Now that you've mentioned this game being a reskin of Rat Trap, I'm actually quite curious as to what that game looks like, what platforms it was on and if it was ever localized!
I didn't know that there were 8 versions of Krusty's Fun House/Krusty's Super Fun House. The only 3 I knew were the NES, SNES, and Genesis versions. This is very intriguing. Glad you made this one.
I once tried Krusty's Super Fun House. I found it to be neither Super nor Fun and was unable to fit inside it in order to take shelter from the elements
Surprised that it wasn't mentioned in the video that there are two versions for the SNES and Megadrive. The second version has totally different music than the first version in certain stages.
@@solarflare9078 we know the Yamaha YM 2612 is capable of doing better speech than the garbage coming out from the mega dry version Krusty’s super Funhouse.
Such a classic "not-quite-villain but definitely a rogue anti-hero character" Crusty. These games look like typical 16bit tie in era stuff. Nice share and insight as always 👍👏
This is quite interesting. I never knew it has so many ports (I only know about the NES version). There was a time in the 90s when The Simpsons were so big, no one was willing to accept it became the victim of its own success. Especially video game adaptations. Still, why I got Bart vs The Space Mutants instead of beyond me.
10:01 I played the SMS version in 50Hz mode and I can confirm the SMS version is optimized for those systems, judging by the way all music plays in the same speed as the GG version. Bad luck for Brazilian SMS users who had the game back in the day.
Just like the Mega Drive version of Truxton. Which despite a single multiregional ROM (World), it's only optimized for PAL systems (due to being rushed and Sega didn't give at Toaplan the most reliable instructions).
It's like the Amiga version couples with the Mega Drive version and the PC MS-DOS version couples with the SNES version. Makes sense in a certain way, I guess.
Apparently, the N64 also had a graphical mode that brings back the polygon wobbling like the PS1, but it also allows the N64 to draw a lot more polygons to make up from the trade off. Only one game on the system used it, being friggin Monopoly of all games, as a hidden code, since Nintendo wanted no one to use that graphical mode.
I played a bit of the megadrive version back in 2006 i think. I was more amazed that there exists a Krusty game that doesn't use the Simsons in the tittle, and that is also not a Bart-centric game, like most simsons games of this era.
I didn't know this Simpsons game is a reskin. Kinda like how Ocean ported Sleepwalker as Eek the Cat game for SNES. If I remember well, the Mega Drive port was one of the very first games to use the GEMS sound driver. The SNES port is also the first game on the system David Whittaker did music for. He had to create a custom sound drive in order to get the job done. An updated revision of David's sound driver was used in The Lawnmower Man game.
This game came with the PC I bought in 2002. I was a wee lad back then and this game was on an emulator so I didn't have a manual, not that that would have made much difference since I didn't know English back then so I could not read it. I just now realized the goal of the game is to lead the mice into the exterminator to off them. Wow!
Woah that is a lot of ports, had your work cut out for you. Reskinned games have a lot of history, usually lazy license jobs though heh. Yeah I've kind of noticed that more in retrospect with the low frame rate, lack of V-sync, and screen tearing in DOS games. I imagine it stems from software rendering limitations. Can't go wrong with the SNES port, seems to be a clear winner. I'm pretty sure they just took the Amiga version and tweaked it as little as possible to work on the Genesis.😒I'm not sure what year but when multiplatform games started coming more and more the GEN/MD was always getting the shaft. Always nice to hear of something good to get for the SMS, oh looks like a game cheaper outside of NA. Definitely much better speech samples on SMS, kudos to that excellent programming.😁 Well Simpsons games didn't fair well on NES, tended to steer clear of them bitd. It is a bit loud in color choices, but at least it has a vibrancy to it instead of being Sepia like. That is so weird the GB one is slightly better but I guess less screen real estate to move around.
I rented the snes version back in the day and remember having fun with this one. As usual, I knew about the other console versions but had no idea about other ports. Another great episode! Thanks!!
One of my favorite games. Glad to see it get some coverage. I like the SNES version best, but they're all fun. I've also sank a lot of hours into GameBoy and NES versions. Posted before watching.
Ignoring the fact it’s a reskinned game fit for The Simpsons, it’s kinda surprising how the gameplay resembles Lemmings a bit, considering they both released the same year, 1991, at least the Rat Trap original. If it was later that year, it would make more sense, but it makes you wonder if the concept of this game was more original than what it seemed by their release date, like how people often say Phantasy Star is SEGA’s answer to Final Fantasy, despite the two being only 2 days apart at release.
Also, ouch, that Mega Drive port is lazy. It really says something when the MASTER SYSTEM is way better than it. Super Nintendo port got this easily otherwise.
Yeah, most flying edge released games on the Mega Drive were turds. But the again Flying Edge just like LJN is Acclaim. A company who only release turds in my opinion.
im newer heard about this game. But look like a nice game really for most ports, include the Amiga one, which looks pretty cool and well used, dispite 25hz, still playable. Its has style over it.
Interestingly Mark. I've seen this game everywhere growing up. But I actually never played it on any platforms ever. I just never had the argue to do so. Must be all that Neo-Geo I was playing growing up. 8^) Anthony..
Rat Trap was never released for C64 (or Atari ST?) though it seems... can't find any info on that. Only the Amiga version was seemingly released? Anyway, cute game. The comparison between Master System and NES is indeed almost shocking.
@@RetroCore Yeah, it happens sometimes. Maybe the game was planned but I couldn't even find anything on Games That Weren't. Rat Trap is on Lemon Amiga, so it was actually released it seems.
The Mega Drive version derives from the Amiga version, the original Amiga game wasn't based on the Simpsons series. The SNES version has redrawn sprites, Krusty actually has a weird walking animation in this version and they even cropped his hair at the top. The MD version doesn't sound as abrasive as in this video, the original console features a low-pass filter which sounds more pleasant than this. If put side by side, in order to port the original assets to the SNES with its smaller horizontal resolution, it's a bit cropped to the left and some colors/tiles are different. The Master System version plays and looks OK, but sounds bad (the soundtrack is sped up and can pierce through our ears easily) and the NES version is laughable, could have been so much better, looks like a Tiertex release. MD>SNES>SMS>DOS>Amiga, the latter being low only due to its weird controls, this game requires a LOT of diagonal pushing to solve many puzzles, specially later in the game which requires very precise timing and inputs. Some games ported to the SNES from the MD or the Amiga end up being a bit wonky in some aspects, and every time I finished Krusty's Fun House, the SNES version felt weird to play, there's something off, not a bad version, but not the best either. Top Gear 2 on the SNES is a nice example where I find this version superior to either the Amiga or MD in basically all aspects.
I had no idea there was so many ports of crusty Funhouse I knew about the SNSS and mega drive versionss but had no idea that the virgin was so poor and that the master system port plays and actually has better voice samples which is one of those rare occasions that the eight bit version shows up it’s 16 bit big brother, anyway great battle of the ports as always. But overall I would say the SNES version is the best version.
Master System version is actually pretty good! I think it benefits from the music being pretty terrible across all versions, so the terrible PSG sound chip doesn't stick out to me as much as it normally does. Looks like the SNES got the best end of this deal, though.
I played a lot Lemmings that was so revolutionary. But after that, numerous games with such a gameplay popup on computers, but they were all so bland compared to their model, it quickly bored me. And it was a very little game on Amiga, they were so many more interesting ones 😅I was playing Hired Guns, Blastar, Globdule, Walker, Uridium 2... So many fabulous games only available on Amiga. But it's a nice effort on SMS and Gamegear, really impressive. Many thanks for the comparative 🤩
This game looks graphically similar on the NES to SMS to Super Nintendo... and the Amiga original... that right there tells you this is a really BASIC type of graphics game that doesn't really do any significant 2d pixel sprite pushing or 2d effects... the number of rats is almost the same and we can even analyze the NES and SMS versions of Lemmings too... the only thing that might be significant tech this game does is hitting 60fps on Super Nintendo but ONLY because the programmer coded it and MAYBE some chip tunes that might seem better in stereo because the Super Nintendo can do stereo... meanwhile the Sega MegaDrive hardware (especially with the proper hardware version early on) can do some amazing stereo that may be muffled on later Genesis hardware versions. and Thats about it... It's a game that has an interesting premise but never really gets pushed especially when the 2d hardware are performance monsters like Super Nintendo and Sega MegaDrive. It sucks that most of the Simpson 8bit and 16bit games suffered from these horrible game design, lackluster game design and bad programming with horrible gameplay mechanics. It's amazing also how back then only Konami actually created an amazing Simpsons's based game because they made a four player arcade beat em up that was somehow not allowed to be ported probably because LJN/Acclaim held the exclusive console license just like they did for WWF wrestling license, I no longer watch the simpsons for over many many years now but I did play a few of the NES and Super Nintendo Simpson games as rentals and purchased one of them that really sucked cause I paid full price and the game was horrible gameplay which means cheap deaths and unfair enemy placement.
I was beaten to it... Its a Reverse Lemmings... And not as sensibly programmed... :( Sad thing is, I woudl actually have gave this a shot back in the day!
I dont care what anyone says, i had the gameboy version as a kid, and it was one of the better games on the system for roadtrips and whatnot. I can underetand it not holding up particularly well today, but back then, it wasnt bad, and would occupy you for a long time.
@RetroCore you're not sitting in the back of a van for hours with no phone, and your gameboy is infinitely more interesting than a Tiger Electronics. If that were the case, you'd think it's a pretty good game. You really have to judge these things in context. You have gameboy games and NeoGeo games equally accessible, for free, on your choice of device. We could only dream of ever touching a NeoGeo, and were thankful we got a Gameboy over a Tiger Electronics. That's all I'm saying.
I would have assumed the SNES port would have included more in the way of audio samples from the show- it doesn't appear the game really taxed the hardware. But then again, what do I know?
[It's been a long time since I last commented here. Phew. Hi, Mark] I like this one, to be fair. It offers a nice mixture of puzzle and exploration and it was the best Simpsons licensed game until Hit n' Run came by. Of course, it had to be a reskin of another game 😅 It's too bad that such a colourful and playable game got such shitty music, and on the Mega Drive we had no option to turn it off (the SNES has the shoulder buttons to do so).
yet DMA's Lemmings-inspirations, but now as the Simpson is come. i mostly had the SNES, but i don't think the Genesis is better and for the first time, i ever heard Sega 8-bit VS 16-bits in games
A puzzle game where you lure beings to their deaths, using a machine built for mass extermination. So what better Simpsons character to choose than the Jewish one! :S
I used to cry myself to sleep thinking about one of the worst games ever made, "Milon's Secret Castle", but now, seeing as there are so many ports of this awful, awful game, I think new nightmares are incoming. Great video, don't get me wrong, just one I wish I didn't watch...
Milon's Secret Castle really isn't that bad. A good amount of people really like that game as well. NintendoComplete, hungrygoriya, hell, even the writer for AVGN's episode for that game, Mike Matei, likes the game too.
Amazing BotP! So many ports this time, and my beloved Master System have one of the best. Curiously, Lemmings port of Master System is better too than the Megadrive one
It seems that the devs of both games had enough of the NES taking all the limelight. The Master System was a pretty strong system for its time. It could have easily out preformed the NES had it had the same 3rd party support. Also. They could have bossted the Master System's power with extra processor chips in the carts just like NES games had.
Master System with the hot tag to save big brother Megadrive lol. TBH this game just suits being an 8 bit game more for some reason to me, although the NES port is awful.
I do not know why that some games on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive are worse then SNES versions. It's like developers were not the same and didn't care if one version was better on another console. Or maybe so times it was developers just wanted one console to seem better then the other. If developers did want one console to look better then the other I wouldn't be surprised if the manufacturer paid to get a better port of the games.
Same could be said otherwise. Captain America and the Avengers was INEXCUSABLY bad compared to the Mega Drive port for example The answer comes to developer incompetence a good amount of the time… or just not caring about how a port comes out.
Time and money, mostly. It took less time to get two different studios to do ports, especially because the SNES and Genesis weren't compatible in many ways, so if you had one team do it it would take a lot longer because they'd have to build a lot of the game twice. Because publishers would be paying multiple teams, they generally didn't shell out for top-tier talent, so your results tended to vary a lot. The other reason is that there are simply things that one machine is better at than the other. For instance, the SNES handles colour much better than the Genesis, the Genesis has a more flexible memory layout that makes beat 'em ups work better on that machine. I seriously doubt that Nintendo shelled out money to keep Krusty's Super Funhouse, of all things, from being better on Genesis. Especially when games that would actually move systems, like Mortal Kombat 1/2/3, weren't interfered with on the Genesis.
@gargonovich I know that game wasn't a big money maker but I have seen some games that it seems was made to show off the systems strengths and Nintendo or Sega paid to one up each other.
@KenSch2020 Again, that's just different teams working on the project. If you have a team that's fairly experienced doing the Genesis port and somebody pretty new or less skilled doing the SNES version, that experienced team is going to know and leverage the Genesis hardware's advantages, while the SNES team might struggle just to get the game working at all. And sometimes it's just developers trying to one-up each other and show off. Cool Spot is a good example of that. The game was made by one developer split into teams by platform. The SNES guys saw the Genesis version running and decided to one up them by making the balloons in the first level transparent and use more colours. It can be just that simple. Doing a good job gets you more work, so as in any job, some folks are going to swing for the fences. Publishers are in the business of making money by selling product. They wouldn't take money to intentionally tank a version on the SNES or Genesis, because that would damage their reputation with customers and their relationship with the other console manufacturer. The much better move for both a publisher and the console manufacturer is to work out an exclusivity deal, like Nintendo did with Capcom for the original version of Street Fighter 2.
The Amiga version is basic. PC looks better but with some sacrifices. SNES picks up the pace finally. Genesis was a missed opportunity. Master System is a huge surprise. NES is a waste of time. Game Gear is a bigger missed opportunity. Game Boy is the closest thing to a good handheld experience.
We told you and all other youtubers 100000000 times that most Master System games must be set to PAL 50hz emulation to compare it right, 60hz on Krustys Fun House is not native and never was in mind for this port.
@@RetroCore Hit and Run is basically a better Road Rage. The Simpsons Video Game (2008) is also pretty well praised, but every single port is practically an entirely different game
I remember seeing this sat on the shelves at various game stores back in the early ‘90s, it never seemed to sell. I don’t remember the SNES version getting a particularly good review in Super Play, but I might be misremembering. What I do remember from that era was I didn’t want any of the shitty Simpsons games Acclaim were peddling, I just wanted a port of Konami’s Simpsons arcade game! Judging by Turtles in Time and Hyperstone Heist, both the 16-bit consoles should have been capable of doing it justice.
One of my all time favourite puzzle games, i still play it every now and again. Its pretty tough as well
I'd agree. Some of the later stages are real head scratches.
This game always felt like it was a reskin of something, thank you for confirming that.
You're very welcome.
Now that you've mentioned this game being a reskin of Rat Trap, I'm actually quite curious as to what that game looks like, what platforms it was on and if it was ever localized!
So its basically Lemmings, but you're trying to kill the little shits instead of save them.
@@SomeOrangeCat and you are a character, not just a cursor
Maybe the Lemmings were still being led to their deaths... but the game devs dressed it up to make it look like you were saving them...
I guess so. Also, no pissing about with icon commands.
Ah, you may have a point 🤔😊
One of my childhood games, I love it.
I didn't know that there were 8 versions of Krusty's Fun House/Krusty's Super Fun House. The only 3 I knew were the NES, SNES, and Genesis versions. This is very intriguing. Glad you made this one.
I'm glad the video was informative to some. 👍
@@RetroCore Maybe try doing Gradius/Nemesis for the next episode. That game has a lot of versions that I feel like you should take a crack at.
The music on this one could drive anyone crazy
But it's always bring back my childhood memory 🤣
@@hermawanho6962same, it’s crazy😂
Good thing I'm immune to annoying sounds. I'd probably turn it up to annoy others around me. I do find the loop quite catchy lol.
The music is awful
The SMS version can definitely do that.
I once tried Krusty's Super Fun House. I found it to be neither Super nor Fun and was unable to fit inside it in order to take shelter from the elements
The game is quite addicting, but requires learning its ins and outs. It's far from the normal platformer.
@@SIDEKICKDUSTY I can think of at least three things wrong with that title!
Back in the day I thought the exact same thing but playing the game again for this video, I started to find a new appreciation for the game.
Thank you for the closed captions and analysis of this set of ports of decent Simpsons game.
You're very welcome.
Great day out for Master system fans by the looks.
Would have been nice to show the original rat trap game when talking about it
Sorry, I am always pressed for time.
Surprised that it wasn't mentioned in the video that there are two versions for the SNES and Megadrive. The second version has totally different music than the first version in certain stages.
This is true. I've not played the second version myself.
Sounds like the speech in the Master System was data streamed through the Z80 & the MD version was via the FM chip.
The YM2612 should be able to produce better speech than this though. Have you seen what games like Strider 2 and Dynamite Headdy sound like?
@@solarflare9078 yes agree. Might be a case of not using the DAC channel?
@@solarflare9078 we know the Yamaha YM 2612 is capable of doing better speech than the garbage coming out from the mega dry version Krusty’s super Funhouse.
Such a classic "not-quite-villain but definitely a rogue anti-hero character" Crusty.
These games look like typical 16bit tie in era stuff.
Nice share and insight as always 👍👏
Acclaim's only decent Simpsons game and its just a reskin. Its criminal we didn’t get home ports of Simpsons Arcade because of them.
Funny that the mice eyes are animated on Master System and Game Gear but not on Mega Drive.
Shows how lazy the Mega Drive port was
It sure does.
The Mega Drive having the same 68000 CPU as Amiga might be why they used that version, rather than rewriting it like they did for SNES?
That stuff happens surprisingly often on the Mega Drive. Mortal Kombat 1 and 2, Top Gear 2, and The Chaos Engine are all examples
Possibly but also a shame.
This is quite interesting. I never knew it has so many ports (I only know about the NES version). There was a time in the 90s when The Simpsons were so big, no one was willing to accept it became the victim of its own success. Especially video game adaptations. Still, why I got Bart vs The Space Mutants instead of beyond me.
You certainly picked the worst Simpson's game. Oh well.
@@RetroCore Thanks goodness for "The Simpsons: Hit and Run." Granted, a good game is in the eyes of the player, but I enjoyed it
The NES version of Krusty would've had no complaints about his banter with Brooke Shields.
Hey Mark, thanks for all you do. Hope you and the family are all doing well.
Thanks, you too!👍
10:01 I played the SMS version in 50Hz mode and I can confirm the SMS version is optimized for those systems, judging by the way all music plays in the same speed as the GG version. Bad luck for Brazilian SMS users who had the game back in the day.
Brazil's TV system was always the odd duck of TV colour standards.
Ah, that explains why it sounded so fast on my Japanese system.
Just like the Mega Drive version of Truxton. Which despite a single multiregional ROM (World), it's only optimized for PAL systems (due to being rushed and Sega didn't give at Toaplan the most reliable instructions).
i liked the genesis version. i don't know i grew up on that version
It's like the Amiga version couples with the Mega Drive version and the PC MS-DOS version couples with the SNES version. Makes sense in a certain way, I guess.
I got this game on the SNES 101 in 1 multicart.
Krusty voice in the Mega Drive sounds like an extrmely compressed and distorted Microsoft TTS generator's voice.
It sure does. What ever it may be, it's awful.
Sprite flickering is ubiquitous to Famicom/NES like texture warping is for the PS1.
And ugly colour palettes not too far behind.
Apparently, the N64 also had a graphical mode that brings back the polygon wobbling like the PS1, but it also allows the N64 to draw a lot more polygons to make up from the trade off. Only one game on the system used it, being friggin Monopoly of all games, as a hidden code, since Nintendo wanted no one to use that graphical mode.
I never knew that about the N64. Nice trivia.
I played a bit of the megadrive version back in 2006 i think. I was more amazed that there exists a Krusty game that doesn't use the Simsons in the tittle, and that is also not a Bart-centric game, like most simsons games of this era.
That is a good point. Bart was very often the main focus. Should have been Homer in my opinion.
@@RetroCore I'm guessing it was because bart is the one who fit that tude era and he is the one who liked games the most.
i never got around to playing this but i wish i had
I didn't know this Simpsons game is a reskin. Kinda like how Ocean ported Sleepwalker as Eek the Cat game for SNES.
If I remember well, the Mega Drive port was one of the very first games to use the GEMS sound driver.
The SNES port is also the first game on the system David Whittaker did music for.
He had to create a custom sound drive in order to get the job done.
An updated revision of David's sound driver was used in The Lawnmower Man game.
Yep. There were a few reskin on the SNES. I beleive the Troll game is also a reskin of humans or is it the other way around?
The Lawnmower Man audio on the SNES is pretty ggod unlike Kursy's Fun House 😅
This game came with the PC I bought in 2002. I was a wee lad back then and this game was on an emulator so I didn't have a manual, not that that would have made much difference since I didn't know English back then so I could not read it. I just now realized the goal of the game is to lead the mice into the exterminator to off them. Wow!
Lol, don't worry. I could read English back then and I still never really understood the game until recently 😅
I’ve only played the SNES version. Glad to know I played the best version.
You certainly did play the best version 👍
loved this game!! I played the MS-DOS and SNES versions back then, very similar but I prefer the SNES version, sounds better.
Same here. The SNES version is much nicer to play as well.
We oddly enough had the Mega Drive/Genesis version back in the day, even though I rarely played it since we were too hooked on the SNES growing up.
Woah that is a lot of ports, had your work cut out for you. Reskinned games have a lot of history, usually lazy license jobs though heh.
Yeah I've kind of noticed that more in retrospect with the low frame rate, lack of V-sync, and screen tearing in DOS games. I imagine it stems from software rendering limitations.
Can't go wrong with the SNES port, seems to be a clear winner. I'm pretty sure they just took the Amiga version and tweaked it as little as possible to work on the Genesis.😒I'm not sure what year but when multiplatform games started coming more and more the GEN/MD was always getting the shaft.
Always nice to hear of something good to get for the SMS, oh looks like a game cheaper outside of NA. Definitely much better speech samples on SMS, kudos to that excellent programming.😁
Well Simpsons games didn't fair well on NES, tended to steer clear of them bitd. It is a bit loud in color choices, but at least it has a vibrancy to it instead of being Sepia like. That is so weird the GB one is slightly better but I guess less screen real estate to move around.
Seeing Amiga games scroll at a juddery 25fps still makes me cry a little inside. There was never any excuse for it. Never.
I rented the snes version back in the day and remember having fun with this one. As usual, I knew about the other console versions but had no idea about other ports. Another great episode! Thanks!!
Thanks for watching.
It's like lemmings but instead of saving them you end them 😅
Thanks Mark 👍🏼
Ya know, for the kids,.
Pretty much!😂
One of my favorite games. Glad to see it get some coverage.
I like the SNES version best, but they're all fun. I've also sank a lot of hours into GameBoy and NES versions.
Posted before watching.
No worries.
The NES/GB port's Krusty icon looks like a demonic Mickey Mouse.
Indeed.
Ignoring the fact it’s a reskinned game fit for The Simpsons, it’s kinda surprising how the gameplay resembles Lemmings a bit, considering they both released the same year, 1991, at least the Rat Trap original. If it was later that year, it would make more sense, but it makes you wonder if the concept of this game was more original than what it seemed by their release date, like how people often say Phantasy Star is SEGA’s answer to Final Fantasy, despite the two being only 2 days apart at release.
Also, ouch, that Mega Drive port is lazy. It really says something when the MASTER SYSTEM is way better than it. Super Nintendo port got this easily otherwise.
Yeah, most flying edge released games on the Mega Drive were turds. But the again Flying Edge just like LJN is Acclaim. A company who only release turds in my opinion.
im newer heard about this game. But look like a nice game really for most ports, include the Amiga one, which looks pretty cool and well used, dispite 25hz, still playable. Its has style over it.
Thanks for the visit
The Master System port is running on NTSC instead of PAL for some reason.
Because I have a Japanese Master System.
would have been fun to include the c64/st/amiga versions of rat trap, but otherwise a fun vid :)
Sadly I was pressed for time.
Interestingly Mark. I've seen this game everywhere growing up. But I actually never played it on any platforms ever. I just never had the argue to do so. Must be all that Neo-Geo I was playing growing up. 8^)
Anthony..
I always thought it wasn't very good but after playing it for this video it grew on me somewhat.
Rat Trap was never released for C64 (or Atari ST?) though it seems... can't find any info on that. Only the Amiga version was seemingly released? Anyway, cute game. The comparison between Master System and NES is indeed almost shocking.
Really? Looks like bad Wiki information 😢
@@RetroCore Yeah, it happens sometimes. Maybe the game was planned but I couldn't even find anything on Games That Weren't. Rat Trap is on Lemon Amiga, so it was actually released it seems.
You know this is a game I've always heard of but never actually seen in action! Looks kinda neat to be honest
It's not bad once you get in to it.
The later stages can be tough though.
The Mega Drive version derives from the Amiga version, the original Amiga game wasn't based on the Simpsons series. The SNES version has redrawn sprites, Krusty actually has a weird walking animation in this version and they even cropped his hair at the top.
The MD version doesn't sound as abrasive as in this video, the original console features a low-pass filter which sounds more pleasant than this.
If put side by side, in order to port the original assets to the SNES with its smaller horizontal resolution, it's a bit cropped to the left and some colors/tiles are different. The Master System version plays and looks OK, but sounds bad (the soundtrack is sped up and can pierce through our ears easily) and the NES version is laughable, could have been so much better, looks like a Tiertex release.
MD>SNES>SMS>DOS>Amiga, the latter being low only due to its weird controls, this game requires a LOT of diagonal pushing to solve many puzzles, specially later in the game which requires very precise timing and inputs.
Some games ported to the SNES from the MD or the Amiga end up being a bit wonky in some aspects, and every time I finished Krusty's Fun House, the SNES version felt weird to play, there's something off, not a bad version, but not the best either.
Top Gear 2 on the SNES is a nice example where I find this version superior to either the Amiga or MD in basically all aspects.
The Master System seem Pal optimised, you run it in ntsc?
Yeah, my Master System is Japanese.
I had no idea there was so many ports of crusty Funhouse I knew about the SNSS and mega drive versionss but had no idea that the virgin was so poor and that the master system port plays and actually has better voice samples which is one of those rare occasions that the eight bit version shows up it’s 16 bit big brother, anyway great battle of the ports as always. But overall I would say the SNES version is the best version.
I'd agree with saying the SNES version was the best of all versions.
Master System version is actually pretty good! I think it benefits from the music being pretty terrible across all versions, so the terrible PSG sound chip doesn't stick out to me as much as it normally does. Looks like the SNES got the best end of this deal, though.
I played a lot Lemmings that was so revolutionary. But after that, numerous games with such a gameplay popup on computers, but they were all so bland compared to their model, it quickly bored me. And it was a very little game on Amiga, they were so many more interesting ones 😅I was playing Hired Guns, Blastar, Globdule, Walker, Uridium 2... So many fabulous games only available on Amiga. But it's a nice effort on SMS and Gamegear, really impressive. Many thanks for the comparative 🤩
The master system running fast? Maybe it had an experimental version of blast processing that is yet to be discovered?
That or an optimised PAL version running on my Japanese Master System.
This game looks graphically similar on the NES to SMS to Super Nintendo... and the Amiga original... that right there tells you this is a really BASIC type of graphics game that doesn't really do any significant 2d pixel sprite pushing or 2d effects... the number of rats is almost the same and we can even analyze the NES and SMS versions of Lemmings too... the only thing that might be significant tech this game does is hitting 60fps on Super Nintendo but ONLY because the programmer coded it and MAYBE some chip tunes that might seem better in stereo because the Super Nintendo can do stereo... meanwhile the Sega MegaDrive hardware (especially with the proper hardware version early on) can do some amazing stereo that may be muffled on later Genesis hardware versions. and Thats about it...
It's a game that has an interesting premise but never really gets pushed especially when the 2d hardware are performance monsters like Super Nintendo and Sega MegaDrive.
It sucks that most of the Simpson 8bit and 16bit games suffered from these horrible game design, lackluster game design and bad programming with horrible gameplay mechanics.
It's amazing also how back then only Konami actually created an amazing Simpsons's based game because they made a four player arcade beat em up that was somehow not allowed to be ported probably because LJN/Acclaim held the exclusive console license just like they did for WWF wrestling license,
I no longer watch the simpsons for over many many years now but I did play a few of the NES and Super Nintendo Simpson games as rentals and purchased one of them that really sucked cause I paid full price and the game was horrible gameplay which means cheap deaths and unfair enemy placement.
Unironically the best Acclaim Simpsons game
...which isn't surprising since its a reskin of something else.
Simpsons games in general seem to turn out better the more derivative they are.
@@pokepress Simply slap the Simpsons license onto TMNT. BOOM! Best Simpsons game ever!
I was beaten to it... Its a Reverse Lemmings... And not as sensibly programmed... :( Sad thing is, I woudl actually have gave this a shot back in the day!
Such a neat game. One of my Gameboy favorites of all time.
I dont care what anyone says, i had the gameboy version as a kid, and it was one of the better games on the system for roadtrips and whatnot.
I can underetand it not holding up particularly well today, but back then, it wasnt bad, and would occupy you for a long time.
I think the GB version is nice but it has to be said it's rather slow.
@RetroCore you're not sitting in the back of a van for hours with no phone, and your gameboy is infinitely more interesting than a Tiger Electronics.
If that were the case, you'd think it's a pretty good game.
You really have to judge these things in context. You have gameboy games and NeoGeo games equally accessible, for free, on your choice of device. We could only dream of ever touching a NeoGeo, and were thankful we got a Gameboy over a Tiger Electronics.
That's all I'm saying.
I would have assumed the SNES port would have included more in the way of audio samples from the show- it doesn't appear the game really taxed the hardware. But then again, what do I know?
This game doesn't really tax the hardware of any system it's on 😅
I remember renting the SNES version growing up. Or was it the NES version? I actually don't remember which...
If you enjoyed it, then it was probably the SNES.
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I like this one, to be fair. It offers a nice mixture of puzzle and exploration and it was the best Simpsons licensed game until Hit n' Run came by. Of course, it had to be a reskin of another game 😅 It's too bad that such a colourful and playable game got such shitty music, and on the Mega Drive we had no option to turn it off (the SNES has the shoulder buttons to do so).
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Oh and yeah, you're 100% right about the music being shitty.
yet DMA's Lemmings-inspirations, but now as the Simpson is come. i mostly had the SNES, but i don't think the Genesis is better
and for the first time, i ever heard Sega 8-bit VS 16-bits in games
I'm surprised just how bad the Mega Drive version is.
@@RetroCore even i don't believe the Master System can do well than the Genesis
I disagree with the MD/Genesis and NES ports. They look good and play well, for their rescpective hardware.
A puzzle game where you lure beings to their deaths, using a machine built for mass extermination.
So what better Simpsons character to choose than the Jewish one! :S
shouldn't laugh but when you put it that way it comes across as a Jimmy Carr joke.
@@RetroCore Dark humor can be entertaining like that
Im seeing double! 4 Krusties!
I had this game on my Mega Drive and oh boy... I hated it passion, lol. Not a totally bad game, but some stages are just nuts.
I used to cry myself to sleep thinking about one of the worst games ever made, "Milon's Secret Castle", but now, seeing as there are so many ports of this awful, awful game, I think new nightmares are incoming. Great video, don't get me wrong, just one I wish I didn't watch...
Milon's Secret Castle really isn't that bad. A good amount of people really like that game as well. NintendoComplete, hungrygoriya, hell, even the writer for AVGN's episode for that game, Mike Matei, likes the game too.
Oh Teh Noes! It's the Attack of the Shitty Developers!
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Hey! It's the least horrible non-arcade Simpsons game of the 90's.
Amazing BotP! So many ports this time, and my beloved Master System have one of the best. Curiously, Lemmings port of Master System is better too than the Megadrive one
It seems that the devs of both games had enough of the NES taking all the limelight. The Master System was a pretty strong system for its time. It could have easily out preformed the NES had it had the same 3rd party support. Also. They could have bossted the Master System's power with extra processor chips in the carts just like NES games had.
Master System with the hot tag to save big brother Megadrive lol. TBH this game just suits being an 8 bit game more for some reason to me, although the NES port is awful.
I agree about the NES version. It looks and plays very poorly.
I always wanted to like Simpson's games... and like 99.9% of them are just so bad... :(
So true. The first Simpson's game I actually liked was Road Rage on the Xbox. The there was the "video game" which was also pretty cool.
I just really don't like this game. In recent years, I've taken to referring to it as Krusty's Super-Terrible, Rat-Infested Ball-Torture House haha.
Now that is a title.
I do not know why that some games on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive are worse then SNES versions. It's like developers were not the same and didn't care if one version was better on another console. Or maybe so times it was developers just wanted one console to seem better then the other. If developers did want one console to look better then the other I wouldn't be surprised if the manufacturer paid to get a better port of the games.
Same could be said otherwise. Captain America and the Avengers was INEXCUSABLY bad compared to the Mega Drive port for example
The answer comes to developer incompetence a good amount of the time… or just not caring about how a port comes out.
Time and money, mostly. It took less time to get two different studios to do ports, especially because the SNES and Genesis weren't compatible in many ways, so if you had one team do it it would take a lot longer because they'd have to build a lot of the game twice. Because publishers would be paying multiple teams, they generally didn't shell out for top-tier talent, so your results tended to vary a lot.
The other reason is that there are simply things that one machine is better at than the other. For instance, the SNES handles colour much better than the Genesis, the Genesis has a more flexible memory layout that makes beat 'em ups work better on that machine.
I seriously doubt that Nintendo shelled out money to keep Krusty's Super Funhouse, of all things, from being better on Genesis. Especially when games that would actually move systems, like Mortal Kombat 1/2/3, weren't interfered with on the Genesis.
@gargonovich I know that game wasn't a big money maker but I have seen some games that it seems was made to show off the systems strengths and Nintendo or Sega paid to one up each other.
@KenSch2020 Again, that's just different teams working on the project. If you have a team that's fairly experienced doing the Genesis port and somebody pretty new or less skilled doing the SNES version, that experienced team is going to know and leverage the Genesis hardware's advantages, while the SNES team might struggle just to get the game working at all. And sometimes it's just developers trying to one-up each other and show off. Cool Spot is a good example of that. The game was made by one developer split into teams by platform. The SNES guys saw the Genesis version running and decided to one up them by making the balloons in the first level transparent and use more colours. It can be just that simple. Doing a good job gets you more work, so as in any job, some folks are going to swing for the fences.
Publishers are in the business of making money by selling product. They wouldn't take money to intentionally tank a version on the SNES or Genesis, because that would damage their reputation with customers and their relationship with the other console manufacturer. The much better move for both a publisher and the console manufacturer is to work out an exclusivity deal, like Nintendo did with Capcom for the original version of Street Fighter 2.
I love that, in this game, you're murdering the little bastards instead of trapping the vermin. The PETA crowd must have loved this one. 😈
This was my fave Simpsons game as a kid, I had it on both Mega Drive and Game Gear. It combined lemmings and Mario 😅 in my 11 year old brain.
The Amiga version is basic. PC looks better but with some sacrifices. SNES picks up the pace finally. Genesis was a missed opportunity. Master System is a huge surprise. NES is a waste of time. Game Gear is a bigger missed opportunity. Game Boy is the closest thing to a good handheld experience.
We told you and all other youtubers 100000000 times that most Master System games must be set to PAL 50hz emulation to compare it right, 60hz on Krustys Fun House is not native and never was in mind for this port.
Err, I wasn't using emulation. I live in Japan and was using my Japanese Master System via RGB.
@@RetroCore I don't believe that, you always using emulators :) It's a good thing to do just with the correct settings.
snes wins for me and no contest
DOS version looks awful with the character animation seemingly doubled and makes it look very strange compared to the others.
Simpsons have history but only have 4 good game 🤦♂️.
I know two of them, road rage and the video game. What are the other two?
@@RetroCore Hit and Run is basically a better Road Rage.
The Simpsons Video Game (2008) is also pretty well praised, but every single port is practically an entirely different game
@@RetroCore the Arcade, Road Rage, Hit n Run and The Game.
First time ever I can't distinguish 8bit version from its supperior 16bit version game...
I wonder if you meant to write "can't"?
@@RetroCore yes, haha!
I remember seeing this sat on the shelves at various game stores back in the early ‘90s, it never seemed to sell. I don’t remember the SNES version getting a particularly good review in Super Play, but I might be misremembering.
What I do remember from that era was I didn’t want any of the shitty Simpsons games Acclaim were peddling, I just wanted a port of Konami’s Simpsons arcade game! Judging by Turtles in Time and Hyperstone Heist, both the 16-bit consoles should have been capable of doing it justice.
Yep, Acclaim let us down with their shitty Simpson's games. Why did they have to win the console rights to the IP 😭