Not way back, Madame Internet and Anybody however You star Sydney Sweeney revealed in an IGN interview that, like many people, she grew up enjoying a Simpsons online game – however she did not reveal which one it was.
Fortunately, for the sake of journalism, we have adopted up and came upon that the Simpsons recreation in query was, the truth is, The Simpsons: Street Rage.
It began a number of weeks in the past, when Sweeney talked about at a press junket for Madame Internet that she grew up with a brother who performs video video games on a regular basis. When requested what her favourite recreation was, she mentioned, “we’d play The Simpsons recreation,” whereas miming a steering wheel. She additionally talked about enjoying Tremendous Mario Bros. video games on her Nintendo DS when her co-star Isabela Merced introduced it up.
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Followers have been fast to invest on simply what the Simpsons recreation may very well be. As Gamespot famous, on condition that Sweeney’s 26 years outdated, pure timing would place 2001’s Street Rage and its non secular sequel Hit & Run as the apparent candidates. Different websites merely assumed Sweeney meant Hit & Run (and, to be honest, so did I).
Fortunately, we caught up with Sweeney to talk about her upcoming horror movie Immaculate and received the prospect to set the report straight.
“I need to say it was the racing recreation,” she mentioned. With the assistance of my colleague Jeffrey Vega, she finally remembered that it was Street Rage.
“Street Rage! As a result of it was outdated, it was on the Xbox,” she mentioned. And what character did she play as?
“I at all times appreciated Homer,” she mentioned.
Nicely, there you have got it.
Sydney Sweeney clarifies The Simpsons online game she cherished rising up: It was The Simpsons: Street Rage!
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Sweeney’s one among many followers with fond recollections of The Simpsons’ car-based recreation variations, though it would not seem like we’ll be getting a sequel to 2003’s Hit & Run anytime quickly. Final yr, Hit & Run’s builders revealed in an interview on the MinnMax YouTube channel {that a} follow-up was within the works, however by no means got here to fruition for no matter purpose.
“It was only a actually weird choice,” government producer John Melchior mentioned of the sequel being tabled. “I will by no means perceive it. Most individuals on the manufacturing degree by no means understood it.”
Sweeney will subsequent be seen in Immaculate, a horror movie that she stars in and produced. It debuted on the SXSW Movie Pageant final week, and can hit theaters on March 22.
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Alex Stedman is a Senior Information Editor with IGN, overseeing leisure reporting. When she’s not writing or enhancing, you could find her studying fantasy novels or enjoying Dungeons & Dragons.