Atari wants to resurrect Babsi-a failure of the 1990s with a decent popularity

Babsi-the product of the 1990s, when almost every game company dreamed of creating its own mask like Sonic, Mario or Crash Bandikut. Babsi did not gain much success, but Atari For some reason I decided to pick him up and give him another chance.

The current president talked about this Atari Wade Roseen (Wade Rosen):

In April 2023 Atari re -acquired the rights to franchises GT Interactive -a company that in the 1990s published hits like Doom, Unreal And Oddworld, then went bankrupt, broke up, turned into Atari, went bankrupt again, came to other owners and now again ended up under the sign Atari (yes, there is a very confusing story).

The most important franchise that got Atari Together with GT Interactive, Roseen He called the series Bubsy. Among other games received in the same transaction, is baseball simulator Hardball! And combat races Demolition Racer.

According to Roseena, Bubsy – A very funny franchise, which, despite all the contradictions, was able to gather a fanbase around her. And fans "decent to finally get a good game about Babsi".

Plan Atari -Skooping with some Indie www.satoshi-slots.co.uk team, which will offer an excellent idea for a new game about Babsi and will be able to implement it.

Roseen realizes that a regular platformer with a serious face cannot be made about Babsi – the character went through some shit, so in the new game a healthy share of irony would be in the place.

… and Babsi is modern.

But who is this of your Babsi?!

Babsi was created according to all the canons of the mascots of the 1990s: a humanized animal (red lynx) with a deliberately catchy appearance (oh, this T-shirt with an exclamation mark!) who speaks rude single -line jokes (not always funny).

The first game about Babsi (Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind) I went out in 1993 on Sega Mega Drive and Snes. She received positive reviews in the press, the release was accompanied by a pilot episode of the animated series (closed after the first episode), and Babsi himself even called the “most hand character of the year”.

Then, the “career” of Babsi flew downhill: the second part still remained a tolerable platformer, the third was met colder, and the fourth (fourth (Bubsy 3D For PlayStation), a move from 2D to 3D-gameplay, graphics and babi’s captivity were so bad that after some time after some time Bubsy 3D They began to write down in the ranks of the worst games in history.

This was what Bubsy 2 looked like ..

… and so – Bubsy 3D. Many 2D platformers were injured from the violent move in the mid-90s, but Bubsy 3D even looked sorry for their background (and sorry for it was played!).

Years later, Internet culture suddenly resurrected Babsi and endowed it with memorial popularity, in tone similar to Knack – another useless mask, but already from Sony and from the PlayStation 4 era.

Against the background of meme Bubsy tried to return to duty: 21 years after Bubsy 3D She was born into the light Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back – Another slurred platformer (43 out of 100). In 2019, sensible authors from Choice Provisions (Successful series of musical early Bit.Trip), but nothing came of them either – Bubsy: Paws on Fire! It turned out to be a pass.

The irony of the ironic popularity of Babsi is added by his ironic branded phrase: “What can go wrong?" The character pronounces this phrase in the cartoon and in the first game before the first level. As we now know, after that everything went wrong.

Now Atari Trying to return to the Previse Industry again. It turns out incomprehensible: on the one hand, Atari I acquired a studio Nightdive remake System Shock, on the other hand, it regularly releases games that seem to fail with a bang from a commercial point of view. For example, most of the latest releases Atari Steam does not even have 50 user reviews – usually this means meager sales.