EclecticTastes posted:

The Springfield Dam, as it appears in this game, is almost certainly non-canon, as the actual dam in the series was never finished, nor would it have existed very long if it had been, as Cecil, Sideshow Bob's brother, had cheaped out on the building materials to make off with the money (also he tried to blow the dam up to hide his wrongdoing), before being caught by Bart and Lisa, as seen in the season eight classic, "Brother From Another Series" (a reference to Cecil being voiced by David Hyde-Pierce, playing opposite Kelsey Grammar as Sideshow Bob, as they were also fictional siblings on Frasier).

EclecticTastes posted:

Professor Frink's car is definitely non-canon, but seems to be a reference to his hover-bike from "Lemon of Troy", one of the essential season six episodes. Bart ignored it in favor of shoving his hand in wet cement to permanently vandalize some new sidewalk towards the start of the episode, and when he was later on the run from the villainous children of Shelbyville, Frink passed by on the bike, taunting him about his earlier apathy towards it.

EclecticTastes posted:

The biggest difference between Homer's car and Moe's is that Moe's car is insured for a surprisingly large amount of money. He hatched a plot with Homer in the season nine episode, "Dumbbell Indemnity", to use it in an insurance fraud scam in order to use the money to pay for more extravagant dates with his girlfriend for the episode, Renee. Naturally, this backfires, and ultimately ends with Renee leaving Moe in disgust.

EclecticTastes posted:

Otto driving over a bunch of traffic cones is likely a reference to his attempt to get back his bus driver's license in season three's "The Otto Show". Additionally, since it was part of Reverend Lovejoy's entrance, I want to point out that Moe seems to be a fan of Little Women. He was first seen reading it to the homeless at the local shelter, explaining why his bar's always closed on Wednesdays as part of a cutaway gag in the season 5 episode, "Homer Loves Flanders". Long after this game was released, he'd later be seen hastily disposing of it in the season 20 episode, "Eeny Meeny Maya Moe", in which he meets a woman (Maya) online, and only learns after meeting her in person that she's only three feet tall (why yes, this is another episode about Moe meeting a woman and falling in love, then ruining it with his own insecurities, turns out after the second straight decade of production, you gotta return to some old wells). Little Women shows up a couple other times in the series, so one can assume that somebody on the staff likes it.

By the way, Krusty's car is the only one besides Frink's that wasn't either explicitly featured in an existing Simpsons episode, or is the associated character's normal vehicle (Ned's station wagon is more often seen parked than being driven, but the color and general make of the car look show-accurate).

EclecticTastes posted:

It wouldn't be surprising if the Honor Roller had a higher downhill speed coded in, given that it was originally a soapbox racer. It was designed and driven by Martin, originally (hence the dorky name), but was so fast he ended up in a cast, so Bart drove it for him, as seen in the season 3 episode, "Saturdays of Thunder".

Tombot posted:

I forgot this game even existed, I'll be interested to see how it stacks up to its sequal.

ninjahedgehog posted:

Huh, talk about nostalgia. I remember the Vs. mode for this being surprisingly fun, where you and your opponent fought over one fare at a time and could steal it from each other by ramming.

Also, although most dialogue is "Passenger quip, destination"-"unrelated driver quip" some pairs of characters have unique dialogue. Of particular note is that every single playable character has their own "Hi, Dr. Nick!"

skullhead tethyis posted:

oh right best of luck showcasing this weird stupid tie-in game and fielding less complaints about it not being hit and run

chitoryu12 posted:

This game was a huge part of my middle school years. It was one of the few Gamecube games I had and probably the one I played the most. I never managed to beat all the missions, but I loved driving around all the environments and wrecking poo poo or knocking people off cliffs.

Gridlocked posted:

You are some sort of magical hero for not wanting to kill yourself after playing this game.

I really enjoyed your DBZ LP though so I will watch and enjoy it because you're a good LPer.

EclecticTastes posted:

It wouldn't be surprising if the Honor Roller had a higher downhill speed coded in, given that it was originally a soapbox racer. It was designed and driven by Martin, originally (hence the dorky name), but was so fast he ended up in a cast, so Bart drove it for him, as seen in the season 3 episode, "Saturdays of Thunder".

EclecticTastes posted:

The Springfield Dam, as it appears in this game, is almost certainly non-canon, as the actual dam in the series was never finished, nor would it have existed very long if it had been, as Cecil, Sideshow Bob's brother, had cheaped out on the building materials to make off with the money (also he tried to blow the dam up to hide his wrongdoing), before being caught by Bart and Lisa, as seen in the season eight classic, "Brother From Another Series" (a reference to Cecil being voiced by David Hyde-Pierce, playing opposite Kelsey Grammar as Sideshow Bob, as they were also fictional siblings on Frasier).

Tombot posted:

Wow, I just remembered that you need to get one million dollars in this game and at the rate your going ten hours is a legitimate prospect. I'd probably resort to a gameshark if it were me playing.

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Mr. Fortitude posted:

I remember playing both this and Hit and Run when I was younger. I can't remember a drat thing about Hit and Run though or why it sucked, but I do remember this coming off as a subpar Crazy Taxi clone.

EclecticTastes posted:

Professor Frink's car is definitely non-canon, but seems to be a reference to his hover-bike from "Lemon of Troy", one of the essential season six episodes. Bart ignored it in favor of shoving his hand in wet cement to permanently vandalize some new sidewalk towards the start of the episode, and when he was later on the run from the villainous children of Shelbyville, Frink passed by on the bike, taunting him about his earlier apathy towards it.


(I knew all this useless Simpsons trivia would be useful someday!)

EclecticTastes posted:

Oh, I hope it didn't look like I was fishing, I just like being able to add to threads when I know something about the subject of an LP.

Also out of curiosity I just checked, and you have twenty-five LPs archived already, and granted, they're often of smaller games, but that's still a really impressive number, especially given how much effort you put into them. Figured you deserved some props for that.

Mr. Fortitude posted:

Heh. Looks like I didn't miss much for not 100%ing the game. Will you do Hit & Run in the future too?

Crosspeice posted:

So, game good?

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Hit and Run is definitely better, but that's also an annoying game to 100%. Didn't stop me from trying, though the costumes was the most frustrating bit, since you didn't get enough coins to buy them all, so you just had to gamble race over and over again.