Not way back, Madame Internet and Anybody however You star Sydney Sweeney revealed in an IGN interview that, like many people, she grew up taking part in a Simpsons online game – however she did not reveal which one it was.
Fortunately, for the sake of journalism, we have adopted up and discovered that the Simpsons sport in query was, actually, 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 sport was, she mentioned, “we’d play The Simpsons sport,” whereas miming a steering wheel. She additionally talked about taking part in Tremendous Mario Bros. video games on her Nintendo DS when her co-star Isabela Merced introduced it up.
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Followers had been fast to take a position on simply what the Simpsons sport 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 As Gamespot famous, on condition that Sweeney’s 26 years outdated, pure timing would place 2001’s Street Rage and its non secular sequel Hit & Run as the plain candidates. Other sites 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 possibility to set the file straight.
“I wish to say it was the racing sport,” she mentioned. With the assistance of my colleague Jeffrey Vega, she ultimately 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 As a result of it was outdated, it was on the Xbox,” she mentioned.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.
Properly, there you will have it.
Sydney Sweeney clarifies The Simpsons online game she cherished rising up: It was The Simpsons: Street Rage!
Extra: https://t.co/0UAdhEhna6 pic.twitter.com/ozPHUmyFwj— IGN (@IGN) March 18, 2024
Sweeney’s certainly one of many followers with fond recollections of The Simpsons’ car-based sport variations, though it does 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 motive.
“It was only a actually weird choice,” government producer John Melchior mentioned of the sequel being tabled. “I am going to by no means perceive it. Most individuals on the manufacturing stage 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 modifying, you will discover her studying fantasy novels or taking part in Dungeons & Dragons.
