he is actually backOne of the games that was meant to have an almost perfect future. From what I remember as a kid, the reviews were great, praising the animations and the graphics quality. Also, it was one of the typical mascots of the 90s.
The mascot trend is long gone. Nor Sony nor Microsoft have a mascot and some people seem to be against it -say if Sony or MS wanted to bring a mascot to relate the hardware to the games...., there are quite a few people against that.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-bubsy-the-bobcat-retro