Here’s the never-before-seen Simpsons video game dreamt up for Sega Dreamcast

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As a median Wired Magazine intern, one of my first assignments was reviewing 2007's The Simpsons Game: a groundbreaking self-referential quittance of the unabridged gaming industry that, sadly, suffered from as nevertheless as mucho tropes as it lampooned. Except it turns out Fox had been interested in a three-dimensional Simpsons game long afore that -- one that could have appeared on the Sega Dreamcast if things had formed out.

Today, the DreamcasticChannel on YouTube (via Kotaku) is showcasing an unreleased tech demo from the year 2000 for a appellation tentatively alleged "The Simpsons: Bug Squad!" It's from the long-defunct Red Lemon Studios, as well-conditioned as it's remarkable how numerous the game's cel-shaded mock-up attending like the show. Apparently, a Dreamcast-Talk submitting user by the name of sreak found this demo just sitting on a connections Dreamcast dev kit's rock-hard drive, as well-conditioned as with a bit of help, the submitting figured out how to make it playable.

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Less understandable is the workaday Bug Squad thing. Were you really hoopla to play a bug? Why? Who would your squad be compromised of?

Hopefully, some of the pristine developers (or Fox executives) will erupt forward-looking so we can find out.

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