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Bubsy
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Smart-Aleck Bobcat Bounces Again!
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The cat with the chat is back. A catchy new catastrophe
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is about to befall Mr. Purrsonality (better known around
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these climes as Mr. Mouth). Bubsy II from Accolade puts
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the famous-in-his-own-mind furball in a one- or two-
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player battle against a swine named Oinker P. Hamm and
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his henchhogs. You'll marvel (or at least swoon) at the
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number of new things Bubsy can do in this cataclysmic
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Adventure. You can cat-apault through any of the worlds
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(in any order), get catatonic over bunches of new usable
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items, play through a game catacombed with funny new
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subgames, and best of all, cat-fight a capitalist boar
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with your favorite cat-o'-nine-lives.
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Publisher: Accolade
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Players: 1 or 2
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Controller: 3-Button
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Rating: Not Yet Rated
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High-Tech Hairball Hijinks
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Oinker P. Hamm has hijacked Dr. V. Reality's WOMPUM (a
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mouthfull of an acronym for a machine that steals
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history) and built his own indoor amusement park. The pig
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calls it the Amazatorium and, as you might imagine, he's
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in hog heaven charging folks to see what was rightfully
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theirs to begin with. Our fearless (or was that
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peerless?) hairball takes his niece and nephew, the Bubsy
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Twins (Terri and Terry) to see the park, and with typical
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Bubsy timing, he's a day early and a marble short. The
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twins take it upon themselves to hightail it into the
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park while Uncle Bubsy's not paying attention (this guy
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has the attention span of a houseplant). Now our fur-
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brained friend has to sneak in to the park and find them.
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Bodacious Bunches of Bubsy
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Bubsy II offers more types of play than a deck of cards.
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(Note: The previous line was a blatant exaggeration and
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we don't know how it snuck in.)The Amazatorium has three
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floors and two wings East and West. Each Tour increases
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in challenge, starting with the First Floor Tour, then up
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to the Second and Third Floor Tours, with the largest and
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most difficult being the Grand Tour.
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But wait - they didn't stop there (oh, no). You can
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choose to go it alone or bring a friend along. Two
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players can select Friendly or Feisty mode. The game play
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is normal turn taking, with a major twist. In Friendly,
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while waiting for your turn with Bubsy, you lob bananas
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at enemies and collect stuff for your pal. In Feisty, you
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toss bananas in Bubsy's path and steal his goodies before
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he gets <20>em. Got it? Not enough? One- or two-player Mini
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Games let you play all three subgames - Frogapult,
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Armadillo Drop, and Liquid Lunacy.
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Teaching an Old Cat New Tricks
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Every game gives you bunches of new items to collect. You
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can now leave a level and come back as often as you want
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by using the Portable Hole. You get a Diving Suit to
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brave water hazards. A new Smart Bomb takes out all the
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enemies onscreen and turns <20>em into marbles (also stuns
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the Twin in Feisty mode). Now you can blast your enemies
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with a Ballzooka and collect tons of additional things on
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your travels, including a health Patch-Up (Bubsy no
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longer uses up a life when he gets hit a single time, you
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get three hits). There're lots of new things to do and
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lots of new ways to play.
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Hot Hints
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All the switches in Egypt look like a lion's head.
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Look Up and Down before leaping.
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Sell your stuff to get bunches of lives at the Gift Shop
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(at the completion of each level).
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You can revisit levels to collect lives before hitting
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the Boss Doors.
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Follow the arrows, but note that they get fewer and
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farther between as you move up the floors.
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The East wing Grand Tour is slightly harder than the West
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wing version.
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