JonTron posted a review of the series on March 26, 2012, bringing popularity to the then-obscure series. Meanwhile, the Sonic The Hedgehog Twitter account had an interaction with that for Bubsy and Mega Man wherein each interaction gained hundreds of retweets and likes (shown below, right).īecause of the series' poor sales and reception, Bubsy was not very popular throughout the 90's and 2000's, although Bubsy 3D was given a parodic review by Electronic Gaming Monthly's writer Seanbaby in 2002, listing it as the seventeenth worst game ever made. On /r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, Masterness64 made a joke about the title and the Super Best Friends Play member Woolie Madden that gained over 260 points (shown below, left). Both Kotaku and Polygon wrote incredulous articles about the upcoming Bubsy game. Online, the news was met with trepidation. The game will follow Bubsy in his quest for the "beloved golden fleece" and touts features such as new exotic locations, 100 additional one-liners, and, according to gaming news site Gematsu, "the gnarliest UFO to ever grace a Bubsy adventure." The game will be developed by Offenburg-based developers Black Forest Games, known for their reboot entries in the Giana Sisters series, and published by Accolade, now reformed as a subsidiary of Hong-Kong based company Billion Soft, for Playstation 4 and PC and will be released in fall of 2017. On June 8th, 2017, a trailer was uploaded to YouTube for the upcoming game titled Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back (shown below). Shortly after its submission, Bubsy Two-Fur was greenlit and was released on the Steam Store a day later. Bubsy Two-Fur was a digitally emulated version of the first two Bubsy games, emulated with the program Snes9x. On December 16th, 2015, Bubsy Two-Fur was submitted to the Steam Greenlight service by Steam Community users Sentinent Pizza, Tommo Inc., goodguy58, and Knosmirc. Aside from the video game series, a pilot episode for a Bubsy animated series was aired on television in 1993, to promote the video game series. On the cover and promotional images of the game, Bubsy 3D advertised itself by quoting comments from the gaming magazine 'PSExtreme', who gave it the "Gold X" award, and misquoting Electronic Games Magazine's review, which had been a negative review of the game. Bubsy 3D was heavily panned by critics due to its plain graphics and restrictive controls. The last game in the series, Bubsy 3D: Furbitten Planet (referred to as just "Bubsy 3D"), as the name implies, plays in a three-dimensional environment. Bubsy In Fractured Furry Tales, the third game in the series, was released exclusively for the Atari Jaguar, and only used elements from the first game. Bubsy 2 had nearly identical gameplay mechanics, but introduced the ability to use projectile weapons. He has the ability to glide, allowing him to hover above obstacles. In-game, Bubsy is very fragile almost anything in the game kills him instantly, even falling damage and seemingly harmless props. The game's plot involves an alien race called "woolies" stealing the world's supply of yarn balls, which Bubsy must recover from them. The first game in the series, Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, was released in 1993 for the SNES and the Sega Genesis.
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