Bubsy's Physical Switch Collection Pre-Orders Open Later This Week

The Gold X Award keychain is hilarious.

Nice that another collection of older games is getting a physical, here's hoping anyone who wants it is able to get their hand on one!

I don't know how comprehensive this collection is, but I love when they include various adaptations of games (especially Game Boy versions).

It kills me that Nintendo could be extending this sort of treatment to their own classic games, but won't.

I'll just wait for a sale.
It'll take the same amount of time before the game even ships!
So, if i already have to wait, I might as well get it cheaper!

Who is buying this? These could be some of the worst games ever produced, and great there are 4 different games. They kept trying and trying. 150 dollar gag gift.

Are we still doing this one?

Now since Wade is involved, the standard edition WILL be available for sale on at least the Atari website and VGP, both of which will have a faster ship and response time than actually ordering from the LRG site itself.

VGP may also get that soundtrack at some point (no idea why they made two different soundtracks though. New fleecing strategy from Josh).

However... I want that book. A full in text on the rise fall, and rise again of the biggest loser in the mascot wars: that is a book written for me and I REALLY hope it gets a Press Run release cause those are way easier to get than the games themselves from LRG, and I am NOT spending $300 for it too show up in 2027

I hope it’s not exclusive to Limited Run Games.

@SillyG This is the entire Bubsy series as it was in the days of the original Accolade. The only things missing are the cartoon pilot (union reasons) and the two modern games: Woollies Strike Back, by LRG'S much sexier and more talented cousins at Black Forest Games, and Paws of Fury by Choice Provisions.

Fun Fact, Paws of Fury 's engine was re-used for one of those League of Legends single player Spin-off deals that Riot did for a time in between discrimination scandals, and the League version sold WORSE! Proving with hard numbers that League is so bad, even Bubsy is better.

Man am I missing something? I remember these games being, just the worst. It seems like there's an audience. Is it like because it's so bad? Or just childhood memories?

@obijuankanoobie A combination of that and meme value + masochism.

Why don't I just burn my money

I remember these games.

They were TERRIBLE.

🤣

I might get this just for Bubsy 2 and 3D. I know they both sucks but that's a reason to get it. Earthworm Jim also need a collection like this too since he had a similar downfall. It should be like this:

• Earthworm Jim (Super NES, Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Game Boy, Game Gear, Sega Master System, GBA, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360/PS3)
• Earthworm Jim 2 (Super NES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, Game Gear, Sega Saturn, PS1, GBA, Xbox 360)
• Boogerman (Super NES, Sega Genesis)
• Earthworm Jim 3D (Nintendo 64)
• Clay Fighter 63 1/3 (which had both Earthworm Jim and his rival Boogerman as guest fighters)
• Clay Fighter: Sculptor's Cut (Nintendo 64)

To all the naysayers out there, Bubsy 1 was actually decent. The rest were dumpster fires, but the first one had a lot of charm. Also played through the game quite a bit with my grandparents growing up, so I'll be picking this up.

@Don Sadly, it is. These corrupt bas-ds have sunk their claws into Bubsy.

Gex got screwed over by these jerks, this is going to be even worse!
Unless they add a voice volume slider to 3D, count me out.

Hopefully I am wrong and the sales figures say otherwise, but I feel this is like when the public convinced Sony to release Morbious again because they loved it. Rather, they loved to meme and rag on it. Sony responded in kind and it flopped just as hard 2nd time around at the cinema.

@Serpenterror : Oof. That would be quite a collection. Wasn't the "DS" game just a DSiWare port of the first game?

Honestly - I can see the point (though this isn’t for me). The first game was OK and Busby as a character - whilst clearly a forced Sonic clone with the serial numbers sanded down - isn’t entirely unappealing (& actually I don’t think he’s much less cynical than Sonic “let’s put felix the cats head on Mickey Mouse’s body, paint it blue and give him an attitude then heavily focus test it with American 10 year olds and call it a day” The Hedgehog in the first place).

And I suppose if Sonic merchandise can still sell after the majority of Sonic games being dreadful then why wouldn’t someone think “maybe we can do something” with the knock off version?

@Zeebor15 Isn't it also technically missing Super Bubsy, the Windows 95 remake of Claws Encounters?

@obijuankanoobie the first game was reasonably well liked in its day. It was a fairly average mascot platformer, but it was charming in its presentation, especially on SNES where it was also the closest we had to a Sonic game. Accolade wouldn't have kept trying to recapture the success of that first title if it hadn't had any.

But if was also a very frustrating game, and hindsight hasn't been kind to it.

A friend of mine would be interested in these games, purely because nostalgia. I remember them being so bad. I never wanted to play Bubsy when I was at his place. He had so many better games on SNES, hahaha. But apparently there's a market, even for sub-par platform mascots.

Well, no one can question Limited Run's ethics surrounding preservation making these games physical! Is Bubsy well regarded these days or has some influencer latched on to it knowing everyone thinks these games are rubbish and they can have a unique spin by being contrarian lol. Nooo idea.

Bubsys! back!, baby!

Sorry But I loved the Mega Drive game, so might have to get this, but if there is going to be a normal release not through Limited Run, then I will get that thanks

@Bunkerneath Yeah I'd buy it on eShop on sale as I loved the SNES game!

Have to say I'm baffled as to how the special physical edition of this would be anything but a massive loss maker for Limited Run Games? Surely there's not enough hardcore Bubsy fans, if any, for such a product? I can't imagine anyone wanting a Bubsy soundtrack CD or posters of him in their room...

I feel like a lot of this is down to Audi Sorlie's love for Bubsy. He's spoken of his 'love' and passion for Bubsy for a long time now and I hope it pays off but I expect the audience to be pretty limited.

This looks amazing!! I want the Bubsy plushy!!

I wonder whether they used the NTSC or the PAL version of Bubsy 3D for the port. The PAL version had some slight differences and had no memory card support for some reason. Also, "Super Bubsy" (which is essentially the PC version of the Super Nintendo game) seems to be missing, alongside the cartoon pilot.

(btw. I bought Super Bubsy just to have the cartoon pilot in higher picture quality, but sadly the quality is just as bad as the YouTube upload)

@rvcolem1 I'm buying this

@koopababble Yes. Thank god so I can buy it

I remember reading about Bubsy in the magazines at the time, I always thought it was a well designed character and the graphics looked nice. I finally played the first game a few years ago and unfortunately didn't like it :/

@rvcolem1 the first game was mehh worth maybee a rental if nothing else left on the shelf but rest omg awfull

I unironically have a soft spot for the first game, partly because there was a game show here that featured it amongst other SNES games (including Super Mario Kart, Super Mario Allstars (SMB3), Plok! et al.). That said it would be nice if it got some actual rebalancing and improvements (hitpoints, widescreen so you can see off screen etc).

Also wish rather than taking the lazy route, that they'd try to somehow release the AMD/ATI version "Super Bubsy" that was released on PC in the 90s also. It had great redrawn sprites but has faded into obscurity. THAT should be the starting point for some kind of remastering.

Quite a cute plushy I'll admit. I like the little tufts of fur on his ears.

But these games were soooo bad haha.

@LizardTaro Carbon Engine technically can't do PAL, at least not without some HEAVY specialized tweaking. It's why British Gex is a patch.

@JohnnyMind If you guys got the Mr. Run & Jump + Kominbera release, you'll eventually get this. Atari re-opened (on paper) Ocean Software last year. Organized in the UK, but hiring logistics coordinators and producers in Munich.

@Suketoudara Don't ask questions you aren't prepared to handle the answers too

@GrailUK Wade believes that Bubsy is the perfect encapsulation of "no such thing as bad plublicity" and believes that giving Bubsy his first, true 7/10 game will be the perfect encapsulation of Atari's Rise from the Ashes arc "If we can save Bubsy, we can save the world." (Apparently he REALLY wants to make it with NIS. Bubsy Disgae)

@Don @EVIL-C He means their storefront, and no it isn't. Atari PR has already confirmed it will be on at least their store and VGP... eventually

@flamepanther Carbon Engine doesn't have anything for old windows besides a mostly retrofitted (ie: copied wholesale) DOS-BOX setting. DE might have one, but they're busy with God knows how much other stuff.

@Zeebor15 Speaking of questions I'm not prepared to handle the answers for do you work for Atari or something or are you just super passionate about them, you seem to know a crapton about them (as someone who also makes long posts about obscure topics I understand 100% XD). Like who is "Wade". Personally speaking the coolest thing about their return is that the Atari billboards in Blade Runner aren't as dated as the Pan Am signs anymore lol.

YESSSS!!!! I unironically love Bubsy games (except B3D) even though I know many aspects are objectively bad. They bring me joy!! Let's goooo!!!

I know a lot of people don't like Bubsy but all was thorough it was really good 😅
I might just have to get this one 😁

bubsys overhated. I had the first two games as a kid and always thought they were decent. I would buy this but wheres the jaguar game?

@Fiergala By random chance I have become aquatinted with a self-proclaimed "large stakeholder" in Atari who lnows how to read and where to find the correct legally mandated public disclosure documents that otherwise get lost in the shuffle of political bureaucracy. My autism is nothing compared to his.

Wade Rosen, current CEO and owner of Atari. Founder of Ziggurat and still majority owner of that, though he know longer works day to day with them. Is the projenitor of Atari's 7th Age and its meteoric rise from the ashes. Massive nerd.
His brother works at Paramount and is similarly the reason we're getting a crapload of Nick games recently

@Zeebor15 Oh that's great news then! Thank you for clarifying that for us all. 🙂LRGs website has it as a numbered release, which usually means it's exclusive. But as we sometimes see, some "exclusives" end up going regular retail ages later.

@Zeebor15 Ah I understand, as someone who doesn't hold SEGA stock but knows they could make Morbillion dollars by releasing a new OutRun, the autistic obsession with companies we're interested in!

I do like the new output of Nick games, and would have been one the maybe five kids at the perfect intersection of Sonic and (good seasons) SpongeBob fandoms like in the upcoming Sonic racer, so Wade and his bro must be doing something right!

@Zeebor15 welp, I didn't know about that combo pack, so now I have to add a game to my list to purchase..

@EVIL-C You can also get LRG's "number" releases for the Recharged series, Akka Arrh, and Clear River's Gold Master Trilogy, on Atari.com those that's in very low stock: Alla Arrh is sold out and so are at least 2 Recharge sets.

@Fiergala I just hope this house of cards doesn't blow over because of a Thanksgiving gone horribly ary. Or as my family would call it "exactas expected."

@Zeta Still no idea why it was only ever released in PAL regions. Atari barely operated in the region at the time and the developer is in St. Louis.

@Zeebor15 Yeah, I think we both know what it feels like to be a fan of a frankly shaky company that could blow over any minute to El Nino, or as Chris Farley would call it... The Nino!! But eh gotta live in the moment and I've been having more fun with SEGA's stuff than in a long while, imagine you feel the same about Atari, it's about the games and having decently passionate people at the helm. Got some Sonic playing cards at the mall, I'm saving them to open with a friend but I'm glad "Sonic's sh*tty friends", as they were always called, are back XD And while I've never played his games I think Bubsy's design is actually pretty awesome. I do really like cats though.

@Zeebor15 Thank you, and Good on Atari for at least doing some publishing of their own still. Like, Yars Rising was a normal release and I got that right away. I have NOT played Atari today, but I should correct that error. 😂

@Samuel-Flutter The first Bubsy was quirky and challenging, but it had merit. I haven't played any of the other entries, though.

@Zeebor15 to my knowledge, I now need this, Bubsy: Paws on Fire (I know pre-Atari ownership) and Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 physicals for switch.

And now this Bubsy collection and the Hexen+Heretic physical.

Lastly, maybe Roller Coaster Tycoon Adventures, although I already own the deluxe version, so depends on how collective I feel.

@Zeta I don't know which comment you're replying too, but play Yars Rising

@Zeebor15 was replying to me needing the double pack you were talking about. I have Yard Rising. It's on my short list to play.

When I was a wee lad, my brother and I got Bubsy for the SNES and loved that *****.

I'm pretty sure I'll let it live on as a fond memory, rather than figuring out if it's even playable in 2025.

It looks like Accolade is back to re-release some of its '90s hits on Switch. I've already had the chance to enjoy The Games: Winter Challenge again.
Anyway, LRG won't be getting my money.

Oh, it has PS5 version too.

Awful taste but great execution?

Can we have an interview with someone getting the Collectors Edition? XD

I loved the first one on Genesis. And nice to see the Atari Jaguar version in here! So I’m in!! Just rather not purchase from LR if I can help it. Maybe I’ll wait and see if it shows up in the Atari Age Store? Although sometimes waiting on them can be a while as well.

@joey302 The Jaguar game is not a port, it's a unique game, apparently.

What could pawsibly go wrong? It could be a Limited Run Games release. Oh, would you look at that... It is an LRG release..

Ah no October 12th? I'm having a boil lanced that day.
Damn.....

This may be lame to admit, but I've always liked Bubsy. One of my friends had the original, and I loved it. I had an Atari Jaguar, so I bought Fractured Furrytales. At the time I thought it was decent, but it is almost painful to play now. I never played Bubsy 3D, which is probably a good thing. But I have both the new games on PS4 (Woolies Strike Back and Paws on Fire) and I unironically enjoy both. That said, considering how poorly the Jaguar game has aged, I'm not sure I really want to revisit the other old games. My fond memories might be ruined.