Tag: The Simpsons

Game History Secrets Uncovers the WorkBoy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run 2, and This Is Vegas

Liam Robertson was very busy this past year. The journalist produced multiple new videos for his Game History Secrets series, uncovering the facts about unreleased passion projects such as the fabled WorkBoy peripheral, Midway’s This Is Vegas, and Radical Entertainment’s The Simpsons: Hit & Run 2.

While the latter two games share a common lineage with Rockstar’s explosive Grand Theft Auto franchise, the discovery of the WorkBoy is no less exciting. So let’s travel back in time and learn more about two massive open-world adventures and an organizer for your Game Boy.

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Bite-Sized Game History: John Tobias Gets Started, The Simpsons Go Medieval, and Some CES 1994 Swag

Everybody has to get their start somewhere.

For a lot of developers, that start often comes from an opportunity that’s slightly outside the game industry. But even after they’ve been at it for a few decades, some veteran designers need to get to a place where they can restart. And you can’t have a beginning without something else ending, like the game industry’s transition from CES to E3 in 1994-1995.

We’ll talk about all of these scenarios in this edition of Bite-Sized Game History.

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Bite-Sized Game History: Diablo’s Satanic Panic, Background Weirdos in The Simpsons, and the World’s First Glimpse at The Sims

Sometimes, a game’s secrets are buried so deep that they take decades to find. But as long as you know where to look, other secrets are sitting out for all the world to see and just waiting for an eager player to discover them.

Let’s examine three games from the latter group in this edition of Bite-Sized Game History.

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