Happ Hazzard Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Â One of the greatest and most original video games was released on February 14th 1991, Lemmings! Â I remember losing absolutely hours to it on the Amiga. I do not think I ever completed it though. Â Probably holds the record as one of the games ported to most systems as well, with versions from such disparate platforms as the C64, Sam Coupe, Texas Instruments Calculators and 3DO. Not to mention all the mobile phone versions. Â Anyone else have any memories of this game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Showtime Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 I interviewed Dave Jones and the rest of the guys who founded DMA Design this afternoon - a plaque was unveiled at their former office for this 20 year thingy. They were right when they said it's a timeless game, it's simple but addictive, and with technology today you can play it almost any way you want really. Â I totally sucked at it though. I remember playing Lemmings 3D and being good at that but I knew deep down it just wasn't the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro Red Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 I remember losing weeks of after-school study time playing this. Only to be disappointed by the sequels later on down the line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matbro1984 Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 An absolute classic. 20 years though! Fuck I feel old. I remember trawling through every game shop within a 20 miles radius of my home at the time in Oswestry trying to find Lemmings 2 shortly after it came out. As it turns out, I never did find it, and to this day have never played it. Did I miss much? In lieu of Lemmings 2 I ended paying a mate to make me copies of Commander Keen, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure and Jill Of The Jungle, which tided me over until my Mega Drive arrived Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro Red Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 An absolute classic. 20 years though! Fuck I feel old. I remember trawling through every game shop within a 20 miles radius of my home at the time in Oswestry trying to find Lemmings 2 shortly after it came out. As it turns out, I never did find it, and to this day have never played it. Did I miss much? In lieu of Lemmings 2 I ended paying a mate to make me copies of Commander Keen, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure and Jill Of The Jungle, which tided me over until my Mega Drive arrived  Jesus you just tripped off my nostalgia meter there! Loved the commander keen games, thank god nobody has seen fit to remake those yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted February 14, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted February 14, 2011 Ah, bless. Â I'm sure I saw an ad the other day that made me think "thats a fucking Lemmings rip off." Some Mario thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Psygnosis Posted February 14, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted February 14, 2011 Still play it on an emulator! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spotlightmagnet1 Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Ah, bless. I'm sure I saw an ad the other day that made me think "thats a fucking Lemmings rip off." Some Mario thing? Is that the Mini Mario game? I had the exact same thought.  I loved Lemmings, it was probably the first game I got really excited while playing other than Sonic the Hedghog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Mike Castle Posted February 14, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted February 14, 2011 An absolute classic. 20 years though! Fuck I feel old. I remember trawling through every game shop within a 20 miles radius of my home at the time in Oswestry trying to find Lemmings 2 shortly after it came out. As it turns out, I never did find it, and to this day have never played it. Did I miss much? In lieu of Lemmings 2 I ended paying a mate to make me copies of Commander Keen, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure and Jill Of The Jungle, which tided me over until my Mega Drive arrived Yes, you did. Grab an emulator and get playing. Lemmings 2 is a cracking game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted February 14, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted February 14, 2011 What a game! Absolutely loved it to the point where I would dream about it incessantly. My family was too poor to get me an Amiga though, so I had to go around to some cunt's house who I had to pretend to like after school just to play Lemmings and Shadow of the Beast on his Amiga. Off topic, as good as the Amiga was, Creatures and Creatures 2 on the C64 wiped their arses with their Amiga counterparts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted February 14, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted February 14, 2011 From what I remember, Lemmings 2 was hampered by the constant disk switching (on the Amiga). Still a bloody great game though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted February 14, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted February 14, 2011 Off topic, as good as the Amiga was, Creatures and Creatures 2 on the C64 wiped their arses with their Amiga counterparts. Â The C64 wiped the floor with the Amiga for many games and arcade conversions. The C64 Rainbow Islands was far better than the Amiga one, for instance. I remember R-Type being better on the C64 too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted February 14, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted February 14, 2011 The C64 wiped the floor with the Amiga for many games and arcade conversions. The C64 Rainbow Islands was far better than the Amiga one, for instance. I remember R-Type being better on the C64 too. Â Never played Rainbow Islands on the Amiga. Wasn't too mad on that or Bubble Bobble. Loved The New Zealand Story though. (That had something to do with that series...or was it the same creators or something?) Turrican's 1 & 2, and the Last Ninja series also piddled on the Amiga versions, sir. Oh, it's nice to reminisce about the C64. Only thing I hated about the C64 was no matter what I typed in that didn't involve loading a game, would come up with Syntax Error. We've all typed 'FUCK OFF' and got that error... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mojo Rising Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 That's when I was addicted to games. I don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Is the soundtrack available anywhere? At times I used to pause a level on my Amiga and just have the music playing non stop. Â London Bridge is falling down was a particular fav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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