Adamski but Festive @Adamski@stctp.zone
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Picked up some early birthmas presents for meself.

Never played Puggsy back in my day, but I've been after him ever since I started following Jon Burton's YouTube channel. Go check him out if you love the old Traveller's Tales.

The history of these LOTR titles is wild and petty and I love it. Electronic Arse had the rights to adapt the Peter Jackson movies BUT Sierra still held the rights to adapt Tolkien's written works and beat EA to the punch with a Fellowship of the Ring game, technically based on the book, that just happened to coincide with the movie.
When Two Towers came out in cinemas, EA actually did do the official game of the film, leaving Sierra to follow up *their* version of Fellowship with a game based on The Hobbit, a decade before it would become a film!

Oh, and Bubsy 3D, one of the video games of all time. What a find. It was right next to Grandia.

A trio of video-style games arranged on purple bedding. An unboxed black Sega Mega Drive cartridge of Puggsy (Traveller's Tales, 1993) a cartoon platformer with the titular alien space hopper looking confident and calm on the sticker. Two Playstation2 boxed discs, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Surreal Software, 2002) with a mostly blue cover featuring the One Ring itself with none of the recognisable characters from the story to be seen. It is nevertheless an official product as evidenced by the Tolkien Enterprises label it shares with The Hobbit (Inevitable Entertainment, 2003) featuring a stylised Bilbo Baggins on its cover, looking for all the world like a right rough and tumble adventurer type and not at all like a fish out of water thrust into an unexpected journey and missing the comforts of home. This game is likewise unaffiliated with the Peter Jackson films, but features the tagline "The Prelude to The Lord of the Rings," very cheeky!A Playstation disc in a cracked jewel case on purple bedding. The game is Bubsy 3D (Eidetic, 1996) The fourth game in the Bubsy series published by Accolade, which is the only accolade this game has. A clunky, ugly, borderline-unplayable mess thrown together by a team with no experience with 3D technology and rushed out in time to complete with vastly superior early 3D platformers of that year. Bubsy himself appears on the cover. He is an orange cartoon bobcat with a lurid grin and big cutesy eyes, possibly pleading to be released from this nightmare. He wears a white shirt adorned with a red exclamation mark and no trousers. Bubsy's career was one cat-astrophic failure after another, constantly chasing the gaming zeitgeist without really understanding what made it good. More recently however, his abysmal reputation has become the core of a new self-aware and self-depricating version of the character in Bubsy 4D.
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