Bart Vs. The Space Mutants on NES

This was one of my favorite games growing up. I loved The Simpsons and who could forget The Simpsons arcade game? I used to watch this game get played a lot. I was never very good at it, but I still enjoy it. The concept of the game is pretty easy. Each stage has a different goal. The first stage is to paint or cover everything that is purple to red.

You can do random things like this part where you drop towels over some purple items or..

Spray paint a cop. For the most part you just spray stationary items like trashcans or birdbaths or whatnot. Throughout the levels you can pick up Krusty heads that are extra lives and coins which you can use to buy stuff. I have never found any other reason to use these coins other than in the first level, but I believe if you collect enough you can get extra lives as well. You can also get your family to help you out by jumping on top of the humans that have aliens on top of their head..

And picking up your "proof" to get your family to help. That's what the manual says! I just assumed it was letters to activate your family member to help. The photo above is part of the second stage. The second stage you go around collecting hats. You find them lying around or you can jump to get them off of other characters heads. Here's one of the hardest parts of this level..

Jumping across the stupid cement! Also, you have to watch for those stupid lollipops and make sure they are vertical or else you fall down. And that's instant death. This is normally what takes a bunch of my lives and wasn't able to pass this stage. But I finally passed this stage!

I had to take a picture as fast as I could cause I didn't know how far I would get! This third stage is a carnival and you have to collect balloons. I swear I thought you could play carnival games too, but I couldn't figure out how to do it and I didn't get too far anyway to be able to figure it out. There's these clowns that jump around and their pattern is irregular so I lost my lives on that. You can get a slingshot in this stage but I didn't get it in the short amount of time I played this stage.

The biggest problem with this game is the controls. In order for you to run you have to jump first, then hold down the button to run. Also, you can do some sort of super jump by hitting A and B at the same time. If you have spray paint (or probably any other weapon equipped) you use a little bit of it. Quite weird. Also, you slide around when you try to stop. This makes jumping parts very hard to control.

Anyway, there are 5 or 6 stages, so I have a long way to go before I beat this game...