Bubsy is a series of video games created by
Michael BerlynMichael Berlyn is an American computer game designer and writer. He is best known as an Implementor at Infocom, part of the text adventure game design team....
and released by Accolade for the
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, Mega Drive/Genesis,
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, the
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and PlayStation in the early and mid-1990s.
Though the games were
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s similar to
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and
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, the eponymous
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never came close to the popularity level of the two bigger name
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s. Nevertheless, the first Bubsy was a big hit and met with positive reviews for the SNES version.
