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Happy Horrormas. Part of the reason I'm doing this is because the Christmas Creep has extended into freaking September and partly because 2023 was a year without a summer, and 2024 and 2025 were the years summer ended in July and it's bad enough when spring is drab, cold, and very depressing.
And I'll accept it when Christmas accepts that it's an autumn holiday.
Meanwhile, at Christmas, Drake didn't quite know what to make of Cookie, the cat. Julia wanted to introduce them to each other after tiring Drake out but Drake mostly just wanted to chase her and bark at her.
Don’t be fooled by this game being by THQ. It’s actually pretty okay by Simpsons game standards.
It’s no arcade game but you can’t have standards. But it’s better than Simpsons Wrestling and more fun to play that the SNES games.
Hey, I’d never lend my name for an inferior product.
Artwork looks nice
Yeah, they can’t actually fit the full title on the screen.
Of course, they have to put their real names along with their spooky horror names because nobody knows who they are.
Blobs, the real horror, am I right?
Anyway, the story to this game is that all the Simpsons crammed themselves into the ordinary treehouse to hear ghost stories. Everyone fell asleep during Homer’s story about the Legless Horseman and were drawn into an out of body experience in the Treehouse of Horror.
You may think you can pick the stages in any order but nope.
This is based vaguely on the segment Bad Dream House.
First thing we gotta do is find all four fuses and put them in the fuse box in the basement.
It leads to the basement.
“Cool, an Indian burial ground.” “Native American burial ground, Bart.”
Looks like Bart’s been down here already. And no wonder this place was so cheap. It’s not only possessed or at least sentient and malevolent, there’s a ton of runoff from the power plant here.
Everything seems to move in slow motion.
Also there’s a time limit, which is annoying, even if there’s a story-based explanation as to why.
There’s two in the basement. and you can only hold one fuse at a time (bart, you have pockets. obviously you’re wearing shorts so the monsters didn’t take it literally).
also you get blindsided by the book when you walk through that door.
I wish there were maps somewhere but sadly no.
Hands popping out of the sink are unkillable.
Fire hot!
Bart’s reaction time with his slingshot is slow.
if you hang out in a dark room too long, the possessed mop comes and it’s invincible. Remember that you have a time limit and that you really shouldn’t be lollygagging in the rooms anyway.
Might not want to sit on that couch, though.
Water drops hurt you.
Donuts restore your health. Whenever you reenter the room, the donut comes back.
The vacuum cleaner takes two hits to destroy.
Fish heads, fish heads, do doodo doodo.
Wait, it’s not Hugo, it’s just a broom that escaped from Fantasia for the Genesis.
Rescue Santa’s Little Helper and you’re done here.
Flying Tonight is based on Fly vs. Fly, except it’s Magaggie.
I have no idea what that thing is. Also, those are very small kitchen wall tiles.
Of course the corn curtains are here.
That’s, uh, flypaper, maybe?
I am disrespectful to dirt!
This must be that time Mr. Burns came for dinner.
Homer’s been leaving food out.
That doesn’t even look like Krusty, it looks like Handsome Pete, who dances for nickels. Given the lack of Kwality Kontrol at Krustyco, it’s probably less toxic.
you need to find three circuit chips and turn on five electric generators to access the transport pod.
That’s the transporter. It doesn’t look at all like the transporter from the show. I was wondering why I didn’t take any screenshots of it. Looks more like the time travelling toaster.
Based on Dial Z for Zombie
You have three tiers of weapon. The one you start with has infinite ammo but does little damage.
the mulch is the second tier of weapons. or maybe it’s a potato sack. the manual doesn’t say what they are. The best weapon is obtained by walking through a puddle.
Maybe this is 1094 Evergreen Terrace, where Bart told Moe his address was before they codified their address as 742. Maybe they live on Camazotz and only have a few house templates. I mean, they did fall into line once school uniforms were introduced.
Don’t even bother with the regular zombies. just use your water blaster to turn those bosses into khlav kalash.
Gamefaqs says he’s tossing sprinkles at you but another site I found interprets it as squirting you with relish and mustard to enhance your flavor, which makes more sense.
we’ve seen Moe pop out of a sewer hole before but this time there’s six of them.
The generic zombies look a lot like Moe too but they’re dressed like Disco Stu. To the point where I thought they were Moe.
You killed the Zombie Flanders? Wait, there is no Zombie Flanders in Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror.
Krusty doesn’t look like a zombie here. He just looks like he got into Otto’s stash of wacky tobaccy or Sideshow Mel’s woweee sauce. even with the water blaster, he still takes forever.
Based on Bart Simpson’s Dracula, which in turn is inspired by the movie Bram Stoker’s Dracula which is not to be confused by the actual book by Bram Stoker called Dracula. And I bet dollarydoos to donuts that Fred Saberhagen took the offer to write the novelization so that he could write Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Fred Saberhagen.
They were going to make a segment based on that painting of dogs playing poker but it proved far too intense for Nintendo so instead they just threw together something about vampires.
it sure was nice of Mr. Burns to invite us to a midnight dinner at his country house
PENNSYLVANIA.
*crack*
DUN DUN DUN.
I think it’s supposed to be an off key rendition of the simpsons theme but it just sounds like an offkey rendition of somewhere over the rainbow
shit i think i went the wrong way.
the thorns kill you in one hit.
That took a while.
Since most of your enemies are these guards and your weapon is garlic, you just have to avoid them.
To live out the american dream and kill your boss, open the shutters from left to right. He kills you in one touch.
For whatever reason, you no longer have your garlic shooting crossbow thing.
I don’t even think the segment this is based on has an official name.
People call it If I Only Had A Brain but maybe that’s just a fan name.
It’s a giant maze filled with pissed off workers and OSHA violations and what makes it even worse is that you have no way of defending yourself and also this is one of those levels in which you have to bring back each object one at a time.
I don’t know if they’re actually pissed off. maybe they just built up so much radiation in their bodies that they inadvertently hurt you when you brush against them.
The tv screen says they’re angry. And there’s two parts to these messages which somehow I didn’t notice until today (today meaning today, as in the day I posted this). I played this in July and just kind of put it out of mind until today.
Those rats certainly are radioactive.
despite being a robot, you can’t defend yourself in this level.
just watch. someone’s going to post maps to vgmaps the day before I post this.
Nightmare Cafeteria doesn’t even try to hide what it’s based on.
Willie is not your friend here.
Maybe in this alternate universe, they let him try some of the Sloppy Jimbo. But not the Üterbräütën. Wait, there’s no ë in German. They must’ve served up some Adilqofte instead.
It would vaguely improve the game if Willie helped you out in each stage but then got an axe in the back.
each key opens a specific cage. Legend of Zelda this is not.
also the manual reverses this and the robot stage for some reason.
Easy there, young man. You'll only make yourself tired and stringy.
So yeah, if you lean against the wall, they can’t see you.
Probably so crazed by prions.
Listen, kids, you're 8 and 10 years old now. I can't fight all your battles for you.
No buts. You march right back to that school, look them straight in the eye and say, "Don't eat me."
Don't worry, guys. Something always comes along to save us
Nevertheless, I remain confident that something will come along and save the two Simpson children.
In this canon, Martin survived.
Bart, fighting for his life, still has time to deface the school chalkboards.
You’ll have to take my word that Üter is still alive because the level ended abruptly as soon as he got out of Lisa’s sprite.
You can see the ufo floating overhead. I don’t think this was intentional.
King Homer is based on, um, King Homer.
it plays like Rampage, only with more suck.
Missed opportunity not making it Lard Lad.
It’s more like that Bartzilla segment in Bart’s Nightmare but since you only have two buttons and a d-pad to work with instead of four face buttons and two shoulder buttons, there’s a lot less awkwardness.
Tall buildings have to be leapt over or climbed, not destroyed.
I think he wandered into Hill Valley by mistake. The Springfield town hall does not have a clock on the lintel and it has a dome. If you’re saying “but it’s supposed to be the high school,” the high school does have a clock either.
the final boss of this game is this airplane, which you have to line yourself up with and punch.
It’s kind of an anticlimax, really.
I probably would have screenshotted King homer dancing while holding a cane and a top hat. Maybe it was taken out of the game.
TCRF doesn’t mention it but TCRF doesn’t say a whole lot about this game, other than the fact that it uses the same rather clunky engine as The Rugrats Movie and Rugrats: Time Travelers (which I hope is better than that other Nicktoon game involving time travel) and that there’s a sound test buried in the data that doesn’t actually function.
I don’t think Marge’s digestive system can handle this.
The end.
If you thought there’d be a showdown with Kang and Kodos, you’re sadly mistaken.
burning question: Hey, Simpson. I’m feeling a might peckish. Mind if I chew your ear?
Happy Horrormas. Part of the reason I'm doing this is because the Christmas Creep has extended into freaking September and partly because 2023 was a year without a summer, and 2024 and 2025 were the years summer ended in July and it's bad enough when spring is drab, cold, and very depressing.
And I'll accept it when Christmas accepts that it's an autumn holiday.
Meanwhile, at Christmas, Drake didn't quite know what to make of Cookie, the cat. Julia wanted to introduce them to each other after tiring Drake out but Drake mostly just wanted to chase her and bark at her.
Don’t be fooled by this game being by THQ. It’s actually pretty okay by Simpsons game standards.
It’s no arcade game but you can’t have standards. But it’s better than Simpsons Wrestling and more fun to play that the SNES games.
Hey, I’d never lend my name for an inferior product.
Artwork looks nice
Yeah, they can’t actually fit the full title on the screen.
Of course, they have to put their real names along with their spooky horror names because nobody knows who they are.
Blobs, the real horror, am I right?
Anyway, the story to this game is that all the Simpsons crammed themselves into the ordinary treehouse to hear ghost stories. Everyone fell asleep during Homer’s story about the Legless Horseman and were drawn into an out of body experience in the Treehouse of Horror.
You may think you can pick the stages in any order but nope.
This is based vaguely on the segment Bad Dream House.
First thing we gotta do is find all four fuses and put them in the fuse box in the basement.
It leads to the basement.
“Cool, an Indian burial ground.” “Native American burial ground, Bart.”
Looks like Bart’s been down here already. And no wonder this place was so cheap. It’s not only possessed or at least sentient and malevolent, there’s a ton of runoff from the power plant here.
Everything seems to move in slow motion.
Also there’s a time limit, which is annoying, even if there’s a story-based explanation as to why.
There’s two in the basement. and you can only hold one fuse at a time (bart, you have pockets. obviously you’re wearing shorts so the monsters didn’t take it literally).
also you get blindsided by the book when you walk through that door.
I wish there were maps somewhere but sadly no.
Hands popping out of the sink are unkillable.
Fire hot!
Bart’s reaction time with his slingshot is slow.
if you hang out in a dark room too long, the possessed mop comes and it’s invincible. Remember that you have a time limit and that you really shouldn’t be lollygagging in the rooms anyway.
Might not want to sit on that couch, though.
Water drops hurt you.
Donuts restore your health. Whenever you reenter the room, the donut comes back.
The vacuum cleaner takes two hits to destroy.
Fish heads, fish heads, do doodo doodo.
Wait, it’s not Hugo, it’s just a broom that escaped from Fantasia for the Genesis.
Rescue Santa’s Little Helper and you’re done here.
Flying Tonight is based on Fly vs. Fly, except it’s Magaggie.
I have no idea what that thing is. Also, those are very small kitchen wall tiles.
Of course the corn curtains are here.
That’s, uh, flypaper, maybe?
I am disrespectful to dirt!
This must be that time Mr. Burns came for dinner.
Homer’s been leaving food out.
That doesn’t even look like Krusty, it looks like Handsome Pete, who dances for nickels. Given the lack of Kwality Kontrol at Krustyco, it’s probably less toxic.
you need to find three circuit chips and turn on five electric generators to access the transport pod.
That’s the transporter. It doesn’t look at all like the transporter from the show. I was wondering why I didn’t take any screenshots of it. Looks more like the time travelling toaster.
Based on Dial Z for Zombie
You have three tiers of weapon. The one you start with has infinite ammo but does little damage.
the mulch is the second tier of weapons. or maybe it’s a potato sack. the manual doesn’t say what they are. The best weapon is obtained by walking through a puddle.
Maybe this is 1094 Evergreen Terrace, where Bart told Moe his address was before they codified their address as 742. Maybe they live on Camazotz and only have a few house templates. I mean, they did fall into line once school uniforms were introduced.
Don’t even bother with the regular zombies. just use your water blaster to turn those bosses into khlav kalash.
Gamefaqs says he’s tossing sprinkles at you but another site I found interprets it as squirting you with relish and mustard to enhance your flavor, which makes more sense.
we’ve seen Moe pop out of a sewer hole before but this time there’s six of them.
The generic zombies look a lot like Moe too but they’re dressed like Disco Stu. To the point where I thought they were Moe.
You killed the Zombie Flanders? Wait, there is no Zombie Flanders in Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror.
Krusty doesn’t look like a zombie here. He just looks like he got into Otto’s stash of wacky tobaccy or Sideshow Mel’s woweee sauce. even with the water blaster, he still takes forever.
Based on Bart Simpson’s Dracula, which in turn is inspired by the movie Bram Stoker’s Dracula which is not to be confused by the actual book by Bram Stoker called Dracula. And I bet dollarydoos to donuts that Fred Saberhagen took the offer to write the novelization so that he could write Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Fred Saberhagen.
They were going to make a segment based on that painting of dogs playing poker but it proved far too intense for Nintendo so instead they just threw together something about vampires.
it sure was nice of Mr. Burns to invite us to a midnight dinner at his country house
PENNSYLVANIA.
*crack*
DUN DUN DUN.
I think it’s supposed to be an off key rendition of the simpsons theme but it just sounds like an offkey rendition of somewhere over the rainbow
shit i think i went the wrong way.
the thorns kill you in one hit.
That took a while.
Since most of your enemies are these guards and your weapon is garlic, you just have to avoid them.
To live out the american dream and kill your boss, open the shutters from left to right. He kills you in one touch.
For whatever reason, you no longer have your garlic shooting crossbow thing.
I don’t even think the segment this is based on has an official name.
People call it If I Only Had A Brain but maybe that’s just a fan name.
It’s a giant maze filled with pissed off workers and OSHA violations and what makes it even worse is that you have no way of defending yourself and also this is one of those levels in which you have to bring back each object one at a time.
I don’t know if they’re actually pissed off. maybe they just built up so much radiation in their bodies that they inadvertently hurt you when you brush against them.
The tv screen says they’re angry. And there’s two parts to these messages which somehow I didn’t notice until today (today meaning today, as in the day I posted this). I played this in July and just kind of put it out of mind until today.
Those rats certainly are radioactive.
despite being a robot, you can’t defend yourself in this level.
just watch. someone’s going to post maps to vgmaps the day before I post this.
Nightmare Cafeteria doesn’t even try to hide what it’s based on.
Willie is not your friend here.
Maybe in this alternate universe, they let him try some of the Sloppy Jimbo. But not the Üterbräütën. Wait, there’s no ë in German. They must’ve served up some Adilqofte instead.
It would vaguely improve the game if Willie helped you out in each stage but then got an axe in the back.
each key opens a specific cage. Legend of Zelda this is not.
also the manual reverses this and the robot stage for some reason.
Easy there, young man. You'll only make yourself tired and stringy.
So yeah, if you lean against the wall, they can’t see you.
Probably so crazed by prions.
Listen, kids, you're 8 and 10 years old now. I can't fight all your battles for you.
No buts. You march right back to that school, look them straight in the eye and say, "Don't eat me."
Don't worry, guys. Something always comes along to save us
Nevertheless, I remain confident that something will come along and save the two Simpson children.
In this canon, Martin survived.
Bart, fighting for his life, still has time to deface the school chalkboards.
You’ll have to take my word that Üter is still alive because the level ended abruptly as soon as he got out of Lisa’s sprite.
You can see the ufo floating overhead. I don’t think this was intentional.
King Homer is based on, um, King Homer.
it plays like Rampage, only with more suck.
Missed opportunity not making it Lard Lad.
It’s more like that Bartzilla segment in Bart’s Nightmare but since you only have two buttons and a d-pad to work with instead of four face buttons and two shoulder buttons, there’s a lot less awkwardness.
Tall buildings have to be leapt over or climbed, not destroyed.
I think he wandered into Hill Valley by mistake. The Springfield town hall does not have a clock on the lintel and it has a dome. If you’re saying “but it’s supposed to be the high school,” the high school does have a clock either.
the final boss of this game is this airplane, which you have to line yourself up with and punch.
It’s kind of an anticlimax, really.
I probably would have screenshotted King homer dancing while holding a cane and a top hat. Maybe it was taken out of the game.
TCRF doesn’t mention it but TCRF doesn’t say a whole lot about this game, other than the fact that it uses the same rather clunky engine as The Rugrats Movie and Rugrats: Time Travelers (which I hope is better than that other Nicktoon game involving time travel) and that there’s a sound test buried in the data that doesn’t actually function.
I don’t think Marge’s digestive system can handle this.
The end.
If you thought there’d be a showdown with Kang and Kodos, you’re sadly mistaken.
burning question: Hey, Simpson. I’m feeling a might peckish. Mind if I chew your ear?
