The Simpsons Road Rage

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Sega filed a lawsuit against EA, Fox, and Radical Entertainment due to the title's similarity to Crazy Taxi, but lost.

Almost two years after its release on consoles, The Simpsons: Road Rage was adapted for the Game Boy Advance. While it retains the general gameplay concept inspired by Crazy Taxi, it has a reduced selection of drivers and cars, unique playing modes and missions, and adapts the 3D graphics of the original to a Mode-7-style sprite scaling and rotation engine. Lopez, Vincent (December 11, 2001). "The Simpsons Road Rage (Xbox)". IGN. Ziff Davis . Retrieved August 20, 2015. Torres, Ricardo (December 19, 2001). "The Simpsons Road Rage ships for the GameCube [date mislabeled as "May 17, 2006"]". GameSpot. Red Ventures. Archived from the original on February 3, 2002 . Retrieved October 20, 2021. A version for the Game Boy Advance (GBA), developed by Altron and published by THQ, was released in North America on July 3, 2003. [3] THQ reached a publishing agreement with Fox Interactive in 2002 that gave them the rights to publish this version and a Buffy the Vampire Slayer game. Germaine Gioia, vice president of licensing at THQ, said " The Simpsons and Buffy properties have enjoyed tremendous consumer appeal in nearly every product category, including video game successes. Both properties will serve to further bolster our leadership position on the Game Boy Advance." [5] Simpson's [sic] Road Rage (PS2)". FHM. Bauer Media Group. December 16–22, 2001. Archived from the original on August 5, 2002 . Retrieved August 18, 2016.a b Zdyrko, David (November 27, 2001). "The Simpsons Road Rage (PS2)". IGN. Ziff Davis . Retrieved August 17, 2016. Marriott, Scott Alan. "The Simpsons Road Rage (GBA) - Review". AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014 . Retrieved August 18, 2016. Bart vs. Homersaurus • Bartman: Avenger of Evil • Bart Simpson's Cupcake Crisis • The Simpsons Electronic LCD Game • The Simpsons 20Q Casamassina, Matt (January 14, 2002). "The Simpsons Road Rage (GCN)". IGN. Ziff Davis . Retrieved August 20, 2015. a b Ahmed, Shahed (November 19, 2001). "The Simpsons Road Rage ships for the PS2 [date mislabeled as "May 17, 2006"]". GameSpot. Red Ventures. Archived from the original on February 3, 2002 . Retrieved October 20, 2021.

Sunday Drive is a practice version of Road Rage: it is identical except that no money can be earned and there is no time limit. Provo, Frank (July 23, 2003). "The Simpsons: Road Rage Review (GBA)". GameSpot. Red Ventures. Archived from the original on December 4, 2004 . Retrieved October 20, 2021. NextGen said of the Xbox version, "It's strange. Crazy Taxi is great, and The Simpsons is great, so the two together should be gaming magic, right? Yet the result is less than the sum of its parts. In the end, Road Rage is significant only as the most shameless incident of design burglary in recent memory." [36]Parrotta, Dylan (December 19, 2001). "The Simpsons Road Rage - PS2 - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on December 12, 2007 . Retrieved August 18, 2016. Simpson's [sic] Road Rage (GC)". Game Informer. No.107. FuncoLand. March 2002. p.81. Archived from the original on August 28, 2004 . Retrieved August 18, 2016. An image found in early builds of the game shows a logo for The Simpsons: Racing, suggesting that it was originally going to be a racing game. However, this was actually just a placeholder and Radical Entertainment were reluctant to make a racing game as kart racers had become a sort of cliché in the early 2000s. Bye, John "Gestalt" (April 4, 2002). "[The] Simpsons Road Rage (Xbox)". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Archived from the original on June 15, 2002 . Retrieved August 18, 2016.