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The Simpsons: Tapped Out

Game Information Released: iOS February 17, 2012 February 21, 2012 February 29, 2012 February 29, 2012 March 1, 2012 Android January 29, 2013 February 6, 2013 Kindle Fire June 24, 2013 Developer(s): Electronic Arts Publisher(s): Electronic Arts Genre: Action Platforms: iOS Android Ratings: 12+ Players: 1

The Simpsons: Tapped Out (TSTO) is a free game for iOS and Android, developed and published by Electronic Arts, first released on February 17, 2012 on iOS, then released on Android on January 23, 2013 and on Kindle Fire on June 24, 2013. The game consists of the player helping Homer and other characters to rebuild Springfield and features the cast of the show.

The Simpsons: Tapped Out had its final content update, Taps, release on September 26, 2024. At this time, donut purchases with real money were also disabled. The game will no longer be available to download on October 31, 2024 and will no longer be playable after January 24, 2025.

Description

D'OH! Homer accidentally caused a meltdown that wiped out Springfield. Now, it's up to you to rebuild it. From the writers of The Simpsons, tap into a city building game that lets you create your own living, breathing Springfield...for FREE. Recreate Springfield just like you want it, as you help Homer find Marge, Bart and the rest of his family and friends. Complete comic quests like making Apu work ridiculously long shifts at Kwik-E-Mart, growing and harvesting Tomacco on Cletus's Farm, partying down with Duffman at Duff Brewery, and more. Finish jobs and tasks to earn currency and...mmm, donuts. You can even get social and visit your friends' versions of Springfield. Make mischief and play pranks on their towns to collect cash. But remember, they can do the same to you. We told you that this game is life-ruiningly fun.

--Official description by EA.com

THIS GAME IS LIFE-RUININGLY FUN! Homer accidently caused a meltdown that wiped out Springfield. D'OH! Now, it's up to you to rebuild it! From the writers of The Simpsons, tap into a city building game that lets you create your own living, breathing Springfield... for FREE.

--Description at iTunes Singapore

Story

Homer is at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, and instead of working, he is playing The Happy Little Elves Game on his MyPad. His negligence results in the Power Plant and the whole Springfield blowing up. Homer starts rebuilding the town, and is soon aided by other characters.

Basic Gameplay

An example of a town.

How to play

To play the game, players needs to tap on things. Tapping on characters will open their task menu, from where players can select different tasks for the character to do. After completing a task, the player is rewarded with cash () and XP (). Cash allows the player to buy more buildings, land and decorations while XP allows the player to level up and unlock more content. Placing buildings, will reward the player with new actions for their characters to perform and some will unlock a new character. Buildings will reward you with Cash and XP when you tap them every certain time. The Player is also able to decorate their Springfield as they want with the numerous buildings and decorations purchasable from the build menu, and is free to move them around. Placing enough types of decorations and buildings will increase your Conform-o-meter up to a maximum of 5 starts, giving a small bonus to all your characters and buildings tasks.

Donuts () are the game's premium currency; they are used to buy a variety of special characters, buildings and decorations, as well as speeding up tasks and building times. Premium characters and buildings give doble the income than freemium characters and buildings, and premium decorations increase your cash and XP bonus.

Collecting all characters from a character group will result in a reward. Players can see the characters they've unlocked by tapping on the Homer Statuette on the build menu.

Task and quests

Characters with a speech bubble have a quest. Tapping on this character will start the quest, usually showing some dialogue. The player is required to send characters to different jobs, build a certain building or place some decorations for completing the quest, and will be rewarded with Cash and XP once completing it. Tapping on the Task book on the left side of the screen will allow you to see all the active quests you need to complete. Completing quests will also unlock more content.

Each day, players can also complete Daily Challenges to win extra cash and XP. The game offers also many other different sources of income such as growing crops in Cletus's farm, betting on who will win in the Springfield Downs and buying Scratch-R's or programing the broadcast of the Channel News and the Radio Station, as well as trying to catch Sideshow Bob (if not already bought).

Adding and visiting friends

The player can add friends via Facebook Connect, Gmail, their device's contact list and EA's Origin. After the player has added some friends, they can visit their versions of Springfield to complete three tasks each day, which results in more rewards, as well as Friend Points (), which will unlock unique prizes. The maximum number of friends you can add in Tapped Out is 100. The game also includes a generic town named "Other Springfield".

Further Information

• The game is compatible on:

• Android 2.3.3 or later.

– Android didn't from the start enable players to visit their friends' Springfields.

• iOS: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPad, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad mini, iPod touch 3 (3rd generation) and iPod touch (4th generation), and requires iOS 4.3 or later.
• Kindle Fire.
• Blackberry: Blackberry 10 (through Amazon Appstore).

• The game needs an Internet connection to play.
• This game downloads additional content on first launch that can be up to 175MB based on device.
• The game regularly updates and require additional downloads when released.
• Game saves are not supported across multiple devices (each device will have its own save file), unless you connect to an Origin account then your game will be save on EA's servers and can be accessed later on another device.

History

Connectivity problems

On March 3, 2012, due to connectivity problems, Tapped Out was removed from the App Store.^[1] In mid-June 2012, EA took the game offline to fix the server, and to fix the Springfields which experienced problems.^[2]

It was announced on August 14, 2012 that The Simpsons: Tapped Out would return to the United States App Store later that week, and it would relaunch worldwide (apart from Germany and Canada) in either September^[3] or later in August, with improved gameplay and enhanced graphics.^[4] With the relaunch, there will be new content in Tapped Out, Kotaku says it'll be packing new stuff from the latest season of The Simpsons. Other outlets say it'll have some new visuals as well as mechanics.^[5] It was re-released two days later, on 16 August. After December 5, 2012, EA upgraded their software to meet the constant demand of new and improved devices, and warned that the game may not work on 1st or 2nd generation iPhones or iPods anymore.^[6]

Level 21

Many players of the game were convinced that there was a Level 21, and also convinced that there was a bug when the player reaches 48880 XP because the game did not level up.^[7] An update for the game was then released that introduced more characters and buildings, and the Level 21.

Android version

The Android version of the game was released on January 23, 2013 in the Netherlands and Australia; the ninth content update was included with the release.^[8] The game was added to the Google Play store in other countries on February 6, 2013. The game was made available on Kindle Fire devices in many countries on June 24, 2013.

Characters and their tasks

Main article: The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters

Buildings

Main article: The Simpsons: Tapped Out buildings

Decoration

Main article: The Simpsons: Tapped Out decorations

The Store

Main article: The Store

The Store is a feature in The Simpsons: Tapped Out. It is where you buy characters, buildings and decorations. It also allows the purchase of currency.

Characters Buildings Decorations Krustyland Springfield Heights Houses Businesses Town Building Nature Miscellany Premium Currency The Vault Yearbook Mystery Box Mystery Box Shattered Dreams Mystery Box

Levels

The levels for the game with content go from Level 1 to Level 60. After reaching Level 60 the player can level up to Level 939.

Level XP needed to level up Character and quote Spoken by 1 40 NO QUOTE 2 75 Bart 3 85 Apu 4 120 Homer 5 250 Barney 6 800 Mr. Burns 7 1,800 Wiggum 8 3,200 Luigi 9 4,000 Lisa 10 5,000 Otto 11 7,000 Krusty 12 8,500 Marge 13 9,000 Skinner 14 10,050 Sea Captain 15 11,000 Lenny and Carl 16 12,500 Comic Book Guy 17 13,000 Grampa 18 14,500 Moe 19 15,000 Willie 20 25,000 Professor Frink 21 25,825 Brockman 22 26,677 Nelson 23 27,558 Martin 24 28,467 Dr. Hibbert 25 29,406 Duffman 26 30,377 Mrs. Krabappel 27 31,379 Kang 28 32,415 Rod and Todd 29 33,484 Fat Tony 30 34,589 Cletus 31 36,319 Bumblebee Man 32 38,135 The Rich Texan 33 40,042 Dr. Nick 34 42,044 Cookie Kwan 35 44,146 Gil 36 46,353 Kearney 37 48,671 Hank Scorpio 38 51,104 Lindsay Naegle 39 53,660 Quimby 40 56,343 Ned 41 61,013 Chester Dupree 42 66,071 Ralph 43 71,549 Jasper 44 77,480 Miss Hoover 45 83,903 Lugash 46 90,859 Shauna 47 98,391 Sideshow Bob 48 106,547 Kirk 49 115,380 The Yes Guy 50 124,945 Royce McCutcheon 51 125,320 Agnes 52 25,696 Hans Moleman 53 126,073 Jimbo 54 126,451 Crazy Cat Lady 55 126,831 Miss Springfield 56 127,211 Lurleen 57 127,593 Radioactive Man and Fallout Boy 58 127,976 Wolfcastle 59 128,360 Cecil Terwilliger 60 500,000 Sherri and Terri 61-100 40,000 Random Random 101-939 500,000 Bonus 1,000,000

Daily Play Combo

Day 1 - $150

Day 2 - $250

Day 3 - $500

Day 4 - $1000

Day 5 - Mystery Box

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  A screenshot of day one, a daily play combo.

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  A screenshot of day two, a daily play combo.

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  A screenshot of day three, a daily play combo.

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  A screenshot of day four, a daily play combo.

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  A screenshot of day five, a daily play combo.

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  A screenshot of the Daily Play Combo after the Mystery Box Upgrade update.

Mystery Box

The upgraded Mystery Box.

On April 1, 2015, an Upgraded Mystery Box was added to the game with an improved list of objects.

Object Chances Lard Lad Donuts 2% Blue Haired Lawyer/90 14% Kearney/60 7% Tire Fire/40 14% Channel 6 News Van 7% Itchy & Scratchy Billboard 7% Squeaky Voiced Teen/30 14% 30 1% 10 2% Chalmers' 1979 _ONDA 7% Bomb Shelter 7% Minnow Pond 7% Khlav Kalash Stand 7% Lemon Tree/250 6%

Old Mystery Box and Homer Buddha

The old Mystery Box.

A Mystery Box gave the player one of these objects till March 31, 2015.

Object Chances Mystery Box 10.983% Lemon Tree/250 10% Parking Lot 10% Brown Fence 10% Tree 10% Large Hedge 10% Newspaper Dispenser 10% Picket Fence 4% Gazebo 4% Angel Topiary 4% 500 4% Bench (with towel) 4% 1,000 4% 10 2% Squeaky Voice Teen/30 2% Homer Buddha 1% 2,500 0.01% 30 0.004% Tire Fire/40 0.002% Lard Lad 0.001%

A Homer Buddha costed 15 and gave the player one of these premium objects. Available until March 31, 2015.

Object Chances Mystery Box 9.98% Bench 10% Planter 10% Dumpster 10% Picket Fence 10% Burning Bush 10% Orange Tree 10% Apple Tree 10% Tire Swing 10% Squeaky Voice Teen/30 4% Hans Moleman/60 4% Frink's Lab/150 1% 30 donuts 1% Tire Fire/40 0.01% Springfield Sign/170 0.004% Duff Brewery/190 0.002% Volcano Lair/200 0.001%

Land Expansions

Main article: The Simpsons: Tapped Out Land Expansions

Character Groups

Main article: The Simpsons: Tapped Out Character Groups

Job income

Content updates

Main article: The Simpsons: Tapped Out content updates

Main article: The Simpsons: Tapped Out dates

251 content updates have been released so far:

2012: two in September, one in October, four in November and one in December.

2013: two in January, two in February, three in March, three in April, five in May, two in June, three in July, two in August, two in September, two in October, two in November and two in December.

2014: three in January, two in February, four in March, three in April, two in May, two in June, three in July, three in August, three in September, two in October, three in November and two in December.

2015: three in January, three in February, three in March, five in April, four in May, five in June, three in July, three in August, five in September, five in October, three in November and two in December.

2016: two in January, four in February, three in March, two in April, two in May, three in June, one in July, two in August, one in September, one in October, two in November and three in December.

2017: four in January, three in March, three in May, three in July, one in August, two in September, one in October, two in November and one in December.

2018: three in January, three in March, three in May, two in June, two in July, one in August, two in September, two in October, two in November and one in December.

2019: two in January, one on February, one on March, one on April, one on May, one on June, one on July, one in August, two in September, one in October, one in November and one in December.

2020: one in January, two in February, one in March, one in April, one in May, one in June, one in July, one in August, one in September, one in October, one in November and one in December.

2021: one in January, one in February, one in March, one in April, one in May, one in June, one in July, one in August, two in September, one in October, one in November and one in December.

2022: one in January, one in February, one in March, one in April, one in May, one in June, one in July, two in August, one in September, one in October, one in November and one in December.

2023: one in January, one in February, one in March, one in April, one in May, one in June, one in July, one in August, one in September, one in October, one in November and one in December.

2024: one in January, one in February, one in March, one in April, one in May, one in June, one in July and one in August.

Reaction to the game

"We want this to be one of the biggest titles this year," EA SVP of global publishing for social and mobile Bernard Kim told CNET. "We've invested a lot. It's absolutely a top-tier development priority for us. Hardcore Simpsons fans will get a lot out of it."^[9]

On February 17, 2012, the free Tapped Out app appeared on the Sweden, Singapore, Norway, Denmark and Finland's App Stores. It was later added to Canada, the United Kingdom and several other countries, with the United States receiving the game last. On March 1, the reaction to the app being released in the United States was so overwhelming, that it created connection problems.^[10] On March 3, 2012, three days after the US release, the app was removed from every App Store (with the exception of the Canada app store; the game was removed later), so "to make sure you current players have the best possible experience".^[1]

Most connection problems have been fixed since then, but the bugs were the main problem with the downloaders of the game. Tons of bugs were reported on the Tapped Out forum, mostly reported was the "DC while loading friends city bug".

Tapped Out was the top-grossing iOS game for EA under the last quarter 2012 and earning $23 million in sales.^[11] Tapped Out had generated over $100 million in life-to-date digital net revenue, by Electronic Arts in October 29, 2013. After August 2012 to October 29, 2013 has it been in the top 20 iPhone grossing games in the United States for all but 12 days since launch.^[12]

International releases

Gallery

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  A screenshot from a town in Level 20

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  A screenshot from a teaser trailer of the game

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  Promotional image

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  Reconnecting screen

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  16:9 Reconnecting screen

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  4 Years Infographic

App Icons

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  App icon

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  Christmas 2012 app icon

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  Whacking Day app icon

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  Squidport artwork

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  Squidport artwork

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  Krustyland app icon

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  Krustyland artwork

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  Treehouse of Horror XXIV artwork

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  Treehouse of Horror XXIV artwork

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  Treehouse of Horror XXIV app icon

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  New app icon since November 7, 2013

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  Christmas 2013 App Icon

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  Valentine's 2014 App Icon

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  Easter 2014's App Icon

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  Clash of Clones App Icon

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  Superheroes' App Icon

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  Terwilligers' App Icon

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  Tap Ball and Soccer Cup 2015's App Icon

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  Monorail's App Icon

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  Treehouse of Horror XXVI App Icon

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  Winter 2015 App Icon

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  Burns' Casino App Icon

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  Wild West App Icon

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  Superheroes 2 App Icon

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  SciFi App Icon

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  Treehouse of Horror XXVII App Icon

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  Winter 2016 App Icon

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  Destination Springfield App Icon

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  Secret Agents App Icon

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  Time Traveling Toaster App Icon

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  Homerpalooza App Icon

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  Treehouse of Horror XXVIII App Icon

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  This Thanksgiving's Gone to the Birds! App Icon

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  The Invasion Before Christmas App Icon

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  Bart Royale App Icon

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  The Springfield Jobs App Icon

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  Itchy & Scratchy Land App Icon

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  Moe's Ark App Icon

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  Treehouse of Horror XXIX App Icon

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  A Simpsons Christmas Special App Icon

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  Love, Springfieldian Style App Icon

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  Game of Games App Icon

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  Simpsons Babies App Icon

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  Treehouse of Horror XXX App Icon

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  Abe's in Toyland App Icon

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  Black History App Icon

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  Simpsons Wrestling App Icon

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  Game of Games The Sequel App Icon

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  The Van Houtens App Icon

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  Treehouse of Horror XXXI App Icon

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  Clash of Creeds Christmas Royale App Icon

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  Love and War App Icon

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  Rise of the Robots App Icon

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  Springfield Enlightened App Icon

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  Into the Simpsonsverse App Icon

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  Treehouse of Horror XXXI App Icon

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  Northward Bound App Icon

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  Holiday Whodunnit App Icon

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  Cirque du Springfield App Icon

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  Hell on Wheels App Icon

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  Dog Days App Icon

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  Showbiz Showdown App Icon

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  Treehouse of Horror XXXIII App Icon

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  A Christmas Peril App Icon

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  A Warmfyre Welcome App Icon

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  Heaven Won't Wait App Icon

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  Fore! App Icon

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  Mirror Mayhem App Icon

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  Treehouse of Horror XXXIV App Icon

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  Snow Place Like the Woods App Icon

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  Fears of a Clown App Icon

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  The Simpsanos App Icon

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  Summer of Our Discontent App Icon

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  A Bart Future App Icon

Logos

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  English Logo

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  English Treehouse of Horror Logo

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  English Christmas / Winter Logo

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  English Superheroes 2015 Logo

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  English Wild West

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  English Superheroes 2 Logo

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  English Treehouse of Horror XXVII Logo

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  English Homerpalooza Logo

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  Brazilian Portuguese Logo

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  Danish and Dutch Logo

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  French Logo

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  German Logo

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  Italian Logo

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  Korean Logo

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  Norvegian and Swedish Logo

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  Russian Logo

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  Simplified Chinese Logo

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  Spanish Logo

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  Thai Logo

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  Traditional Chinese Logo

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  Turkish Logo

Splash Screens

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  4:3 Splash Screen when there were no events occurring

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  Splash Screen Artwork

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  4:3 Splash Screen when there were no events occurring

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  Current Splash Screen used when no event is occurring

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  Splash ScreenArtwork

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  Treehouse of Horror XXIII Splash Screen

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  Treehouse of Horror XXIII artwork

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  Christmas 2012 Splash Screen

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  Christmas 2012 artwork

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  Valentine's Day 2013 Splash Screen

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  Whacking Day Splash Screen

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  Whacking Day artwork

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  Squidport Expansion Splash Screen

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  Squidport artwork

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  Krustyland Expansion Splash Screen

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  Krustyland Loading Screen

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  Krustyland Unused Loading Screen

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  Treehouse Of Horror XXIV Splash Screen

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  Treehouse of Horror XXIV artwork

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  Christmas 2013 Splash Screen

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  Christmas 2013 artwork

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  Valentine's Day 2014 Splash Screen

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  Valentine's 2014 Artwork

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  Easter 2014 Splash Screen

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  Easter 2014's Artwork

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  Stonecutters Splash Screen

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  Clash Of Clones Splash Screen

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  Treehouse of Horror XXV Splash Screen

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  Treehouse of Horror XXV Splash Screen with blood removed

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  Winter 2014 Splash Screen

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  Superheroes Splash Screen

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  Superheroes' Artwork

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  Terwilligers Splash Screen

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  Tap Ball and Soccer Cup 2015 Splash Screen

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  Monorail Splash Screen

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  Treehouse of Horror XXVI Splash Screen

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  Winter 2015 till December 24th Splash Screen

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  Winter 2015 from December 24th Splash Screen

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  Burns' Casino Splash Screen

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  Wild West Splash Screen

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  Superheroes 2 Splash Screen

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  SciFi Splash Screen

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  Treehouse of Horror XXVII Splash Screen

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  Winter 2016 Splash Screen

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  Destination Springfield Splash Screen

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  Secret Agents Splash Screen

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  Time Traveling Toaster Splash Screen

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  Homerpalooza Splash Screen

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  Treehouse of Horror XXVIII Splash Screen

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  This Thanksgiving's Gone to the Birds! Splash Screen

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  The Invasion Before Christmas Splash Screen

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  Bart Royale Splash Screen

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  The Springfield Jobs Splash Screen

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  Itchy & Scratchy Land Splash Screen

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  Moe's Ark Splash Screen

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  Treehouse of Horror XXIX Splash Screen

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  A Simpsons Christmas Special Splash Screen

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  Love, Springfieldian Style Splash Screen

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  Game of Games Splash Screen

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  Simpsons Babies Splash Screen

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  Treehouse of Horror XXX Splash Screen

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  Abe's in Toyland Splash Screen

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  Black History Splash Screen

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  Simpsons Wrestling Splash Screen

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  Game of Games The Sequel Splash Screen

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  The Van Houtens Splash Screen

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  Treehouse of Horror XXXI Splash Screen

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  Clash of Creeds Christmas Royale Splash Screen

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  Love and War Splash Screen

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  Rise of the Robots Splash Screen

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  Springfield Enlightened Splash Screen

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  Into the Simpsonsverse Splash Screen

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  Treehouse of Horror XXXI Splash Screen

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  Northward Bound Splash Screen

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  Holiday Whodunnit Splash Screen

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  Cirque du Springfield Splash Screen

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  Hell on Wheels Splash Screen

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  Dog Days Splash Screen

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  Showbiz Showdown Splash Screen

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  Treehouse of Horror XXXIII Splash Screen

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  A Christmas Peril Splash Screen

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  A Warmfyre Welcome Splash Screen

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  Heaven Won't Wait Splash Screen

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  Fore! Splash Screen

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  Mirror Mayhem Splash Screen

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  Treehouse of Horror XXXIV Splash Screen

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  Snow Place Like the Woods Splash Screen

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  Fears of a Clown Splash Screen

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  The Simpsanos Splash Screen

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  Summer of Our Discontent Splash Screen

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  A Bart Future Splash Screen

References to The Simpsons: Tapped Out in The Simpsons

The Simpsons regularly references Tapped Out in the years since its release.

Picture Season Episode number Episode name Reference 24 514 "A Tree Grows in Springfield" Homer goes to play a game called Tapped Out but it was unavailable, referencing Tapped Out's connectivity problems. 25 535 "Labor Pains" Homer plays Tapped Out 26 564 "The Musk Who Fell to Earth" Elon Musk is seen playing The Simpsons: Tapped Out in his spaceship. He is level 8, has 410 and 1,227. He has Marge unlocked which is impossible as it requires level 15. 565 "Walking Big & Tall" #TappedOutWorkingPerfectly appears on the list of things that never trended. Marge's scrapbook website is called scrappedout.com, referencing The Simpsons: Tapped Out. 28 618 "Dogtown" The Simpsons: Tapped Out is one of the apps installed in Homer's phone. 29 628 "Haw-Haw Land" SkyFinger appears crushing people and cars. 31 677 "Screenless" Bart watches a streamer plays Halfmonth on his laptop. Halfmonth is a game that appeared in act 4 of the Game of Games event, in the quest Fourscore and a Halfmonth. Homer plays a parody of the game called Crapped Out on his tablet. The opening theme is playing instead of the game music. 33 715 "Mothers and Other Strangers" Lisa has Crapped Out installed on her MyPhone.

References

External links

Wikisimpsons has a collection of images related to The Simpsons: Tapped Out.

• The Simpsons: Tapped Out at Wikipedia
• Official Tapped Out page at EA.com
• Official Tapped Out Facebook page
• Official EA Games Tapped Out forum