The Simpsons creator Matt Groening seemingly let it slip that The Simpsons: Hit & Run is making a comeback.
The Simpsons: Hit & Run was initially launched in October 2003 for PS2, GameCube and Xbox, and was The Simpsons’ tackle Grand Theft Auto. Earlier than that, in 2001, there was the Loopy Taxi-like The Simpsons: Street Rage.
Followers have been asking for a re-release of each video games for a while now, although Hit & Run is the one which has essentially the most curiosity.
Throughout a Simpsons panel at Disney’s D23 conference in Anaheim, California, one attendee requested the panel whether or not, now {that a} second Simpsons Film was on the way in which, there was the potential for a second Hit & Run sport too.
“That will surely be a deal with,” The Simpsons showrunner Matt Selman mentioned. Selman co-wrote the unique Hit & Run sport, in addition to its predecessor The Simpsons: Street Rage.
“I don’t know if I’m talking out of flip, [but] I believe the unique sport is coming again in some type,” Groening then mentioned, to gasps within the viewers.
“Or… not,” Selman comedically interjected, seemingly attempting to de-escalate Groening’s obvious affirmation. Groening then shortly modified the topic by telling an anecdote concerning the making of the video games as an alternative.
“By the way in which, one of many first Simpsons video games was The Simpsons: Street Rage,” he mentioned. “And folks mentioned ‘you’ll be able to’t name it Street Rage, that can encourage highway rage’. And we did it anyway, clearly, after which when the subsequent sport got here out, which was Hit & Run, no one had an issue.”
“Additionally,” Selman joked, “the legal professionals of Loopy Taxi mentioned ‘you’ll be able to’t rip off Loopy Taxi’, and cash modified fingers.”
In a 2023 interview, The Simpsons: Hit & Run producer John Melchior revealed that at two extra Simpsons video games had been in growth together with The Simpsons: Hit & Run 2, however writer Vivendi Common Video games was given the choice to signal a deal for 5 Simpsons video games and rejected it.
“Simpsons Hit & Run 2 would have been carried out by Radical, [and] there was a medieval Simpsons sport that Matt Groening pitched, which was being carried out at Stormfront after Lord of the Rings,” he instructed MinnMax.
“The largest crime was that Vivendi didn’t get hold of the Simpsons licence, although they’d a suggestion in. The Simpsons got here again with a suggestion, 5 video games for X quantity of {dollars}, it was a extremely whole lot, and Vivendi mentioned no. After the success of Hit & Run.”
As a substitute, EA acquired The Simpsons licence and launched a single console sport, The Simpsons Recreation, again in 2007. There hasn’t been one other Simpsons console sport since then, although there have been Simpsons crossovers in such titles as Lego Dimensions and Fortnite.
