Buck Bumble, the Nintendo 64 shooter starring a cyborg bumblebee, is almost certainly getting a remake

British studio Argonaut Games made a bunch of memorable games in the ’90s and early 2000s, chief among them the original Star Fox, a Super Nintendo game based on The Ren & Stimpy Show and—who can forget—Croc. It was thanks to the latter that Argonaut Games was reopened in 2024 after a 17 year absence by its founder Jez San, resulting in a remaster of the 1997 3D platformer Croc Legend of the Gobbos. People seem to like it.

Croc is pretty iconic: if you were alive in the ’90s and vaguely interested in videogames you’ll recognise his whimsical green snout and oddly plaintive eyes immediately. The same cannot be said however, for Buck Bumble. He was the star of a 1998 Nintendo 64 third-person shooter that I had completely forgotten about until, oh, about 45 minutes ago.