r/SimpsonsHitAndRun

It's surprising how well this game runs even all these years later

It's surprising how well this game runs even all these years later

My 3.5YO daughter has been watching me play a ton of games since the beginning and has grown an interest towards gaming in general.

I let her run on the rooftops in the Arkham and Assassin's Creed games but today I remembered about this game.

I am a Linux user and I was initially skeptical about how this game would run. To my surprise it ran so well, even better than some recent games. I just downloaded it from MyAbandonware, installed using Heroic, loaded the mods and we're already playing.

The community has kept it alive, the mods are excellent, overall it's a flawless experience almost. I've turned free roam on and my daughter's is basically having a blast.

They don't make games like this anymore.

u/MadhubanManta — 5 days ago

This pink sedan is the fastest car in Simpsons road rage

Me n my brother use to race all the cars on the highway on the downtown level. Chief Wiggims police car has the quickest acceleration in the game. If u tap the gas button on homers sedan you will get a small speed boost

u/CjbeatsZzz — 8 days ago

RC Buggy reference?

In which episode of the show does the RC appear, or is it an original car for the game?

u/Ship-Guy — 4 days ago

Played this game for weeks as a kid and never managed to 100% it but got it working on my steam deck the other day and haven’t put it down since! After messing around controller layouts it runs like it was made for the deck I couldn’t recommend it enough!

u/Initial-Speed-4049 — 9 days ago

Yes it's really taken me that long haha (I've never claimed to be a pro gamer). I got my ps2 for my 8th birthday nearly 21 years ago and I could never complete the game and I skipped so many missions.

I FINALLY completed it tonight and I am so damn proud. The only mission I've skipped in the whole game is mission 6 of level 6. AND I completed the very last mission in two attempts. I am SHOOK.

Now I want to go and get it to 100% completion but I'm not very good at the races 😅 I just wanted to share my achievement. Child me would be VERY happy and so am I. Woo 🎉🎉

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u/Apprehensive-Lion259 — 12 days ago

If you call a car and the character is programmed to appear in the car to drive you (happens when they don’t appear in the level otherwise), they’ll say something in response to you calling for them, most of them are pretty funny.

Snake: “Hang on, just let me finish scalding this stool pigeon”

“AHHHHHHHH!”

“…okay, I can meet you.”

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u/PayneTrain181999 — 9 days ago

I have a Macbook Air. I wanted to run an emulator on it to play but it's all Windows-only, so far as I can see. Does anyone know of a way I can play it on my Mac?

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u/shubbanubba — 9 days ago