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The ultra violent show-within-a-show, Itchy & Scratchy, is perfect video game fodder. Unfortunately the geniuses at Acclaim got their hands on The Simpsons license for the majority of the 1990s and turned it into another half-baked platformer. Woe.

A guilty pleasure.

The Simpsons: Bart’s Nightmare was the family’s first original outing for 16-bit consoles. Bart falls asleep while studying for a test or writing a paper or something, and you have to round up the lost pages from his work in a variety of mini-games that range from good to downright terrible. This ad is for the later Mega Drive release – the game was exclusive to the Super Nintendo for a short time.

So what’s worse, The Simpsons video games, or the actual show post season 9?

The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants is the first of some 24 games based on the long running animated series. The game was criticised for being a quick cash in on release, but proved to be one of the better Simpsons video games when many of the ones released after it were far worse.

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