Bubsy

Bubsy
Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind SNES gameplay
Developers	Accolade, Eidetic
Publishers	Accolade, Retroism
Creators	Michael Berlyn
First release	Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind 1993
Latest release	Bubsy 3D 1996

Bubsy is a series of video games created by Michael Berlyn and developed and published by Accolade. Four games were released in the series: Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, Bubsy 2, Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales and Bubsy 3D. The games are platform games similar to Super Mario Bros. and Sonic the Hedgehog. The games were originally released for the Super NES, Genesis, Jaguar, the PC and PlayStation in the early and mid-1990s. In 2015, a compilation of the first two games was released for Microsoft Windows through Steam, by a company called Retroism. In addition to the games, a television pilot was created for a Bubsy cartoon show based on the video game series, though it was not picked up to be turned into a full-fledged series.

The rights to Bubsy and its sequels are currently owned by Tommo Inc., because Atari (the successor in interest of Accolade) auctioned the series rights off in 2014.

The first Bubsy game was released in May 1993 by Accolade for the SNES, and later for the Genesis. The plot focuses on a race of fabric-stealing aliens called "Woolies", who have stolen the world's yarn ball supply (especially Bubsy's, who owns the world's largest collection).

Bubsy 2 was released shortly after the first game, on October 28, 1994. In the game, the antagonist, Oinker P. Hamm, has created his "Amazatorium", which actually saps information away from history, and puts it on display, for his personal profit. It's up to the player to control Bubsy and stop this. The game features five levels; a music-themed world, a medieval era, an Egyptian area, an outer space zone, and an aerial zone with Bubsy flying a World War I biplane.