An indie dev brought the fake Simpsons Waterworld game to life

The Simpsons is full of weird jokes, occasionally some of them are about video games, like when Millhouse played a Waterworld game. And now you can play it!

If you haven’t seen it, Waterworld stars Kevin Costner and is a distant post-apocalyptic world in the year 2500, where water levels have risen so high that all continents are under water. In an episode of The Simpsons called The Springfield Files, Millhouse plays an arcade game adaptation of the movie and has to pay 40 quarters, a normal amount to play an arcade game. And now indie developer Macaw45 has made it actually playable as it was just a little joke in the original episode.

“I’ve always been fascinated by the fake video games occasionally seen on The Simpsons, and the Waterworld one always caught my eye as a kid,” explains Macaw45 in the game page description. “Of course, it’s just a little joke that makes fun of how expensive the movie was to produce at the time, but this fake game itself with its gigantic on-screen Kevin Costner character taking a single step before having the machine ask for more coins always made me so anxious to know ‘what would be beyond that screen you see in the program’.

Macaw45 added some of their own interpretation going beyond what was originally shown, as mentioned in the description, creating a more fleshed out Waterworld game for all to enjoy.

Interestingly, this isn’t the first Waterworld video game out there. In fact, there were four Waterworld games made, if you can believe it, one for the SNES, one for the Game Boy, one for the PC, and one for the technology of the future, Virtual Boy, each of which was different from one another. another, so there’s plenty to choose from if you’re planning a Waterworld themed evening.