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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Along with being ScrewedByTheLawyers, the main reason why the game hasn't been re-released despite fan demand is due to legal issues between Creator/ActivisionBlizzard (who owns the game's developer Creator/RadicalEntertainment and original publisher Creator/VivendiUniversalGames through the corporate merger that formed them)[[note]]In January 2022, Creator/XboxGameStudios announced that it would acquire Activision[[/note]] and Creator/ElectronicArts (who currently owns the rights to make all ''Simpsons'' games under license from Creator/{{Disney}}), so the only way to play the game is either owning an original copy of the game from the second-hand market or getting the game from ROM sites (or in the case of the PC version, {{abandonware}} or torrent sites). Fans got a surprise in January 2023 when the game's full soundtrack was released on streaming services, showing that the game's content isn't fully inaccessible.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Along with being ScrewedByTheLawyers, the main reason why the game hasn't been re-released despite fan demand is due to legal issues between Creator/ActivisionBlizzard Creator/XboxGameStudios (who owns the game's developer catalogues of Creator/RadicalEntertainment and original publisher Creator/VivendiUniversalGames through the corporate merger that formed them)[[note]]In January 2022, Creator/XboxGameStudios announced that it would acquire Activision[[/note]] Creator/VivendiUniversalGames) and Creator/ElectronicArts (who currently owns the rights to make all ''Simpsons'' games under license from Creator/{{Disney}}), so the only way to play the game is either owning an original copy of the game from the second-hand market or getting the game from ROM sites (or in the case of the PC version, {{abandonware}} or torrent sites). Fans got a surprise in January 2023 when the game's full soundtrack was released on streaming services, showing that the game's content isn't fully inaccessible.
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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: According to ''Simpsons'' writer Matt Selman, he [[https://www.ign.com/articles/matt-selman-simpsons-hit-and-run-remake fully supports the game being re-released]], but notes that "It's a complicated corporate octopus to try to make that happen". This is due to legal issues between Creator/ActivisionBlizzard (who owns the game's developer Creator/RadicalEntertainment and original publisher Creator/VivendiUniversalGames through the corporate merger that formed them)[[note]]Their side of the legal issues will be passed to Creator/XboxGameStudios when they will merge in 2023[[/note]] and current ''Simpsons'' video game licensees Creator/ElectronicArts. Basically, unless a merger happens between these two companies, or they agree to work together ''and'' get the go-ahead from ''Simpsons'' owner Creator/{{Disney}}, or if Disney revokes EA’s exclusive rights to ''The Simpsons'' and allows any developer to use the IP as they did with ''Franchise/StarWars'', don't count on a remaster or re-release happening anytime soon.
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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: According to ''Simpsons'' writer Matt Selman, he [[https://www.ign.com/articles/matt-selman-simpsons-hit-and-run-remake fully supports the game being re-released]], but notes that "It's a complicated corporate octopus to try to make that happen". This is due to legal issues between Creator/ActivisionBlizzard Creator/XboxGameStudios (who owns the game's developer Creator/RadicalEntertainment and original publisher Creator/VivendiUniversalGames through the corporate merger that formed them)[[note]]Their side of the legal issues will be passed to Creator/XboxGameStudios when they will merge in 2023[[/note]] Creator/VivendiUniversalGames) and current ''Simpsons'' video game licensees Creator/ElectronicArts. Basically, unless a merger happens between these two companies, Microsoft were to acquire EA, or they agree to work together ''and'' get the go-ahead from ''Simpsons'' owner Creator/{{Disney}}, or if Disney revokes EA’s exclusive rights to ''The Simpsons'' and allows any developer to use the IP as they did with ''Franchise/StarWars'', don't count on a remaster or re-release happening anytime soon.
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** Vivendi didn't want to spend much on the Usefulnotes/NintendoGameCube version given that console's reduced install base, and thus they gave the job to just one person, lead programmer Cary Brisebois. Amazingly, he managed to convert all of the game's code in the few weeks he was given to port the game.
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** Vivendi didn't want to spend much on the Usefulnotes/NintendoGameCube Platform/NintendoGameCube version given that console's reduced install base, and thus they gave the job to just one person, lead programmer Cary Brisebois. Amazingly, he managed to convert all of the game's code in the few weeks he was given to port the game.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Along with being ScrewedByTheLawyers, the main reason why the game hasn't been re-released despite fan demand is due to legal issues between Creator/ActivisionBlizzard (who owns the game's developer Creator/RadicalEntertainment and original publisher Creator/VivendiUniversalGames through the corporate merger that formed them)[[note]]In January 2022, Creator/XboxGameStudios announced that it would acquire Activision[[/note]] and Creator/ElectronicArts (who currently owns the rights to make all ''Simpsons'' games under license from {{Creator/Disney}}), so the only way to play the game is either owning an original copy of the game from the second-hand market or getting the game from ROM sites (or in the case of the PC version, {{abandonware}} or torrent sites). Fans got a surprise in January 2023 when the game's full soundtrack was released on streaming services, showing that the game's content isn't fully inaccessible.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Along with being ScrewedByTheLawyers, the main reason why the game hasn't been re-released despite fan demand is due to legal issues between Creator/ActivisionBlizzard (who owns the game's developer Creator/RadicalEntertainment and original publisher Creator/VivendiUniversalGames through the corporate merger that formed them)[[note]]In January 2022, Creator/XboxGameStudios announced that it would acquire Activision[[/note]] and Creator/ElectronicArts (who currently owns the rights to make all ''Simpsons'' games under license from {{Creator/Disney}}), Creator/{{Disney}}), so the only way to play the game is either owning an original copy of the game from the second-hand market or getting the game from ROM sites (or in the case of the PC version, {{abandonware}} or torrent sites). Fans got a surprise in January 2023 when the game's full soundtrack was released on streaming services, showing that the game's content isn't fully inaccessible.
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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: According to ''Simpsons'' writer Matt Selman, he [[https://www.ign.com/articles/matt-selman-simpsons-hit-and-run-remake fully supports the game being re-released]], but notes that "It's a complicated corporate octopus to try to make that happen". This is due to legal issues between Creator/ActivisionBlizzard (who owns the game's developer Creator/RadicalEntertainment and original publisher Creator/VivendiUniversalGames through the corporate merger that formed them)[[note]]Their side of the legal issues will be passed to Creator/XboxGameStudios when they will merge in 2023[[/note]] and current ''Simpsons'' video game licensees Creator/ElectronicArts. Basically, unless a merger happens between these two companies, or they agree to work together ''and'' get the go-ahead from ''Simpsons'' owner Creator/{{Disney}}, or if Disney revokes EA’s exclusively rights to ''The Simpsons'' and allows any developer to use the IP as they did with ''Franchise/StarWars'', don't count on a remaster or a rerelease happening anytime soon.
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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: According to ''Simpsons'' writer Matt Selman, he [[https://www.ign.com/articles/matt-selman-simpsons-hit-and-run-remake fully supports the game being re-released]], but notes that "It's a complicated corporate octopus to try to make that happen". This is due to legal issues between Creator/ActivisionBlizzard (who owns the game's developer Creator/RadicalEntertainment and original publisher Creator/VivendiUniversalGames through the corporate merger that formed them)[[note]]Their side of the legal issues will be passed to Creator/XboxGameStudios when they will merge in 2023[[/note]] and current ''Simpsons'' video game licensees Creator/ElectronicArts. Basically, unless a merger happens between these two companies, or they agree to work together ''and'' get the go-ahead from ''Simpsons'' owner Creator/{{Disney}}, or if Disney revokes EA’s exclusively exclusive rights to ''The Simpsons'' and allows any developer to use the IP as they did with ''Franchise/StarWars'', don't count on a remaster or a rerelease re-release happening anytime soon.
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** The game was originally planned as a sequel to ''Videogame/TheSimpsonsRoadRage''. After seeing the success of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'', Radical repurposed it to be a WideOpenSandbox with on-foot elements rather than everything in vehicles. Radical first sent Fox a ludicrously optimistic schedule (16 months from concept to completion for an open-world game, with no assets to base it on), likely in an attempt to get the license. Radical was already behind schedule before the first playable prototype but didn't inform Fox.
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** The game was originally planned as a sequel to ''Videogame/TheSimpsonsRoadRage''.''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsRoadRage''. After seeing the success of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'', Radical repurposed it to be a WideOpenSandbox with on-foot elements rather than everything in vehicles. Radical first sent Fox a ludicrously optimistic schedule (16 months from concept to completion for an open-world game, with no assets to base it on), likely in an attempt to get the license. Radical was already behind schedule before the first playable prototype but didn't inform Fox.
