The Princess is in another Castle

It was one those days at school when every teacher were ill. You have some Free hours and no idea what to do with you time. So I decided to start my SNES Emulator. After a few minutes of gaming games like: Yoshi’s Island and Super Mario Allstars, I remembered one special game I loved when I was a child. I don’t exactly now how much hours,  days and weeks I spend with thinking of game’s name. The only things I knew were that it was a Orange cat which can run very fast and that it is a JumpN’Run.

Today I also think of the games name. Then I visited a Website were every SNES game is listed on. I choosed some Letters with “C” for cat.. and something like that. After minutes of reading game names I choosed the letter “B”… and there it was… The game I loved so many years… which I played togehter with my brother. It’s Bubsy!

Acctually it’s called: “Bubsy – Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind“

Story: (copied from: Wikipedia)
“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). Naturally, Bubsy does not take too kindly to the theft and sets out to “humble” the Woolies.”

I compare Bubsy with Soni with some differences in the Gamedesign. Bubsy also have to collect items like the rings in Sonic. In Bubsy this is Yarn. You have this jump platforms in Sonic. In Bubsy this are Sewer which blews up it’s lid. In one thing I’m sure: Sonic is much faster than Bubsy. Bubsy is also fast but not THAT fast.

You jump, run and glide through the whole level and try to don’t TOUCH the enemys. Because if you do, you die with a funny animation. You don’t have to be afraid of running out of lifes. In Bubsy you find very much extra lifes, sometimes two at once. You can easy kill the enemys with jumping on their heads. In one level there are much Save Points from which you can start if you die. But you have to touch them, so if you forget you have to get back and touch it.

Bubsy has many skills to get those Woolies. He can jump…run… and glide. Yes, Bubsy has three abilities. The funny thing is ju can jump on: A,B, X and Y. With X and Y you can glide if you press them again. From A to Y the power of Bubsy’s jumps reduces. So: A is the strongest and Y the weakest jump.

Bubsy has no 2-Player options so that you have to switch the controller some times if you wanna play with a friend or your brother/sister.

In the end:
In my opinion this game is just amazing. It makes a lot of fun so that you wanna play it again, and again, and again and again.

Infos:

• Bubsy was released on: SNES, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Atari Jaguar, PC and Playstation.
• Bubsy had a pilot episode for an animated series in 1993.
• The Voice of Bubsy is Rob Paulson (MGS: TTS: Gray Fox or Pinky from “Pinky and the Brain”)
• The Playstation Version of Bubsy which is called: “Bubsy 3D” was the 8th Place of the worst games of all time.