The Itchy & Scratchy Game

For the unreleased Sega Mega Drive version, see The Itchy & Scratchy Game (Mega Drive).

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The Itchy & Scratchy Game
System(s): Sega Game Gear
Publisher: Acclaim Entertainment
Developer: Bits Corporation, The Grey Team
Licensor: Twentieth Century Fox
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code US 1995 $44.9544.95 T-81218 EU 1994 T-81218-50 UK 1994-09 T-81218-50 AU 1994
Non-Sega versions Super NES

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The Itchy & Scratchy Game is a Sega Game Gear action game based on The Simpsons franchise.

Gameplay

The Itchy & Scratchy Game is a side-scrolling action game where as Itchy (the mouse) your task is to hunt down and hurt Scratchy (the cat) until his life meter is depleted. Computer-controlled Scratchy's task is to achieve the opposite - to deplete Itchy's health meter. There are a number of weapons and hazards that can be used in each of the stages, and between levels Itchy has to fight Scratchy as a "boss".

At the time of release, only a very small handful of Itchy & Scratchy shorts had been shown in The Simpsons, so much of the game's material can be traced back to early seasons of the show.

Cartoons

	Cartoon 1: Jurracid Bath
	Cartoon 2: The Medieval Dead
	Cartoon 3: Mutilation on the Bounty
	Cartoon 4: The Magnificent Severed
	Cartoon 5: A Site For Sawed Eyes
	Cartoon 6: The Disassembly Line

History

The game was once scheduled to be published in Japan under the name Itchy & Stratchy Guriguri Daituseki (イッチー＆スクラッチー　グリグリ大追跡).

Production credits

• Developed by: BITS Corporation
• Programming: B O'Shaughnessy, J Cox, S Clark, T Prosser
• Graphics: J Baker, A Grier, E Pieri, L Roberts, J Stephenson
• Music: G Hadjineophytou, S Ahmad
• Testing: J Taylor, S Cox
• Production: C Lazouras, T Hull, G Sheinwald, J Cox
• Executive Producer: F Katan
• Acclaim Grey Team

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In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: The Itchy & Scratchy Game/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in EGM² (US) #5: "November 1994" (1994-1x-xx)
also published in:

• Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #65: "December 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
• Game Players (US) #0802: "Vol. 8 No. 2 February 1995" (1995-0x-xx)

Physical scans

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Publication Version Score Electronic Games (1992-1995) (US) NTSC-U 50 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 43 Todo Sega (ES) 65 Top Consoles (FR) 50

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The Itchy & Scratchy Game

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Game Gear, EU
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Game Gear, AU
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Game Gear, PT

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 44e7e2da MD5 63bb5a1a959cdc79bfbe05b022f64ebf SHA-1 2d0c2be09b977cc68a7e8f0fc415d8783ad7f8ae	256kB		Cartridge (US/EU)