Would’ve been better than Virtual Bart I’m sure
The main press conferences of E3 may be done and dusted, but there’s still all sorts of cool tidbits and tales coming out of ongoing events such as E3 Coliseum and Nintendo Treehouse. Take, for example, this story of aSimpsonsvideo game that never was.
Speaking to host Aaron Bleyaert on the topic of “favouriteSimpsonsgames”, series producers Matt Selman and J. Stewart Burnsdivulged the existence of aMario Party-style Simpsons title that was in production, but never completed. According to the duo, the game would have featured around 20 multiplayer mini-games, but the workload in creating the whole project was too time-consuming, which lead to it’s ultimate cancellation.
“It looked like it was going to be a 20-year project or longer (to develop) because I don’t think we were going to get one of the party games done in a year,” remembers Burns. “So, that was not my favorite thing to work on. It was great when we heard it was not going forward. That was our fault, not EA’s.” Burns added that he felt the devs “owed” EA successful mobile titleThe Simpsons: Tapped Outafter failing to deliver the party project.
It’s an interesting tidbit in what is, mostly, a conversation aboutTapped Outand that god-awful episode ofSimpsonswhere Bart becomes an esports star. Unfortunately no new or upcomingSimpsonsgames were announced during the presentation, nor aHit and Runremaster. Maybe someday.
E3 Coliseum continues today. You can check it out overat the gameslice YouTube channel.
