>Bart's shirt is blue How did they fuck up such

>>4208553
maybe it was a ram thing

>>4208553
It was probably so you can differentiate the characters between one another more.

>>4208564
That's a pretty damn good valid reason

but then all the other boxarts in this thread are blue too and wouldn't make sense there

What >>4208564 said and because the game started development when the show was only halfway through its first season and less shit was established, Smithers has blue hair and a maniacal laugh for much the same reason.

Supposedly it was an anti-bootleg measure. Official Bart merchandise would have blue and green t-shirts, because chinese bootlegs would make him with a red shirt as he is on the TV show.
I don't think it worked out, I do remember bootleg Bart toys with blue shirt in the early 90s.

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Bart had a blue shirt in most of the early merchandise.

>>4208596
Bootleggers will fuck up the colors anyway, why bother?

Blue shirt Bart is an early 90s staple.

>>4208646
I'm willing to admit I'm not old enough to know about the late 80s super-early 90s

but when The Simpsons shows those Tracey Ullman shorts, he had a red shirt there too

Why the blue?

>>4208701
Also one more note


That is such a calming blue. Seriously, seeing bart yellow on that blue shirt, it's so damn calming

Nobody knows for sure. The anti-bootleg theory thing is just a myth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29buMp8fExA

homer's yellow butthole

>>4208741
>tfw no skateboarding slingshotting bart simpson game
come the FUCK on EA you're sitting on good shit that probably wouldn't sell honestly but it'd be cool

>>4208596
>>4208707

You sure that's a myth? I could've sworn I heard it from an official source, maybe like a commentary track in an early DVD.

I thought it was some strange request by Matt Groening. I know that from some people in the industry, he was apparently hard to deal with back in the early 90s and ended up hurting the final product a lot.

>>4208553
Thanks OP, I must go pepper spray a Gamestop now.

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I came to this thread expecting anons saying to OP fuck off.
Tell me everyone is just playing a big ruse on me.

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>>4208925
Explain this

>>4208925
this is false though. Never in the show does he wear a blue shirt, they even joked about it in one episode. A lot of early merchandise shows him with one though, I must say, it looks good on him

>>4208932

What's to explain?

>>4208808
There's no fucking source, it's downright fabrication.

>>4208564
this
also to make Barto's toys more differentiated when compared to Lisa as far as merchandise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTfa-9aCTYg
dude rememeber the 90s

>>4208985
I member

>>4208553

Too young to be posting about games before your time.

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>>4209009
>falling for the bait
Bart wearing blue/green in 90s merch is a pop culture things, kids are aware of it.
I remember back then, I didn't even notice it much, or made a big deal out of it. Oh bart has a different color shirt, hm.

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>that rare convergence of red, blue, and green shirted Bart.

>>4209147

when they all appear together you can make a wish

https://youtu.be/vf8WH8AbkXY?t=54

0:54 green shirt, 4:30 blue shirt.

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>>4208553
One thing I remember is a lot of Simpsons merch in the early 90s had Bart in a blue tshirt. Why? I have no idea.

>>4209147
What's Nelson saying? It couldn't have been more memorable than his catchphrase "Ha ha!".

Also does Marge ever say "What's that smell?" in the show before those toys were made? Frinkiac gives one mention in season 17 and one in season 8. I mean, if they make Lisa play some random musical notes on her unnaturally blue sax they might as well just make Marge say "HRMMMMM" or something.

>>4208553
Some weird licensing thing. Bart merch always had a blue shirt.

>>4209531
I'm not sure what it says but the speech bubbles came with multiple interchangeable cards with different catchphrases so I'm pretty sure "ha ha!" was there.

>>4208553
Are you literally CWC?

>>4208553
Every toy I ever owned of him when I was a kid gave him a blue shirt.
It's like how Mickey Mouse's face is white in the comics and stuff I guess.

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>>4209642
>Watch it, man!

>>4209642
But Bartman wears a disguise to hide his identity, it makes sense for him to change his shirt.

No one knows why but licensed material had Bart in a blue shirt and even green in some odd examples.

No one knows why, most popular speculation is to know what bootleg merchandise was but it's never been confirmed.

>>4209531
They each came with a couple, and I think "Put up your dukes" was one of them.
I had this series, and the couch/TV, when I was a kid, but before this thread I hadn't thought about them in about 18 years.

Nobody knows for sure but Bart just had blue/green shirts on merchandising back in the day. Just a bizarre design quirk of a day before everything had to be churned out in a corporately boring way for everything.

Remember how random the depictions of Mario were in the early days?

>>4209147
This must really be old, No Problemo was Homer's catchphrase in season 1. His famous "D'oh!" didn't become a thing for a few seasons.

>>4209382
Horey shiet, are Butterfingers good? I want one.

>>4210217
They're actually pretty crappy, it must be said. Those same commercials made me want one years ago and, well, there's a reason why I haven't have another one since.

>>4208553
It's the mandela effect.

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because that's not Bart

>>4209642
tfw had this
>>4210217
i like them, but they hurt my teeth

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The old Data East pinball machine had Bart with blue, green, AND red shirts. They couldn't fucking decide.

>>4210428
Based rare purple shirt

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>>4209382
HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIT I remember all those commercials nostalgia bomb. Tv and comic books were actually good back then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhrLw59ielk

>>4210526
Funny how with all those games, Krusty's funhouse was the only good one.

>>4210526
こんな家族 って、アリ!?

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>>4208553

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Konami were also working with early Simpsons "canon" as well

They were told some of the secrets that Matt Groening had planned and Konami sneaked one in as an Easter Egg. Marge was suppose to have bunny ears under her hair that resembled the bunny's from Matt's earlier work "Life in Hell".

James L. Brooks probably talked Matt out of it actually being in the main series because it was too surreal.

>>4210601
i always thought that was kinda disturbing

>>4208553
SOANIC'S ARMS AIN'T BLUE

>>4210760
mr. chandler aside I think we can all agree sonic's arms aren't supposed to be blue

>>4208635
The stick is going up his ass

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>Smithers isn't black

How did they fuck up such an obvious thing?

>>4211047
Do you think Arcade game smithers is gay?

>>4211152
wut

I believe somone on the show said Bart was the most popular character for fake merchandise so they decided to make official merchandise of Bart have a blue shirt as a way to mess with the scammers.

>>4211138

Doubt it, doesn't seem to be anything but some jewel stealing lackey of Burns, and possibly a scientist judging by the lab coat and weapons. I love how much they just completely made up, the game was so great nobody cared.

Are we all just ignoring the fact that billionaire Mr. Burns and Smithers are small time jewelery thieves, kidnappers and hang out with small time gangsters?

>>4211159
That myth makes no sense. Why would official merch have the wrong colors. And the Chinese quickly caught on and started making blue shirted bootlegs.

>>4209070
I had this book when I was a kid lol. Goddamn this brings me back.

>>4208553
Boy I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder

>>4211254
I did

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magazines used to be cool, man.

>>4211380
>An Exclusive Interview with Nancy Cartwright.

If I wanted to hear the delusional ramblings of a Scientologist, I'd just go watch another Tom Cruise movie.

>>4208553
Bart's shirt is blue in the manga.

>>4211887
>manga

Mandela's effect.

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>>4211168
No you fool, bootlegs try to avoid being taken down by changing the colors from "official". Thus if Bart's shirt is not the "official" red it fucks with bootlegger who made his shirt blue

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Remember when The Simpsons had their own music album, and it was fucking great?

>>4211989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwqA_OMaUes
Pretty nice beat

>>4211989
>album
There was more than one.

>Songs In the Key of Springfield

A fish named selma....I laugh at the intro every time.

>>4211152
Red Jacket Lupin best Lupin

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>>4212521
>not green

>>4211982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjanxZiVkvU
have you guys ever stolen video games before?

>>4213009
>have you guys ever stolen video games before?
Not really, maybe some burned disc from a friend.

>>4209382
Were these commercials done by the same studio? They seem... different. More cartoony. I know there was some controversy with how the first episode came back from the Korean animators because it was too cartoony. Maybe they told them to use that style for the commercials.

>>4208553
>Mario wore red overalls
>Chun-li had an orange qipao on the character select screen
more examples?

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>>4213134
>Bowser was originally an ox
>Peach was toddler

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>>4213134
Billy and Jimmy's goddamn hair colors and the fact that they couldn't decide which of them was dating Marian.

>>4213093
they can make the animation better with the budget because its just a short 30sec clip. Similar to how the intro has better animation.

>>4211159

i mean honestly as a consumer id buy the red shirted bart thinking the blue was a boot leg and either way id rather have him correctly colored than care if it was "official" in those days.

>>4213539
Bimmy was

>>4211192
Yep, me too. That book was so silly.

>>4213539

What I wouldnt give for a high res version of this without the screenshots and text.

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>>4214157
here you go

>>4214171

oh /vr/ why are you so mean? ;_;

>>4214325
shut up milhouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbbKsAZatao

>>4214171
Was there any reason why they used that ripoff/traceover of the original flyer art instead of the original for the PC versions?

The reason a lot of early Bart memorabilia depicts him in a blue shirt is marketing. They wanted to distinguish him from Lisa and make him more appealing to boys. Pretty soon the characters became iconic enough that this kind of subconcious jiggery-pokery isn't worth as much as just giving people the orange-red Bart they recognize.

>>4211380
They've changed, man.