Play Simpsons, The - Bart Vs The Space Mutants (usa, Europe) (rev A) Online

This 1991 Sega Genesis release, developed by Imagineering Inc., was one of the earlier attempts to bring The Simpsons to a home console. It arrived when platformers dominated the market, and it tried to capture the show's humor in that familiar side scrolling format.

You control Bart Simpson through five distinct levels, each set in a different part of Springfield. Your main goal is to stop an alien invasion by thwarting the mutants' plans, which often involves collecting a specific number of ordinary objects. The gameplay revolves around platforming and using items like your trusty slingshot and a variety of temporary power ups, such as cherry bombs or x ray glasses, to solve environmental puzzles and defeat enemies. The levels are large and non linear, requiring a lot of backtracking and exploration to find everything you need. It is a notoriously difficult game, with precise jumps and unforgiving enemy patterns that lead to frequent restarts. Playing it feels like a constant, frantic scramble to remember where you saw that last purple object while avoiding everything that moves.