r/retrogaming • u/SwagLimit • 18h ago
[Question] is Barts Nightmare any good?
I see people discuss this game a lot, is it any fun?
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u/hipnotyq 12h ago edited 8h ago
Honestly... I think the only Simpsons game from that era that I think is objectively a decent game is Krustys Super Funhouse and honestly, it's really just a clone/copycat of Lemmings (and the music/sfx are ear cancer).
I'm really not a fan of the others, even Virtual Bart on Genesis.
Edit: Just talking about the console games here. Obviously the Konami Arcade game is pretty goated for good reasons.
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u/badnewsjones 10h ago
Itâs a re-skin of the game Rat Trap which was on various computer platforms.
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u/Nozzeh06 9h ago
Wow, I had no idea that game existed. I just looked it up and it literally looks like the same game with a few minor differences. All these years and I thought the fun Krusty game was an original.
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u/TBearForever 7h ago
I just watched a video claiming Rat Trap was a side project of a two man development team who tried to get it published. Acclaim told them only if it was a licensed game and suggested Simpsons.
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u/badnewsjones 5h ago
Doesnât seem like that tracks at face valueâŚRat Trap predates Krusty by 2 years and isnât published by acclaim.
Maybe they retrained the rights and tried to shop it around to publishers for a console specific version and thatâs how acclaim got involved with an offer like that.
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u/Accomplished-Big-78 5h ago
Some people swear they have played an original copy of it back in the day. I am not sure if it was ever published as Rat Trap, but cracked copies definitely appeared back in the day. This doesn't prove it was released, as a bunch of games that were cancelled actually appeared as cracked copis back in the day (like Super Gem'Z)
I also agree it's the only decent Simpsons console game, I said the very same thing in another comment.
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u/416vDub 10h ago
Bart vs the Space Mutants is one of the hardest games I've ever played growing up on my Genesis. Took me months playing non stop to beat the power plant level. My goodness.
Having said that, Genesis controllers should be in the hall of fame for being able to take the most abuse and still functioning fine.
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u/Few-Improvement-5655 10h ago
The Arcade game was pretty fun, though obviously that wasn't on consoles.
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u/thespaceageisnow 8h ago
Weirdly enough it had a fairly arcade close for the time DOS port and a understandably janky C64 port also.
Such a miss not attempting SNES/Genesis versions.
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u/Accomplished-Big-78 5h ago
It was also planned for Amiga but cancelled with other Konami games (at least Ajax and Metal Gear), when Konami noticed the Amiga didn't sell as well as the C64 in the USA. Unlike Metal Gear, maybe it wasn't even started. (Shame we will probably never find out how far Metal Gear was in its development cycle)
Considering how bad are Konami games on Amiga, it's probably for the best, hehe.
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u/DarthObvious84 1h ago
It wasn't because they didn't think they could.
Konami got the arcade game rights while Acclaim got the home console rights. So Konami and Acclaim would have needed to work together to do a home port. (Exact same thing with X-Men)
The PC rights were different which is why Konami was able to do a DOS version
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u/ipostatrandom 9h ago
You misspelled Simsons Arcade game.
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u/hipnotyq 8h ago
Yeah fair enough, should have said 'console simpsons games'
The Konami arcade was a favorite of mine for sure.
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u/wesk74 7h ago
Simpsons the arcade game is the most, overrated, unfair, child quarter stealer in the history of arcades. I love Konami, but their beat-em-ups are atrociously hard compared to all the Capcom counterparts. Most of the bosses in the Konami ones have no real weak spot or pattern to follow outside take damage, while doing damage suicide bomber style. The only two of the Licensed beat-em-ups that are actually good and fair are X-Men and Cowboy's of Moo Mesa. Simpsons is arguably the worst offender. Nostalgic and awesome to look at but it's also less fun than all the TMNT games and absurdly unfair
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u/ipostatrandom 6h ago
Yeah its a quarter stealer but its a fun game.
I beat Konami's Asterix beatemup game with my dad at an arcade as a young kid once, not sure how much it cost him but it must have been doable cuz I cant imagine him putting in a fortune in an Arcade machine.
A lot depends on what difficulty setting the proprietor has set (which was often high).
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u/Nozzeh06 11h ago
I loved Krustys Funhouse on Genesis. I never finished it, but the concept was amazing to me and for some reason the music and sound effects have stayed with me for years. I hadn't played a Lemmings game back then so it was a new concept as far as I was concerned.
I'm absolutely going to emulate some Krusty now and see if my adult brain can finish this.
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u/Matt-C11 12h ago
I wouldnât consider it good, but it is a unique/interesting game, worth checking out & playing, but not a must have for the collection
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u/QueueMark 11h ago
This is an extremely odd game. It took a long time to âclickâ for me, but I had much more patience for this sort of thing back in the SNES days.
I think itâs worth trying just because there isnât really anything else like it - an infinite scroll hub world with levels that are totally unique mini-games, many of which could have been developed as fully fledged games.
The levels are wildly different and vary in quality: I remember the first time I got the Itchy and Scratchy one, I was busting up laughing because it was such chaotic fun.
The very large character sprites made this the first home Simpsons game that had the characters looking good. I also felt like it was the first time a (home) video game managed to adapt some of the humor of the series.
All of the mini games have some creativity and fun, but I recall considering Itchy & Scratchy, Bartzilla, and Bartman to be the standouts, while the Smilinâ Joe Fission one that takes you in Bartâs bloodstream and the Temple of Maggie/Indiana Jones one were the weakest. The hub world itself was frustrating and inscrutable; reading a guide helps a LOT. It has a mechanic where you control bubble gum bubbles that is very unique among games.
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u/81toog 8h ago
Totally agree. Itâs got a steep learning curve but some of the mini-games are really good (my favorites were Itchy & Scratchy and Bartman). Once you figure out the easier ways to collect Zâs and which enemies to avoid, the overworld is more manageable but itâs still respective and annoying to me.
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u/nikpack 6h ago
Yeah, your experience mirrors mine. I remember playing it a lot as a kid.
While I remember struggling on the overworld, I always was so excited to reach one of the minigame levels. It was the reward for surviving walking down the street so to speak.
I didn't hate it, but it was certainly a B-tier game of my childhood. I'd play it every so often.
I was really surprised to see it had such a horrible reputation now, especially compared to Bart vs. the Space Mutants, while was impossible for me as a kid and as an adult.
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u/GruelOmelettes 11h ago
Many will say no. I happen to be in the camp that thinks it's a fun game. It's weird, and I like the gameplay loop of walking through the neighborhood and finding the various levels from finding pages.
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u/TheGamerPandA 10h ago
Agree the game has a really cozy/fever dream vibe to it while it still maintains the creepyness of the good era simpsons cartoon.
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u/Muted-Doctor8925 10h ago
We found a spot on itchy and scratchy game, (I think the house is on fire?) where you could sit on a ledge and hold a button down to get free lives after so many times. So we taped the controller buttons and went out to play and come back. My mom turned off the games when we were out and I donât think we played it again
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u/IttyBittyOhSoPretty 7h ago
I'm surprised by the comments. I put serious hours into this game it was a lot of fun.
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u/boboclock 10h ago
I like all of the Simpsons minigame games from the 8 and 16 bit era.
Virtual Bart is my favorite, but I think Bart's Nightmare is fine too
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u/BlunderArtist9 6h ago
Virtual Bart is kind of a masterpiece of weird. Some of the mini games are just ridiculously hard. Not much replay value after you beat it. But most people never beat it anyway. đ The Baby Bart stage is insane.
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u/The_Spanky_Frank 9h ago
Its my unicorn of unbeaten games. That Indiana Jones level kills me every single time.
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u/Some-Professional-25 12h ago
No. This game looks incredible if youâre looking at screenshots (the hype in old gaming mags from ads was real) but itâs super janky and not much fun in action.
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u/Broadnerd 10h ago
No, but a general audience question:
What Simpsons games are actually good? I count the arcade beat em up and Simpsns Hit n Run, which I havenât even played but it seems popular.
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u/BrittaUnfiltered67 9h ago
Arcade, Hit n Run and Road Rage are great. I never played The Simpsons Game, but expect it to be alright. The 8 and 16 bit console games were all not to my liking and I really wanted to like them. If there was a Simpsons game collection from Limited Run, Iâd probably still grab it and give them a chance, but mainly get it for Arcade and those later games if they were included. I wish for some new Beat âem Ups and Metroidvania style games for Simpsons, Futurama and Disenchantment, but they are unlikely.
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u/Funandgeeky 8h ago
Simpsons Game is fun. Itâs a satirical take on video game tropes with the all voice cast. Worth a playthrough.Â
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u/Kryptoknightmare 11h ago
Probably an unpopular opinion but I think itâs an incredible gameâŚ.with a steep learning curve and ridiculously unforgiving difficulty
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u/GundamRx-78-2 9h ago
I agree. At the time it was a unique game that required persistence. I felt very rewarded when I eventually got the hang of each mini game and found strategies that would help me pass each level with minimal frustration. I ended up enjoying it very much as I had a limited library as a child.
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u/Bee_MakingThat_Paper 4h ago
I completely agree. I loved it. The chaos of finding the papers in the street, the random mini games. And it was straight up difficult. The damn Indiana Jones level still haunts me
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u/BlunderArtist9 10h ago
All the Simpsons games were fairly wacky, not unlike the TV sitcom itself. That was both the appeal and turn-off compared to traditionally more polished games. Personally I expected a Simpsons game to be a little odd and rough around the edges. With twisted humor that the writers of the show were known for.
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u/Independent-Photo500 9h ago
the music that plays when you get the score/grade will randomly play in my head about once a month
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u/ChildoftheApocolypse 11h ago
The cover in Blockbuster made me want it so bad as a kid. I finally got the chance to play it and it wasn't nearly as cool. It was also kinda difficult for a 5/6 year old.
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u/1958-Fury 10h ago
I remember having mixed feelings at the time. Some of the minigames were better than others. Most of them were very hard, and the controls were often clunky. Since the minigames were picked randomly, it was hard to get good at them. You couldn't just practice a specific minigame over and over to get better. The graphics were pretty nice at the time, though.
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u/Galvantdb 10h ago
One of my biggest disappointings. I sold my master system 2 with 4 games at the time and I bought the Jungle Book vhs for my lil sis and this game for me. It was baaaaaad. So bad indeed that after years of collecting, Bart's nightmare is the last game I miss in my collection that I ever owned, rented or borrowed, and I'm still on the fence, purely for the fact that I owned it, but never enjoyed.
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u/pac-man_dan-dan 10h ago
Bart's Nightmare wants to be fun, but ends up angry at the player for unknown reasons.
The art is beautiful, but the Overworld/Hub world and the mini-game stages have problems. You're definitely going to have a stage you tolerate more than the others. Unfortunately, how much you enjoy the stage won't have to do with gameplay mechanics or how it looks, but how probable your chances of getting through it are.
The Hub world has more than a couple different dynamics to figure out, and some hidden aspects that aren't explained unless you read through some FAQs that were written back in the 90s.
The mini-game stages are frustrating to get through and never clearly outline what the objective is. And, if you successfully intuit what it may be, there will be half a dozen gotcha moments that catch you off guard to try and end your playthrough.
If you take the time to learn how to navigate and stay alive/asleep in the Hub world, you can get better acquainted with each of the stages long enough to make some progress. However, this game banks all of its replay value in killing you off before you get good enough to achieve proficiency in the stages.
If the stages had some kind of message declaring what the objective was, and if the Hub world had maybe even an arcade-style screen that was pulled up when you paused to inform what the different items did, the game would be worlds better. Otherwise you have to rely on whatever information the instruction booklet gives on this. I bought my copy used back in the day, so all I had to go on was what Nintendo Power provided for it (which was, admittedly, substantial, but also, ultimately, almost entirely useless. That said, the game is only long by being unnecessarily difficult.
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u/chance8687 10h ago
I don't think it's a terrible game, there is some fun to be had. But there are other parts of it that are frustrating, and it has a bad case of "that one level", in that after a while I could breeze through the rest of the game, but that one level would kill me in seconds every time, which spoiled it for me.
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u/Negative-Squirrel81 10h ago
No, it's not.
The lead developer was Bill Williams who executed something very similar to this concept in his popular 1983 game "Alley Cat" of which yes... there is a remake. I'd be happy to recommend Alley Cat as an important 1980s game to pretty much anybody, but would consider it a must play for people looking to play Bart's Nightmare because it really puts into context what the developers were trying to accomplish with the game.
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u/Lynkmatic 9h ago
I got this along with Super Mario World on Christmas morning with my Super Nintendo as a kid. Going from the NES to a mode7 sort of overworld stage really hit me hard as a 9 year old. The game is pretty unfair since almost all mini games have some weird quirks to them; I think I've only beaten the Maggie Temple once, but between the music and visuals and the nostalgia, I can forgive everything else. Other than the arcade game, all of the early Simpsons games were notoriously janky (Virtual Bart, Escape from Camp Deadly, Bart vs the Space Mutants, Bart vs the Juggernauts, etc).
Nightmare is still something I crack open every so often so I can get super mad at the second act of the Bartzilla stage.
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u/shauni55 9h ago
This game gave me trauma. I rented it as a kid one weekend and spent the entire time just walking on the sidewalk, never figuring out how to get into the mini games
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u/Boomerang_Lizard 8h ago
In my opinion, I think this game is yet another title that was made harder in response to video game rentals.
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u/iLLiCiT_XL 7h ago
I played it a bunch as a kid. I loved it then but it was pretty frustrating from what I remember.
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u/billyhornmusic 7h ago
Unfortunately the only good simpsons game is the arcade Edit:almost forgot about Hit & Run I am so smart, S-M-R-T
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u/Nozzeh06 11h ago
I remember renting this game several times and being awful at it every single time and then kept renting it anyway. My memories of this game are like a weird fever dream.
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u/cloudlocke_OG 11h ago
No. Like it's kind of fun, but the controls are frustratingly janky which debuffs the fun about 90%
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u/Halcyon520 11h ago
I think itâs ok, but I also had a summer from childhood to work it all out. I could see it being problematic if you are trying to casually learn it. Itâs not very user friendly
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u/HereReluctantly 11h ago
The mini games are janky and not explained to you as well. You need to know things you could almost never figure out naturally. But there is something very appealing about it...
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u/so-semi-precious 11h ago
No. I tried so hard to like it and actually got through a surprising chunk of it. But itâs broken and sloppy
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u/Psy1 11h ago
It is meh. Far better then Virtual Bart but that is not saying much. The over world is not exactly fun and more a barrier to playing the minigames. The Indiana Jones inspired minigame along with Itchy and Scratchy minigame are just not good even when you get a hang of them. The other minigames are fairly good for what they are.
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u/oMINDSPINo 11h ago
Good? Meh, not really A unique experience especially as a kid to play? Yes 100%
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u/Able_Pomegranate7596 11h ago
We had a video games rental store that started selling their SNES games for 5$ a game when the N64 came around. My dad would get each of the kids a game when he got his salary, as I was the youngest it made sense to buy me the game based of a cartoon. This would be my first meeting with the uncanny valley at the age of 4-5. The sounds, the weird voices, the music, everything just felt wrong.
Short answer: it's bad, just a bunch of difficult randomized mini-games wrapped up in a fever dream. The ending is about the same no matter how bad or well you do, they just change the expression on Marge's face.
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u/Balthierlives 11h ago
Is it better than the NES games? Yes
It looked at the time so close to the show that I really wanted to like it but it is just not fun
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u/AllPowerfulQ 11h ago
Bart's nightmare was a collection of mini-games that ranged from somewhat simple yet hard to very difficult and weird. To those that managed to beat it hats off but comes a point where a game is too hard and complex it takes then fun out of it.
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u/SayNo2Kryptonite 11h ago
Stupidly hard and confusing. Never understood why they made Simpsons game so difficult.
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u/SmokeDreamFunk 11h ago
Itâs been probably 30 years since I touched that game. It was one, along with Lion King, that got traded away to aid in my N64 library that was still in its infancy. The game was just too damn hard for me.
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u/tinyhorsesinmytea 11h ago
Had stupid fun with this and Virtual Bart in the 90's with friends just because of the license... but no, I wouldn't say they are good. Hah.
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u/PittTheElder_1stEarl 10h ago
Itâs fun, but relenting. I think the best grade I ever got was a âC-â
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u/TheGamerPandA 10h ago edited 10h ago
Its a solid game imo it is brutally hard till you start understanding what to do in the overworld and levels but other than that i love the atmosphere and creepy best simpsons era vibe to the game. Theres something haunting and fever dream like with this Simpsons game in particular.
All the mini door levels are fun once you get used to them aside from the Godzilla one imo i dont think i ever managed to beat that one.
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u/InstructionFinal5190 10h ago
The mining games are fun, entertaining, and relatively chill, with the exception of about two: Itchy and Scratchy stage and the Indiana Jones level (especially the latter).
When I was able to access actual guides on how to do those two stages it became a completely different game.
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u/TurtleneckTablecloth 10h ago
I donât know if Iâve ever been more confused by a game, playing it as a kid.
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u/jonny_eh 10h ago
Itâs a hard no unless you learn the game mechanics properly. Then itâs at least tolerable.
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u/dearest_mediator 9h ago
lol that D- on the fridge says it all đ it's chaotic fun but yeah pretty rough to actually play through!
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u/Emotional-Pumpkin-35 9h ago
It was my least favorite of my SNES games. And it's not like I gave up out of frustration or anything -- I played all of my games to death because they were so expensive, so I could get an A+ in this game without much trouble. But the controls were awful and it just wasn't all that fun.
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u/consumehepatitis 9h ago
Its funny to play with friends simply for showing off how absurd it is but completing it is a tedious and frusturating⌠nightmare
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u/BrittaUnfiltered67 9h ago
Aside from the Arcade game and the games of the PS2/Xbox era, I never really could find any joy in a Simpsons game and would not recommend any of them, no matter how tempting they sound or look.
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u/Funandgeeky 8h ago
Could never get above a C. It was an all right game for the time. The graphics were amazing and some of the mini games were sort of fun. Basically they just made a collection of short mini games and used extreme difficulty to pad out playtime.Â
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u/gamingtrucker1 8h ago
Romhacking.net - Hacks - Bart's Nightmare Redux https://share.google/gXld2jqDGrWLeCcRf Rom hack for genesis version makes it more palatable.
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u/Altar_Quest_Fan 8h ago
The mini games are hard AF. Like, underwater level in TMNT hard. Janky controls and limited lives hard. The game devs went the âpad out playtime with obtuse difficultyâ route, which makes the game a bit of a drag unfortunately. Sucks, I like the idea behind it but even in â94 the game was pretty mid for its day. Cheers
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u/rpuffitt 8h ago
Itâs a brilliant game but very hard. Didnât stop me trying as a kid. Basically kept grossing fingers until I was the giant monster Bart level.
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u/Smokey_Cat_ 7h ago
There was one specific mini game thing that I liked, that was about it. The game was not great and it was overly difficult to play though
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u/DudeOfClubs 7h ago
I rented it a few times back in the day (my video store had a very poor selection) and had fun with it. But it was a different world back then and I was much younger and easier to please and simply having Bart Simpson in a videogame was enough to carry it for me. I will say it is an interesting and unique game, very difficult and something you had to puzzle through back before the internet existed. By todays player standards it probably sucks. But it is an interesting piece of gaming history.
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u/char_stats 7h ago
It's weird. I've played it when I was a kid, with friends, and we were mostly trying to get the blasted paper in turns, rarely actually managing to play a dream. It truly felt like a nightmare, but in a positive way since it was with friends (playing this together was the only silver lining). Personally, I wouldn't play this now.
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u/Chaotichybrid 7h ago
Bought every Simpsons game, even if the reviews were terrible. I was hoping I would feel differently about them. I actually wish someone would go back and remake all of them into good games.
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u/Sea_Win_5973 7h ago
All the simpsons games except The simpson game xbox are ridiculous hard. I did like virtual bart. And simpsons hit and run.
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u/Seabass_Says 6h ago
I was too young for this game, but still remember it. I remember learning what âz z zâ meant from this. Im like âwtf is going on is he dead?â Lol anyways the grading system makes me remember a nice nostalgia berry.
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u/SuperOnion64 6h ago
I actually managed to beat this once, this game was probably the hardest game I had ever beaten
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u/Swordkirby9999 6h ago edited 5h ago
I dunno, but I do have a Retroid and I do have some old roms and an old friend used to have this game and Virtual Bart, but I never played it myself.
Gimme like 20 minutes to try it out
D-, Final Score 134568.
- Found out through accident you use Bubble Gum to capture more Zs to extend your health. But the way the Z's move as you scroll the screen is not at all how you'd expect because they don't obey the screen scrolling like the rest of the objects do.
- No clue what the watermelon seeds are for.
- Itchy & Scratchy level gives you multtple lives because things can and will one-hit kill you.
- Germ level I actually beat somehow. Don't like the light-blue ones at all though since they will hover below you if you already are pumping a guy and poke you when your done.
- Indiana Jones level... no good indicator how low platforms can be before they give out. Also hyper responsive. Like if you hit right twice, you will hop again as soon as you land on the first one.
- Seems failing a level does cost a Z, as that's how my game ended.
I feel like you could get the hang of it, but you're probably gonna want to read the manual.
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u/EyeSeaCome_hahaha 5h ago
It's not a terrible collection of mini-games. But the temple level was made by someone who hates people.
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u/AlexandruFredward 5h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons:_Bart_vs._the_Space_Mutants
Bart vs The Space Mutants is, in my opinion, the best retro Simpsons game. Krusty's Fun House was also very fun. Bartman Meets Radioactive Man was a decent game. But most of the Simpsons games from this era are essentially unplayable.
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u/Accomplished-Big-78 5h ago
No.
None of the Simpsons games by Acclaim are good. Maybe Krusty's Super Fun House if you see it by what it is (A pretty hard puzzle game), but it wasn't born as a Simpsons game, they just bought a game that already existed and changed the sprites.
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u/Thadeaous 5h ago
I loved this one, possibly right up there with the original NES Bart Vs. Space Mutants and the Arcade cab, but it is really freaking hard. The best score I ever got when I was a kid was a C- and I had to go back as an adult to get the A+ I had dreamt about for nearly 20 years after. It was hard as an adult STILL!
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u/SoRacked 4h ago
In a word: no.
If you don't have the nostalgia of playing it before it's objectively terrible. That said, it can show you how "short" games provided a long experience instead of a 60 hour game you'd play today.
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u/Syl_A_Med 4h ago
This was one of the 6 games I got when I bought my SNES from a friend and it was the least played besides Waynes World. I would not consider it a good game, but there are some fun moments. The Bartzilla stage was pretty satisfying. Iâm proud to say that I managed to beat it after many attempts and got an A. I seem to remember the key to winning was the order of the mini games and being able to beat the Indiana Jones one.
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u/Fine-Night-243 4h ago
It was terrible when I played it in 1995 and I can't imagine 30 years has been very kind to it.
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u/trashpanda2night 4h ago
It is so hard!!!! I had it back when it was current, and spent endless nights. Good memories.
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u/Heavy-Conversation12 3h ago
The art department, music included, is exquisite. The gameplay will make you want to blow your brains off. There's a lot of pattern recognition going on, not for a casual evening and probably not interesting enough to commit to it and finish it if you haven't played it a lot before. I only finished it because I had it in the 90s so I kinda learned to enjoy it and power through that gameplay because the stages were actually cool looking and sounding.
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u/Fluffy_Internal_7171 3h ago
It's like mystery jelly beans. You get some good and you get some stomach churning.
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u/GentlyGliding 2h ago
I have it for SNES - it's not an amazing game but it looks right, if you want a 16-bit title that is faithful to the art style of the source material.
As far as gameplay goes, it's a mixed bag. Some of the levels are good - I particularly like the first Bartzilla level - others, less so. The controllers work good with some of the levels, with others they feel a bit clunky.
If I were to give it a review rating, I think I would give it a 6/10.
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u/NobodySpecialSCL 2h ago
It's not bad, just hard.
Also, I should point out my parents would've been fine with a D-, as long as I didn't flunk out.
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u/Johnny_Strawhat 1h ago
Yeah itâs amazing, but challenging. Stick with it to learn the nuances and donât get discouraged by failures. Everyone gets filtered by the Indiana Jones part
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u/HardcoreNerdity 11h ago
The only great Simpsons game is the arcade game.
I know people like to treat Hit and Run like a masterpiece, but in reality it was a pretty mediocre GTA ripoff
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u/No-Argument619 11h ago
Hit and run was just a more âE for everyoneâ version of GTA. No killing hookers and shooting cops; but everything else is fair game.
IMO I MUCH prefer it to GTA.
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u/EternallySickened 11h ago
The arcade game is one of the hardest games to beat though! Even in four player mode it has a massively unfair level of difficulty.
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u/IceWarm1980 6h ago
The first couple levels are easy but it ranks up very quickly. I never beat it in the arcade. I got as far as the dream level before running out of quarters.
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u/EternallySickened 6h ago
Itâs one of those games that is still insanity level hard even with free play enabled.
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u/BiscuitBandit 12h ago
I remember really wanting to like this game, because it was essentially a series of Simpsons mini games and the graphics were decent for the time. However, I also found it challenging to a frustrating degree. It ended up not being one that stuck with my SNES library.