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The Simpsons Game for Xbox was a tech demo created as a pitch to FOX in hopes of acquiring the license to The Simpsons.
The build covered on this page was built on March 8, 2004. The HDD it was found on (bought and dumped by Tdijital on October 28, 2019) also contains two earlier Simpsons executables, dated January 14 and 28, 2004, but they don't seem to work with the March demo files. A different Xbox development HDD also owned by Tdijital had a Simpsons build from March 31, 2005, but most if not all of it had been overwritten and what remains is nonfunctional.
Judging by the build dates, it's likely that EA pitched this idea directly after the release of The Simpsons: Hit & Run. They officially got the license in late 2005, which would be when development on The Simpsons Game really started.
I came across the above video and it made me think it would be cool to play a new open world The Simpsons game. A noticeable difference between Hit & Run and The Simpsons Game was that while you could freely roam the town outside (in the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions) you couldn't drive any vehicles. EA still has the license to make video games based on the show but unfortunately they seem content with keeping it locked to the mobile platform (see Tapped Out).
Still, how would you feel if EA decided to one day re-release or remaster older games like Hit & Run?
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