Krustys Super Fun House

Krusty’s Fun House is a puzzle video game based on the animated sitcom The Simpsons.

Gameplay – Krustys Super Fun House

The player directs small rats to an extermination area through complicated maze-like levels. The player controls Krusty the Clown, who must navigate through his Krustys Super Fun House Brand Fun House. Each level is a puzzle in which a number of rats must be exterminated. Using different objects and obstacles, Krustys Super Fun House must create a path for the rats to follow and guide them towards an extermination device. Other creatures such as snakes, Martians, flying pigs and birds attempt to hinder Krusty’s progress by injuring him; he must throw pies in order to defeat them.

In each stage the extermination devices are run by a different character, including Bart, Homer, Corporal Punishment and Sideshow Mel.

Development – Krustys Super Fun House

Originally developed as Rat-Trap on the Amiga, it was designed by Pat Fox and coded by Scott Williams for the British software house Audiogenic, who licensed it to Acclaim Entertainment, the U.S.-based publishers of a range of games based on The Simpsons.

Release – Krustys Super Fun House

Krustys Super Fun House The game was released in 1992 for the Amiga, NES, IBM PC compatibles, Master System, Game Gear, Game Boy, Super NES and Mega Drive/Genesis. Acclaim published the console versions and sub-licensed the home computer versions to Virgin. The 16-bit versions on the Super NES and the Mega Drive/Genesis were entitled Krusty’s Super Fun House.

There are two revisions of the Super NES and Genesis games. Version 1.1 has completely different music for the second and fourth world.

In each stage the extermination devices are run by a different character, including Bart, Homer, Corporal Punishment and Sideshow Mel.

Reception – Krustys Super Fun House

Reception

Publication	Score
Entertainment Weekly	A− (Mega Drive)^[2]
Go!	91/100 (GG)^[3]
N-Force	83/100 (NES)^[4]
NMS (Australia)	90/100 (GB)^[5]
Super Play	79% (SNES)^[6]
Mega Action	86% (Mega Drive)^[8]

Publication	Award
Nintendo Power Award ’92	Best Overall NES Game – Nominated^[7]

Super Play magazine gave the SNES version of Krustys Super Fun House a 79 percent rating and wrote “it’s actually pretty good fun to play, although perhaps more of a Younger Player-oriented game than anything else. Not one to set your heart on fire, but a good solid game nevertheless.”^[6]

Computer Gaming World in April 1994 said that the computer version “is an above average arcade/strategy game that is ideal to burn away half an hour or so”.^[9] In 1995, Total! ranked the game 75th on their Top 100 SNES Games summarizing: “A sort of reverse Lemmings in which you have to kill the little on-screen characters.”^[10]

References – Krustys Super Fun House

^ “Press release: 1992-05-19: ACCLAIM BEGINS SHIPMENT OF SEGA SOFTWARE”. Sega Retro. 2016-06-10. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
^ “The Latest Videogames Reviewed”. EW.com. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
^ Rand, Paul; Anglin, Paul (August 1993). Go!. No. 22. pp. 6–7. {{cite magazine}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ “Krusty’s Fun House”. N-Force. Vol. 2, no. 1. July 1993. p. 23.
^ “Krusty’s Fun House”. Nintendo Magazine System. No. 4. July 1993. pp. 24–25.
^ Jump up to:^a ^b “Krusty’s Super Fun-House (SNES) review”. Super Play. November 1992.
^ “Nintendo Power Awards” (46). March 1993: 99. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
^ “Mega Library”. 20 May 1993.
^ Matthews, Robin (April 1994). “Sequel Syndrome Strikes Again”. Over There. Computer Gaming World. pp. 124, 126.
^ “Top 100 SNES Games”. Total! (43): 47. July 1995. Retrieved February 26, 2022.