a burp cloud and just wail on them! Just an overall fun experience which is more than I can say for ANY of the handheld games
Mean Machines Magazine gave Krusty’s FunHouse 90%
Virtual Springfield and H&R kept me entertained for hours! Great games.
If Simpson's Wrestling isn't number 1 we riot
Did you mean simpsons hit and run?
@@WednesdayMan No, no he didn't
@@PolarityProducts woosh
@@WednesdayMan are you familiar with jokes?
@@MrSamBerrett1 are YOU familiar with jokes?
Hit and run was such a hard game for me to beat as a kid 😅but the accomplishment we felt after completing it was the best feeling ever 🥳
I played Krusty's Fun House so much as a kid. lol
It was such a good game!!
Hit and Run being at the top certainly not a surprise I don't think. I haven't played much of the Arcade game at number 2, but I think the few times I've been to the arcades it certainly seemed like a good game. Simpsons Road Rage, man my best friend got the game one time and we played it into the ground. I cannot believe how much we played it and I did not even like it. Somehow the game just eventually grew on us and sort of laugh at the idea that we played it as much as we did. We haven't really played it since. I was wanting to pull my hair out at how much we played it(in a day and plus more) considering Metal Gear Solid 2 was the newest game to come out pretty much. Can you imagine we were playing The Simpsons Road Rage over MGS2? My best friend just had to want to play it, because it involved vehicles and it involved The Simpsons. That was pretty much the whole reason behind it. Great times.
I actually played and enjoyed 13:09 a lot as a kid. Probably had low standards for games back then, though. But still remember it fondly as a pretty fun game that was weirdly hard from puzzles maybe not being designed all too intelligently.
I remember really wanting Virtual Springfield when I was a kid. Although my mum gave me a choice between that and Tomb Raider for Christmas and I went for the latter 😂
I had the Atari ST version of Bart vs. The Space Mutants and I quite liked it. The controls were a bit crap but that wasn't unusual at the time. I felt that the difficulty of the game was very fair since almost every time I played it, I got further than the previous time.
I had no idea that there were so many Simpsons games so this was very interesting.
25:35: Best. Simpsons Game. EVER!
I loved playing the arcade one when I was younger at the arcade 😢
Virtual bart and Bart's nightmare was two great games that I loved very much and glad that I got to beat them both without have game genie codes
I bought The Simpsons Wrestling on release when i was a kid. I was so excited! Playing it was like hearing the air go out of a balloon! 😂😂😂
Simpsons tapped out:AM I A JOKE TO U!!!
Triplejump:yes, yes u are
It’d be great if they made a new game for the franchise, possibly like Hit and Run but with a larger map and more abilities like GTA V
I thank you for putting Barts Nightmare on the higher half of the list. It's not even a bad game imo. Just hard and weird.
It's far from being a bad game, it has great graphics and good ideas. Its only flaw is that it's poorly programmed which makes many stages even way harder than they already are. Once you get used to it it's quite fun though.
I actually enjoyed Simpsons Wrestling when it came out funny enough but god i remeber it having huge difficult spikes and frustraiting gameplay.
I played at a cousin's house back in the days and to be frank, I loved but I played recently and while I didn't hated it, I noticed way more the flaws and the horrible graphics
Me too. This guy is extremely annoying on how negative he is. Games were more simple back then.
I remember playing the Simpsons hit and run all the time I loved that game. Thankfully I watched this video before downloading it because I got road rage and hit and run mixed up at first.
Damn. 15 minutes in, and I'm still hearing things like "irredeemable trash". Is there going to be a part 2 to this?!😅🖖🏾
to be fair, as far as i am aware there are exactly 3 good simpsons games, and several dozen bad ones.
Awesome video! Brought back a lot of memories. You should do the best Warriors/Musou games of all time ranked from best to worst... There's a lot out there. Been slowly posting each one in chronological order on my Instagram and I regret my life choices.
17:59
Falling with style!
Nothing beats Hit and Run! But the arcade fighting game you had to pay a quarter for is amazing too