[TAS] Arcade The Simpsons "4 players" by adelikat & DarkKobold in
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TAS originally published on 2010-09-01
¡Ay, caramba! The Simpsons Arcade Game is Konami's 4-player beat 'em up based on the ultra-hit TV show, The Simpsons. The Simpsons cartoon has now (at the time of writing) spanned 21 seasons, a world-wide movie, and licensing from here to kingdom come. In this TAS, adelikat (tasvideos.org/...) and DarkKobold (tasvideos.org/...) use four of the five Simpson family to track down the missing 5th member, Maggie.
All right now, play friendly!
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"All right now, play friendly!"
**proceeds to hurl her offspring directly into danger repeatedly**
And her offsprings scored moar than she did.
...while they proceed to kick ass
she never threw them into danger
And the vacuum is definitely assult with a deadly weapon
Yes. You just discovered what 'irony' is. Congrats.
"alright now play friendly"- Marge Simpson
Well, she does score the lowest
@@borandiUK why does she come in 5th place at the end?
“Who the hell are you?”- Drew Barrymore
When does she say that?
As she picks up her son and throws him across the screen.
There is something so hilarious about a family beating the shit out of the whole town while asking them to play friendly
Yep
"the misters were playing rough, it's only fair!"
I don't think they're gonna play friendly no matter how many times you say it, Marge.
IKR?! All that is out the window when Maggie is kidnapped.
They ARE playing friendly. At least they're not using flamethrowers, slicing people in half or using alien knives that melt flesh.
Alright. Now play friendly.
in fact they just killed like 3000 persons
how's my hair
imagine going to an arcade and seeing a family of 4 proceed to pull off a frame perfect tas right infront of you
Goals
Sorry for being that guy, but tas means "tool assisted speedrun" A.K.A. hacks.
A family doing a perfect speedrun would be radical and the kind of family to aspire to, indeed.
Sorry for being that guy, but that family would actually be The Simpsons you’re referring to
@@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180Chatgpt
@@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180 the family is using f physical tools to push the buttons in a predetermined sequence
I can't believe they actually got Mr. Burns to say his iconic line from the show "Welcome to your grave, suckers."
Not as iconic as Marge Simpson’s famous catchphrase: “alright, now play friendly.”
Right after that great one-liner from Mr. Smithers
"Welcome to my world!"
I thought the episode where the Simpsons teamed up to kill Mr. Burns was a little much, but still I'm glad they kept it in this game.
In his iconic voice!
And how could you ever forget Homer having to visit the discount cemetery every time to enter Moe’s Tavern (co-owned by his comically larger brother Joe)
Fun fact: If you let Marge stand still long enough she may remove her hair for a moment and show bunny ears. Inside joke from very early that Marge wasn't actually human.
A plot point that was supposed to connect to Matt Groenings comic series, but was scrapped. You also see the bunny ears when she gets shocked.
@@XeviousvSBlackmanta I had forgotten that her vacuum tries to pull off her wig. Eh, that's what you get when Japan does your programming.
This was supposed to be like an thing in the Simpsons show but they didn't add it.
Edit: Marge and Maggie have bunny ears
@ExtraMayoSauce no, just marge, it's in the show when she gets shocked early on.
@@FFKonoko Correct. The joke was that if the show didn't last very long on regular TV after a few seasons Marge was going to pull off her "tall blue wig" to reveal bunny ears and that she was never human and was nothing more than a Matt Groening cartoon creation or an alien or something. Clearly the show kept going and they ditched the idea but somehow the Japanese got wind of it and stuck it in the game as a joke. Maybe they'll do it at 30 seasons.
Marge got 5th place... in a 4 player game. Guess she played a little too friendly.
This could be a good insult.
"You're so bad at videogames, you'd get 5th place in a 4 player videogame."
The 4th place was Maggie
@@robindionn1747 lol
PFFT! I think what happened was Marge didn't beat the 1st stock score _(The default high score when you boot up the machine)_ while everyone else did, but the insult potential is too good to pass up.
Damn
What I love most about a TAS like this is that each of the four Simpsons plays their part. It's not a competition to see who can get the most points, it's a single unified group. Marge by far lags behind the others in terms of points, and yet her throwing of the children is an absolutely crucial part. It's what separates us mere mortals from the immortal work of a TAS.
"throwing of the children"
The Simpsons family exist on a plane of existence and knowledge far beyond our comprehension.
In other words, they really are "up and at 'em"
If I understood your message correctly I need to start throwing children to advance humanity. Good to know I was doing something right in life!
This post just proves to me that these arcade characters are clearly not the real Simpsons. Where are all the back stabbing, melodrama, and toxic cartoon family caricatures!?
@@Megakell0no no no, you're missing the key ingredient! You gotta say "All right now, play friendly!" Every time you throw them
Idk if anyone else did this but Marge says "All right now, play friendly!" a total of 64 times in the run, I counted
Guess that's going to be 64 shots
a stack of playing friendly
Wow, is that all? Seems like way more than that lol. Thanks for counting though. I was curious
Super Marge 64
Its confirmed!!!
This game feels like the Simpsons from an alternate timeline, so many small details being slightly off because they were based on a non finalized version of the first season.
Kind of like how the X-Men arcade game was based on Pryde of the X-Men, a pilot that never made it to series, instead of the much more popular X-Men cartoon on Fox Kids.
Like Bart's blue shirt?
@@pinkmell0w I figured Bart's shirt was blue so you could more easily distinguish him and Lisa
@@grapewhistle1591 They both have very distinctive silhouettes though
@@pinkmell0w not when the games a low resolution and you have poor eyesight. Not to mention in regular play, the game would probably be a lot more chaotic, this making the characters harder to see anyway, especially when Bart and Lisa have like the same color palette and they're flying across the whole screen
"Some wrong then, work maliciously." -Sarge Mimpson
I think you meant Marge Mimpson... Akward... 😒
"Cay Aramba ". -Sart Bimpson
@@christophercampbell6884 No.... no he didnt.
@@RedmayneDeadmayne Did you catch the joke?
"None wrong later, work maliciously."
Jesus christ everything about this game is straight cracked out
At least Konami gave a damn about the license and didn't phone it in
I love how they just went all out. It's like they based the game on the opening credits of the show.
Konami used to put out excellent coin op games but sold their soul for casino games.
It's great how well crafted this game is given the show was still in its first season or so when it came out
@@Midee they had reference art from the first season only, hence slightly off-model "Tracy Ulman Show" Homer. This was like a decade before the CC Lemon licensing deal had made the Simpsons even remotely recognizable in Japan, so I'd imagine it was a lot like TMNT where Konami's team was like "uhhh ok." Ergo, Moe's bar, the underground speakeasy, and Smithers the caped supervillain.
@@sovrinn16 that actually answers a lot of questions I always had about this game. Smithers is the most off-character of all of them. I also always wondered if the character design for some of the bosses was original (like the first boss or the bar boss) or if they're based on early season characters I've forgotten about
Gosh, I forgot how hard teamwork pounds in this game.
Yeah, the team moves are a little broken lol.
The way it happens is so wild, it’s like you stopped time and started bashing the (OOPS) out of someone.
just like the comment section on youtube
So this is basically power of friendship in Fairy Tail.
There's more sucking than pounding going on in that Homer/Marge 69 attack.
I appreciate that there are different mechanics for picking up the kids as both Homer and Marge, game is deeper than I thought.
The kids and the adults have their own combos too.
Only a few inches deeper thou
As soon as you see the words "hit buttons" in a TAS, you know some hilarious shit is about to happen
*Vigorous TAS'ing ensues.*
I'm totally new to these terms but the algorithm wants me to know, if anyone wants to fill me in on what all that is.
@@Psychonautical89a tas is basically a computer trained to finish a game the fastest way possible. when the game prompts players to hit buttons the tas responds by mashing the buttons as fast as it could. or so thats what i understand
@@tankinam TASes are a pre-programmed series of inputs by a human, not computer trained
@@Psychonautical89 A TAS is a run through a game that is basically perfected, using savestates and frame-perfect inputs (along with other things like RNG readers)
They can mash as fast as the game can register, which tends to be 30Hz for one button (assuming 60FPS and no weird shenanigans)
Looking at the score at the end you see how Lisa unfairly absorbs a lot of Marge's score when they do their team attack, because Marge is the one who initiates the attack by picking up Lisa and then throwing her, but it's only Lisa who scores points for hitting the enemies.
@@Stevie-J Get your politics out of here, its not welcome
there's a loving "always puts her kids ahead" mother analogy in there
It's a bit weird how team attacks don't give the kill to both players.
@@Zeoinx69
Alright now, play friendly
Sounds like a Lisa thing to so
Damn, this TAS guy is so good he can control four characters at once!
I KNOW RIGHT
That’s because this TAS guy is an octopus!
TAS is an absolute legend. Gaming will never be the same when he finally decides to retire.
Truly a gaming legend
@@philcanning5467 Just like dream!
Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Moe relocated to an elevator shaft under both a cemetery and a Sasquatch sanctuary? I wish they explored that plot thread more.
Moe really upgraded his place, despite Homer and the rest not paying their tabs
That's where he kept the orca whale in the X-files crossover episode.
"They're not saying 'all right now, play friendly!', they're saying 'Boo-urns!'" - Smithers, probably
"Are you saying 'all right, now play friendly', or 'boo-urns'?"
@@xshobux "I was saying boo-urns"
@@xshobux All right, now. Play friendly!!!!
I was saying "Boooo-urns."
@@brainycatclown2697 all right now, play friendly
Imagine seeing a family do this insane kind of gameplay at the arcade
Back in the day, a local pizza parlor had this in the arcades. Between me, my two sisters, and Mom or Dad, I could not say how much practice/quarters were required but ... eventually we DID actually beat the game.
@@Stratelierimagine speedrunning or doing TAS was an important part of the family
wiping the floor with the entire population of springfield: alright now play friendly
"Adelikat and DarkKobold"
It really makes me happy to see these two old familiar faces are still kicking ass on the TAS scene. I'm pretty sure I've been watching the both of them for at least 13 years now.
They'll never know the joy they've brought me over the years. God bless 'em.
what sort of things have they done more recently?
My parents gave me the most money ever to spend on this game, back in the 90's: a whole $5. Got to the cloud stage and ran out of money.
Back in the day, whether you were the one playing the game or not, you only ever saw this game's ending if more money than you'd seen in your young life was spent on it. I think I only saw it get beaten a total of twice, so it was a rare treat when I did, and I never forgot it.
@@Evertide05 My brothers' orthodontist office had this arcade cabinet on free play in the waiting room. It was awesome. I've beaten the game several times...with a lot of deaths.
@@CopShowGuy The orthodontist office had a Simpsons arcade game on free-to-play in their waiting room? That's "pics or it didn't happen" levels of cool.
@@Evertide05 I can't really take pics. That was decades ago back when we were kids. But they really did have that arcade in the office for guests to play!
@@CopShowGuy I was kidding, I didn't really expect pics, it's just one of those things that sounds almost too cool to be true but I choose to believe it.
Saw a new upload of this and immediately expected to hear Marge's famous line for the whole duration. Was not disappointed in the least.
I don't know if it's doing something or just swag, but starting Homer and Marge's combo move right and the end of a level so it looks like a victory hug is pretty cute.
And just after I type that, it does the same with Homer picking up Lisa.
That bowling ball boss had so much health compared to the other bosses.
Makes sense as it is a 4 phase boss. A pseudo-final boss, I guess.
Yeah, dreamland was the level where you saw your coins start to dissapear.
Well he did have invincibility moments in between tranformations, but the hits registered.
That was the quarter burner.
@@Nastuf Not if you know his tells. Surprisingly, Bowling Ball has attack tells, and has cooldown after certain attacks. The true quarter burner is Mr. Burns, who has quicker counters and even less cooldown.
I think the ultimate Konami quarter burner boss was Shredder from the original TMNT arcade, who had that one hit kill attack.
Alright now play friendly *proceeds to murder half the town*
It's justified self-defense
"Alright, now play hellishly" says the Marge SimpSargeSimpMonMipmson
For a 1991 game this was a masterpiece. Very impressive for it's time. Still is.
not really.
it was very cool for 1991, but this genre was already pretty competitive
This is how a family should operate. With robotic precision
I remember playing this at a Chuck E Cheese restaurant back in the day for my Birthday, my dad would get mad at me for blowing all my tokens at this game instead if trying to win tickets for prizes.
I also remember the 2nd stage boss, the Krusty Baloon, giving me the creeps.
That wasn't Krusty, that was Handsome Pete. He dances for nickels.
Yeah I remember my family telling me to go for the prize games as well. They were nowhere near as bs as they are now, but I still felt like my time was better spent at the air hockey or racing game
@@istrasci A quarter? Arrgh, he’ll be dancing for hours!
That balloon made me terrified of Krusty in general for years.
That one time when she said "How's my hair?" caught me totaly off guard.
“Alright now play friendly” just became an awesome catch phrase.
Game still looks fantastic today.
SMITHERS: [steals a diamond]
THE ENTIRE TOWN OF SPRINGFIELD: "It's the Simpsons! Let's get 'em!"
Alright now, play friendly.
Alright now, play friendly.
Alright now, play friendly.
Alright now, play friendly.
How's my hair?
Up and at "em
Take a shot every time Marge says "Alright now, play friendly!"
You will definitely be dead from alcohol poisoning
I don't wanna die
x_x
drunk in a minute
You trying to kill us?
I remember seeing this at an arcade and was blown away at how good it was! It's no Turtles In Time, but still pretty awesome!
This, "Asterix" and some "Jurassic Park" arcade game at the local Brighton Odeon cinema (my home town) during the 90s waiting to go into our screen to watch a movie!! Not to mention "WWF WrestleFest" and "Street Fighter II" at my local swimming pool (King Alfred Hove).
Always was a huge fan of the Simpsons Arcade game. It is hard to believe this gem is from way back in 1991. This is probably the best Simpsons video game I ever played.
I rate this speedrun an Alright Now, Play Friendly/10
"alright then, play UNFRIENDLY"
-Evil Marge
This is the best side stroller ever made.
Nobody can convince me of anything different.
It deserves a remake/sequel with more bosses,levels,characters and it should be on ps4/5 xbox series x nintendo switch and pc
Avengers would like a word...
Ah, bart's iconic blue shirt.
I think Marge wants to say something
"Yes I certainly do..."
[I have to go now. My planet needs me.]
"Unsatisfactory, at a later time, work in a hostile way." - Evil Marge Simpson
I can practically smell the pizza, hear the bowling balls in the background. Takes me back...
I hear pizza and smell balls
"Play friendly"
Homer goes around punching people, and the rest of the family use a vaccum, skipping rope and skateboard as weapons.
Don’t forget Marge (who says the line) literally throwing her own children as she says this.
Imagine if this was the only Simpsons related content made, or is the most known Simpsons content, so most people don’t know Simpson, except for this game and the people who played, to where people actually want them to come back explaining why it is a classic!
Looks so much cooler with the whole Family playing together. Nice job.
Everybody except Homer has a weapon of some sort.
Homer throws hands with the best of them
Number of people who bought Bart Vs The Space Mutants and expected it to be like this ._.
I did the same thing. To be a kid again and not know any better lol.
I had it on Atari ST T_T
I don't want to talk about that ...
if you focus very hard at some point you can hear Marge say "all right now, play friendly"
1:13 Homer Simpson! There are kids here!
TAS got a little too freaky
Homer 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴son
It's kinda cathartic seeing this game get absolutely stomped. I remember it being one of the hardest games in the arcade.
All right now, play friendly
i'm honestly a touch disappointed in the lack of vulgar 3 letter words in the 'enter your name' screen at the very end, for that authentic 90s arcade feeling
Were "Poo" and "Ass" there?
The sounds are just some of the most memorable!
The episode where the Simpsons kill Mr Burns after Smithers blows himself up is so iconic. I am impressed it translated so well into a video game.
Smithers would've gotten away with the diamond, if he could've just taken it from Maggie's mouth.
This was someone's fever dream 5 years before the simpsons even came out.
"All right, now play friendly"
- The game
Why this actually made like thus era years?! I mean maybe I been playing loads of pixelated indie or rpg games but nothing I seen this colourful! Its impressive!
It's arcade, they had the money
I can't get over the fact that the Simpsons are just having a normal day and then suddenly maggie is kidnapped and damn near everyone in Springfield wants them dead.
Undoubtedly one of the greatest arcade games of all time.
I absolutely love this beat-em-up.
If I had a decent PC I would download it in a heartbeat
I don't think mame requires much in the way of computing power?
@@bluedistortions bro is running a Pentium 2 on windows 98, leave him alone 😭
@@1423big fair enough! More power to you bro! You skipping 20 generations in eco-waste! 🙏🏼
I wonder how much of this is now considered "lost lore" to the main series?
I think you could see marge's bunny ears in this game whenever she gets electrocuted. o_O
@@ragingjaguarknight86 Yep, just checked the spritesheet.
Black Smithers.
Also, I highly doubt that Smithers would outright kidnap Maggie with no complaint.
I think Princess Kashmir cameos in this. She hasn't been seen since her one episode.
Mr Burns saying "Welcome to your grave suckers"
0:13 homart
homart
All right, now play friendly.
They're making a mockery of boss fights that took so many of my tokens.
“Alright, now play friendly” …
Yeet the child.
yet*
@mrrobotvpn5012 No, no. I meant yeet. It means To throw an object or person with little or no regard for its safety.
Man, Marge did so bad that she ended up in 5th place, when there's only 4 players.
Trouble is, Marge uses that Play Friendly attack with Lisa and Lisa gets all the kills
I guess she played too friendly
lots of good memories playing this at my local Cici's Pizza back then!
Our local pizza parlor had this cabinet, too! (Also, original TMNT.)
Me reading the comments before the video: WTF? What's going on?
Me 1 min into the video: oh, alright, I'll play friendly
Up and at 'em
Truly one of the Alright Now, Play Friendly of all time.
I just realized at the end, the final score shows Marge in 5th place, out of 4 players! lol
It's because Marge's score was the only one not to beat the top pre-programmed default score.
The thumbnail of this video makes it look like the entire Simpson family is _BAKED_ and are each about to get a big slap in the face.
The 4th place is Maggie, for sure.
I like how the bonus stages tie in with the game's progression
1:01 I honestly cannot believe that this boss used to take all my quarters when I was a kid!
The American dream: the whole family going out and beating up Dad’s boss.
Oh my the nostalgia, I used to play this on the PS3 with my Dad and Sis all the time
I'm a simple guy. I see weird video from 2 years ago in my recommended, i watch it.
The farthest i ever made it in this game was Dreamland, where i got completely decimated by that bowling ball.
Nice to see some secondhand revenge :D
They should have given players a pass on that since it was just a dream.
"How's my hair?"
Evil Marge b lik “alright now play dirty”
My favourite game of all time. This was magical. Thank you ❤
10:19 THE SLEEPER HAS AWAKENED
Somehow I never really thought about the fact that Moe has a secret tavern hidden under a cemetery that is way nicer than his normal tavern.
Homer clips right through the multiple Princess Kashmirs at 6:05. Guess he didn’t learn his lesson.
Wow. Seeing the ending here is so much cheaper than in the arcade!
Homer gets quite a lot of knockouts despite not being thrown across the screen constantly
because Homer has the best moveset of the entire cast. He's leagues better than the other three characters. Marge's moveset is so lacking in comparison that her best move is to throw objects.
"Alright, now play friendly."
Sure is lucky that Maggie dropped down at 13:47 when she did, otherwise we'd have to experience Burns at 100% power.
Nah. Mr burns struggles taking candy from a baby.
"with the power of friendship!" ahh tas 😭🙏
still a better plot than the average modern simpson episode
I love how they have a sort of hivemind, especially during the zombie section
This game REALLY needs a PC re-release
Turtles, Simpsons and X-Men. 90s Arcade nostalgia.
Oh, and that WWF 4 or 6 player cabinet which was kind of a Mortal Kombat without blood and violence.
Kind of Trivia: The white rabbits were what the Simpsons were actually going to be. Kind of. They were looking for a cartoon to play among segments. Matt had this series called Life in Hell with these rabbits but it was turned down as he was kind of scared losing his "child". In kind of a hurry Matt Groening drew this 5 piece family we now know and love.
Brings me back to my childhood hearing these sounds in the background of an arcade. 😭