OFFICIAL BUBSY HYPE THREAD
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One-on-One Interview with Bubsy the Bobcat
Bubsy the Bobcat was a gaming legend in the 90s with titles on the Jaguar, SNES, PlayStation, Genesis and PC that skyrocketed to the middle of the charts. Suddenly, Bubsy was gone… he dropped out of sight, left the business and left no forwarding address. In 2015 Bubsy Two-Fur, a Bubsy homage, appeared on Steam with the help of the votes of over 60,000 fans (and a few against). Today, following the announcement of the all new Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back, we sat down with the elusive Bobcat and discussed his past, his disappearance and the new game.
Reporter: Bubsy, why after all these years are you coming back now?
Bubsy: I found a residual check for Bubsy Two-Fur in my PO Box. That’s when I knew: Yeah, I’m thinking I’m back.
Reporter: So you were out the game business entirely before then. How did you live? What did you do to earn a living?
Bubsy: I realized that I couldn’t get any lower after the unauthorized indie pixel games and deeveeart portraits. But then I got a call from a Q-List producer from Liechtenstein. Seems Liechtenstein is the 6th smallest country but also the richest! Plus, they LOOOOVE me there.
Reporter: So you made more games?
Bubsy: I made movies… Really bad movies. Like, Bubsy 3D… bad movies.
Reporter: Would we have heard of any of them?
Bubsy: I don’t know…. The Good, The Bad and the Bobcat, Bubsy and the Lost Ark, Bobcats of the Caribbean, and of course my favorite, The Sound of Bubsy, a musical starring me and Julie Anderson.
Reporter: These all sound weirdly familiar.
Bubsy: Of course they do! It’s Liechtenstein. There are like 7 people, but tickets are REEALLY expensive.
Reporter: So why did you stop?
Bubsy: A lawyer finally moved into Liechtenstein and told the producer that he couldn’t make “other peoples’” movies anymore.
Reporter: And then came Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back?
Bubsy: Well, I moved back to LA – but they had already rented out the apartment I had 20 years ago, those monsters. I was pretty down on my luck and considered auditioning as Crash Bandicoot’s stunt double.
Reporter: No!
Bubsy: Yeeeesssss! But then I got THE call.
Reporter: From Accolade?
Bubsy: I don’t know, my agent got the call. Anyway, I read the script.
Reporter: And you loved it!
Bubsy: It stars ME! I have all the dialog, what’s NOT to love! AND, they were going to pay me! Also, I thought the modern retelling of the story of man as told by a Bobcat, was pretty cool too.
Reporter: …it’s a platforming game right?
Bubsy: Running, jumping, gliding… they’re all metaphors for life. Just ask Mario.
Reporter: Do you know Mario?
Bubsy: No, what’s your point?
Reporter: Do you think the new game, Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back will propel you back to the top? Errr the middle?
Bubsy: I’m counting on it!
Reporter: Well, what could possibly go wrong?
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Wow, the creators of this have identified all the elements of Bubsy that sort of worked and eliminated them.
This is the definitively bad video-game.
Future generations will whisper it’s name and know the folly of man.
I want to hear the argument that one of the positive traits about Bubsy is that he’s so fast as to be almost uncontrollable and to have level design that doesn’t take this into account
GS:Twisted Dreams is a-okay in my book so devs who understand what a good game is might make Bubsy not-terrible
That is the footage they use to showcase their game? It looks like the most molasses-y, stiff, boring platformer nonsense.
Does everyone get a revival now? Where is Aero the Acrobat? Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel?
I feel like somehow Dave Halverson is to blame for this.
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SAME FRANCHISE
And yeah, this looks like a reskinned Giana Sisters. GS was fine, but, you know, was a different kind of platformer.
He is so fast as to be almost uncontrollable and the level design SOMETIMES takes this into account, but the game design doesn’t. If you didn’t die in one hit then running around stupidly fast would be great.
In several stretches of the game you can memorize the enemy placement and kind of see that greatness.
One of the later levels is literally a roller coaster. The level designers knew.
there’s a name I haven’t heard in a while
Why would anyone expect or want this game to be good?
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I never want any game to be poorly. Isnt it nicer to wish well for everything?
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Sure, but i feel like this just wouldn’t be Bubsy if it was actually good.
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More shallow, brain-dead 90’s nostalgia.
I liked what little I played of Aero the Acrobat. The controls felt alright, more than I can say for Bubsy.
Why is a featureless crotch the first part you see of the titular character
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They just released a new version of the James Turrell game (the only Bubsy game I have ever played):
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not just dying in one hit, but also dying from falling off of platforms and running into walls. he’s like the 90s mascot version of spelunker!