From the transition of some of the levels, it looks as if it took The Simpsons a good 2 days at the most of trying to get Maggie back. Imagine how exhausted they were after everything they went through. Nothing more satisfying than seeing them walking back into the city as a family and Homer tossing the diamond away.

I remember when this game came rolling out the delivery truck brand spanking new! Love that new arcade unit smell!

Every time I went to chuck e cheese I would play this almost the whole time I was there my favorite arcade game of the 90s

Given when the game was made, it's very possible in addition to all the "blue shirt" merchandise, that they opted to use blue for bart's shirt due to palette limitations. Lisa and Marge both wear a single color, and Homer's shirt is white, which is already available thanks to his eyes. Notice how bart's shirt is also shaded, meaning they would need at least a couple extra shades of red added to his palette, which knowing how games were made back then, would be a pain in the ass for Konami.

It can only take one family to save Springfield... and that can only be THE SIMPSONS!

Sure, Marge has the obvious advantage in the balloon mini-game!

this is one of my favorite arcade games ever and that was some good team work on the bosses dude, great job

Konami’s The Simpsons played like 1989’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game, with up to 4 players joining in on a scrolling action story. At the start of the game, the Simpson family stumbled across a robbery-in-progress by none other than Waylon Smithers, personal assistant to nuclear power plant-owning gazillionaire Mr. Burns. Smithers had been stealing a precious diamond, but after bumping into the family, he accidentally let the jewel slip into baby Maggie’s mouth. Rather than waste time removing it, Smithers simply abducted the littlest Simpson and hightailed it, leaving the rest of the family to mount a rescue operation. With that set-up, the action began. Each of the 4 playable Simpsons had a unique weapon-Marge’s vacuum cleaner, Bart’s skateboard, Lisa’s jump rope and Homer’s beefy fists-and they weren’t shy about using them. Moving through Springfield landmarks like Downtown, Krustyland, Moe’s Tavern, Springfield Butte and the Channel 6 Building, the family battled clowns, zombies, winos, samurai and more en route to a showdown with Mr. Burns himself. At the end of each stage, bosses waited-everyone from a nuclear-fueled boxer to a lethal Krusty the Clown balloon. The Simpsons sported a few unique features, including a team-up attack to encourage multiple players, but the real draw was the game’s authenticity. Little gags and comic animation stayed true to the spirit of the series, regulars like Milhouse and Barney made cameos, the animation captured creator Matt Groening’s style, and the show’s actual voice actors were hired to do work on the game’s soundtrack. Together, these elements made players feel like they were participating in an actual episode, and that feeling translated into a major arcade hit for Konami.

Wow, an actual Simpsons PCB must have cost you a pretty penny back then! I bought one for my TMNT cab around that time, cost me £250, most expensive game I'd ever bought.

i love retro/classic games!!

Konami gave us this, TMNT, and X-Men. They made three of the best licensed beat em up arcades ever made.

I always enjoyed the old Sega, Konami and so on arcade cabinets. They were sometimes very cheap, such as when the enemy has craploads of health or hits too hard.. but if you could get in on Free Play or just had a buncha quarters saved up.. they were an amazing blast.

This is merely my opinion, but I always wished Lisa's weapon would have been her saxophone and Marge's weapon would have been her own hair.

I can see now the differences between the original PCB and MAME, sounds better on PCB

One of my favorites. Mame truly is a gift from God.

Thanks for uploading this! This is one of the best beat-em up games ever made.

I was a tough choice at the time for an arcade player for me at the time. I used to debate which arcade game I wanted to play. The Simpsons or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time!! Both are brawlers, debuted in 1991, and by Konami! Tough choices for its time! But quarters well spent! Then came X-Men by Konami a year later. That was an excellent brawler!

Lisa: "Ha-ha, made you look!". 😛

I remember playing this arcade game at Cici's Pizza as a kid and I even seen one at the now-closed Magoo's Resturant in East Ridge!

I loved playing this in the arcade! The following are observations I've made from playing thru the DREAMLAND level: 1. It is unnecessary to destroy the Marge heads/clouds in order to proceed. 2. The musical notes from the saxophones can't hit players who are in the air. 3. The "SANTA FE" sign and guy who float by (just after the saxophones) are from the Season 1 episode, "Bart the Genius". 4. The bowling ball, in its first form rolling on the ground, can't hit players who are in the air. 5. In its second form, with arms and bouncing around, the bowling ball can't hit players who are in the air.

Homer's face in the intro when they're sitting on the couch. lol he's just :-| We have a new arcade/bar in my city that has a lot of retro and newer arcade games and this is one of them. I was there last night and tried playing it but didn't do very well. I was 2 when this came out in 1991. lol

Ah, I remember beating this game all the way through. Well worth the hundreds of quarters.

so fun! TMNT turtles in time was a good companion game to this.

This was my first Arcade game as a kid, I ever played and it was at Fun Spot. I prefer this than turtles in time! Best arcade game ever!

Ah, the memories. I remember playing this at our old roller skating rink back when I was 6. I sure miss the 90s.

I've lost quite a bit of faith in the MAME Team. People have complained about the obvious slowdown in Konami games such as this, and they're STILL not doing anything about it.

This Game Is So EPICNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spent the Summer in the Ocean City Maryland Boardwalk arcade in the early 90s using many quarters playing this

How were arcade games so advanced (for the time)? I mean, this was released the same year as SNES, yet it was so far ahead of that console it's ridiculous. You'd think they could've figured out a way to make games of this quality for home consoles.

cool the image of the game combined with the image vhs 1991

This game has a great presentation, catchy music, and a nice sense of humor. Konami at their best. (Back when they were good - anyone familiar with how they cancelled _Silent Hills_ and demoted Hideo Kojima, and said they're planning on emphasizing mobile?)

@neoalec Thank you. Now can you post a tutorial vid. I have the nessecary hardware to record he game directly from the arcade board, but am not sure how to do it completely. I really want to record my 6 player xmen board!

This game is also on XBOX Live Arcade along with DuckTales: Remastered (Disney Interactive), Minecraft (Microsoft Game Studios) and Galaga (Namco Bandai Games).

I remember this, playing this with my bro and sis in the arcade halls:) Good times

I remember playing this game at Hot Skates in the early 90s as a kid, it was a roller skate rink.

AWESOME video, thank you so much for uploading it, great to have a full look at the real game instead of emulation. Do you still have the raw capture of this? I'd like to see a 60 FPS version since it looks like your capture device treated it as "even and odd" fields instead (I.E. 480i vs. 240p), but VirtualDub has deinterlacing features that could process it. KZfaq doesn't support 60 FPS so I'm not sure where you could share it, though...

I can see that this is a different version of the game, since the credits are global. They are shared for all players. In the version that I downloaded for MAME, you need 4 slots, so that each player can enter their coin individually.

This is great I use some of the music for my monster truck shows

I wonder what Pinkie Pie is on her own game room in CT.

I always played this game during my childhood.

Excellent video, shows all 4 characters at the same time. Videos with just one character are dull. I did love the team attacks though.

I was at Universal Studios, and he was a great arcade game!

Fun and fast action gameplay 😄

@martincommrad Bart's shirt was originally blue. Later, it was changed to orange.

I have been wondering this for many years: When Smithers plows into the Simpsons in the opening scene, there is a sound effect of some soft voice saying something that sounds like "bang." This sound is audible periodically throughout the game. What is it? Does anybody know?

They used to have one at my local chuck e cheese, they got rid of it 10 years ago ;(

I havent played this game since the arcade in Redondo Beach lol I miss playing this

These days, it JAMMA Multi game board, so that your shelf won't be cluttered full of dedicated PCBs...

Looks like one of the best Simpson game out there

wow this take me back to the 80th

I remember this game. It was a notorious quarter-eater.

Love the pissed off rabbit in the tree at 2:44. ALL GONE, BEAT IT.

I put so many quarters in this game. Good memories.

The only flaw in this game is that they didn't have a full stage in the nuclear power plant, now that would've been epic.

So sad this game isn’t available anymore

When Lisa gets hit, she sounds like she's saying "HUNK!"

eu adoro The Simpsons Arcade Game i love the simpsons arcade game

Simpsons, AVP, X-men, TMNT, Final fight

I remember spending $15 in quarters at the arcade beating this game In '96

For the longest time, I didn't know Bart was voiced by a female :P

@neoalec Still I don't complain. This is basically the best play-through I'd ever see of all four guys together!

I went to my towns old arcade that was only a nickel per play and I played through the whole game with a friend.

the simpsons reality tv series emotional playful fun and stress-relieving

This brings back memories, i played this every chance i went to cici's pizza, im gonna buy the real board some day :D

I can't believe my local Deleta Has the last one of these things in the whole world

The one thing that confuses me about this game is why they didn’t just take the diamond out of Maggie. Are they that empty minded?

I remember playing this game

Anyone still have the full version of this game since It's been delists from Xbox Live Arcade & PlayStation Network?

Moe's tavern looks so much bigger as compared to Moe's on the cartoon.

So Basically, Maggie's has been kidnapped... to her dad's workplace, by her dad's Boss? and the game itself is basically journeying from Downtown Springfield to Homer's Office?

Smithers: 3 lives lost in 58 seconds Mr. Burns: 31 lives lost in 196 seconds Total: 34 lives lost in 254 seconds These Konami bosses were tough!

Was it the 4 player or only the 2 player version that allowed you to pick a different character?

i want to play but i dont know which emulator i should download, i have the rom already

Thought the gameplay look like it's been recorded on VHS

I need this on XBLA now.

didn't know Moe had so many brooms, place must get real dirty.

That's LOUD! 🔊

Can you play it on PS4, Xbox one, and Nintendo switch.

What emulator you use with this rom...?

My friend and I were at a hotel, and they had this game

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME

Whenever I see Maggie Simpson, I think of my cat, who was named after Maggie.

cool lofi capture

My friend and I used to play this game when we were kids and we put in a whole bunch of quarters and had around 75 lives each and we beat the game and still had about 25 lives left.

amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A remake would be nice. I mis good beat them ups.

They should make an Arcade version of Family Guy!

Recuerdo que con este juego conocí a los simpsons

Lmfao at marge and that oreck vacuum cleaner.

I remember playing this in the arcade when i was about 10 i think i was lisa 1player and didnt get past the first level.

They won't because today there is no use into technology in the 90's. so today, there are hardly no arcade games and got replaced by NEWER arcade games (Examples: The Fast and Furious And Mario Kart Arcade GP). Too bad. :(

@kevinblk91 eh.. i wouldn't completely say that, true most games are just the same damn first person shooter, but there do exist some good games, i recently got a 3ds, and i have to say its pretty impressive!

In video games, anything goes.

This video looks pretty sadistic, especially if Homer Simpson fights against Mr. Burns by himself. I'm still making fun of Craig Ferguson, especially when he hasn't seen anyone play it before. At least you get my opinion about this. Also my wisecrack is this: ow Ooo you kicked me in the face.

the commodore 64 version i verry hard to find

That amount of credits was offensive to me, since I beat this consistently with 1 credit when I was a kid :P

I beat that whole game twice today

Can’t believe I beat this game in one shot x’D. Thanks to a lot of quarters xD

What supergun u using

What is a supergun?