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Summary

Bee 52 is a quirky side‑scrolling adventure that puts you in the role of a big‑eyed honeybee armed with a proboscis that can both spit projectiles and sting from above. You steer the bee with the D‑pad, fire straight ahead with the A button and launch an upward sting with B, while dodging a parade of spiders, ants, slugs, grasshoppers, dragonflies and even venus‑flytrap‑like plants.

The game is split into twelve stages – the first four set in a backyard, the next four in a swamp, and the final quartet inside a house – each littered with flowers you must visit to fill a honey jar. In the later levels the jar won’t close until you’ve touched every blossom, turning a simple collect‑and‑return task into a meticulous puzzle.

Power‑ups appear in secret holes or from a random lightning bug: a super‑stinger extends your reach, and stronger projectiles boost your firepower. A tiny companion called Junior may orbit you; if the bee is hit, Junior sacrifices itself instead of costing you a life, otherwise a single hit is fatal and strips you of any weapons.

A completed Commodore 64 version never saw an official release after Codemasters left the market, so the programmer sold it himself via mail order. AllGame’s Skyler Miller called Bee 52 “fascinating,” praising its creative premise and solid execution.

Storyline

In Bee 52, you guide a big‑eyed honeybee equipped with a fly‑like sucker mouth that can spit projectiles at foes. The adventure spans twelve side‑scrolling stages: the first quartet takes place in a backyard, the next four in a murky swamp, and the final four inside a house. Each area adds new hazards—ants, grasshoppers, dragonflies and even venus‑flytrap‑like plants appear as the game progresses. Scattered throughout the levels are flowers that must be visited; after three blossoms are checked, the bee returns to its hive to pour honey into a jar. For levels three through twelve the jar only fills when every flower in the stage has been visited, marking the level’s completion.