The year: 1993.
The goal: copy the success of sonic and mario.
The game industry had been utterly and completely ruled by nintendo with mario being their main man, so when a newcomer named sonic appeared on the scene and stole mario's clout, companies took notice. Why was sonic so successfull? Sega was able to portray mario as the slow old guy while sonic was the fast guy with attitude. Seeing the previously unstoppable nintendo falter in the face of sonic brought hope to other companies who thought to themselves"if we make a character who has attitude and appeals to younger kids, then maybe we can get rich too!" This line of thinking made several characters from the good, like sparkster and earthworm jim, to the bad, like puggsy and aero the acrobat. It also gave us the character in this feature story........ bubsy.
For those of you who missed bubsy.... consider yourself lucky. Basically, he was a bobcat with a white shirt that had an exclamation point on it for no good reason whatsoever. Bubsy was "filled with tude!" according to the developers, but I mean they made him, they cant be trusted with the actual amount of whatever tude is in bubsy, if you made a video game i'm sure you'd be a little biased in your opinion of your game and im not quite sure they realize tude is one letter away from turd. Bubsy was voiced by a "comedian", I say that in quotes because the voice technology was so bad you might as well had been listening to vacuum cleaner sucking up an angry cat, tail first and also because the guy who did voice bubsy played tier four characters in cartoons and such. Later in the other games the voice technology was fixed but the phrases which were spewed at you a dozen a minute would still be grounds for ripping your eardrum with an ice pick. mario was an exploring plumber, sonic had speed, heck sparkster was a possum... with a jetpack.... with a sword..... THAT SHOOTS ENERGY...... so what did bubsy have to make him different from the pack? he could glide ..... fantastic......... a bobcat that can glide. thats right.... it seems bobcats can glide.... well at least accolade thinks so... look for their next game mascot featuring turtles that shoot laser beams and lobsters that can spit fire! ok, so bubsy is a "tude filled" bobcat who wears a white sweater with an exclamation point on it for no real reason and can also glide while spewing hip catchphrases at you in an increasing amount depending on what you do. So now that you have an idea of how annoying bubsy is, i'd say you're pretty primed to learn more about bubsy. next time we'll dissect his games and see what makes this fourth rate mascot soooo craptastic.