Sundry Sunday: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades. May 22nd is the launch date of the remarkably anticipated Bubsy 4D, the most looked-forward-to Bubsy game since, well, since Bubsy 1. The franchise has been on a steady downward slope since the SNES/Genesis original, so it’s nice to see the character do good for a change, unlike literally every other original take the character had. The original Bubsy had instant deaths, leaps of faith and gameplay so frustrating that the nine lives Bubsy started with seemed insufficient. Its designers gave Bubsy Sonic-style speed but without his spin attack. Bubsy’s only means of attack was to jump on enemies but which were often off the screen when descending from jumps. I tried playing a bit of the original Bubsy a couple of weeks ago and it turns out the game was worse than I remembered. Bubsy wasn’t entirely a failure in the marketplace so he got four sequels, not counting the one…