GamerNode's review of The Simpsons Arcade for Xbox Live and PSN includes a trip down memory lane. Senior Editor Jason Fanelli loved the game as a child, but does it age well?
Pre-orders Open For Arcade1up's The Simpsons 4-player Arcade Machine. Better Secure One Before The Scalpers Beat You To It!
$699!
This is super cool but come on already. It’s an IKEA box with one game in a tablet.
To be fair, this one actually has two games as it's bundled with The Simpsons Bowling. The price is steep, though.
Yeah, the price of these is getting ridiculous. I absolutely love arcade games, and was excited when these first came out. But I knew I didn't have space for all of these, nor did I want to spend that money on something with only a couple games on it. I waited around and got a Final Fight machine from Walmart for $99, then later found a Space Invaders there for $75. For that price I just got it because of the native vertical screen. I modded both with a cheap PC and can play thousands of arcade games on them now, and that's great! When it gets to this level of pricing, might as well start looking into buying a custom arcade machine kit, or an xArcade machine. Or even, build your own for super cheap if you're handy with stuff like that!
What are you talking about! Is not a console! Is not for playing. It's a collector piece and the whole point is nostalgia, to display it, to see it and enjoy the memories of a time long gone... That said: not for me.
LOL i paid 500 dollars for a Neogeo cabinet with 50 neogeo games that had like samurai showdown games, metal slug, king of fighters, world heroes games, baseball , golf, and football games, and many other SNK games this is stupid lol
That’s an unbelievable deal. I dropped $600 on my four-slot 15 years ago and all I got with it was Fatal Fury lol. At the time, that was a bargain.
Ah, that makes much more sense. I’ve got about 50 MVS carts, so when I thought you were talking about getting that much original Neo hardware & software for such a steal I gotta admit I felt a part of me die!
@dead_pixels LOL they make a arcade stick with alot of those games built in as well.
I have the TMNT cabinet I wish Sega could get a license to bring out the Moonwalker cabinet I use to love playing that arcade game along with Willow from Capcom.
Sega and MJ dont mix unfortunately. I'm nervous about the upcoming Sonic collection because of it. Anyway I'd also like to see Moonwalker make the return. I only ever played the Genesis version as a kid. Only heard about the arcade version a few years ago when I saw a GIF of 4 MJs running around with different colored suits. Lol
Moonwalker on Genesis and Master System are a different ball game compared to the arcade port the Genesis edition has I have seen zombies dance to thriller and I have seen zombies just dance to regular music. In the arcade you collect Bubbles his pet chimp you become Robo Jackson. In the console port on Genesis you just have the monkey humping your head pointing like a blind man to the kids you missed rescuing. The arcade port should have been the one ported to the Genesis over the side action check the 2D car and blow up port.
I would love to get the Afterburner and Outrun Moving Cabinets!
I'd pay 700 for those
Played this with two others recently using mame. It was hard going, and not just because of the difficulty - it's really repetitive and gets old fast. Only jump and hit, no other moves you can pull off. We just slogged through to the end because we'd started. Also bear in mind we had nostalgia on our side too.
It’s funny that the website is heypoorplayer, but they are telling you to hurry and secure your $699 overpriced emulator. This should be on heydisposablefundsplayer.
For what it's worth, the name IS a reference to a very expensive Neo Geo title.
The Simpsons Arcade1up cabinet is the company's next four-player arcade machine. Pre-orders for this exciting cabinet will open on July 15.
From Xfire: "It's been estimated that roughly half of the video games ever released on the market can no longer be downloaded or purchased. Whether this is exactly correct is not the point. Rather, we think that either way, the video game industry, as a whole, has done a terrible job at preserving video games and making older titles available to play for future generations."
You can play all of these games still lol. The headline is just misleading. Funny is that there is not one game in the list that you really can't play anymore due to it being online only games.
Its not about games you can't play. Its about games you can't officially buy anywhere.
Who needs to buy these games anyway? Most of them are average at best and won't really be missed.
It says buy, not play though. You can't purchase Deadpool or the Simpsons game anymore. Unless you have a 360 for the simpsons or a physical copy of deadpool, or purchased it before it was delisted.
Look at his comment. It's from 9 hours ago. Article goes back 4 hours. Title might have been changed after realising the mistake
One you actually legit cannot play AT ALL is Noby Noby Boy. I miss turning my brain off and messing around in that game, was so psyched to re-download it when i rebought a ps3 slim, but you cant, even if it's in your downl library, along with a few other obscure PS3 games i had.
I would replace Transformers Devastation with War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron tho.
Transformers Devastation was good but not as good as Fall and War of Cybertron they should be on the list. SH 2 I can play any time I want since it came free in a $10 Xbox I bought used. The Simpsons Arcade I have on my PS3 surprised the Xmen Arcade game is not on this list or the Turtles arcade game either.
I had the X-Men arcade game on my 360. I don't know if Xbox Live is still a thing or not, and of it is, I don't know of they still sell X-Men. But it was deinitely on Xbox Live at some point.
If you had X-Men before you can redownload it from your transaction history on the 360 Microsoft did not castrate the 360 from online. That is how I was able to redownload the old TMNT arcade game to my 360 you can't play it on XB1 or Series X but you can still access it for sure on the 360.
NOSTALGIA VIAGRA.
I loved this review. It was a lot of fun to read.
How idiotic. The game really shouldn't be rated. If you liked it as a kid you'll love it here. If not then its not worth 10 bucks.