The Simpsons Arcade Game/References

Trivia

• This was the first Simpsons game ever.
• Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer didn't do voices for the characters of the game.
• One of the visual gags in the game include Marge showing rabbit ears similar to the Life in Hell rabbits, It happens when her skeletal silhouette when it she gets electrocuted. This is a reference to Matt Groening's initial design of the character Marge Simpson. Groening originally wanted Marge's hair to conceal rabbit ears, and have them finally exposed in the last episode, but this was soon scrapped.
• When the tall mobster says, "Where do you think your going?", Mr. Burns says that in the part 2 fight that has the same voice.
• The mobsters appear in stage 1 and stage 2 where they spy on the Simpsons.
• Smithers' laugh is actually heard from every single enemy or boss when they laugh.
• When Maggie puts the pacifier in Mr. Burns mouth, it disappears and then goes back in Maggie's mouth, but the diamond is supposed to be in her mouth.
• When any of the characters talk, their mouths don't move.
• Smithers and the mobsters have the same theme music.
• The wrestler boss losing his trousers is Werner von Brawn from the episode Bart the Daredevil
• The bear boss appeared in stage 2 when it escaped from Krusty Land and went to the Butte for its new home.
• In the robot battle, there are two robots instead of one.
• The enemy ape is based on Homer where everyone thinks he is Big Foot when he went into a mud pool to get the bees off when he tried some honey. It happened in the episode "The Call of the Simpsons".
• This game was based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game.