The Simpsons Wrestling - What Happened?

The funniest thing about This game to me is how because the developers designed characters built around jokes instead of balance, they somehow ended up making Ned Flanders one of the most ridiculously OP fighting game characters of all time.

"Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan." That's a hell of a quote.

A wrestling game with no grappling mechanics. What a time to be alive.

You can’t deny that Ned being the most OP character in the game is the most hilarious part

The kind of game where you walk through the door, put your hat on the hat rack, see the game and immediately walk in a circle and head back out the door

After all of the Simpsons references he's made over the years, this is fitting. So very fitting.

Ah a late 90s wrestling game. As was the style at the time.

The fact that one of the senior programmers of this game acknowledged the issues regarding The Simpsons Wrestling and also explaining what happened during development is pretty cool.

So many childhood memories with this game. Terrible ones because this game was impossible to beat.

In regards to concerns regarding violence towards Maggie, an issue in that regard was directly responsible for one of the most glaring omissions in this game: every illustration of a Simpsons character is legally required to carry a facsimile of Matt Groening's signature. The Simpsons Wrestling is one of the few products that does not. In an oral history of The Simpsons Road Rage published on the site Inverse in 2021, an anonymous developer of the game brought up that Groening demanded his name be taken off the game after he personally took offense to the ability for Marge to throw Maggie as a weapon which can be deflected by Groundkeeper Willie's rake. Said developer remarked this was the reason why Groening and the Simpsons team were much more hands-on in Road Rage's development, with Groening even remarking to its team "If I don't like this game, I'm never going to put my name on another Simpsons game again." Thankfully, both it and its successor Hit and Run were much more in line with the Simpsons style.

If we can't get a hit-and-run remake I think Simpsons wrestling would be the next best thing

I always KNEW that those Simpsons references would pay off in the universe of Matt McMuscles. Also, Simpsons memes and Wrestling goes together like Peanut Butter and Chocolate....

Matt's Simpsons references are always on point

"So how many Simpsons references would you like in the video?' Skinner: Yes!

I feel like this episode was a pretext to make as many classic era simpsons references as possible, and I'm all for it.

A perfectly cromulent episode- It embiggened my soul

You know, Matt McMuscles turned into a hardcore Simpsons channel so gradually I didn't even notice.

Matt's really gotten his use out of that "Homer cuts players from the team" clip. Kinda surprised it's survived when "which was the style at the time" has been, mostly, drowned like a bag of kittens in a well.

Knowing how much Matt loves The Simpsons, this shall be an interesting watch.

An episode on the movie would be interesting too. How it took over 15 years to even be made is quite odd.