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** Michael Berlyn and Accolade were unaware that ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' and ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot'' were being developed at the same time as their ''Bubsy 3D'' and believed that they were going to be the first with a fully 3D platform game. Both Accolade and Nintendo showed off their games at E3 1996; upon seeing ''Super Mario 64'', Berlyn realized ''Bubsy 3D'' could never compete against it as it was and wanted to start over, but Accolade couldn't afford it and had to release the game as-is to try and recoup development costs. Predictably, it lost against it and ''Crash Bandicoot'' (both released before ''Bubsy 3D'') and [[FranchiseKiller killed the franchise]] for the next two decades.

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** Michael Berlyn and Accolade were unaware that ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' and ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot'' ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' were being developed at the same time as their ''Bubsy 3D'' and believed that they were going to be the first with a fully 3D platform game. Both Accolade and Nintendo showed off their games at E3 1996; upon seeing ''Super Mario 64'', Berlyn realized ''Bubsy 3D'' could never compete against it as it was and wanted to start over, but Accolade couldn't afford it and had to release the game as-is to try and recoup development costs. Predictably, it lost against it and ''Crash Bandicoot'' (both released before ''Bubsy 3D'') and [[FranchiseKiller killed the franchise]] for the next two decades.
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* DuelingGames: ''Bubsy 3D'' came out against ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' and ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot'', and, as stated below, it lost badly and crushed the franchise.
** To further elaborate, during ''Bubsy 3D'''s development, Michael Berlyn and Accolade were unaware that the other two games were in development and believed that they were going to release the first fully 3D platform game. Both Accolade and Nintendo showed off their games at E3 1996, and upon seeing ''Super Mario 64'', Berlyn realized ''Bubsy 3D'' didn't have a chance as it was and wanted to start over from scratch, but Accolade couldn't afford it and they had to release the game as it was to try and recoup development costs. To make matters worse, ''Crash Bandicoot'' also released shortly before ''Bubsy 3D'', making it look even more unimpressive by comparison.

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* DuelingGames: ''Bubsy 3D'' came out The 3D games had the constant misfortune of competing against much better-received platformers:
** Michael Berlyn and Accolade were unaware that
''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' and ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot'', and, as stated below, it lost badly and crushed ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot'' were being developed at the franchise.
** To further elaborate, during
same time as their ''Bubsy 3D'''s development, Michael Berlyn and Accolade were unaware that the other two games were in development 3D'' and believed that they were going to release be the first with a fully 3D platform game. Both Accolade and Nintendo showed off their games at E3 1996, and 1996; upon seeing ''Super Mario 64'', Berlyn realized ''Bubsy 3D'' didn't have a chance could never compete against it as it was and wanted to start over from scratch, over, but Accolade couldn't afford it and they had to release the game as it was as-is to try and recoup development costs. To make matters worse, Predictably, it lost against it and ''Crash Bandicoot'' also (both released shortly before ''Bubsy 3D'', making it look even more unimpressive by comparison.3D'') and [[FranchiseKiller killed the franchise]] for the next two decades.



* TheOtherDarrin: In the first game, Bubsy was voiced by Brian Silva. In the second game and the animated pilot, he was voiced by veteran VA Rob Paulsen. In ''3D'', Bubsy was voiced by Lani Minella, another veteran VA . The role was recast again in ''The Woolies Strike Back'', but is uncredited.

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* TheOtherDarrin: In the first game, Bubsy was voiced by Brian Silva. In the second game and the animated pilot, he was voiced by veteran VA Rob Paulsen. In ''3D'', Bubsy was voiced by Lani Minella, another veteran VA .VA. The role was recast again in ''The Woolies Strike Back'', but is uncredited.
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** To further elaborate, during ''Bubsy 3D'''s development, Michael Berlyn and Accolade were unaware that the other two games were in development and believed that they were going to release the first fully 3D platform game. Both Accolade and Nintendo showed off their games at CES 1996, and upon seeing ''Super Mario 64'', Berlyn realized ''Bubsy 3D'' didn't have a chance as it was and wanted to start over from scratch, but Accolade couldn't afford it and they had to release the game as it was to try and recoup development costs. To make matters worse, ''Crash Bandicoot'' also released shortly before ''Bubsy 3D'', making it look even more unimpressive by comparison.

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** To further elaborate, during ''Bubsy 3D'''s development, Michael Berlyn and Accolade were unaware that the other two games were in development and believed that they were going to release the first fully 3D platform game. Both Accolade and Nintendo showed off their games at CES E3 1996, and upon seeing ''Super Mario 64'', Berlyn realized ''Bubsy 3D'' didn't have a chance as it was and wanted to start over from scratch, but Accolade couldn't afford it and they had to release the game as it was to try and recoup development costs. To make matters worse, ''Crash Bandicoot'' also released shortly before ''Bubsy 3D'', making it look even more unimpressive by comparison.
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* MyRealDaddy: Michael Berlyn is held in great esteem by fans and even Creator/{{Accolade}} itself; in addition to being the creator of Bubsy, he also put enough love into the character that it left a lasting impression on the video game community.
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* TheOtherDarrin: In the first game, Bubsy was voiced by Brian Silva. In the second game and the animated pilot, he was voiced by veteran VA Rob Paulsen. In ''3D'', Bubsy was voiced by Lani Minella, another veteran VA . The role was recast again in ''The Woolies Strike Back''.

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* TheOtherDarrin: In the first game, Bubsy was voiced by Brian Silva. In the second game and the animated pilot, he was voiced by veteran VA Rob Paulsen. In ''3D'', Bubsy was voiced by Lani Minella, another veteran VA . The role was recast again in ''The Woolies Strike Back''.Back'', but is uncredited.
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://bubsy.wikia.com/wiki/Bubsy_Bobcat_Wiki The Bubsy Bobcat Wiki]].
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* BigNameFan: Nick "Ulillillia" Smith, a minor internet celebrity.

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* %%* BigNameFan: Nick "Ulillillia" Smith, a minor internet celebrity.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The first game was originally envisioned as Chester Cheetah tie in, but Michael Berlyn wasn't willing to pay Cheetos's licensing fees for the character.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The first game was originally envisioned as a Chester Cheetah tie in, but Michael Berlyn wasn't willing to pay Cheetos's licensing fees for the character.

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** ''The Woolies Strike Back'' was released against ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', which came out a few days before, and ''VideoGame/SonicForces'', which released a week after. Like ''3D'', Bubsy got negative reviews and was overshadowed by the Mario and Sonic releases.

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** ''The Woolies Strike Back'' was released against ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', which came out a few days before, and ''VideoGame/SonicForces'', which released a week after. Like While getting substantially better reviews than ''3D'', Bubsy got critical reactions to the new game were still mostly negative reviews and it was overshadowed by the Mario and Sonic releases.
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** ''The Woolies Strike Back'' was released against ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', which came out a few days before, and ''VidoeGame/SonicForces'', which released a week after. Like ''3D'', Bubsy got negative reviews and was overshadowed by the Mario and Sonic releases.

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** ''The Woolies Strike Back'' was released against ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', which came out a few days before, and ''VidoeGame/SonicForces'', ''VideoGame/SonicForces'', which released a week after. Like ''3D'', Bubsy got negative reviews and was overshadowed by the Mario and Sonic releases.
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** ''The Woolies Strike Back'' was released against ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', which came out a few days before, and ''VidoeGame/SonicForces'', which released a week after. Like ''3D'', Bubsy got negative reviews and was overshadowed by the Mario and Sonic releases.
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* GenreKiller: The huge subgenre of "anthropomorphic MascotWithAttitude runs around SugarBowl setting" platformers pretty much died off -- though they'd been dwindling for some years -- dooming ''VideoGame/JamesPond'', ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'', ''VideoGame/{{Plok}}'', ''Superfrog'', ''VideoGame/{{Zool}}'' and others to obscurity. Only SonicTheHedgehog[[note]]being the multi-million selling originator of said subgenre[[/note]] and VideoGame/{{Rayman}}[[note]]having survived the crash by being created two years after it[[/note]] survived and Bubsy managed to return in a new official game of his series 21 years later.

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* GenreKiller: The huge subgenre of "anthropomorphic MascotWithAttitude runs around SugarBowl setting" platformers pretty much died off -- though they'd been dwindling for some years -- dooming ''VideoGame/JamesPond'', ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'', ''VideoGame/{{Plok}}'', ''Superfrog'', ''VideoGame/{{Zool}}'' and others to obscurity. Only SonicTheHedgehog[[note]]being the multi-million selling originator of said subgenre[[/note]] and VideoGame/{{Rayman}}[[note]]having survived the crash by being created two years after it[[/note]] survived and Bubsy managed to return in a new official game of his series 21 years later.later... which also got negative reviews and was overshadowed by concurrent ''Mario'' and ''Sonic'' releases.
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** Berlyn, as well as the rest of Accolade, hated the animated pilot as much as everyone else, claiming that they were all cringing the first time they watch it.

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** Berlyn, as well as the rest of Accolade, hated the animated pilot as much as everyone else, claiming that they were all cringing the first time they watch watched it.
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** To further elaborate, during ''Bubsy 3D'''s development, Michael Berlyn and Accolade were unaware that the other two games were in development and believed that they were going to release the first fully 3D platform game. Both Accolade and Nintendo showed off their games at CES 1996, and upon seeing ''Super Mario 64'', Berlyn realized ''Bubsy 3D'' didn't have a chance as it was and wanted to start over from scratch, but Accolade couldn't afford it and they had to release the game as it was to try and recoup development costs. To make matters worse, ''Crash Bandicoot also released shortly before ''Bubsy 3D'', making it look even more unimpressive by comparison.

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** To further elaborate, during ''Bubsy 3D'''s development, Michael Berlyn and Accolade were unaware that the other two games were in development and believed that they were going to release the first fully 3D platform game. Both Accolade and Nintendo showed off their games at CES 1996, and upon seeing ''Super Mario 64'', Berlyn realized ''Bubsy 3D'' didn't have a chance as it was and wanted to start over from scratch, but Accolade couldn't afford it and they had to release the game as it was to try and recoup development costs. To make matters worse, ''Crash Bandicoot Bandicoot'' also released shortly before ''Bubsy 3D'', making it look even more unimpressive by comparison.
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* DuelingGames: ''Bubsy 3D'' came out against ''Videogame/Super Mario 64'' and ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot'', and, as stated below, it lost badly and crushed the franchise.

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* DuelingGames: ''Bubsy 3D'' came out against ''Videogame/Super Mario 64'' ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' and ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot'', and, as stated below, it lost badly and crushed the franchise.

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* CreatorsApathy: The production staffs of ''Bubsy II'' and ''Fractured Furry Tales'' have openly admitted that they hated working on the games and did not care about their quality. They reportedly disliked the title character so much that they strung up Bubsy dolls from the office ceiling as if they were executing them and sarcastically repeated Bubsy's one liners to annoy each other.



** Berlyn, as well as the rest of Accolade, hated the animated pilot as much as everyone else, claiming that they were all cringing the first time they watch it.



* DuelingGames: ''Bubsy 3D'' was rushed in development and came out against ''Super Mario 64'', as stated below. It lost badly and crushed the franchise.

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* DoingItForTheArt: Michael Berlyn wanted to break away from the story based games and text adventures he was known for at the time and make a ''Sonic'' style platformer. His producer at Accolade originally refused but eventually decided to greenlight the project if Berlyn wrote a analysis on why ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' was a great game. Berlyn played the first ''Sonic'' game for ten hours a day for research and his producer accepted the resulting analysis.
* DuelingGames: ''Bubsy 3D'' was rushed came out against ''Videogame/Super Mario 64'' and ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot'', and, as stated below, it lost badly and crushed the franchise.
** To further elaborate, during ''Bubsy 3D'''s development, Michael Berlyn and Accolade were unaware that the other two games were
in development and came out against believed that they were going to release the first fully 3D platform game. Both Accolade and Nintendo showed off their games at CES 1996, and upon seeing ''Super Mario 64'', Berlyn realized ''Bubsy 3D'' didn't have a chance as stated below. It lost badly it was and crushed wanted to start over from scratch, but Accolade couldn't afford it and they had to release the franchise.game as it was to try and recoup development costs. To make matters worse, ''Crash Bandicoot also released shortly before ''Bubsy 3D'', making it look even more unimpressive by comparison.



* TroubledProduction: As noted above, ''Bubsy 3D'' was put out really fast. This was done to compete with ''VideoGame/SuperMario64.'' It's easy to see what the results of that duel was.

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* TroubledProduction: As noted above, TroubledProduction:
** Subverted in regards to the third game's quality. Many people believe that
''Bubsy 3D'' 3D'''s poor quality was put due to it being rushed out really fast. This was done to try and compete with ''VideoGame/SuperMario64.'' It's easy to see what This is untrue, as ''Bubsy 3D'' and ''Super Mario 64'' were being made at the results same time and Accolade wasn't aware of ''64'' until ''3D'' was already late in it's development cycle. The reason for the game's notorious low quality was because there were no 3D platform games at the time, meaning the developers had to create the game's concepts from scratch, and because Accolade had less resources than Nintendo, meaning they couldn't afford to hold off the game's release to try and improve it.
** Accolade wasn't prepared for the marketing costs needed to successfully advertise a game like ''Bubsy'' and the first game almost bankrupted the company. This led to them avoiding creating any new side scrolling mascot games.
** As pointed out under CreatorsApathy, the production staff of ''Bubsy II'' and ''Fractured Furry Tales'' hated working on the games and didn't care about making them good.
** When putting the first game on the Genesis, Accolade reversed engineered Sega's cartridge copyright protection. They did this in order to avoid having to pay Sega's licensing and publishing fees and to avoid having to exclusively release on the Genesis. This got them sued by Sega but the judge ruled in Accolade's favor, claiming
that duel was.Accolade's actions fell under fair use as they wrote most of the cartridge code themselves and since ''Bubsy'' was a multi-platform game it wasn't dependent on the Genesis to be successful. This lead to Sega offering Accolade a much more favorable contract for future legitimate game releases.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The first game was originally envisioned as Chester Cheetah tie in, but Michael Berlyn wasn't willing to pay Cheetos's licensing fees for the character.
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* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: ''Woolies Strike Back'' has the "Purrfect Edition", which includes at least the game's soundtrack.

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* HeAlsoDid: Hard as it is to believe, the development studio behind the ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'' series and ''[[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Uncharted: Golden Abyss]]'' actually had their start with ''Bubsy 3D''. Soon after the release of ''Bubsy 3D'', Sony bought out developer Eidetic and renamed them Creator/SonyBend.

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* HeAlsoDid: Hard as it is to believe, the development studio behind the ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'' series and ''[[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Uncharted: Golden Abyss]]'' actually had their start with ''Bubsy 3D''. Soon after the release of ''Bubsy 3D'', Sony bought out developer Eidetic and and, a few years after that, renamed them Creator/SonyBend.


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** ''Bubsy 3D'' seems to be this for Eidetic, now known as Creator/SonyBend, judging from the fact that the game isn't even ''mentioned'' on their website.
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* HeAlsoDid: Hard as it is to believe, the development studio behind the ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'' series and ''[[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Uncharted: Golden Abyss]]'' actually had their start with ''Bubsy 3D''. Soon after the release of ''Bubsy 3D'', Sony bought out developer Eidetic and gave them a new name; [=SIE=] Bend Studio.

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* HeAlsoDid: Hard as it is to believe, the development studio behind the ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'' series and ''[[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Uncharted: Golden Abyss]]'' actually had their start with ''Bubsy 3D''. Soon after the release of ''Bubsy 3D'', Sony bought out developer Eidetic and gave renamed them a new name; [=SIE=] Bend Studio.Creator/SonyBend.
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* HeAlsoDid: Hard as it is to believe, the development studio behind the ''VideoGame/SpyphonFilter'' series and ''[[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Uncharted: Golden Abyss]]'' actually had their start with ''Bubsy 3D''. Soon after the release of ''Bubsy 3D'', Sony bought out developer Eidetic and gave them a new name; [=SIE=] Bend Studio.

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* HeAlsoDid: Hard as it is to believe, the development studio behind the ''VideoGame/SpyphonFilter'' ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'' series and ''[[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Uncharted: Golden Abyss]]'' actually had their start with ''Bubsy 3D''. Soon after the release of ''Bubsy 3D'', Sony bought out developer Eidetic and gave them a new name; [=SIE=] Bend Studio.
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* HeAlsoDid: Hard as it is to believe, the development studio behind the ''VideoGame/SpyphonFilter'' series and ''[[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Uncharted: Golden Abyss]]'' actually had their start with ''Bubsy 3D''. Soon after the release of ''Bubsy 3D'', Sony bought out developer Eidetic and gave them a new name; [=SIE=] Bend Studio.
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* GenreKiller: The huge subgenre of "anthropomorphic MascotWithAttitude runs around SugarBowl setting" platformers pretty much died off -- though they'd been dwindling for some years -- dooming ''James Pond'', ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'', ''VideoGame/{{Plok}}'', ''Superfrog'', ''Zool'' and others to obscurity. Only SonicTheHedgehog[[note]]being the multi-million selling originator of said subgenre[[/note]] and VideoGame/{{Rayman}}[[note]]having survived the crash by being created two years after it[[/note]] survived and Bubsy managed to return in a new official game of his series 21 years later.

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* GenreKiller: The huge subgenre of "anthropomorphic MascotWithAttitude runs around SugarBowl setting" platformers pretty much died off -- though they'd been dwindling for some years -- dooming ''James Pond'', ''VideoGame/JamesPond'', ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'', ''VideoGame/{{Plok}}'', ''Superfrog'', ''Zool'' ''VideoGame/{{Zool}}'' and others to obscurity. Only SonicTheHedgehog[[note]]being the multi-million selling originator of said subgenre[[/note]] and VideoGame/{{Rayman}}[[note]]having survived the crash by being created two years after it[[/note]] survived and Bubsy managed to return in a new official game of his series 21 years later.
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* SequelGap: ''Bubsy is 3D in Furbitten Planet'' was released in 1996, a new installment wasn't released until ''Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back'' in 2017, 21 years later.
* TheOtherDarrin: In the first game, Bubsy was voiced by Brian Silva. In the second game and the animated pilot, he was voiced by veteran VA Rob Paulsen. In ''3D'', Bubsy was voiced by another veteran VA, this time a woman: Lani Minella. The role was recast again in ''The Woolies Strike Back''.

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* SequelGap: ''Bubsy is 3D in Furbitten Planet'' was released in 1996, a 1996. A new installment wasn't released until ''Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back'' in 2017, 21 years later.
* TheOtherDarrin: In the first game, Bubsy was voiced by Brian Silva. In the second game and the animated pilot, he was voiced by veteran VA Rob Paulsen. In ''3D'', Bubsy was voiced by Lani Minella, another veteran VA, this time a woman: Lani Minella.VA . The role was recast again in ''The Woolies Strike Back''.
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* FranchiseKiller: Bubsy 3D was DOA and took the series down with it. It took a whopping 21 years for a new Bubsy game to come out.
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* TheOtherDarrin: In the first game, Bubsy was voiced by Brian Silva. In the second game and the animated pilot, he was voiced by veteran VA Rob Paulsen. In ''3D'', Bubsy was voiced by another veteran VA, this time a woman: Lani Minella.

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* TheOtherDarrin: In the first game, Bubsy was voiced by Brian Silva. In the second game and the animated pilot, he was voiced by veteran VA Rob Paulsen. In ''3D'', Bubsy was voiced by another veteran VA, this time a woman: Lani Minella. The role was recast again in ''The Woolies Strike Back''.

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* CreatorBacklash: Original creator Michael Berlyn hated ''Bubsy II'', which he didn't have any involvement in.

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Original creator Michael Berlyn hated ''Bubsy II'', which he didn't have any involvement in.
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* FranchiseKiller: Bubsy 3D was DOA and took the series down with it. It took a whopping 21 years for a new Bubsy game to come out.
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* GenreKiller: The huge subgenre of "anthropomorphic MascotWithAttitude runs around SugarBowl setting" platformers pretty much died off with Bubsy -- though they'd been dwindling for some years -- dooming ''James Pond'', ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'', ''VideoGame/{{Plok}}'', ''Superfrog'', ''Zool'' and others to obscurity. Only SonicTheHedgehog[[note]]being the multi-million selling originator of said subgenre[[/note]] and VideoGame/{{Rayman}}[[note]]having survived the crash by being created two years after it[[/note]] survived.

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* GenreKiller: The huge subgenre of "anthropomorphic MascotWithAttitude runs around SugarBowl setting" platformers pretty much died off with Bubsy -- though they'd been dwindling for some years -- dooming ''James Pond'', ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'', ''VideoGame/{{Plok}}'', ''Superfrog'', ''Zool'' and others to obscurity. Only SonicTheHedgehog[[note]]being the multi-million selling originator of said subgenre[[/note]] and VideoGame/{{Rayman}}[[note]]having survived the crash by being created two years after it[[/note]] survived.survived and Bubsy managed to return in a new official game of his series 21 years later.
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* FranchiseKiller: ''Bubsy 3D,'' due to its extremely negative reception from gamers and critics alike when it slammed into the PolygonCeiling.
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* SequelGap: ''Bubsy is 3D in Furbitten Planet'' was released in 1996, a new installment wasn't released until ''Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back'' in 2017, 21 years later.

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