Was meant to be attending a Christmas party last night, but our gathering caught the attention of omicron’s evil eye and the whole joint got cancelled. One of my friends who was visiting from far away had already bought his train ticket, so we decided to hang out regardless and went to the local barcade. Most of the machines were broken and the guy behind the bar watching RWBY on his iPad didn’t give a shit if Crazy Taxi was swallowing £1s, so most of our time was spent valiantly going up against this shit because the buttons weren’t crusted in dry beer.

Everything (except the art) in Simpsons Arcade kinda sucks - it’s a one-button beat em up with no context abilities, plenty of überjank hitboxes and the bosses do whatever the opposite of telegraphing attacks is, but I had a nice time because I was playing it with my pal and he was hitting me with a constant stream of Simpsons trivia. Did you know the final episode of The Simpsons was gonna reveal that Marge was an alien?! Wow!

Reviewed on Dec 21, 2021


3 Comments


2 years ago

What barcade was this? Name and shame

2 years ago

Sper Brio. Nice place and I've been going for years, but most of the machines are in bad nick these days... They used to be solid, so I'm gonna give them a benefit of the doubt and say two years of lockdowns has probably not put maintaining a Virtua Striker 2 machine at the top of the priority list.

2 years ago

i thought the final episode was gonna reveal that marge was one of those bunny things from life in hell. they even reference it in that iirc, theres like an animation where marge gets electrocuted and you can see the rabbit ears under her hair