Nintendo accidentally created one of the best-selling PS1 games by saying no to a 3D Yoshi platformer that Miyamoto "loved," and after 27 years it's getting remastered

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27 years after its original launch, Croc: Legend of the Gobbos is getting a remaster courtesy of Argonaut Games, which has reformed after 20 years dead. Croc was a massive hit back on the PS1, but it could've taken a very different form if the original pitch for the game as a 3D Yoshi platformer had not been rejected by Nintendo.

A new version of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos was announced earlier this week, and judging by the teaser trailer it looks to be a faithful remaster of the original PS1 platformer. The devs have not provided any details on what platforms the game is coming to or what new features it'll include, but on social media they say "we're aiming for a release later this year!"

Argonaut was best known as the developer of the original Star Fox on SNES, collaborating with Nintendo to build perhaps the most impressive early example of 3D graphics on a game console. The studio eventually shut down in 2004, and it seems the name Argonaut is coming back as "boutique publisher," according to a press release, "with a planned slate of classic Argonaut IP and exciting original titles for both current and retro-gaming platforms."

There's some continuity with the original studio, too, as co-CEO Gary Sheinwald "I worked closely with Jez on the design and production of Starglider, Argonaut’s first big hit back in 1986, so to take up the mantle of relaunching Argonaut Games nearly four decades later brings me full circle, and we have further exciting announcements in the pipeline in the coming months."

'Jez' refers to original studio founder Jez San, who's been hyping up this project for over a year, and has told the story of Croc's origins a few times. In every telling, it seems that even Shigeru Miyamoto himself "loved it."

San elaborated on the story in issue 154 of Retro Gamer magazine: "We offered them what we called Yoshi Racing, which was a 3D Mario game with the Yoshi character. It was probably a cross between Mario Kart and Super Mario World, a hybrid of a