Atari announces new Bubsy game…

[PowerDubs]

https://www.gematsu.com/games/bubsy-in-the-purrfect-collection
 

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3039890/Bubsy_in_The_Purrfect_Collection/

Edited June 21 by PowerDubs

[Video]

Interesting. I loved the 16 bit bubsy games (yeah, even the fractured furry tales one) and of course the one from a few years back, as short as it was. Never played the 3d one from PlayStation though, wonder if that will make it to a "collection"? Maybe even the fan made one from the 2600 a few years back?

 

Anyhow, hope their aiming for a new content too, there's not exactly a huge number of bubsy games in the pool, but I'd still buy a bubsy collection

[famicommander]

So the collection doesn't even include the Jaguar version or the two modern games?

 

You have to figure the six people on planet earth who wanted a Bubsy collection probably want those.

[Giles N]

Well, here are the screenshots they so far have provided from

the 2025 release (those more familiar with each game can recognize which titles they spot):

 

 

[Giles N]

11 minutes ago, famicommander said:

include the Jaguar version

Perhaps Atari will ‘save’ them for some upcoming Atari 50th DLC expansion…?

 

But they could have the firm working on the game-fixing, - well -, fix the Jaguar versions as well. All it takes, as to balance of presentation and conservation, is including a choice of ‘original mode’ or ‘new mode’ at the start.

[82-T/A]

Bubsy definitely has a following, but I was never particularly a fan of the game. I neither liked it or disliked it... but I did have it for the Jaguar.

[Giles N]

2 hours ago, Giles N said:

those more familiar with each game can recognize which titles they spot

@doctorclu

We need your special Catspertize here.

 

Can you help identify the games from

the screenshots above?

 

List them?

[ukiha]

23 minutes ago, Giles N said:

@doctorclu

We need your special Catspertize here.

 

Can you help identify the games from

the screenshots above?

 

List them?

Looks like the original, Bubsy 2, Bubsy 2 for the gameboy, Furry Tales, and Bubsy 3d

[famicommander]

8 minutes ago, ukiha said:

Looks like the original, Bubsy 2, Bubsy 2 for the gameboy, Furry Tales, and Bubsy 3d

No, it doesn't include Fractured Furry Tales. Just the two 16 bit games, the Game Boy game, and the PS1 game.

[+jeremiahjt]

I do not believe Atari has the rights to Jaguar Bubsy In: Fractured Furry Tales. If you look at what Atari sold during their bankruptcy in 2013, Jaguar Bubsy is not listed in the Bubsy section. Maybe Imagitec Design has the rights.

[famicommander]

9 minutes ago, jeremiahjt said:

I do not believe Atari has the rights to Jaguar Bubsy In: Fractured Furry Tales. If you look at what Atari sold during their bankruptcy in 2013, Jaguar Bubsy is not listed in the Bubsy section. Maybe Imagitec Design has the rights.

That would really be on brand for Atari to own every game in the series except the only one that was ever on an Atari platform.

[doctorclu]

6 hours ago, Giles N said:

@doctorclu

We need your special Catspertize here.

 

Can you help identify the games from

the screenshots above?

 

List them?

Hey glad to help, and comments to follow.  The screen shots you provided it is this...

 

Bubsy: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind  (first Bubsy Game)   Genesis /SNES

 

 

 

Bubsy 2 (otherwise known as "Still No Pants")   Genesis/SNES

 

 

Bubsy 2  for Gameboy Color

 

 

Bubsy 3D: in Furbitten Planet

 

 

5 hours ago, jeremiahjt said:

I do not believe Atari has the rights to Jaguar Bubsy In: Fractured Furry Tales. If you look at what Atari sold during their bankruptcy in 2013, Jaguar Bubsy is not listed in the Bubsy section. Maybe Imagitec Design has the rights.

Truly odd but looking to be the case.

 

4 hours ago, famicommander said:

That would really be on brand for Atari to own every game in the series except the only one that was ever on an Atari platform.

 

Not only that, but a game that Atari actually produced.   I figured Bubsy: Fractured Furry Tales should have been on the collection by Atari if any of them.

 

So here is one Bubsy's opinion of this collection:

 

Bubsy 1 and Bubsy 2... nice.   This was pffered in the steam pack "Bubsy Two Fur", but still nice to play on new platforms.

Bubsy 2 for Gameboy is interesting, but looks like the Super GameBoy emulation of limited color is not even being used here?  Why?

Bubsy 3D is the real gem of this collection is this is the first time Bubsy 3D has been offered for anything other than Playstation 1 or 2.

 

But no Bubsy Fractured Furry Tales?   This is hardly a "Purrfect Collection".   Fans want to play Fractured Furry Tales.  But I'd buy this collection for Bubsy 3D if this collection plays on the PS4 as well as the PS5.

 

Here's hoping that there is more featured in the game collection and that Atari is simply showing what they consider to be the highlights.

Otherwise, without Fractured Furry Tales this should be called "The MOSTLY Purrfect Collection".

 

They can then later make more money selling another collection with Fractured Furry Tales (and even "Kitt'N Kaboodle") and call THAT the Purrfect collection. 

 

 

[+MarcoJ]

I'm a fan of the 16 bit era Bubsy games. Should be interesting.

[famicommander]

Bubsy 1 - if it weren't for all the cheap deaths, bad controls, and horrible collision detection it might be okay

Bubsy 2 - ridiculously bad

Bubsy 2 GB -  ridiculously bad

Bubsy Jag - ridiculously bad

Bubsy 3D - one of the worst video games ever produced. Makes contemporaries like Croc or Bug! look and feel like Super Mario Galaxy 2.

 

The two modern games in the series are the only ones that are even close to being mediocre.

[Video]

Bubsy seems rather polarizing though. People either liked it or hated it.

 

My take on bubsy,

I loved the first two games, partially because it was pretty for the time, partially the puns, and partially the fact it wasn't easy like Mario or sonic.

Jaguar controls were just to loose, which made a borderline hard game more frustrating than fun.

Like I said, never played the 3d one, so does it really suck, or just rely on people having not played it to continue this perception?

I never knew of the game boy version, or I'd have been all over that bitd, but I imagine relatively speaking its super slow comparatively.

The modern ones feel most like the 16bit era, but like I said, short.

Not played the 2600 fan game.

 

Anyhow, hope the displayed list is incomplete. It can't be a highlights thing as the modern game holds up as good or better than the original, and they show the PlayStation one which is universally said to suck (but I guess IS the only 3d one)

[famicommander]

3 hours ago, Video said:

 

Like I said, never played the 3d one, so does it really suck, or just rely on people having not played it to continue this perception?

 

It's a staggeringly bad game.

It came out in late 1996 and looked like this:

 

Horrible controls, flat single-color textures, bad draw distance, bad frame rate, bad collision detection, ridiculously bad camera.

 

It's contemporaries were

 

Bug! (mid 1995):

 

Super Mario 64 (mid 1996):

]

 

Crash Bandicoot (mid 1997):

 

Croc (late 1997): 

 

In addition to looking like finished video games with actual art direction and textures, each of those games has functional controls, hit detection, and cameras (for the time).

Edited Monday at 12:49 AM by famicommander

[roots.genoa]

Looking at these screenshots, it's quite obvious they used too many polygons for Bubsy's 3D model to make it more recognizable, but the backgrounds look incredibly empty accordingly. They probably should have stuck to a 2D sprite like in Bug.

[famicommander]

Too late to edit my post but Crash Bandicoot actually came out in the US in September 1996, two months before Bubsy.

 

So Bug!, Super Mario 64, and Crash Bandicoot 1 were all already out somewhere in the world when Bubsy 3D hit the market. Bug Too! hit just one month later and Croc 1 and Crash 2 hit less than one year after Bubsy.

All of those games still hold up relatively well today. Croc has probably aged the poorest due to its camera, but it's still very playable. Bubsy 3D wasn't even good back then.

Edited Monday at 07:36 AM by famicommander

[KidGameR186496]

On 6/23/2024 at 3:48 AM, doctorclu said:

Hey glad to help, and comments to follow.  The screen shots you provided it is this...

 

Bubsy: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind  (first Bubsy Game)   Genesis /SNES

 

 

 

Bubsy 2 (otherwise known as "Still No Pants")   Genesis/SNES

 

 

Bubsy 2  for Gameboy Color

 

 

Bubsy 3D: in Furbitten Planet

 

 

Truly odd but looking to be the case.

 

 

Not only that, but a game that Atari actually produced.   I figured Bubsy: Fractured Furry Tales should have been on the collection by Atari if any of them.

 

So here is one Bubsy's opinion of this collection:

 

Bubsy 1 and Bubsy 2... nice.   This was pffered in the steam pack "Bubsy Two Fur", but still nice to play on new platforms.

Bubsy 2 for Gameboy is interesting, but looks like the Super GameBoy emulation of limited color is not even being used here?  Why?

Bubsy 3D is the real gem of this collection is this is the first time Bubsy 3D has been offered for anything other than Playstation 1 or 2.

 

But no Bubsy Fractured Furry Tales?   This is hardly a "Purrfect Collection".   Fans want to play Fractured Furry Tales.  But I'd buy this collection for Bubsy 3D if this collection plays on the PS4 as well as the PS5.

 

Here's hoping that there is more featured in the game collection and that Atari is simply showing what they consider to be the highlights.

Otherwise, without Fractured Furry Tales this should be called "The MOSTLY Purrfect Collection".

 

They can then later make more money selling another collection with Fractured Furry Tales (and even "Kitt'N Kaboodle") and call THAT the Purrfect collection. 

 

 

I wholeheartedly agree! This is not the "Purrfect" collection if it doesn't include Fractured Furry Tales as well as Super Bubsy on PC (the enhanced port of the original Bubsy).

 

The fact that the producer of Fractured Furry Tales wrote this pretty much means the game is not on the collection unfortunately...

 

https://x.com/Junglecat/status/1804309914145419264

 

 

It should have been included in the collection, but i don't know... I have a feeling that the rights to the game might have remained with Imagitec Design somehow (whose assets were acquired by Zoo Digital in the 2000s):

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlin_Interactive

 

Another theory i might have is that Limited Run Games' Carbon Engine (which they use for their releases) does not support Jaguar at the moment, even though we already have an excellent Jaguar emulator by Rich Whitehouse done and used in two commercial releases that could have been used in the collection.

 

Either way, it's a somewhat upsetting situation for those who enjoyed Fractured Furry Tales (myself included despite it's ridiculous difficulty)

 

Edited Monday at 03:22 PM by KidGameR186496

[KidGameR186496]

14 hours ago, famicommander said:

It's a staggeringly bad game.

It came out in late 1996 and looked like this:

 

Horrible controls, flat single-color textures, bad draw distance, bad frame rate, bad collision detection, ridiculously bad camera.

 

It's contemporaries were

 

Bug! (mid 1995):

 

Super Mario 64 (mid 1996):

]

 

Crash Bandicoot (mid 1997):

 

Croc (late 1997): 

 

In addition to looking like finished video games with actual art direction and textures, each of those games has functional controls, hit detection, and cameras (for the time).

The art direction of Bubsy 3D is (if my personal assumptions are correct) what remained back when the game in its earliest stages was planned for PS1, Saturn, and Jaguar (according to Bubsy 3D designer Richard Ham): 

 

 

Edited Monday at 03:19 PM by KidGameR186496

[doctorclu]

45 minutes ago, KidGameR186496 said:

 

Another theory i might have is that Limited Run Games' Carbon Engine (which they use for their releases) does not support Jaguar at the moment, even though we already have an excellent Jaguar emulator by Rich Whitehouse done and used in two commercial releases that could have been used in the collection.

 

Either way, it's a somewhat upsetting situation for those who enjoyed Fractured Furry Tales (myself included despite it's ridiculous difficulty)

 

Glad to meet another that enjoyed Bubsy Fractured Furry Tales.

 

So for the Atari Jaguar emulator you mentioned, aside from the Atari 50th Anniversary  collection, what other commercial release was it used in?

[+Stephen]

1 hour ago, doctorclu said:

Glad to meet another that enjoyed Bubsy Fractured Furry Tales.

 

So for the Atari Jaguar emulator you mentioned, aside from the Atari 50th Anniversary  collection, what other commercial release was it used in?

The Jeff Minter Collection - some of his ST games featured are actually the Jaguar ST ports, running via BigPEmu.

[doctorclu]

16 minutes ago, Stephen said:

The Jeff Minter Collection - some of his ST games featured are actually the Jaguar ST ports, running via BigPEmu.

 

Hahah!   That's great!   Good to see @CyranoJ work getting included on that.

 

No I had zero doubts that current Atari with the BigPEmu could run Bubsy Fractured Furry Tales on the 50th Anniversary collection or even a special Bubsy collection.  What I would not understand is them NOT putting Bubsy Fractured Furry Tales on anything.

 

Atari had the rights to produce that game but the right's expired?  Well, Atari owns Accolade now so should be problem solved.

 

If current Atari is embarrassed by Fractured Furry Tales I say let the fans decide.  Quite a few people have enjoyed the game over the years.  It is crazy difficult, and could use a bit more polish, but it was good enough to get me liking the Bubsy franchise.

 

Once again, I'm hoping the preview shots are not showing the entirity of what's included.

 

 

[TopDrawer]

Sounds like a good idea, though I'm pretty skeptical about this.

Not much of a fan of Limited Run Games and their business practices.

Would've preferred if this collection was handled by Digital Eclipse, in the same style as Karateka & Atari 50's "documentary game" format.

Bake in a ton of interviews with the original game developers, break down whatever went wrong with the development of Bubsy 3D, different builds of each game, concept art, a restored HD version of the TV show pilot, etc.