The metaverse animatronics ad is funny to me because, like...
if a Chuck E. Cheese animatronic was put in a local pawn shop, people would be fighting
tooth and nail for it - there'd probably be a collector who travels on a god damn aeroplane just to get to that pawn shop - uh, rawn shop - it would not be bought for the sole purpose of advertising local mini-golf.
Sure, you could argue "Questy's" is a cheap off-brand chain nobody cares about, but the fact somebody built an entire, fully accurate Questy's in VR tells me either A. if this is a fan project, Questy's fans in this universe are just as devoted as Showbiz Pizza fans in our world, or B. if this is official, Questy's is popular enough to monetarily justify an official Questy's VR experience, in which case die-hard Questy's/Cometeers fans and/or historians almost certainly exist.
Bubsy was built in the age of meta-cartoons that aimed to combine Simpsonian wit with Boopian slapstick/absurdity through elasticated animals who saw themselves as actors and were willing to break the illusion for a wisecrack, Roger Rabbit was fresh on people's minds and Tiny Toons had recently ended while Bonkers and Animaniacs were mere months away with the Mask ready to strike a year later, that is the culture that birthed Bubsy...
But the Bubsy reboot didn't even try to play into that and instead had Bubsy make jokes about Google SafeSearch and how his old games had fall damage. That's meta humour, sure, but it's not Bubsy humour, it's meme humour - in fact, neither of the reboot games even had wacky slapstick death animations, which was part of the appeal of Bubsy in the first place! Take away the element of Bubsy being a cowardly actor trying to portray a fearless cartoon hero in a dangerous slapstick world, replace it with barely edgy JonTron bait, and all you're left with is "sonic but he knows what sex is and isn't allowed to say it".