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The Simpsons Skateboarding

The Simpsons Skateboarding is a sports video game where players have to skate in locations around Springfield. Nine characters are available to compete for the grand prize. Each character has over forty unique…

20 12 November 2002

The Simpsons Skateboarding is a sport developed by The Code Monkeys, released 12 November 2002 on PlayStation 2.

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What The Simpsons Skateboarding is

The Simpsons Skateboarding is a sport game developed by The Code Monkeys and released in 2002. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Springfield has been converted into a skate park for the Annual Skate Tour, full of skate-able objects and landmarks from the television series.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the The Simpsons series

The Simpsons Skateboarding is the 31st of 47 entries we hold in the The Simpsons series. It arrived 12 months after The Simpsons: Road Rage. The next entry was The Simpsons: Road Rage in 2003. Its critic score of 20 is 42 points below the series average of 62. The highest-rated entry is Scene it? The Simpsons: Deluxe Edition at 80.

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How it was received

The Simpsons Skateboarding holds a critic score of 20 out of 100. That places it above 0% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 48 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The Simpsons Skateboarding launched on 12 November 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Metroid Fusion. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Metroid Fusion.

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When did The Simpsons Skateboarding come out?
The Simpsons Skateboarding was released on 12 November 2002 for PlayStation 2.

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