Matt Groening to be final boss in Simpsons game

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jul 5th 2007 10:00AM

The first family of cartoon comedy will finally meet their maker after 18 years. Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons, and whose life is certainly not hell, will appear in the upcoming The Simpsons Game. Groening tells Eurogamer, "They did a send-up of video games. It's a video game about video games; and I'm in the video game. I'm a boss that you have to fight at the end of the game."

So according to Groening he'll be the final boss in the Simpson video game. Sounds like the perfect final boss. If this were 19th century literature we'd have been forced to read it in high school due to the subtext of one man fighting his creation, to which he'll inevitably succumb. Groening says he had a good time recording for the game, "It was really fun recording a million ways of dying, going 'UGGH, ARGGH, EUURGH!'" The Simpsons Game will be out this fall, now can we finally get The Simpsons arcade game on XBLA or PSN?.

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Reader Comments (54)

@JodyAnthony

Yeah, Good Eats rocks. Who would have thought that cooking could be so damn entertaining? But personally, Mythbusters has to be my favorite.

I only watched one episode of American Dad, but I didn't like it at all. I used to hate Family Guy, but I started watching it more once I found out that Adam West was the mayor. And the show has now grown on me. I don't like the animation style for either of them though...

@ JodyAnthony

That's funny, because Cotton is my favorite character. The episode where he inspires Peggy to learn how to walk again was great, and the two-part episode where he ran amok in Japan was priceless.

Then again, I seem to have bias towards the older characters. Grampa Simpson's long-winded stories are great, and the Professor is my favorite character in Futurama. I love the quote when he mutters about making a super-race of hexigonal shaped blood-sucking mutants. Quality stuff.

@ Anam

I'm the opposite. I loved Family Guy at first because it seemed so new and original and hilarious. But then I kept watching and it seemed like the same kind of gags repeated over and over again.

It's still a funny show though, but the laugh-out-loud-hilarious moments are just rare to me now.

One thing that always bugged me about Family Guy (and South Park actually) were the random musicals. For some reason they just don't work for me, but yet I love The Simpsons music numbers. "See my vest, see my vest, seeee myyyyy veeeeeeest! I really like the vest!"

Awesome. If this game is as fun as the Arcade game, I'll be picking it up.

-Jeff
http://alinktothefuture.com

Reminds me of Breakfast of Champions (the book, not the movie). At the end, the character Kilgore Trout has an encounter with the author of the novel. :)

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