Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind Longplay (Mega Drive/Genesis) [60 FPS]

Developed by Solid Software and published by Accolade in 1993. Having seen the popularity of the Sonic the Hedgehog games released for the Mega Drive, Solid Software were keen to develop a game to capitalise on the popularity of the platform genre with their own take on the genre. The result of this development was the creation of Bubsy, an anthropomorphic Bobcat who went on to start in multiple games across a range of platforms. Here, in the original game in the series, an alien race known as “Woolies“ have invaded Earth with the explicit purpose of stealing the world’s supply of yarn balls. As Bubsy has the biggest collection of yarn, he sets out to reclaim his stolen yarn and to defeat the Woolies across sixteen different levels of platforming action. Bubsy is a pretty decent character, is well designed and benefits from well-directed art and some nice incidental animations (idle, getting wet etc.). Each level opens with a short sample of digitised speech that help