Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, known as Bubsy for short and Yamaneko Bubsy no Daibōken (やまねこバブジーの大冒険?) in Japan, is a platform video game released by Accolade in the early 1990s.[5] It is the first game in the Bubsy series of video games. The game's name is a play on words in reference to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with the game revolving around Bubsy defending the planet's supply of yarnballs from alien invaders.[6] The game received a sequel, Bubsy 2, in 1994.