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Bubsy
''Bubsy'' is a series of platforming video games created by Michael Berlyn and developed and published by Accolade. The games star an anthropomorphic bobcat named Bubsy, a character that takes inspiration from '' Super Mario Bros.'' and '' Sonic the Hedgehog''. The games were originally released for the Super NES, Mega Drive/Genesis, Game Boy, Jaguar, PC and PlayStation during the 1990s. There are six games that have been released in the series: '' Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind'', ''Bubsy II'', '' Bubsy in: Fractured Furry Tales'', '' Bubsy is 3D in "Furbitten Planet"'', '' Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back'' and '' Bubsy: Paws on Fire!'' In 1996, a special version of the first game, titled ''Super Bubsy'', was released for Windows 95. In 2015, a compilation of the first two games was released for Microsoft Windows through Steam, by Retroism, the video game software subsidiary of Tommo. In addition to the games, a television pilot was created for a ''Bubsy' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bubsy In Claws Encounters Of The Furred Kind
''Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind'', often shortened to ''Bubsy'', is a platform game first released for the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System by Accolade in 1993. It is the first entry in the ''Bubsy'' series of video games. The game's title is a play on words in reference to the film ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'', with the game revolving around Bubsy defending the planet's supply of yarn balls from alien invaders. The game was ported to Windows in 1995 under the title ''Super Bubsy''. A sequel, '' Bubsy 2'', was released in 1994. Gameplay In the game, enemy aliens called "Woolies" intend to steal Earth's supply of yarn balls. Since Bubsy has the world's largest collection of yarn balls, he has the most at stake and sets out to stop the Woolies and reclaim the yarn balls. The game plays as a 2D side-scrolling platformer. The player must maneuver Bubsy through the levels, jumping on Woolies, and collecting stray yarn balls (which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fractured Furry Tales
''Bubsy in: Fractured Furry Tales'' is a platform video game developed by Imagitec Design and published by Atari Corporation exclusively for the Atari Jaguar in North America on December 9, 1994, then in Europe in January 1995 and later in Japan by Messe Sansao on July of the same year. It is the third entry in the ''Bubsy'' franchise, which is preceded by '' Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind'' and '' Bubsy 2''. The title itself is a word play in reference to ''Fractured Fairy Tales'', a segment from the animated television series ''The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends''. When all of the fairy tales suddenly become corrupted, Bubsy is now tasked on venturing through Fairytaleland and fixing them in order to protect all of the children in the world from these altered stories. Originally planned and advertised to be a port of the first entry in the series as part of a deal with Accolade for the Jaguar, ''Bubsy in: Fractured Furry Tales'' later became its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bubsy II
''Bubsy 2'' is a platform game, platform video game, the sequel to ''Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind'', and the second game in the ''Bubsy'' series. It was originally released by Accolade (company), Accolade in 1994 for the Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, and Game Boy, and re-released for Microsoft Windows, Windows through Steam (service), Steam on December 17, 2015. Story A new Amusement park, theme park is announced. Bubsy, Arnold, and Bubsy's younger twin relatives are excited. Fearing that the place might get too crowded, the twins decide to break into the theme park on the eve of its opening day. The theme park, operated by a corrupt Entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, Oinker P. Hamm, features virtual worlds of certain themes. Gameplay The game plays very similar to Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind#Gameplay, the prior game in the series, as a 2D computer graphics, 2D sidescrolling platform game, platformer. Unlike the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accolade (company)
Accolade, Inc. (later Infogrames North America, Inc.) was an American video game developer and video game publisher, publisher based in San Jose, California. The company was founded as Accolade in 1984 by Alan Miller (game designer), Alan Miller and Bob Whitehead, who had previously co-founded Activision in 1979. The company became known for numerous sports game series, including ''HardBall!, Jack Nicklaus (series), Jack Nicklaus'' and ''Test Drive (series), Test Drive''. By the early 1990s, Accolade saw critical acclaim for ''Star Control'' (1990), as well as strong sales for ''Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, Bubsy'' (1993). However, Sega Sega v. Accolade, sued Accolade for creating unauthorized Sega Genesis games by Reverse engineering, reverse-engineering the console's boot-protection. Accolade won the case on appeal, overturning an injunction from the lower court that had interrupted their sales and development. The founders soon left the company. The new chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Berlyn
Michael Berlyn (born 1949) is an American video game designer and writer. He is best known as an implementer at Infocom, part of the text adventure game design team. Brainwave Creations was a small game programming company started by Michael Berlyn. The company was founded in the mid-1980s, and is probably best known for co-creating ''Tass Times in Tonetown'' along with Interplay's Rebecca Heineman. Berlyn joined Marc Blank in founding the game company Eidetic, which later became Bend Studio. In the midst of working on the company's second game, ''Syphon Filter'', Berlyn left the video game industry. He later explained, "I did not like what the game business had become, the people who were driving it, or the nature of the product. I left before it was done and said, 'Do not put my name on the product.' I walked away from my own company. When you tell me you want to put a monk or a nun in my game and have them standing there holding guns so I can justify having the players shoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bend Studio
Bend Studio (formerly Blank, Berlyn & Co., Inc. and Eidetic, Inc.) is an American video game developer based in Bend, Oregon. Founded in 1992, the studio is best known for developing ''Bubsy 3D'', the ''Syphon Filter'' series, and ''Days Gone''. Since 2000, Bend Studio is a first-party developer for PlayStation Studios. History Marc Blank and Michael Berlyn founded Bend Studio as Blank, Berlyn & Co. in 1992. Blank had been a founder and the product development director for Infocom, while Berlyn, an author of adventure games, had previously worked at Infocom before moving to Accolade. Blank was approached by a California company after an employee had used Cornerstone, a software package by Infocom, and remembered that the company also developed games. That company was looking to release a "sound-oriented game machine for cars", for which Blank suggested a series of sports games that would sound like radio broadcasts. The project never went into production and Blank repurpos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommo
Tommo Inc. is an American video game publisher based in City of Industry, California. Founded in 1990, Tommo started out as a small independent distributor of imported video games. Since 2006, Tommo also operates a publishing subsidiary, UFO Interactive Games, which is best known for publishing original games, such as several titles in the '' Raiden'' series. In July 2013, Tommo acquired Humongous Entertainment and over 100 classic games from the Atari bankruptcy proceedings. In October 2014, in conjunction with Night Dive Studios, Tommo launched its Retroism publishing label, which specializes in the re-release of classic video game titles into digital distribution channels. In 2017, it began working with a company known as Billionsoft to revive the long-defunct label Accolade and its brands, starting with the ''Bubsy ''Bubsy'' is a series of platforming video games created by Michael Berlyn and developed and published by Accolade. The games star an anthropomorphic bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retroism
Tommo Inc. is an American video game publisher based in City of Industry, California. Founded in 1990, Tommo started out as a small independent distributor of imported video games. Since 2006, Tommo also operates a publishing subsidiary, UFO Interactive Games, which is best known for publishing original games, such as several titles in the '' Raiden'' series. In July 2013, Tommo acquired Humongous Entertainment and over 100 classic games from the Atari bankruptcy proceedings. In October 2014, in conjunction with Night Dive Studios, Tommo launched its Retroism publishing label, which specializes in the re-release of classic video game titles into digital distribution channels. In 2017, it began working with a company known as Billionsoft to revive the long-defunct label Accolade and its brands, starting with the ''Bubsy ''Bubsy'' is a series of platforming video games created by Michael Berlyn and developed and published by Accolade. The games star an anthropomorphic bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonic The Hedgehog (1991 Video Game)
is a 1991 platform game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis. The first game in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' franchise, it was released in North America on June 23 and in PAL regions and Japan the following month. Players control Sonic the Hedgehog, who can run at supersonic speeds; Sonic sets out on a quest to defeat Dr. Robotnik, a scientist who has imprisoned animals in robots and seeks the powerful Chaos Emeralds. The gameplay involves collecting rings as a form of health, and a simple control scheme, with jumping and attacking controlled by a single button. Development began in 1990 when Sega ordered its developers to create a game featuring a mascot for the company. The developers decided on a blue hedgehog and named themselves Sonic Team to match their character. ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', designed for fast gameplay, was influenced by games by ''Super Mario'' series creator Shigeru Miyamoto. It uses a novel technique that allows Sonic's spr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
