Croc Studio Interested In Remastering Buck Bumble

Earlier this year, Argonaut Games released Croc: Legend Of The Gobbos, a remaster of their classic 3D platformer for the N64.

In an interview with MCV Develop magazine, Argonaut founder Jez San and co-CEO Mike Arkin discussed why they chose Croc as the first game to remaster after the studio’s revival.

The studio considered Croc to be the most popular game from their old catalogue, at least in comparison to their other games such as Starglider, I-Ninja, and Buck Bumble. However, they did mention that they would like to revisit some of these older titles eventually, Buck Bumble in particular.

“Starglider was the game that originally put Argonaut on the map, and I definitely want to do something with it in the future as it’s my ‘first-born’, but it’s primitive by comparison with later games, and almost 40 years old. How many people who play games in their 60s (or older) really remember it?

“I-Ninja is a really well-regarded and underappreciated game and we’d love to revisit it. Buck Bumble too, but that was N64-only so less people know about it.

“Croc, on the other hand, sold well over 3 million copies (back when that was a lot of copies) and was the first big platformer on the original PlayStation console. It’s also got broad appeal, both to men and women. Croc really appealed to everyone. It was the obvious choice.”

“But we also hope that Buck Bumble will also have his day in the sun, eventually.”

That said, it seems that Croc is still the studio’s number 1 priority, with San and Arkin saying that Croc 2 is the next game they plan to work on remastering.

“We’ve made no secret of the fact that if Croc does well in the market that the obvious next project is to remaster Croc 2″

“Croc 2 was built in a different engine from Croc, and the remastering approach is also a little different, we’ve done some early R&D to validate our approach, and it’s looking like it will work well, so assuming we greenlight it from the commercial and financial side, we’re confident that it will be another step forward from what we achieved with Croc.”

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