Buck Bumble, the Nintendo 64 shooter starring a cyborg bumblebee, is nearly actually getting a remake

British studio Argonaut Video games made a bunch of memorable video games within the ’90s and early 2000s, chief amongst them the unique Star Fox, a Tremendous Nintendo sport primarily based on The Ren & Stimpy Present and—who can neglect—Croc. It was because of the latter that Argonaut Video games was reopened in 2024 after a 17 yr absence by its founder Jez San, leading to a remaster of the 1997 3D platformer Croc Legend of the Gobbos. Folks appear to love it.

Croc is fairly iconic: if you happen to have been alive within the ’90s and vaguely fascinated about videogames you may recognise his whimsical inexperienced snout and oddly plaintive eyes instantly. The identical can’t be stated nonetheless, for Buck Bumble. He was the star of a 1998 Nintendo 64 third-person shooter that I had utterly forgotten about till, oh, about 45 minutes in the past.

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 seems to be prefer it might have been Argonaut’s pitch for a Star Fox sport: it is an airborne shooter with a kinda cutesy artwork type, and a then-typical abundance of collectibles in a sequence of freeranging fog-smattered ranges.

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I do faintly bear in mind being fascinated about enjoying Buck Bumble regardless of the middling modern critiques, however I by no means did. Fortunately, it seems to be just like the revitalisation we have been vaguely promised final yr is definitely coming to fruition.

“Proper about now Buck Bumble is formally your new healthful 4/20 mascot, and we won’t be taking additional questions …at the moment,” the official Argonaut Video games Bluesky account posted. “However keep tuned and BEE certain to comply with us for forthcoming information and bulletins!”

Proper about now Buck Bumble is formally your new healthful 4/20 mascot, and we won’t be taking additional questions …at the moment. However keep tuned and BEE certain to comply with us for forthcoming information and bulletins! 👀🐝 #BuckBumble

— @argonautgames.com (@argonautgames.com.bsky.social) 2026-04-21T04:55:02.659Z

I’m wondering what that would imply? Properly, the accompanying video, which you’ll be able to see within the embed above, does rock a really hi-res Buck Bumble, and a newly hi-res Buck Bumble emblem. I’d hazard a guess they’ll remaster that saggy ‘ol 1998 shooter which, regardless of probably not being groundbreaking, is a win for sport preservation on the very least.