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.
A cyborg bumblebee, Buck Bumble was tasked with eliminating evil in an unfortunately-not-very-true-to-life imagining of London life in 2010. It kinda looks like it could have been Argonaut's pitch for a Star Fox game: it's an airborne shooter with a kinda cutesy art style, and a then-typical abundance of collectibles in a series of fr...
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