The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare
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System(s): Sega Mega Drive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Flying Edge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Sculptured Software, The Black Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributor: Tec Toy (BR) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensor: Twentieth Century Fox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound driver: GEMS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Action | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare is a video game featuring characters from the Simpsons television series. It was released for the Sega Mega Drive in 1993.
Contents
Story
Bart Simpson falls asleep while studying and dreams of a strange universe where TVs and fairies roam the streets. The player must find Bart's lost homework and progress through the various levels to keep the homework pages and eventually wake up.
Gameplay
The game is a collection of mini-games, mostly in a platforming or shoot-'em-up style, which Bart must complete to retrieve the lost pages of his homework. Mini-games are accessed through a hub world called Windy World.
Windy World
Bart must find pages of his homework, which appear randomly and blow down the street, while avoiding enemies such as living mailboxes and various characters from the show. The street becomes more dangerous as Bart collects more pages. Bart's health is depicted as a row of Zs.
Bart walks around using the D-Pad. The street scrolls endlessly in either direction. He jumps with . He can defeat some enemies by jumping over them (but not on them, which hurts Bart). He can blow bubbles with his bubblegum by holding ; the player can move the bubbles around using the D-Pad as long as is held. Bubbles can be used to repel enemies or to collect floating blue Zs that restore Bart's health (but red Zs pop the bubble). He spits out watermelon seeds with , which can be used to defeat enemies or make them change direction.
Jumping over certain objects makes various items appear. Jumping over a moving mailbox turns it into one of several items: bubblegum or watermelons (which give Bart more bubblegum and watermelon seeds respectively), soda cans (which let Bart burp, which clears the screen of enemies, by holding and pressing or ), or question marks (which point toward the direction of a page when touched). Jumping over a basketball turns it into a skateboard that Bart can ride. The skateboard extends Bart's health bar the longer he is on it. Jumping over a Blinky fish turns it into a pillow. Collecting three pillows gives Bart another health bar if he runs out of Zs.
Jimbo and his gang occasionally appear to coerce Bart into strolling with them, causing Bart to lose control of his movements and have to move with them (though he can still jump). Hitting a flying saxophone summons Lisa Simpson with pixie wings to sprinkle fairy dust on Jimbo and his gang and transform them into rats, freeing Bart. However, if Bart is by himself, the Lisa pixie turns him into a frog that cannot attack. If Bart catches a kiss blown to him by an old lady, he reverts to his human form. Saxophones sometimes release blue notes that invert the player's directional controls temporarily.
Principal Skinner sometimes appears and tries to dress Bart in his Sunday school suit. If the player walks into Skinner, Bart changes appearance, moves more slowly, and can no longer fire at enemies or ride a skateboard; however, the suit also protect Bart from taking damage from all enemies (save for Jimbo and his gang). The suit wears off after a certain amount of time or when Bart jumps in a mud puddle.
When a page is found in Windy World, Bart can jump onto it. This causes him to shrink down on the page, and the player is given a choice of two randomly chosen mini-games. Bart automatically walks toward one of two colored doors, and the player can move him toward one or the other with or . Upon either failing the respective mini-game (and not getting the page back) or completing the mini-game (and receiving the page as a reward), the screen flashes back to Bart's room at night and shows the number of points the player has and the number of pages collected. Once a mini-game is completed, it cannot be played again. Both doors are the same color if there is only one mini-game to complete.
The game ends if Bart loses all of his Zs and takes damage one more time or if he successfully completes all the mini-games. Bart is awarded a letter grade depending on the player's score and how many pages were collected. Slightly different endings are shown where the players sees the Simpson family's reactions to Bart's grade by having the paper affixed to the refrigerator.
Mini-games
The mini-games can be played in any order. At the end of each mini-game, Bart finds a page and collects it by jumping on it. There are eight pages of homework to collect total; some mini-games reward more than one page.
Production credits
- Acclaim Development by "The Black Team": Mark Flitman, Donn Nauert, Mike Arkin, Tom Rademacher, Joe Allocco, Linda Spelman
- Windy World, Bartzilla, Homer Kong: John Lewis Guymon Jr
- Temple of Maggie, Itchy & Scratchy by: James Michael Henn
- Germs, Bartman: Craig Seastrom
- Animations, Multitasking, Conversion Design, Base Support Code: John Lewis Guymon Jr
- Hardware & Development Tools: Joe Barnes
- Testing & Analysis: Richard Reagan, Lee Smith, Matt Grate, Brian Miller
- Project Manager: Harald Seeley
- Artwork: Virginia Sargent
- Music: Dean Morrell
- Data Compression: Lynn Pugh
- Miscellaneous: Bryon Paul Hapgood
- Special Thanks To: Shauna, Little John, Brittany, Jacob
Magazine articles
- Main article: The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
- Sega Visions (US) #15: "October/November 1993" (1993-xx-xx)[8]
- VideoGames (US) #58: "November 1993" (1993-1x-xx)[9]
- Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #52: "November 1993" (1993-xx-xx)[10]
Physical scans
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Technical information
- Main article: The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare/Technical information.
References
- ↑ Sega Visions, "August/September 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 104
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 GamePro, "September 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 34
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 VideoGames, "September 1993" (US; 1993-0x-xx), page 56
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Mega, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-21), page 58
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sega Power, "October 1993" (UK; 1993-09-02), page 26
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Computer & Video Games, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-15), page 73
- ↑ File:Bart's Nightmare MD credits.pdf
- ↑ Sega Visions, "October/November 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 20
- ↑ VideoGames, "November 1993" (US; 1993-1x-xx), page 52
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "November 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 156
- ↑ Hacker, "09/1995" (HR; 1995-xx-xx), page 36
- ↑ Hacker, "10/1995" (HR; 1995-xx-xx), page 45
- ↑ Hacker, "11/1995" (HR; 1995-xx-xx), page 38
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 26
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 209
- ↑ Consoles +, "Octobre 1993" (FR; 1993-xx-xx), page 136
- ↑ Electronic Games (1992-1995), "October 1993" (US; 1993-09-23), page 64
- ↑ GamesMaster, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-21), page 88
- ↑ Joypad, "Octobre 1993" (FR; 1993-xx-xx), page 110
- ↑ Mega Action, "October 1993" (UK; 1993-09-09), page 34
- ↑ Mega Force, "Septembre 1993" (FR; 1993-0x-xx), page 114
- ↑ Mega Power, "September 1993" (UK; 1993-08-19), page 28
- ↑ MegaTech, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-20), page 61
- ↑ Player One, "Octobre 1993" (FR; 1993-xx-xx), page 148
- ↑ Score, "Únor 1994" (CZ; 1994-02-01), page 49
- ↑ Sega Magazin, "November/Dezember 1993" (DE; 1993-11-03), page 71
- ↑ Sega Power, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-07), page 70
- ↑ Sega Pro, "October 1993" (UK; 1993-09-09), page 75
- ↑ Sega Zone, "October 1993" (UK; 1993-09-xx), page 44
- ↑ Supergame, "Novembro 1993" (BR; 1993-11-xx), page 20
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 19
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