AHC: Make Bubsy a major video game mascot.

Your challenge is to, with a POD between 1990 and 1995, make Bubsy Bobcat, mascot of Accolade and one of the most hated video game characters ever, a popular and well-loved character. I don't know how'd you do this. Your thoughts?
 
I loved Bubsy. My friend had the second one on his Genesis and we'd play it all the time. Just a fun platform.

Sorry. I know that doesn't really bring much to the topic but I really hadn't heard of Bubsy in years, so, this post brought back a lot of memories. :D
 
You know I have a level of love for Bubsy since Timmy Turner got his catchphrase from it (What could possibly go wrong?). So if you are going to make it more influential it's fairly obvious what to do - make his stuff get parodied and referenced more. I don't know much about the company that made it. Perhaps you could sideline Sonic the Hedgehog and make it as little known as Bubsy is OTL.
 
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Your challenge is to, with a POD between 1990 and 1995, make Bubsy Bobcat, mascot of Accolade and one of the most hated video game characters ever, a popular and well-loved character. I don't know how'd you do this. Your thoughts?

Nobody hate bubsy, he was just a product of the era(sonic clone ridding mario and sonic sucess). I'll give you a tip how can be a mascot for accolade...make all their game post 2 NOT SUCK. i never knew was a third game before 3D and how awful was 3D.... not wonder why he die.

So keep some quality, even if direct copy of mario and sonic and voila.
 
Nobody hate bubsy, he was just a product of the era(sonic clone ridding mario and sonic sucess). I'll give you a tip how can be a mascot for accolade...make all their game post 2 NOT SUCK. i never knew was a third game before 3D and how awful was 3D.... not wonder why he die.

So keep some quality, even if direct copy of mario and sonic and voila.

This, the Bubsy 3D is one of the poster children for shitty games. Poorly designed, and I believe it actually came out after Mario 64, which makes the quality seem even worse.

So, let's assume Accolade gets cold feet, and pushes Bubsy back at least six months. Suddenly, they see what Mario 64 can do, and they use that to give them ideas on what to do with Bubsy. Better design, better controls, maybe make a bunch of pop culture references ala Conker's Bad Fur Day and you might get a cult classic, maybe even a sequel if everything goes perfectly right.
 
You know I have a level of love for Bubsy since Timmy Turner got his catchphrase from it (What could possibly go wrong?). So if you are going to make it more influential it's fairly obvious what to do - make his stuff get parodied and referenced more. I don't know much about the company that made it. Perhaps you could sideline Sonic the Hedgehog and make it as little known as Bubsy is OTL.
I hate to be That Guy but I don't recalL Timmy saying that outside of around two episodes.
 
Bubsy 3D is worse than just a shitty game. Its an absolute travesty, more so than ET the video game. ET was a shit game, but it had its excuses (mostly the time constraint given to it)

Bubsy 3d was just lazy and entirely incomplete. If that game were to actually be worked on and released with even a little bit of quality in mind, Bubsy has an honest chance of becoming something.
 
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