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Scott McCrae

Roguelike legend Edmund McMillen crammed 200 Simpsons-inspired intros into his new strategy game Mewgenics, and I'm ashamed I didn't notice sooner: "There's like 200 couch gags"

Mewgenics collars.

Mewgenics' intro was inspired by The Simpsons, with over 200 variations of the cartoon's intro playing when you boot up the game.

In the 100+ hours I've collected over the last month on 2026's highest-rated game Mewgenics, I began to notice its intro cutscene is slightly different whenever I start it up. It somehow took me even longer to realize the intro was effectively a parody of The Simpsons, with its title appearing into the sky before flying through the town of Boon County – but I never put the obvious two and two together and realized the different intros themselves are a Simpsons gag.

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