Following EA’s pull of Battlefield 3: Aftershock from the App Store two weeks ago, EA recently revealed that The Simpsons: Tapped Out is getting the same treatment.
When a show’s been around as long as The Simpsons, it’ll periodically touch on the cultural ripple effect generated by the video games industry. Last night’s episode of the long-running cartoon, “The Food Wife”, took Homer and art to a fictionalised version of video games’ biggest trade show, with pitch-perfect parodies of some familiar franchises.
Has any television show featured more memorable video game moments than The Simpsons? Lee Carvallo’s Putting Challenge, Bonestorm, and we can’t forget Death Kill City II: Death Kill Stories. Milhouse trying to enter Thrillhouse as his name, and only being able to fit in Thrillho. Ah… gold Jerry. Gold. Well, Complex has put together an amazing collection of all the video game moments on The Simpsons – including some I had completely forgotten about.
Last night’s episode of Fox’s long-running The Simpsons skewered, I suppose, the Nintendo Wii with the introduction of the Funtendo Zii. The Simpsons‘ take on Nintendo’s motion controlled hit was far more straightforward than it was skewering.
Since the Simpsons’ TV showed launched in 1989, more video games have been made about them than just about any non-game franchise this side of Star Wars and Dragonball Z. Unfortunately, the medium doesn’t have much to show for it.
The Simpsons has enjoyed a lot of unique video games to its name in the last 18 years. Even the Grand Theft Auto knock-off, Hit & Run, felt special just because it was The Simpsons in all its Matt Groening glory.
