Sreak, a user of the Dreamcast-Talk forums, posted the files on a hard drive from the old and broken Dreamcast development kit. Users quickly found themselves in an unpublished, incomplete and strange place Simpsons game, which appears to have never been announced or revealed publicly.
Yesterday, Sreak posted that they wanted to upload some files from an old Dreamcast development kit and was curious if people wanted them to do it. People seem interested, so they uploaded the contents of the development kit and others started digging up the files. User Megavolt85 found files and images for The Simpsons Bug Squad! Megavolt85 was also able to make it work, allowing another user, pcwzrd13, to play the game and create a video in action.
What’s here is less of a game and more of a prototype or tech show with a recreation in the cell of the famous Simpsons house and some characters from the show, like Homer.
What’s weird is this Bug Squad! He seems to star in a random, low-looking Simpsons mistake. It looks like Mister Mosquito, with players exploring the Simpsons’ home as a bug, presumably part of a template based on the game’s name.
The game was being developed by Red Lemon and this specific demo seems to have been created in October 2000, over 20 years ago. Red Lemon is also the developer of another unreleased Dreamcast game, Grab the bullet. Some new files and data from this game were also found in Sreak’s Dreamcast development kit.
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