Sreak, a user on the Dreamcast-Talk forums, posted the files from an old, broken Dreamcast dev kit hard drive. Users quickly found an unreleased, incomplete and strange Simpsons game, which apparently has never been publicly announced or revealed.
Yesterday, Sreak posted that they wanted to upload some files from an old Dreamcast dev kit and wondered if people would want them to. People seem interested so they uploaded the contents of the dev kit and others started searching the files. User Megavolt85 found files and images for The Simpsons Bug Squad! Megavolt85 could also get it running, causing another user, pcwzrd13, to play the game and turn it into a video in action.
What’s here is less of a game and more of a prototype or tech demo with a cell-shaded recreation of the famous Simpsons house and some characters from the show, like Homer.
What’s strange is that Bug Squad! appears to be playing a random, not-very-Simpsons-looking bug. It resembles Mr. Mosquito, where players explore the Simpsons’ home as a bug, presumably part of a team based on the name of the game.
The game was developed by Red Lemon and this particular demo appears to have been made in October 2000, more than 20 years ago. Red Lemon is also the developer behind another unreleased Dreamcast game, Take The Bullet. Some new files and data from that game were also found in Sreak’s Dreamcast development kit.
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