Indie devs' weirdly promising Bubsy 4D wouldn't exist if the clouds hadn't parted and blessed the Atari CEO with a revelation: "I was like, 'Is this a nationally known IP?'"

I wouldn’t really call it something anybody’s been asking for. I had it as a kid but it wasn’t a game my friends were clamouring to come round and play. I still hope it’s good though.

Atari CEO Wade Rosen says

"But when we were looking at doing it, we said, 'If we're gonna do it, we have to do it right.' [...] Let's find a dev team that can absolutely crush it."

Just once, can we see what the absolutely wrong dev team can do? Let's give this to the Microsoft Excel team. Or maybe OpenAI. Let's see something special.

Bubsy was a fun game, a sonic and banjo alternative.