Shack's Arcade Corner: The Simpsons
Greg is back with an episode of Shack's Arcade Corner that is a do-over from the early days of the series. The Simpsons arcade cabinet owned, and it deserves a fresh look.
The Simpson arcade cabinet is one of the finest games ever to steal our quarters, and it is for that reason that we are taking another shot at this game with a brand new Shack's Arcade Corner episode. The game hit arcades in 1991 and was developed and published by Konami. Players could play as one of four classic Simpsons characters. The popular arcade cabinet allowed for four player co-op gameplay and even featured the voice actors from the TV show. This game did appear in some arcades in a much more rare two player cabinet. Players could join forces in pairs to execute special attacks. The Simpsons arcade game remains one of the all-time classic beat-em-ups and had an awesome soundtrack. Please take a look at this video to find out more in our brand new episode.
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Good episode. It was a rare licensed arcade games that succeeded.
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Ones based on TV and movies yes. Most of them were terrible and often were flops. They tend to be rare as they were converted into other machines fairly quickly.
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Off the top of my head: Die Hard, Death race, Robocop, Firefox, Cops, Aerosmith's Revolution X, Batman, Batman Forever, Star Wars games except the original Atari one, Krull, Speed Racer, Transformers, Cloak & Dagger, Rambo, Star Trek Voyager, and Cliff Hanger. I'm sure there are a lot more.
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It was a decent game but it was an expensive flop, super rare these days, so that's why I included it.
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Die Hard was awesome! And my friend and I spent like $20 each on that Revolution X game!
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Die Hard Arcade was fantastic, even if it was just slapped onto Dynamite Deka.
Firefox was a laserdisc shooter. It sucking wasn't a problem with it being licensed, it was a problem with the genre being shit.
Robocop was a weird one because I wasn't big on the Data East version, but the Ocean conversion was way more compelling
Batman wasn't bad, but Batman Returns was pure money. Batman Forever, being an acclaim game....ugh...
There's been a couple of great Star Wars games in arcades, especially Sega's Pod Racer that I wish would get a home port, Star Wars Trilogy Arcade (definitely would not work at home), while the original wire frame Star Wars game and the remake (though time has not been overwhelmingly kind to them, they were great on release)
Other licenses that worked out well in arcades:
Alien, Terminator, Dungeons & Dragons, Spider-Man, Punisher, Initial D, Fist of the North Star, Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, Bucky O Hare, Daytona USA, F355 Challenge, Tron, GI Joe, Mobile Suit Gundam (cheating because I mostly played the PS2 port of Federation vs Zeon), Jurassic Park, PGA Tour, OutRun, NBA Jam, NFL Blitz, and I'm going to go ahead and throw in Willow because while I think the NES game is probably the best Zelda game on the NES, the arcade game def doesn't get enough love.
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That game is still one of my arcade faves, love the team moves.
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so many great memories of this arcade game playing it with my brothers. The arcade center owner was a friend of my dad and he would give us infinite lives and we would play it forever.
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That ad probably caused me to gain 30 pounds. I'm not proud.
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I could single-credit the game reliably except for the guy in the balloon, whoever it was. Either that fight had some crazy RNG or it was just hard. I don't remember. It's been like twenty years.
I'd play that game for hours and it'd cost me next to nothing.
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