In fact, the tech was even pitched to The Simpsons for use in the show itself. Story details are scant, and the video has no sound, but the biggest take-away is how good to looked on a visual level for its day. The game was never commissioned, but a test build was recently uncovered in a Dreamcast dev kit, giving us a bugs-eye view of Evergreen Terrace. More modern games include The Simpsons Road Rage (2001), The Simpsons Hit & Run (2003) and The Simpsons Game (2007). Unlike most Simpsons games, Bug Squad didn’t intend to put you in the shoes of any established characters, instead putting you in the shoes of… well, a bug.

After all, the series has been on the air for a whopping 31 years at this point, almost to the day, and has inspired everything from movies to theme parks, but out of all those projects The Simpsons: Bug Squad may be one of the weirdest. Still, with the number of games The Simpsons inspired – like The Simpsons Wrestling, The Simpsons: Road Rage, or Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror, it’s not unnatural to think that the series has had more unrealized projects. I’m talking, of course, about The Simpsons: hit and Run, a Grand Theft Auto clone that fit perfectly into the zany world of Springfield, with an original story featuring reality TV, alien abductions, and mind-altering cola.

The Simpsons Hit & Run - Road Rage Returns Mod Level 2 Part 1. Unfortunately, only one of those games has been… well, good. The Simpsons: Hit & Run is a 2003 action-adventure game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Vivendi Universal Games.It is based on the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, and is the twenty-second installment in the Simpsons series of video games.

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