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The Simpsons: Road Rage is a 2001 video game based on the animated television series The Simpsons, is part of a series of games based on the show. It was released for Xbox and GameCube. A Game Boy Advance version was released in 2003; the Simpsons: Road Rage was added to the Backwards Compatibility program of the Xbox 360 for original Xbox games. The game stars Homer, Marge and Lisa, as well as Mr. Burns and several other characters from the show; the Simpsons: Road Rage is similar to Sega's 1999 video game Crazy Taxi, in that the main objective is to drive picked up passengers to their destinations as as possible. These similarities led to Sega suing Radical Entertainment and Electronic Arts for patent infringement, though it was settled before going to court; the game received mixed reviews, being considered a bare-bones Crazy Taxi clone and criticised for its poor graphics. The Simpsons: Road Rage is based on the animated television series The Simpsons. In the story of the game, Mr. Burns has bought all transit systems in Springfield and has begun to create radioactive buses that threaten the public health.

Because of this, the citizens of Springfield must use their own cars as a means of safer public transport and earn money in an attempt to pay back Burns to get rid of the radioactive buses and return the town back to normal. The citizens of the city earn money by driving around a vehicle for a given amount of time, picking up passengers and taking them to their destinations; the player receives money upon dropping off each passenger, bonuses are obtained when they are transported in a short amount of time. Players have to avoid certain hurdles, such as Burns' nuclear transit buses; the game contains seventeen different collectible vehicles, six starting locations and ten different missions. In order to collect the vehicles and unlock starting locations, players must earn progressively more money for each vehicle or starting location they want to get. In order to complete missions, players must do certain things. At first, the only playable characters are Homer, Bart and Grampa, but as the game progresses more characters are unlocked.

There is a multiplayer mode in which the two players compete to pick up the same passengers and drive them to their destinations. The Simpsons: Road Rage was developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts; the PlayStation 2 version was released first, on November 24, 2001 in North America, the Xbox and GameCube versions followed in December of that year. The cast members of The Simpsons provided their voices for the game. Voice samples original to the game, as well as one-liners from the show, can be heard in Road Rage. A version for the Game Boy Advance, developed by Altron and published by THQ, was released in North America on June 30, 2003. THQ reached a publishing agreement with Fox Interactive in 2002 that gave them the rights to publish this version and a Buffy the Vampire Slayer game. Germaine Gioia, vice president of licensing at THQ, said 'The Simpsons and Buffy properties have enjoyed tremendous consumer appeal in nearly every product category, including video game successes.

Both properties will serve to further bolster our leadership position on the Game Boy Advance.' In 2003, the video game developer Sega filed a lawsuit against Fox Interactive, Electronic Arts, Radical Entertainment, claiming that The Simpsons: Road Rage was a patent infringement of Sega's Crazy Taxi. In that game, the main objective is to pick up passengers and drive them to their chosen destinations quickly. According to IGN, 'Road Rage features similar game play, to the point where some reviews commented negatively on the parallels.' The case, Sega of America, Inc. v. Fox Interactive, et al. was settled in private for an undisclosed amount. By July 2006, the PlayStation 2 version of The Simpsons: Road Rage had sold 1.6 million copies and earned $41 million in the United States. Next Generation ranked it as the 25th highest-selling game launched for the PlayStation 2, Xbox or GameCube between January 2000 and July 2006 in that country. Combined sales of Simpsons console games released in the 2000s reached 5.2 million units in the United States by July 2006.

The PlayStation 2 version received a 'Platinum' sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association, indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom. The game received 'mixed or average reviews' on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Amer Ajami of GameSpot said that the PlayStation 2 version 'suffers from a number of problems, not the least of, bad collision detection. You'll find yourself clipping a corner of a building or slamming into another car though you have room to spare.' Ajami was disappointed with the slippery and overly sensitive control. Ajami added, that fans of the show should enjoy the game. IGN's David Zdyrko said of the same console version that 'the gameplay just isn't deep or compelling enough to warrant picking this title up unless you MUST have every single product with The Simpsons plastered on it.' Zdyrko criticized the graphics, stating that the 'framerate chugs in some of the levels when there are a lot of cars on screen and the textures are low resolution and bland.'

Zdyrko said the 'hilarious voice samples' were the 'lone bright spot' of the game, although he admitted that some of them can get a bit repetitive. The Simpsons: Road Rage at MobyGames The Simpsons: Road Rage at MobyGames

The Simpsons: Road Rage is a 2001 video game based on the animated television series The Simpsons, and is part of a series of games based on the show.It was released for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube.A Game Boy Advance version was released later. The game stars Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa, as well as Mr. Burns and several other characters from the show. Gamespace19news on GameRankings. THQ ships two for the GBA. First look: The Simpsons Road Rage.

Sulmin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żukowo, within Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Sulmin lies 8 kilometres south-east of Żukowo, 18 km east of Kartuzy, 13 km south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. Older versions of the village's name are Sulmink and Zullmin. Up to the turn from the 19th to the 20th century Sulmin had been an estate. Around that time the factory owner Hartmann from Langfuhr bought the estates of Sulmin, Hochkelpin and Nestempohl comprising an area of about 30.7 km² for 1.2 Million Mark for settling purposes. It had been expected. After it turned out that the military had no need for this terrain, Hartman offered it for sale to the Prussian settling commission for Poznań and West Prussia; the latter organization brought families of Protestant German settlers into the area, most of them being former colonists from Russia, to where they had emigrated a century ago or earlier and where in recent times they had been subjected to political pressure.

Other settlers came from Brandenburg, Silesia and Thuringia. In the framework of this campaign 95 parcels were generated in the area, 21 of them in Sulmin, 11 in Ottomin, 23 in Smengorschin and Hochkelpin as well as 40 in Nestempohl. In 1905 a school was built, the laying for the foundation stone of a new church took place, opened in 1906. Up to the end of World War I Sulmin belonged to Kreis Danziger Höhe of the German Province of West Prussia. Over the time span 1920–1939 Sulmin together with the village of Richthof was part of the Polish Corridor arranged according to the regulations of the Treaty of Versailles. During the period 1939–1945 the region was part of the Third Reich. At the beginning of March 1945, shortly before the end of World War II, the area was occupied by the Red Army. After the end of the war it was put under the administration of the People's Republic of Poland. For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania; the population present in Sulmin prior to 1920 was predominantly Protestant.

On August 15, 1907, Sulmin became a self-consistent parish. In 1938 the church books were in Löblau. Wilhelm Brauer: Der KreisKarthaus - Ein westpreußisches Heimatbuch, Radke, Lübeck 1978, in particular pp. 220–221

The Montalbán Municipality is one of the 14 municipalities that makes up the Venezuelan state of Carabobo and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 24,908. The town of Montalbán is the shire town of the Montalbán Municipality; the Montalbán Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 23,712. This amounts to 1.1% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is 221.61 inhabitants per square kilometre. The mayor of the Montalbán Municipality is Luis Sánchez, elected on November 23, 2008 with 44% of the vote, he replaced Tulio Salvatierra Salazar shortly after the elections. The municipality is divided into one parish. Montalbán Carabobo Municipalities of Venezuela

Layyah Faris Anton Alkazin Barakat was a Syrian-born Christian missionary, temperance activist, prison reformer, based after 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the first Arab-American woman to write and publish her autobiography, when A Message from Mount Lebanon was published in 1912. Layyah Faris Anton Alkazin was born at Abeih near Mount Lebanon, her father died in the 1860 Mount Lebanon civil war. She was educated by German missionaries, at an American girls' school in Beirut. In Beirut and Cairo, Layya Alkazin Barakat worked with Presbyterian missionaries as a teacher, she escaped the ‘Urabi revolt in 1882 and immigrated to the United States that year, with her daughter, her husband, his brother, other family members. In the United States Layyah Barakat took an interest in reform work prison reform and temperance, she served on committees of the Pennsylvania Prison Society and inspecting prisons with other concerned men and women. She was a delegate to the fourth world conference of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Toronto in 1897.

She was 'a delightful public speaker... much in demand' for women's church groups, where she was admired for her 'sweet face and simple story', but for her 'fervent eloquence'. Layyah Barakat's autobiography, A Message from Mount Lebanon, is believed to be the first autobiography by an Arab-American woman to be published. In 1919 she carried donated clothing to Syria. In 1922, a small orphanage for girls in Syria was opened by Protestant missionaries and named after Layyah Barakat, in recognition of her fundraising work, she traveled back to her hometown to attend the opening. Layyah Alkazin married a fellow Christian missionary in Egypt, her brother-in-law was an ordained Presbyterian minister and lecturer. She was widowed when Elias Barakat died in 1909. Layyah Barakat died in 1940, aged 81 years. A photograph of Layyah Alkazin Barakat as a younger woman, in the Wylie House image collection, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington. A photograph of Layyah Alkazin Barakat in life, in the Faris and Yamna Naff Arab American Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Sir John Tyrwhitt, 5th Baronet, of Stainfield, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1715 and 1734. Tyrwhitt was the only surviving son of Sir Philip Tyrwhitt, 4th Baronet MP of Stainfield and his wife Penelope de la Fountain, daughter of Sir Erasmus de la Fountain of Kirkby Beilars, Leicestershire, his father died in July 1688, when he succeeded to baronetcy. He married his first wife Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of Francis Phillips of Kempton Park, Middlesex on 24 February 1691. For the year 1693 to 1694 he was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, he made a second marriage, by licence of 5 August 1704, to Mary Drake daughter of Sir William Drake of Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire. Tyrwhitt was returned unopposed as WhigMember of Parliament for Lincoln on his family’s interest at the 1715 general election, he supported the Administration in 1716 on the septennial bill, but in 1719 opposed the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts. At the 1722 general election he was elected MP for Lincoln in a contest but was defeated in 1727.

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'Chances' is a song by Swedish pop music duo Roxette, released on 28 December 1988 by EMI as the first international single from their second studio album, Look Sharp!. The single was issued on 7' and 12' vinyl formats in Germany and Italy, where it failed to chart; the single was followed two weeks by 'The Look', which became their breakthrough international hit. 'Chances' is a pop rock song, containing instrumentation and elements indicative of hard rock and industrial pop. The album version has a length of four minutes and fifty-seven seconds, while the single edit is fifty seconds shorter; the song is performed in the key of E minor, is composed in the 44 time signature with an allegro moderato tempo of 118 beats per minute. The intro is composed of two repetitions of an E♭–D♭–B♭–C♯ sequence, each verse and pre-chorus consists of two sequences of Em–D–Bm–C; the refrain is built on two repetitions of Em–C–G–D, followed by an extended sequence of Am–Bm–Em–C–G–D. The basic chord structure of the first half of the bridge, which contains a guitar solo, consists of two repetitions of Fm–D♭–A♭–E♭, followed by a single sequence of B♭–Fm–Cm.

Upon completion of the guitar solo, the remainder of the bridge consists of a repeating F–Fm–Cm–Fm–D♭ pattern, followed by a single abbreviated sequence of Fm–Cm–A♭m. The song was one of three tracks on Look Sharp! to be produced by Adam Moseley at Trident Studios in London. EMI Germany chose to release the song as the album's first international single on 28 December 1988, following the Swedish-only singles 'Dressed for Success' and 'Listen to Your Heart'. Per Gessle commented that it was chosen 'probably because it was one of the English songs, not because it was one of the best; the single was a complete failure.' It failed to chart in the three territories where it was released: France and Italy. The single was backed by a demo version of 'Silver Blue', which appeared in re-recorded form on the duo's 1992 album Tourism. A music video was produced for 'Chances'. Directed by Jeroen Kamphoff, it alters between concert footage in color, black-and-white footage from a casino with Marie Fredriksson as a Black Jack dealer and croupier at a Roulette-table, Gessle as a gambler.

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All songs composed by Per Gessle. 7' single'Chances' – 4:07 'Silver Blue' – 4:0612' single'Chances' – 8:24 'Chances' – 4:07 'Silver Blue' – 4:06 Credits adapted from the liner notes of Look Sharp!. Recorded at Trident II Studios in London in June 1988. Musicians Marie Fredriksson – lead and background vocals Per Gessle – background vocals and mixing Julian Adair – production assistant Graham Edwards – bass guitar Morris Michael – electric and acoustic guitars Adam Moseley – engineering and production Clarence Öfwerman – mixing Alar Suurna – mixing Andrew Wright – keyboards and programming Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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The Simpsons Road Rage is a 2001 video game based on the animated television seriesThe Simpsons, and is part of a series of games based on the show. It was developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 2, the Xbox, and the GameCube. A Game Boy Advance version was released a while afterwards.

The game stars Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa, as well as Mr. Burns and several other characters from the show. The Simpsons Road Rage is similar to the game Crazy Taxi by Sega in that the main objective is to drive picked up passengers to their destinations as fast as possible. These similarities led to Sega suing Radical Entertainment and Electronic Arts for patent infringement. The game received mixed reviews.

Gameplay and plot

The Simpsons Road Rage is based on the animated television series The Simpsons. In the story of the game, Mr. Burns has bought all transit systems in Springfield and has begun to create radioactive buses that threaten the public health. Because of this the citizens of Springfield must use their own cars as a means of safer public transport and earn money in an attempt to pay back Burns to get rid of the radioactive buses and return the town back to normal.^[1][2]

The citizens of the city (controlled by the game player) earn the money by driving around a vehicle for a given amount of time, picking up passengers and taking them to their destinations.^[1] The player receives money upon successfully dropping off each passenger, and bonuses are obtained when they are transported in a short amount of time.^[2] Players have to avoid certain hurdles, such as other vehicles and Burns's nuclear transit buses. The game contains seventeen different collectible vehicles, six starting locations, and ten different missions. In order to collect the vehicles and unlock starting locations, players must earn progressively more money for each vehicle or starting location they want to get. In order to complete missions, players must do certain things (such as protecting Krusty the Clown from a fan mob by driving him away, and getting Homer to his workplace unnoticed).^[2]

At first, the only playable characters (taxi drivers) are Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Grampa, but as the game progresses more characters are unlocked. There is also a multiplayer mode in which the two players compete to pick up the same passengers and drive them to their destinations.^[1]

Development and release

The Simpsons Road Rage was developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. The PlayStation 2 version was released first, on November 24, 2001 in North America, and the Xbox and GameCube versions followed in December of that year.^[3] The cast members of The Simpsons provided their voices for the game. Voice samples original to the game, as well as one-liners from the show, can be heard in Road Rage.^[4]

A version for the hand-held Game Boy Advance (GBA), developed by Altron and published by THQ, was released in North America on June 30, 2003.^[5] THQ reached a publishing agreement with Fox Interactive in 2002 that gave them the rights to publish this version and a Buffy the Vampire Slayer game. Germaine Gioia, vice president of licensing at THQ, said 'The Simpsons and Buffy properties have enjoyed tremendous consumer appeal in nearly every product category, including video game successes. Both properties will serve to further bolster our leadership position on the Game Boy Advance.'^[6]

Controversy

In 2003, the video game developer Sega filed a lawsuit against Fox Interactive, Electronic Arts, and Radical Entertainment, claiming that The Simpsons Road Rage was a patent infringement of Sega's Crazy Taxi. In that game, the main objective is also to pick up passengers and drive them to their chosen destinations quickly. According to IGN, 'Road Rage features similar game play, to the point where some reviews commented negatively on the parallels.'^[7] The case, Sega of America, Inc. v. Fox Interactive, et al., was settled in private for an undisclosed amount.^[8]

Critical reception

The game received generally moderate reviews from critics. On Metacritic, the PS2 version received a 64/100 rating,^[9] the Xbox version a 61/100 rating,^[10] the GameCube version a 67/100 rating,^[11] and the GBA version a 55/100 rating.^[12] Amer Ajami of GameSpot rated the PS2 version 6.2 out of 10, writing that it 'suffers from a number of problems, not the least of which is bad collision detection. You'll often find yourself clipping a corner of a building or slamming into another car even though you have room to spare.'^[2] He was also disappointed with the 'extremely slippery and are overly sensitive' control. He added, however, that fans of the show should enjoy the game.^[2]IGN's David Zdyrko gave the PS2 version of Road Rage a 5.1/10 rating, commenting that 'the gameplay just isn't deep or compelling enough to warrant picking this title up unless you absolutely MUST have every single product with The Simpsons plastered on it.'^[4] Zdyrko also criticized the graphics, stating that 'framerate chugs in some of the levels when there are a lot of cars on screen and the textures are generally low resolution and completely bland.'^[4]

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Game Informer was more positive, giving the GameCube version an eight out of ten rating and writing that 'though a little short on gameplay depth, Road Rage is worth repeated play because of the show-lifted locations and both original and reused character quotes.'^[11] Similarly, Zdyrko thought the 'hilarious voice samples' were the 'lone bright spot' of the game, although he admitted that some of them can get a bit repetitive.^[4]

References

1. ^ ^abcTorres, Ricardo (September 14, 2001). 'Hands-on The Simpsons Road Rage'. GameSpot. http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/driving/simpsonsroadrage/news/2812625/hands-onthe-simpsons-road-rage?sid=2812625&mode=previews. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
2. ^ ^abcdeAjamiAjami, Amer (December 3, 2001). 'The Simpsons Road Rage Review'. GameSpot. http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/driving/simpsonsroadrage/review.html. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
3. ^Ahmed, Shahed (November 19, 2001). 'The Simpsons Road Rage ships for the PS2'. GameSpot. http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/driving/simpsonsroadrage/news/2825837/the-simpsons-road-rage-ships-for-the-ps2?mode=all. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
4. ^ ^abcdZdyrko, David (November 27, 2001). 'The Simpsons Road Rage'. IGN. http://ps2.ign.com/articles/166/166782p1.html. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
5. ^'The Simpsons: Road Rage Tech Info'. GameSpot. http://www.gamespot.com/gba/driving/simpsonsroadrage/tech_info.html?tag=tabs%3Bsummary. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
6. ^Varanini, Giancarlo (July 16, 2002). 'THQ and Fox enter into publishing agreement'. GameSpot. http://www.gamespot.com/gba/driving/simpsonsroadrage/news/2874502/thq-and-fox-enter-into-publishing-agreement?mode=all. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
7. ^Adams, David (2003-12-05). 'SEGA Sues Fox and EA'. IGN. http://ps2.ign.com/articles/445/445010p1.html. Retrieved 2007-08-14.
8. ^'Profile of Robert J. Yorio'. Carr & Ferrell LLC. http://www.carrferrell.com/attorneys_yorio.html. Retrieved 2007-08-14.^{[dead link]}
9. ^'The Simpsons Road Rage'. Metacritic. http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-2/the-simpsons-road-rage. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
10. ^'The Simpsons Road Rage'. Metacritic. http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox/the-simpsons-road-rage. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
11. ^ ^ab'The Simpsons Road Rage'. Metacritic. http://www.metacritic.com/game/gamecube/the-simpsons-road-rage. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
12. ^'The Simpsons Road Rage'. Metacritic. http://www.metacritic.com/game/game-boy-advance/the-simpsons-road-rage/critic-reviews. Retrieved June 7, 2011.

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