In The Simpsons Skateboarding, players take the four members of the Simpsons family plus Otto, Chief Wiggum, Professor Frink, Nelson and Krusty the Clown to ten skating locations around Springfield.

Gameplay is similar to the Tony Hawk series, though the trick system is slightly different with some moves involving Street-Fighteresque quarter rolls of the d-pad.

Each level has three kinds of objectives. Skillz school mode has challenges that involve doing specific tricks. There are five untimed goals and a final timed goal in each level. At first it serves as a tutorial of sorts, but it gets difficult later on.

In skatefest, players are assigned five goals per level. Each level has one goal where you spell a word, one where you collect items, one where you find clocks in something similar to a checkpoint race and two miscellaneous goals.

The final mode is a timed trick contest mode, where the objective is to get a given score within a time limit.

All of these modes earn money, which is used to upgrade the characters' skating abilities. There are also various secret items to find or to unlock by completing objectives.

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TotalVideoGames (TVG)	Dec 06, 2002	5 out of 10	50
Absolute Playstation	2002	49 out of 100	49
Netjak	Dec 30, 2002	4.6 out of 10	46
All Game Guide	2002		40
GameSpot	Nov 26, 2002	3.9 out of 10	39
Armchair Empire, The	Jan 20, 2003	3.6 out of 10	36
GameZone	Nov 24, 2002	3 out of 10	30
IGN	Nov 19, 2002	2.5 out of 10	25
Eurogamer	Jan 01, 2003	2 out of 10	20
Game Informer Magazine	Dec, 2002	1 out of 10	10