Unreleased Simpsons Game for Dreamcast

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Just came across this while pissin about on my phone (the article, not the game)


Someone Found A Weird Unreleased Simpsons Game On An Old Dreamcast Dev Kit

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Sreak, a user over on the Dreamcast-Talk forums, posted the files from an old, broken Dreamcast dev kit hard drive. Users quickly found inside an unreleased, incomplete and odd Simpsons game, which it seems had never been publicly announced or revealed.

Yesterday, Sreak posted that they wanted to upload some files from an old Dreamcast dev kit and was curious if folks would want them to do that. People seem interested so they uploaded the contents of the dev kit and others began digging through the files. User Megavolt85 found files and images for The Simpsons Bug Squad! Megavolt85 was also able to get it running, allowing another user, pcwzrd13, to play the game and create a video of it in action.

What’s here is less a game and more a prototype or tech demo featuring a cell-shaded recreation of the famous Simpsons home and some characters from the show, like Homer.

What’s odd is that Bug Squad! seems to star a random, not-very-Simpsons-looking bug. It resembles Mister Mosquito, with players exploring the Simpsons’ house as a bug, who is presumably part of a squad based on the game’s name.

The game was being developed by Red Lemon and this specific demo seems to have been created back in October 2000, over 20 years ago. Red Lemon is also the developer behind another unreleased Dreamcast game, Take The Bullet. Some new files and data from that game were also found on Sreak’s Dreamcast dev kit.

 
Yeah, I saw this on YT the other day. Really nice graphics. The cell shaded look is really nice. Shame about the frame rate, but granted it is a tech demo so things probably would have gotten ironed out if it ever did get released. I would have played a Mr Mosquito type Simpsons game if they could have figured out a way for it to work :D

Makes me wonder what else is floating out there that got cancelled or never saw the light of day on Dreamcast before its untimely demise.
 
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