An indie dev brought the fake Simpsons Waterworld game to life




The Simpsons is stuffed with bizarre jokes, often a few of them are about video video games, just like the time Millhouse performed a Waterworld sport. And now you’ll be able to play it!


If you have not seen it, Waterworld stars Kevin Costner, and is a post-apocalyptic world means off within the yr 2500, the place water ranges have risen so excessive each continent is underwater. In an episode of The Simpsons referred to as The Springfield Recordsdata, Millhouse performs an arcade sport adaptation of the movie, having to pay 40 quarters, a daily quantity to play for an arcade sport. And now indie dev Macaw45 has made it truly playable, because it was only a small joke within the unique episode.


“I’ve at all times been fascinated by the faux videogames that had been often seen in The Simpsons, and the Waterworld one at all times caught out to me as a child,” explains Macaw45 within the sport web page’s description. “In fact it is only a brief joke poking enjoyable at how costly the manufacturing of the film was on the time, however this faux sport itself with its gigantic Kevin Costner character on the display who takes a single step earlier than the machine asks for extra quarters at all times made me so desirous to know ‘what can be past that one display you see within the present.”


Macaw45 did add a few of their very own interpretation by going additional than what was initially proven, as talked about within the description, constructing a extra fleshed out Waterworld sport for all to take pleasure in.


Funnily sufficient, this is not truly the primary Waterworld online game that exists. In actual fact, there have been 4 Waterworld video games made, for those who can imagine it, one for the SNES, one for the Recreation Boy, one for PC, and for the tech of the long run, the Digital Boy, every of which had been completely different from each other, so there’s lots to select from for those who’re planning a Waterworld themed night.