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Bubsy News December 2011


doctorclu

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Bubsy Shades surface on Ebay!

 

"Up for sale is a Very Rare and Vintage Promo Item from the Super Nintendo video game Bubsy Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind."

 

No love for the Genesis version?

 

"This was not an item that you could purchase, you only received these if you purchased the video game through Babbages, which was a video game store at my local mall."

 

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Yes, I remember Babbages. I remember going there to find games for my Atari 800 computer and I think the midnineties when Bubsy and all were coming out might have been the end of Babbages.

 

Let's check Wiki. (Speaking in Bob Barker voice for the Price is Right)... Babbages around till the mid nineties? WIKI SURVEY SAYS....?

 

DING!!!

 

Looks like it was wrapped up in 1994 and became "NeoStar". What a lame name! Anyway, they would go back to being "Babbages etc" two years later and go on become GameStop. Cool eh?

 

Anyway, the shades are cool, and a neat item, much like the promotional item of the Bubsy shirt.

 

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I have these! I haven’t seen them anywhere except on my head! Pretty rad. I randomly happened upon your post of boxes on an unrelated thread- impressive collection! I hope these were added to it...8 1/2 years ago, hahaha. 

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21 hours ago, fakecortex said:

I have these! I haven’t seen them anywhere except on my head! Pretty rad. I randomly happened upon your post of boxes on an unrelated thread- impressive collection! I hope these were added to it...8 1/2 years ago, hahaha. 

That is so cool, nice to talk to the man who bought these.  What other Bubsy items do you have in your collection?   And what was the unrelated thread that led you here?

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HAHAHA I'm sorry, I misspoke- I didn't buy em from that auction. I've had them since the 90s, my big bro got it with the game and I've been wearin' em for the past couple decades haha. I don't have a Bubsy collection, but now I wanna go play some! The thread I stumbled on was about Rayman. I usually stick to the HSCs around here, but I was just pokin around other threads and saw your collection pic. I will say, I thought the sunglasses were fine until I compared them to others and they don't block as much out ?

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Yeh I imagine they are the usual swag glasses that are given out like keychains and business cards.   I have a few glasses I have picked up that were similar.   One from Cricket wireless was actually fairly good quality hard plastic, but I imagined the glasses where probably cheap plastic much like this pair I recently got.

 

 

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Hmmm... now to get ahold a black pair of glasses, change out the arms to orange, remove the current lettering, and somehow imprint the Bubsy logo and Babbage's logo for a nice recreation.   Hey... any good side shots of the Bubsy logo and Babbages would be awesome (if that hasn't worn off by now.)

 

BTW... love Rayman too.  :D

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