bubsy

If you were around in the early 90’s, then you know the video game market was 90% composed of fuzzy creatures with attitude who wouldn’t shut up. They wore sunglasses and rode skateboards and kicked Dr. Machino’s butt and anything else an out of touch bald man in a suit thought was cool. When people think back to this era, the first mascot that comes to mind is the cat-pun-slinging walking disaster known as Bubsy. The thing about Bubsy is, there were other mascots worse than him (Cheetahmen), and there were certainly ones more obnoxious than him (Boogerman, and no, I didn’t make that name up). His first game wasn’t Mario-quality but it wasn’t LJN-level either. Bubsy might have had a quiet shelf life and faded into obscurity like Aero the Acro-Bat, were it not for the final game to bear his name: Bubsy 3D, regarded as one of the single worst video games ever sold. Released one month after Mario 64, it was an early attempt at 3D gaming