Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales

Bubsy in: Fractured Furry Tales is a side-scrolling platform game similar to Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind and Bubsy II in which the player assumes the role of Bubsy, an anthropomorphic orange bobcat and the game's protagonist. The plot follows Bubsy venturing through Fairytaleland to restore order and protect children all over the world from creatures and antagonists of corrupted fairy tales that appeared after Mother Goose, who maintained peace and balance of the stories on Fairytaleland, was captured by Hansel and Gretel . The player controls Bubsy across 15 levels divided into five chapters, each themed after a different fairy tale: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , Jack and the Beanstalk , Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas , and Hansel and Gretel . The player must maneuver Bubsy through the levels by jumping and gliding, while also collecting "Bubsy Balls" scattered across the levels, which grant points and an extra life when enough balls are collected.

Players start off with nine lives at the beginning of the game, which are lost if Bubsy comes into contact with an enemy or an enemy attack, falls into either a spiked pit, a body of water, or from heights without gliding, gets crushed, or running out of time. Bubsy can only take one hit before losing a life. Enemies and bosses in the game are themed after their respective levels, representing one of the five fairy tales and they do not respawn on the level when defeated, even after the player loses a life. More lives can be earned by collecting numbered t-shirts but the game is over once all lives are lost, though the player can keep playing from the last level they died by finding a continue item.

Other gameplay elements include crates containing beneficial or harmful objects, invincibility t-shirts that render Bubsy immune to enemy contact and attacks but not from environmental hazards, and checkpoints that let players restart at the last location reached after dying. Signal light posts are placed at fixed positions on each level, acting as switches to deactivate spiked doors that block a section of the level if they are colored red. The door opens when the post is colored green the doors open, allowing players to progress further in the level. Also returning from both the first and second entries are doors which warps Bubsy into another section of the level or a hidden room.

While it has a password feature that allows the player to resume their last progress, the game's internal EEPROM only saves high scores and changes to the option settings. In addition, the game also has a two-player option which allows two players to play by alternating turns.