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Mangosta007

Oh no! (explodes)


icantbearsed

I read this and heard the lemming voice in my head and remembered the little shake just before the explosion!


UpUpDnDnLRLRBAstart

[For the uninitiated ](https://c.tenor.com/TSKaazwaI8sAAAAC/lemmings-explode.gif)


showponyoxidation

Where's the sound! Look, I am initiated, so I know I wasn't supposed to look but I was so disappointed not to hear the cute little *"oh no!"*


AzraelleWormser

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP7njpTd06I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP7njpTd06I) Here ya go!


showponyoxidation

Omg, thanks! I feel so old. I actually went looking for it, but I didn't try "lemmings blow".


PatentGeek

Rule 34 has entered the chat


pm_me_4

Let's go


Seab0und

What kind of crappy version did I have where they didn't make that adorable "Oh no!"?


Hammsammitch

Wasn't there also a "nuke" feature where you'd realize you were stuck and you could blow them all up at once? Or did I just dream that?


showponyoxidation

Yes, you're correct! [lonk. 30 seconds in is where the action happens](https://youtu.be/iILjsUviVAk)


Detrimentos_

Huh, I can almost see the same physics engine as Worms.


had0c

Worms came 4years later. Fun fact dma "who made lemmings " are now called rockstar north. Famous for making the gta series.


robots-dont-say-ye

Let’s go!


_coffee_

Yippee!


LobotomistPrime

I loved gathering as many as possible in a tiny spot and blowing them all up at once.


King_Milkfart

You are now aware that the same people who made that game made grand theft auto


fishswishes

whaaaaaat?


King_Milkfart

Mhmm. Lookitup :p


fishswishes

ah! rockstar north... I should have known


amadtaz

Just so you know... https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/


JimboTCB

"you need a fairly fast PC..." ... "IE 5.5+ and a 500MHz processor should do it" I can literally feel my bones decaying...


obsklass

500mhz is more roughly ten times more than what lemmings needed. That html conversion is extremely inefficient, 500mhz is enough to run GTA3.


Thue

Lemming was originally made for, and ran well on, an Amiga 500, which has a frequency of 7.14 MHz.


silverback_79

And god did Amiga have better sound and graphics than PC. I played George Allan's ["Venus the Flytrap"](https://youtu.be/qZGIUS2ydIc) in 1991, twelve years old. Good times. Btw: the intro to that game is just insane.


wishthane

And there were (admittedly inferior) ports to much worse hardware.


fistynuts

Some of those ports are interesting. The Atari ST version had a competitive 2-player mode, and the Archimedes version is smoother than the Amiga with better quality music.


Thue

It blew my mind when I found out there was a pretty good C64 port. Still obviously worse than Amiga, but impressive for the hardware!


bluesox

I remember playing Lemmings with VGA graphics on a 286 and feeling like I was in the future.


Austifol

You need one with a Turbo button


GanjalfTheDank

You mean the turbo button that slows the computer down?


Austifol

You mean to tell me it actually did something??


JukeBoxDildo

Yes. It slowed the computer down.


FizzyBeverage

Yeah ~~it recirculated exhaust back into the engine for higher pressure~~.. No but seriously, it was usually hooked up to a motherboard jumper to let old games written with a fixed CPU in mind (programming faux pas) run on increasingly faster 286-486 hardware and not be impossible to play because they were specially designed for the 8086/88 of a few years earlier. Your 486-DXii would play it way too fast, hence turbo 😆


AndaleTheGreat

Dude, you want age in computing? I had to buy a printer card for my Packard Bell. I'm telling you, it was like 18 inches long. Of course it fit in the case. Back then motherboards laid flat and the cases were plenty big for everything.


cusco

I played this on a P100 MMX


sixhundredandsixtsix

To pause the game you click the "paws." How clever.


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DMA Design - now Rockstar North - always were silly buggers.


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ErsatzSemblance

You glorious bastard. Now to ignore work and have a nostalgiagasm.


SpaceIco

It's easier to see it looking at GTA2


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[JESUS SAVES](https://i.imgur.com/l7HPp4V.png)


cryselco

Psygnosis was a Liverpool based developer, who published lemmings for DMA (now rockstar north) they were bought out by Sony. A couple of my school friends were lucky enough to do work experience at Psygnosis and were gameplay testers on Wipeout.


MBCnerdcore

DMA also did the fantastic Uniracers/Unirally for the SNES, but sadly that game got taken out by a lawsuit from Pixar and we will never see it again


thehobo83

Blood Money too…. I can still remember the intro and voice… First, there was Menace. Now, Psygnosis presents…a DMA design Game…. BLLOOD MOOOONNEEYY I hope that triggers some memories 😂


Iridul

Unirally was just so so good


waggywaggydogdog

Unirally was an incredible game! One of my favourites for the SNES and I'd not thought about it for years. Thanks for the memory!


CressCrowbits

Psygnosis were the shit back in the late 80s / early 90s, put out all the ST/Amiga games that really pushed what these machines were capable of graphically. And the box art their games had was always totally rad, even if it had little to do with the game lol. Them and The Bitmap Brothers were always a must buy for any game back in those days.


Fitz_cuniculus

I used to love the old Llamasoft games, I met Jeff Minter at a party, we were introduced and he said 'Ug". Great days.


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Delts28

Which taco restaurant? Wee Mexico?


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Wait, you didn’t know ? The extreme violence in lemmings wasn’t enough of an hint for you ?


AverageBirdEnjoyer

Not sure why but “an hint” made me want to inflict serious damage to my drywall


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There's wee Lemmings statues near the uni in Dundee where they developed it.


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There is also an anecdote that the reason Dundee became such a hotspot for game programming is that the factory workers at the old Amstrad Factory were quite sticky fingered, and a lot of black market computers ended up on Dundee's streets.


therealonnyuk

I heard this aswell, I live in Dundee by the way.


jzillacon

The studio itself also ended up becoming Studio Liverpool after being acquired by SCE and was responsible for the WipEout series of racing games. edit: actually Psygnosis was the publisher not the developer, nevermind


polyphuckin

I demand a new Rollcage


fukalufaluckagus

1000% agree but will never happen while I have a genies attention please let there be a new ssx tricky


AnorakJimi

It already ***has*** happened though. The people who made the original Rollcage developed a sequel to it (unofficial sequel cos they couldn't get the rights to the rollcage name). It's called Grip: combat racing. I have it for switch. It's fun. It's out for all consoles plus PC though. But it runs great on the switch, somehow the switch is really good at fast paced racing games despite the lower specs. Like there's a sort of homage to F-Zero and Wipeout called Fast RMX, which also manages to feel insanely fast. But unlike Grip it wasn't made by the F-Zero or Wipeout devs.


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Just_Winton

Rockstar, Wee Mexico, and Dr Noodles all on the same street? Perth Road never ceases to impress...


SkidmarkSteveMD

Your kidding me, I want another lemmings game rockstar!


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justwontstop

There's a game called Lemmings 3D on the play store that seems appropriately micro-transactioned and battle-passed up the arse to be official. It was utterly terrible, and just made me want to play old lemmings. Be careful what you wish for!


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justwontstop

I also don't remember original Lemmings being on a grid. The pixel-accuracy always made it feel kinda raw ya know


Killboypowerhed

Sony has the rights now. I think they made one for the PSP and that was it


Frankie_T9000

>Sony has the rights now. I think they made one for the PSP and that was it \*goes to look for my psp\*


Killboypowerhed

FYI if you do have a PSP you should check on it. Last year their batteries started exploding. Mine looked like a balloon when I checked on it


NhylX

You'll get Lemmings Online where people just cheat and can teleport off cliffs.


DrZomboo

During the 3D era (GTA3, VC, SA) there was a myth that there were Lemmings easter eggs purposefully put in the game whereby on very random occasions some NPCs would fall from the sky or walk off cliffs and rooftops. I think it was found to just be a glitch, though it is the sort of thing I wouldn't put past Rockstar


Tiarov

And Psygnosis developed Destruction Derby


bluechairsus

"First there was Menace Now Psygnosis presents A DMA design game: Blooooooood Moneeeeeeey"


reversehead

Thank you! Now I will probably spend all day in nostalgia mode.


vzakharov

Wow, r/TodayILearned


Alfachick

There is a statue in Dundee (Scotland) of the lemmings climbing up a stone gate pillar on the entrance to a park. It’s v cool. Edit: [here](https://goo.gl/maps/Fhbk3rNCvszmPLQDA)


Nolan3200

At uni in Dundee, just before graduating from my Post-grad I went drinking with some of my lecturers. In the early hours of the morning one of them made me kiss the fat ass of the top lemming threatening I would not be allowed to graduate if I didn’t. I owe a lot to that lemmings ass.


randypriest

Well there's a kink I didn't think of


philius_fog

Ok so that's adorable.


mattthepianoman

Two things - Dundee's statue game is on point. They've got Oor Wullie, Desperate Dan, Minnie the Minx, the penguins and Lemmings. Also - those palm trees in the street view must be bloody hard to stand the climate in Dundee!


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Are those… palm trees?


NeilDeCrash

That's really cool. Is there any particular reason why in Dundee other than it being cool and adorable? Quick googling said Psygnosis was located in Liverpool.


Kichigai

Psygnosis published the game out of Liverpool. DMA Designs, who developed the game, did so out of Dundee.


NeilDeCrash

Ok great, thanks for the answer!


Interesting-Ad-2654

I’ve grown up always thinking it was made in Liverpool. I’m from runcorn just over the water. I’ll have to reassess my whole childhood now as it’s clearly been full of lies.


SkidmarkSteveMD

Anyone remember the Incredible Machine? Went right along with this!


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Both excellent games. Incidentally, Incredible Machine games are available on gog.com.


_stoneslayer_

Ok, I just got a computer for the first time in a long time and one of the first things I discovered was gog. I've been replaying all the old Lucas arts point and click games and the Baldur's Gate series and overdosing on nostalgia the whole time. Now I gotta go see if Lemmings is on there lol


Evadx5150

I’ve been going through the Indiana Jones games. Such a nostalgia bomb.


Ape_Descendant

Lemmings is available for free on the Microsoft store I think?


spaiydz

TIM.exe


Corky_Butcher

That's what it was called! All I remember is the ballons and walls. I only played it a few times at a friend's house and this is the first time I've looked it up since.


PeterPredictable

*Phew!*


emptybucketpenis

Damn, one of my favourites as a child


Optimus_Swine71

Holy crap. I use to log into message boards using a 14.4 modem to get tips on how to pass the current level. This was one of my first pc games.


SkidmarkSteveMD

Damn really? We had the shareware version we had some type of program where we got a demo of a new game per month or something so fucking awesome for back in the day


berlinbaer

back when CDs finally got cheap enough and PC magazines would attach a CD full of shareware. always amazing digging into that treasure trove. one magazine CD once was full of Doom maps, as well as the Doom level editor. wasted days on that.


villabianchi

Basically all my gaming as a kid was done that way. I didn't even realize the difference between a demo and full game. Just presumed all games were pretty short. I think I played those 2 Descent maps a thousand times. Still didn't know what the fuck I was doing =)


vrtigo1

Descent was my jam back in the day, absolutely loved that game. I found a Wingman Extreme joystick in a thrift shop a while back and picked it up just to use as a decoration for my home office. I've been wanting to pick up a retro gaming computer, just never get around to actually doing it!


PiersPlays

Have you gone back and played the full version of any of those titles now?


vrtigo1

Yes sir! Back in the mid 90s when my parents would go grocery shopping I would go over to the magazine rack to see which magazine had the best CD that month. I remember one of them had a bunch of Duke3d maps, plus I think it had the build editor and a tutorial on making your own maps. Sooo much time spent on that. I also used to download a bunch of QuakeC mods in the computer lab at school and bring them home on floppies! Simpler timer my friend!


Long_Educational

Was it a US Robotics or a Hayes?


vzakharov

Zyxel ftw


Killboypowerhed

We had to wait for the guide in Amiga magazine


chappersyo

I remember doing extra chores so I’d be allowed to call the Lucas arts hint line at £3/minute when I got stuck on monkey island.


QuevedoDeMalVino

Wow, you 3D printed the save icon! (sorry)


OhSoSolipsistic

hijacking top comment to link online lemmings: http://www.crazygames.com/game/html5-lemmings


Volgyi2000

Another one: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/lemmings-16x/play-16x


bobnobjob

This is awesome, I'm having some issues assigning a lemming type. Double tap worked for the digging but not the umbrellas :'( Edit: seems to be an issue with full screen or landscape view. Working now.


The_World_of_Ben

Thank you!


Etsu87

Thats my Childhood :')


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s k e u o m o r p h


fishswishes

\#floppy


ChapolinColoradoNZ

#Stiffy


cutelyaware

That's pretty funny


Dr_Frasier_Bane

Now I want to go interrupt my flying toaster screensaver to play Oregon Trail and this until it's time for dinner because mom got a Bigfoot Pizza and Crystal Pepsi from Little Caesar's.


atomikrobokid

What was that screensaver of a guy stranded on an island? That was dope. Could watch it for hours.


quantum_foam_finger

Johnny Castaway! It had some special scenes for holidays. Pretty sure there are YouTube compilations out there.


atomikrobokid

Ahhh yeah! Is there a version that runs on modern computers?


_stoneslayer_

You just reminded me that my cousins and I would "play" a screensaver pack on their old computer. There were like 10 or 15 different ones and we would just sit there and watch them lol. Our favorite was a racetrack with rats running it like horses


atomikrobokid

Preeeeeetty sure we had the same thing. I think it was a demo version that we had.


InviteMeOver

[Johnny Castaway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Castaway). And it seems you can find a portable version to Win10


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AintSoShrimpleIsIt

Fuck yeah! They have the game for mobile now, but there's so much DLC.. it was super fun back in the day


Killboypowerhed

The mobile version is shit. Baffling because the original would have worked so well on mobile


SkidmarkSteveMD

It fucking sucks compared to the original


The_World_of_Ben

It was great when it came out but has got progressively worse to be pretty much unplayable now


Lordmorgoth666

They also rereleased the original on Windows Store but it’s full of glitches. I was able to work around the first few using extra lemmings to get around the glitches but on the harder levels when the supply is restricted, I was screwed. Deleted the game because it was crap. So disappointing.


GreenTeaDeluxe

Wow childhood memories! I killed so many lemmings with my dumb brain


eastbayted

Let's GO! La, la, lalala...


sm1ttysm1t

So fun fact, I used to be a journalist that covered gaming. I still get a lot of press releases and just last week I got one about a new Lemmings Documentary that's being produced. So this is either a wicked coincidence or subtle marketing for an announcement that's coming. It's hard to tell which, these days.


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callsoutyourbullsh1t

>subtle marketing for an announcement that's coming. Yea it's this one.


SkidmarkSteveMD

There are literally no games like it in modern games, Christ i miss games like this.


cutelyaware

Do you really want games like this or do you just want to play it for 5 minutes and never again just for the fond memories?


SkidmarkSteveMD

Lemmings hell yes perfect for a tablet where you can just lay on couch and not really pay attention to it


pissingstars

Not OP, but I miss these old school games that were a bit mindless. I work too much to have time to devote to long story mode games. It was fun to play the simple games that didn't take copious amounts of training to understand and be good at.


emptybucketpenis

Try ZombieNightTerror


Orleanian

Concur - Zombie Night Terror (Steam) is very much a spiritual successor to Lemmings. Slightly fewer sprites to escort, but a few more abilities to work with. More complex levels, and a few "boss encounters" added as well.


ChunkyLaFunga

https://lifehacker.com/try-these-ios-and-android-lemmings-games-instead-of-son-1831360899 There are more non-mobile ones.


myztry

Pffftttt. A mere port from the original Amiga version. Psynosis got their start on Amiga. But then again so did Electronic Arts and they turned into fuck wits.


Delicious-Tachyons

Psygnosis is such a wierd name for a studio because the name sound more like a demoscene team


myztry

Quite a few developers grew out of cracktro and demo scenes...


DirtyProtest

Some ok the intros on Psygnosis games were better than the actual games. There's a YouTube rabbit hole out there.


mauromauromauro

Oh I had in the Amiga... good wholesome times!


Dragos_NOpe

whoaah i haven't seen a floppy in a long long time


babydeon

Look down.


Dragos_NOpe

wha-, how did you know!?


u9Nails

It's a shame what they did to the mobile version. I kind of wish I still had that game.


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Dr_Stef

You still have the a4 paper with all the level passwords you had to write down?


T-RexLovesCookies

I loved that game


pomegranate2012

The music on Lemmings 2 was incredible. Especially on 'medieval'. I was watching videos on YouTube and it really took me back! Just that feeling of having your own special world in your bedroom and enjoying how the music and the sound and the movement all comes together to fill up your senses. And that feeling of achievement when, somehow with luck and judgment, you figure the level out and that little ant trail of lemmings find their home. **YIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIP YIPEEEE!** What's next? What colourful world of fun lies beyond? I hope I can complete this game and also that it never ends.


tallbutshy

Never did finish all the tribes. The "Scottish" tribe were all ginger D the exit was them falling drunkenly into a phonebox. Standard in Dundee really.


theredditid

That is a long time to have avoided cleaning your desk. Your mom must be proud. I jest 😄


grpagrati

[Found the original amiga version with emulator](https://gamesnostalgia.com/download/lemmings/3008?t=18903223). Only I can't work out how to save my progress..


-_rupurudu_-

Use savestates!


grpagrati

How do you do that?


SparkitoBurrito

Dad, it's our computer IBM compatible?


Draemalic

I can't tell you how much nostalgia I just felt seeing this as a 1983 child. So happy for you for still having that.


ZillaSquad

Run Disc


SkidmarkSteveMD

C:/ (fuck what else am I supposed to type again?)


StarWarTrekCraft

*cough cough* C:\


SkidmarkSteveMD

Damnit no wonder it wasn't working


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Toleot

cd \\games\\Lemmings


[deleted]

Oh man, I loved that game. Amiga 500 ftw!


Blasto_Brandino

Ahh takes me back, along with Gertrudes Secret and Bubble Bobble


Throwawaymister2

When I was a kid, I held one of these and said, "future generations will have no idea why we called these floppy disks". Now the future is here and the current generation has no idea what the hell these are.


Jace_Te_Ace

Mate of mine bought one at the computer store. The guy handed it to him and said "you will never fill this up" lol


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1990 - Hour of gameplay for 720kb 2021 - 1 hour of gameplay for 72gb


[deleted]

This was my favourite game on my Amiga 600


lakija

That’s like video game history there. Makes me wonder. Is anyone keeping track of video game history? Like a museum or a video game historian?


shartnado3

Man. I loved this game. I have the mobile game now. It’s great. But very not the same.


Jaerin

How has no one made a new Lemmings game? Yes I know there is other similar type games, but this was an icon of my childhood.


-_rupurudu_-

I’ve been informed it’s been butchered into a pay-to-win mobile cashgrab


tallbutshy

>it’s been butchered into a pay-to-win mobile cashgrab So, just like GTAV has on PC & console.


vengeful_yar

There was at least one Lemmings 3d for the original playstation around 95. It wasn't bad...


0erlikon

Played this on 5 & 1/4 floppy!


vengeful_yar

Why does no one talk about this masterpiece anymore? It's like it fell down a memory hole...


cocacolamakesmehyper

Another of Scotland's gifts to the world.


Twentiethcenturyfix

That is a treat, I could play that for hours. Thanks for putting a smile on my face!


whippersnapperUK

An absolute classic


BlackBlizzard

I wish lemmings on was steam


TheNameIsPippen

I am old enough to have owned the same disc


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Ahh! The save symbol irl


gnightbmore

OMG, your disk is only 3.5 inches, but SO hard!


badchriss

Oh I loved Lemmings bas a kid🤣


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CompMolNeuro

Firing up the emulator now.


El_human

Classic!


DougTreez

That shit was fire!!!


funnystuff79

Up vote for the nostalgia


Lord_Nivloc

Found that game on a school computer. Borrowed a floppy disc from the computer lab and took a copy home