First off, let us talk about the company that made this game. Accolade. Have you heard of this company's new game? No? Probably because it went out of business long ago. Why did it go out of business? Probably from making games like this.

When I was a wee lad I sold my NES and games and bought Bubsy. I thought that a wise-cracking cat would have to make a great platform game. I should have just been put out of my misery at a young age. I assume the creators were smoking some serious "catnip" when they made this game. I still remember that every stage started with Bubsy making some wise-crack about the title, then dying some horrible way. One stage was entitled: "Cheese Wheels of Doom." I think that sums up the game enough.

Yes at a young age I liked this game. Although it didn't have a restore feature and you had to play it from the beginning each time. I got very good at the first few stages, but never could get past the third. Luckily it had a cheat menu, so I could choose stages. Which I used way too often, and led me down a dark dark road of cheating, lying and stealing. First answers to tests, then food, then money, then bank deposit slips, then Simon Says toys, then finally big stuff like Garfield Dolls. But enough about that. Back to the game. I remember when I first started playing the game, my mother was repainting the tv room. It smelled something awful, but I kept playing, which sort of explains itself. (Note to young-uns: Paint has toxic fumes. Please put two and two together, or stop reading this and do your arithmatic.) Now I look back on those days and I sure am glad I had no friends to see me play this game. For I sure wouldn't have any friends afterwards.

Oh yes, and in case you aren't scared to death that games like this can come out, let me tell you of the plot. The world is being attacked by Woolies, aliens with two heads and yellow bodies that collect wool to power their intergalactic guns. Only Bubsy can stop their scheme by collecting as much wool as possible. This is told in an awful comic that makes up the instruction book, with hideous dialog and scarier plot ideas scrawn in there.

Perhaps I should mention the subtitle of this game: "Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind." Or perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned that. You probably would have been a better person not knowing that.

Also, while we are ruining your life, they made a sequel to this game. So I guess that means it sold pretty well. Sigh. Well don't go looking for the sequel, and don't expect me to ever review it. I learned my lesson already. No more witty felines for me please. I will just stick with Garfield and Heathcliff.

What liked: That there is no Bubsy 3: Electric Bugaloo.

What disliked: That this game came out in the first place, not to mention spawned a sequel.

What to expect: Craptastic Crap on a crappy stick. 'N crap.

What not to expect: Mario.

What's so different from this and other games of it's genre: It's got a witty cat. You get 9 lives instead of 3! (They even explain this, because cats have 9 lives, just in case you wondered.)

Ratings on:

Control: 4 - I guess it was pretty good. I don't actually remember the game, just the horrors.

Graphics: 5 - Bubsy did stuff when you left him for too long. He would knock on the screen like he was waking you up. You so silly Bubsy!

Sound: Ewwwww...

Style: -2 Billion.

1st hour: 3 - A cat. That is witty. By Accolade. I can't wait to play this game.

5th hour: I quit.

1st week: N/A

5th week: N/A

#1 reason why I hate this game: Everything plus the cat. Twice

by Hawke