The Simpsons (game)

"We have a game every child of the '90s spent countless dollars of their allowance to try and beat. I give you Simpsons, the arcade game. You can play as your favorite cartoon TV family, you've got Bart, Homer, Marge, and Lisa, through a bunch of fun levels. Now, yes, it was very basic, but so much fun! Then you add in the combo moves and it gives you a great reason to get three of your best friends to jump in there to rescue Maggie... 'cause she ate a diamond... and Mr. Burns wants it, so he stole the baby... Still cool."

- Jovenshire explaining why he likes this game

The Simpsons is an arcade beat 'em up game based on The Simpsons, featured on Top 5 Friday as the fourth-best game based on a movie or television series of all time.

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The Simpsons is an arcade beat 'em up developed and published by Konami released in 1991, and the second video game based on The Simpsons franchise, following . The game allows up to four players to control members of the Simpson family, as they fight various enemies in order to rescue the kidnapped Maggie. The game was ported to the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS soon after its launch in the arcades. The Simpsons was released as The Simpsons Arcade Game on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network in February 2012, however it has since been removed from both services.

The Simpsons encounter a jewelry store being robbed by Waylon Smithers, who bumps into Homer, leading a diamond he stole to land in Maggie's mouth. Maggie uses the diamond as a pacifier, so Smithers takes Maggie with him, sending goons to keep the Simpsons from following him. Fighting their way through various areas, such as Krustyland, Moe's Tavern and even a dream world, the Simpsons eventually arrive at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, where they face against Smithers and Mr. Burns, who attacks them in a plutonium-powered mech. After managing to defeat Burns, the Simpsons rescue Maggie and head back home, throwing the diamond away.