Bubsy

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In 1993 every publisher seemed to want its own Sonic, and Accolade's answer showed up in a white T-shirt with an exclamation mark on the front, cracking jokes at every turn. Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind brought a fast, wisecracking bobcat to the Super Nintendo, along with a catchphrase that followed him for decades: "What could possibly go wrong?"

The plot is pure Saturday-morning cartoon. The Woolies, aliens from the planet Rayon, have come to Earth to steal its yarn, and Bubsy, whose own yarn ball collection is his pride and joy, takes it personally. What follows is a sprint through big, sprawling stages packed with enemies to pounce on, yarn balls to collect and hidden corners to find. Bubsy runs at speed, spreads his arms to glide across long gaps and punctuates his many defeats with spoken one-liners.

That is also where the game's famous difficulty lives. Bubsy goes down in a single hit, and a fall from too great a height will finish him off as well, so the speed the stages invite becomes a gamble every time you take it. Players remember the game both ways, as a bright, punchy slice of mascot-era platforming and as a stern test of patience. Either way, it left a mark on a generation of Super Nintendo owners.

The bobcat, created by designer Michael Berlyn, got his own animated pilot the same year, a sequel in 1994 and, much later, a 2017 revival. This cartridge is where the whole saga started, a snapshot of the moment when attitude and a catchphrase felt like enough to launch a mascot, and the right place to judge Bubsy's original run for yourself.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1993
Publisher
Playtronic
Developer
Solid Software
Players
Single player
About the game

Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, known as Bubsy for short, is a platform video game released by Accolade in the early 1990s. It is the first game in the Bubsy series of video games. The game's name is a play on words in reference to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with the game revolving around Bubsy defending the planet's supply of yarnballs from alien invaders. The game received a sequel, Bubsy 2, in 1994.

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