The story is about a Bobcat named Bubsy that is trying to fight off an alien race called the Woolies from taking all of the yarn on Earth.

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Gameplay:

The gameplay is a standard platformer, the controls... are stupid. A,B,X,Y all jump, no joke, click the jump button again to glide, yes a bobcat can glide, if you can describe how that works, imform me please i kinda want to know my self. The enemies you fight are the Wooly aliens that sneeze on you, also other stuff like gumball machines, water, cars, plates, roller coasters, etc. In order to kill the enemies you need to jump on their head but i swear everytime you do that you shift slightly to the right, it also happens when you go on a spring. You can run really fast like Sonic but if you hit something you die in one hit ALWAYS! For something copying Sonic they didn't get anything right, you can collect yarn balls which are like rings in sonic but they do nothing except a good high score. You start the game with 9 lives, get it he's a cat huh huh, anyways you will use like 5 for the first level. There are a lot of enemies everywhere, and since you run so fast you can't see whats ahead because the screen is to close up, also for a character that runs fast, the level desgin is bad for that, the levels are built like Mario stages. Other collectables you can find are t-shirts with a number on it, there extra lives. you can get other powerups like invisability and an extra hit. When jumping from platform to platform better not drop to far or else you will die, yes there is fall damage in this game, who came up with that? I've never seen any 2-d side scroller with fall damage. If you glide you won't die, but that still doesn't change the fact that is the dumbest thing ever programed in a platformer. There are 15 levels in this game but i only got to level 5 because the game gets unfair later. Each section has 2 levels then a boss, there are checkpoints throughout the stage which are giant !-marks. but since everything kills you in one hit and it's hard to see them, it will take you forever. I can talk about some parts from the sencond section, it's circus themed with creepy pickle people. There are roller coasters you can ride one but if it leads of the edge you will die. Also all the circus stands try to kill you will eggs and darts. The wooly enemies change at least to clowns and painters. Still trying to do one level of this game is impossible without dying at least once.

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Graphics:

The graphics... are the only thing good in this game, i actually mean it, everything is nice and colorful and the animations for the enemies and Bubsy's animation are stellar. The only graphic complaint i have is the back round. Jumping on a spring sends you up high and all the platformers around vanish but the backround doesn't move at all.

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Music/Sound:

The music isn't that good but it gets the job done i guess, it's just a bunch of boing sounds. The sound effects are cartoony with some sounds like a pie splat, sneeze effect, and car engines. There is also voice acting for Bubsy, it's annoying because he talks at the start of the level, it's not as annoying as Bubsy 3D's voice acting.

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Final Verdict:

Bubsy 1 is a decent game, with meh controls, good graphics, tolerable music, and weird story.