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Hey, kids! Give a hoot! Help out your old pal Krusty the Clown! My official Krusty's Fun House is infested with rats! There are over 60 levels in this game, and they're all crawling with the little varmints! I've got my loyal cadets, Bart and Homer Simpson, to guard the rat traps, but I need you ...

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Developer
Audiogenic Software

Released on
1992

Size
1 Player

Version
NES

Requirements
Nintendo Entertainment System

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Publisher
Acclaim Entertainment

ESRB Rating
Not Rated

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Hey, kids! Give a hoot! Help out your old pal Krusty the Clown! My official Krusty’s Fun House is infested with rats! There are over 60 levels in this game, and they’re all crawling with the little varmints! I’ve got my loyal cadets, Bart and Homer Simpson, to guard the rat traps, but I need you to lead the filthy rodents into those traps! Then we blow ’em up! We incinerate ’em! We laser-blast ’em! We electrocute ’em! We Krusterize the little stinkers!!! Hoo boy!
Did I mention the snakes, aliens and the flying pigs? Well, watch out for those riffraff! If you can’t Krusterize ’em, at least avoid ’em… they’re worse than the #@!*%l rats! Making Krusty’s Fun House vermin-free is not a pretty task, kiddy cadets-but someone’s gotta do it!

Krusty's Fun House

Overview & History

Released by Acclaim Entertainment in 1992 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Krusty's Fun House places players in the oversized shoes of Springfield's favorite cynical television clown. Developed by Audiogenic, this puzzle-platformer diverges from typical licensed shovelware by implementing a remarkably cerebral gameplay loop that evokes classic puzzle games like Lemmings. The plot revolves around a severe rat infestation at Krusty's television studio. To save his broadcast empire, Krusty must guide persistent, mindless marching rats through a series of chaotic, fun-house-themed rooms directly into extermination devices disguised as giant sliding puzzle boxes. Rather than relying purely on platforming agility, the game challenges the player's spatial awareness, resource management, and strategic foresight across increasingly intricate stages set within the fun house, warehouse, and studio lots.

Gameplay Features & Mechanics

Unlike standard platformers where enemies are simply jumped on, Krusty's Fun House requires players to interact directly with the AI pathfinding of the advancing rats. Krusty navigates multi-tiered levels using ladders, sliding poles, and trampolines, armed primarily with a mallet to stun enemies and various types of directional blocks. These blocks—including arrows, stop signs, and stairs—must be strategically placed along the rats' marching routes to alter their trajectories, bypass deadly hazards like fans and toxic sludge, and lead them safely to the vacuum traps at the end of each stage. Along the way, Krusty collects tokens to unlock bonus minigames featuring Bart and Homer Simpson, and uncovers hidden password items. The controls demand absolute precision; accidentally placing a block the wrong way can prematurely send a line of rats into a fatal drop, forcing Krusty to hustle back across the screen to fix the puzzle before time runs out.