Play The Simpsons - Barts Nightmare Online

I remember picking up The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare for the Super Nintendo back in 1992. It was published by Acclaim Entertainment, and it felt like a very typical licensed game for that era on the SNES. The premise was simple: you control Bart after he falls asleep while trying to finish his homework, and his scattered homework pages get sucked into his own bizarre dream world.

You guide Bart through the streets of a nightmare version of Springfield, jumping on small enemies and using a slingshot to pop bubbles that contain the lost homework pages. Each page you collect transports you into a completely different mini-game level, which is the core of the experience. One level has you as Itchy frantically running from Scratchy in a sidescrolling chase, while another turns the game into a shoot 'em up with Bart flying a makeshift plane. The main objective is to recover all the pages to finish the homework assignment. The game is notoriously difficult, with unforgiving platforming and some frustratingly designed levels. Playing it feels like a chaotic scramble through a collection of strange, loosely connected ideas.