Yes, you read that right - 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Simpsons: Hit & Run turns 20 this weekend. We're all getting old, bones turning to dust. But as we reminisce over our collective childhood of playing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:kid-friendly GTA, the milestone is also a reminder that we still don't have any news on a Hit & Run remake - something fans are eager to rectify.
Any company that makes the mistake of marking the anniversary of The Simpsons: Hit & Run's anniversary is instantly hit with calls for a remake. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation is the biggest example, with eager fans pleading with the studio to somehow secure a re-release of the cult classic Simpsons game. After all, the on🐷ly way to play it legitimately is by dusting off your PS2, GameCube or original Xbox, despite 🔴there being such a huge demand for it to be released on modern platforms.
PlayStation UK marked the anniversary earlier this weekend. Now, the replies are flooded with fans begging the studio to either invest in a remake or get the original added to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation Plus, as befitting a game that many of us played the hell out of on PS2. Some po🌊or souls even thought the tweet itself was hinting at some kind of re-release, but alas, nothing of the sort is being announced.
The fact that we've reached the 20th birthday of The Simpsons: Hit & Run without anything to show for it is pretty disheartening - not to mention baffling. While licenced games like this can often exist in copyright hell, it's hard to imagine that the Simpsons's rights holders wouldn't be able to get a Hit & Run re-release off the ground if it wanted to. Right now though, they seem to be 168澳洲幸运5开𓆏奖网:more concerned with shutting down fan remakes, to the point where one had been developed♉, but the creator is too fearful of the consequences to release it.
If we do get a remake or remaster though, we shouldn't expect it to go to the original studio. Radical Entertainment is now owned by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Activision Blizzard, and in recent years, has acted as a support studio, assisting other developers with their games instead of making its own. Still, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - ꦑRehydrated recently proved that rights holders are willing to give remake duties over to new studios, so it's very much possible.
Still, the fact that the anniversary has come and gone without so much as a teaser suggests that we won't be getting that remake anytime soon. Maybe one day, someone will realise that it would almost definitely print money since it already has a fanbase ready and waiting. See you all again on the 40th anniversary, yeah?