Lemmings was one of the first computer games I played, at school on our.. .Acorn computers in 1992-3. The teachers and students were both all just as hooked, and the hi-score contest between students and teachers was quite heated.
Lemmings 2 was an absolutely fantastic sequel, a much more polished game with rich themes, better music and a greater range of challenges in the levels. Although the original gets the credit for being just that, i always preferred L2 the tribes. Never completed it 100% though :-)
+xisumavoid I'm the exact opposite, I loved the original Lemmings and Oh No, More Lemmings, but I really didn't like Lemmings 2 at all. Too many of the powers seemed gimmicky and hard to use accurately. Like the archer and the one that throws snowballs. In the original game, the builder always built at a predictable angle, the miner always dug at a predictable angle, etc. Yet with a lot of the powers in Lemmings 2, it was basically trial and error.
There is something so surreal about lemmings maybe its the music or the the way that the lemmings walk to their deaths, but I always have an existential crisis when I play it.
for me its the weird visuals in the levels, but its probably because i spent a lot of thinking about it as a kid. i always wondered what was on the other side of the entrance trapdoor and the exit. all levels seemed to take place underground, but why were there sometimes trees and buildings? did the exit of one level lead to the entrance of the next, or was there some underground lemming paradise in which they all ended up after beating a level? why would the levels sometimes stretch way beyond the exit when there was nothing of importance there? also, how did the lemmings feel when they had to blow up their friends to progress? why could the stoppers not simply start to walk again?
I like how Stu mentioned Disney and the movie that started this misinformation. In the movie, that scene was really the people scaring and forcing the animals off a ledge.
Adam Porter no the difference is in the game they willingly walk off the ledge just because theyre following the leader. This doesnt happen in reality. lemmings was thought to be unique because their instincts to follow the lemming in front was so great, that they will follow them to their death. Which is a lie told by a Disney live-action documentary. In actuality the lemmings will stop. The movie made it seem like one lemming fell, and the others followed. Only they was being pushed by the cast.
Actually, White Wilderness was not the origin point of the myth that lemmings commit suicide. It's a myth mentioned in documentaries before that film, and its origins go back at least as far as the 19th century if not further.
@@Skyrilla how can this be a rip off of a 2012 video if the original upload of this video was in 2011? Check the description, it iven states there that this is just a re-upload...
Sadly, in the year following when this video was originally uploaded, Studio Liverpool was closed down by Sony after what was essentially an audit of all their European games development studios, bringing to an end the legacy of one of the most prominent, historical UK development studios in Psygnosis. Maybe worth adding that detail in as an annotation?
This was the first PC game I ever played, my school had an after school club where you could play on their computers. They had Lemmings and some game where you play a flying dinosaur with a gun on its back and flew around shooting things(no clue what it was called) but Lemmings was always so cool
My elementary school had us play this sci-fi action game called Math Blaster where you fought against a robot empire by solving math problems. As a little kid it felt pretty epic lol
Radiant Silver Labs, thats interesting. what was that like? also, if you don't mind me asking, what was it that made you decide to go into indie development?
It was awesome, very high working conditions (and people bringing you bacon sandwiches to your desk in the morning!), and great people. I wanted to leave because actually being a coder on something like GTA, is not really designing games. By that point you are a cog in the machine and if you ever want to live your dreams of writing your own games (i.e you design them, you code them and you make all the high level choices), then you really have to become an indie.
(Fixed reply) Oooofffff coouuuurssseee you would say that. Nerd is such an outdated insult, that it aged like milk in the hot summer. Stop acting like a edgy 90's school bully who asks for lunch money. Now leave and never come back.
In my Amiga times, someone gave me a demo disc of Lemmings with four playable levels, long before the craze started. I immediately knew that this would go very very big. It was such a fresh experience and felt like you had known this forever at the same time.
Man, I used to and still sometimes watch your cod weapon videos. Crazy how time flies, this video was so good I stopped eating until it was over. Magnificent content.
Lemmings is one of my earliest memories of a video game. I wasn't allowed to touch the computer, but I watched my mom play it for a couple days. She ended up rage quitting it! Must've been pretty hard. XD Thank you for this showcase, it brings back memories.
Note on the Lemmings Myth: It emerged from Canada & Scandinavia. Though some species of lemmings will leave the group after a population density line is crossed, even crossing perilous conditions to do it, observers in both regions noticing the decreased numbers started the rumor of them committing mass suicide. When White Wilderness was being filmed, they were (ironically) aiming to dispel the myth of mass suicide and clarify it was just migration. However, to add "drama" to the scene, they pushed the lemmings off the cliff to their deaths, the crew not even certain if they were actively aiding the migration or not. Despite their original intention, their action (along w/ the narration selling this as a mania/sudden irrational compulsion) not only reinforced the myth but made it considerably more widespread than before.
Just a couple of months before The Lemmings hit the shelf's (well, the pirates...), there was a little demo circulating that had the lemmings (differently colored) walk around. It was just a cute demo, but then the Lemmings came out .... I never found that demo on the interwebs :(
My father loved this game but was never able to find a copy to show me, I’ve never known what the game he loved was like but yet now I know. All I can say is thank you. However sadly he is gone now, I’m sure he would have loved your small documentary.
I remember playing a version on nitrome that had little ink blots and you controlled their routes by doodling ramps and walls and stuff. So many good games
I played this game as a child on the Atari ST, I would have been maybe 8 or 9. At that age I wasn't clever enough to be able to do the later levels, some of them seemed utterly impossible. I picked the game up years later as a young adult, and found that it is actually really well structured if you play it linearly. It starts with the easy stuff and then gradually introduces levels that require a bit of out-of-the-box thinking (one example is that it is possible to release blockers without blowing them up if you dig the ground out from under them). By the time I got to the Mayhem levels I was able to figure them out using the techniques I'd accumulated throughout the game, and the final level ended up being a cinch. It was really satisfying to be able to beat this game that had confounded me as a kid.
You can tell Stuart has evolved his style since his last episode of this series. The sound is richer, and the script feels more evocative of his later style
i had no idea there's music in lemmings for start :P and now to learn about him as Cold Storage oh dear :) missed a lot with just pc speaker back then :D dune2 music all along :(
First time seeing this video as I did not dig for older videos. I really hope Stuart will find his way back to videos, he is a unique storyteller, mesmerizing also... He is lost but hopefully shall be found again.
I used to love this game on the Acorn Achemedies, my old school had one of those back in the day and it had this game on it. It was the first time I'd ever seen Lemmings and it blew me away with the graphics and sampled music as I was used to 8 bit stuff.
because I grew up with Lemmings on the Amiga (and be cause I watched the brief history of graphics) you sir are gaining yet another Sub... but lemmings man... Love them !
I miss playing Lemmings. Used to stay up all night trying to beat levels. Sure wish I could find it again but alas I guess I am SOL for that game. Thanks to my son for sending this link to me.
There's an amazing homebrew port of Lemmings on the DS with nice additions like pre-selecting a lem and giving them a job when they get to where you need them to be.
I have Lemmings on my smartphone. I used to play it on MS-DOS and was so happy to find it on the Play Store! The new format is even better than the original. It was made mobile gaming!
I loved this game, especially on the Amiga which had digitized sound effects. I think "A Beast of a Level" (the one with the trees he showed) was one of my favourites due to the excellent music for it (from Shadow of the Beast). So much fun.
Really interesting video! Loved Lemmings when I was a kid, and as a non-native English speaker it was so easy to get into without knowing a single English word.
Ah I love Lemmings as a kid (Snes version), although I never could get very far before getting stumped. I never thought about how good the sprites are for only being 8X8.
Haha! I don't play video games anymore but used to when I was a kid, just hearing this music brought up deep levels of oppressed stress from when I panicked and failed to get those lemmings safe!
I loved Lemmings and Lemmings 2, but I really feel both suffered from only one problem - picking out a lemming to bash or build or become a climber or whatnot in a dense crowd of the little buggers was sometimes pure chance and luck. The marker introduced in Lemmings 3D I think it was, really helped. Lem 3D was actually pretty damn good, with a perfect difficulty curve, some really inventive, thoughtful and challenging level design and a great soundtrack. Sadly, the graphics have not aged well at all, being around the PS1 / 3Dfx era. I remember with Lemmings 2, all levels could be completed by saving all lemmings, and that was the "true" (gold) challenge. But if you killed off some members of a tribe, you had less to complete the next levels in the same set. Go back and improve a loss, and you needed to carry it through the remaining levels as well. Pretty ingenious. Lemmings 3 however... what a disappointment. It changed stuff up too much, it didn't look right, the zoom felt claustrophobic, it was harder to understand, yet felt way too simplified, and it was planned to be a proto-DLC type model. I recall reading an interview in a magazine with one of the producers (?) saying including all the tribes in Lemmings 2 had been "a mistake" because they could have sliced them up to sell as mission packs. Hence why here there were only three tribes included, with the others planned to be sold as expansions. But the game sold poorly, and they were never released. Like the Matrix sequels, it's best to forget all about this one.
The story of DMA was one I already knew, but I never knew that Psygnosis would become studio Liverpool. They released one of my favorite racing titles: F1 Championship edition
Had a friend who was an artist who did a couple of the lemming designs for an unofficial spin off game on the Amiga in the early 90's. Operation Lemming. There is a video if the game on TH-cam. Crude but challenging I remember.
If I had more free time I'd make my long planned lemmings mod: It's called Islemmings! The lemmings are replaced with turban wearing mustafa-al-habibs on their way to Mecca, naturally they blow themselves up in spectacular fashion, taking out public schools, mosques and priceless historical landmarks on the way - if there's a programmer out there with a little free time, please run with this idea!
This was my game as a kid. Lemmings 2 in particular. Funny that my name is Lomax... a complete coincidence, but one I enjoy. I hope, as a budding game developer, I will create Lemmings vs. Worms.
Y'know, it occurs to me that Shadow of the Beast was kind of the Dark Souls of the era... I know that's become a meme by this point, but it's kind of true. Non-linear, somewhat obtuse, known for its brutal difficulty... SotB wasn't all that great though. Anyway, Lemmings remains my favourite puzzle game of all time. I think the fiendish, clever design of the puzzles remains unsurpassed in gaming. And... holy crap, did you say the music was done by Tim Wright, aka Cold Storage!? No wonder I loved it so much!
When I first saw this playing in a computer shop I actually thought it was a higher resolution screen than it was because of the well animated sprites.Bear in mind monitors back then were a little blurry so you couldn't see the pixels as well. By the way Lemmings made an appearence in Hired Guns.
Lemmings 3 (my version was known as Lemmings Chronicles) was a seriously underrated game. It was my favorite of the Lemmings games, though I do love the original to death. Too bad it's pretty hard to get Lemmings 3 to run on any modern computer. There really ought to be a gog.com re-release of these games.
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Lemmings was one of the first computer games I played, at school on our.. .Acorn computers in 1992-3. The teachers and students were both all just as hooked, and the hi-score contest between students and teachers was quite heated.
So even before GTA, Rockstar showed us that mass murder of a species can be fun!
True that
RDRII
Ahoy ripped off LGR's 2012 video down to the fucking point. Look it up.
@@Skyrilla Ahoy's original video was reportedly published in December 2011, so I suspect you got the victim and perpetrator mixed up.
@@Skyrilla hahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha... Wait. You're serious?
Lemmings 2 was an absolutely fantastic sequel, a much more polished game with rich themes, better music and a greater range of challenges in the levels. Although the original gets the credit for being just that, i always preferred L2 the tribes. Never completed it 100% though :-)
wouldn't expect you to be here!
+xisumavoid I'm the exact opposite, I loved the original Lemmings and Oh No, More Lemmings, but I really didn't like Lemmings 2 at all. Too many of the powers seemed gimmicky and hard to use accurately. Like the archer and the one that throws snowballs. In the original game, the builder always built at a predictable angle, the miner always dug at a predictable angle, etc. Yet with a lot of the powers in Lemmings 2, it was basically trial and error.
DMA made one of my favorite games of all time for the n64, silicon valley.
+lurkerrekrul
I'm quite the same way. Fortunately, there's Practice Mode.
Didn't expect you to be here!
...Why does it feel like every video I watch, it inevitably leads back to Grand Theft Auto? It feels like a conspiracy by this point.
Half life 3: Grand theft auto confirmed!
That's just how good the algorithm is
I wonder what GTA's Ryu number is?
@@mladen7641 so is it an Half Life reboot set in the GTA universe or a GTA set in the Half Life Universe? i would play both
Same thing happens to me with Dark Souls.
Unbelievable. I never knew it was rockstar games.
+FPSGHoST808 Never did I ;_;
One of my childhood games that ran on MS-DOS
+FPSGHoST808 Rockstar North!
+tttc North is essentially the first Rockstar studio
well there was "Vis" first, but they sucked :)
I never knew that the guy who made some of the soundtrack for wipeout made the music in lemmings.
There is something so surreal about lemmings maybe its the music or the the way that the lemmings walk to their deaths, but I always have an existential crisis when I play it.
wait what !
for me its the weird visuals in the levels, but its probably because i spent a lot of thinking about it as a kid. i always wondered what was on the other side of the entrance trapdoor and the exit. all levels seemed to take place underground, but why were there sometimes trees and buildings? did the exit of one level lead to the entrance of the next, or was there some underground lemming paradise in which they all ended up after beating a level? why would the levels sometimes stretch way beyond the exit when there was nothing of importance there? also, how did the lemmings feel when they had to blow up their friends to progress? why could the stoppers not simply start to walk again?
I've felt like this forever
Trivia: On the C64 the lemmings themselves were not Sprites, but background graphic, the background (=level) itself was sprites ;)
Noice
really!?
Yes, that was the only way to display so many lemmnings in one row. C64 can't display more than 8 sprites in the same row.
Cracking fact, this.
That really doesn't sound like something that would work
I like how Stu mentioned Disney and the movie that started this misinformation. In the movie, that scene was really the people scaring and forcing the animals off a ledge.
+GSDAkatsuki And that's basically exactly what the game is
Adam Porter no the difference is in the game they willingly walk off the ledge just because theyre following the leader.
This doesnt happen in reality.
lemmings was thought to be unique because their instincts to follow the lemming in front was so great, that they will follow them to their death.
Which is a lie told by a Disney live-action documentary. In actuality the lemmings will stop.
The movie made it seem like one lemming fell, and the others followed. Only they was being pushed by the cast.
Actually, White Wilderness was not the origin point of the myth that lemmings commit suicide. It's a myth mentioned in documentaries before that film, and its origins go back at least as far as the 19th century if not further.
No, NO! Ahoy ripped off LGR's 2012 video down to the fucking point. Look it up. Stu didn't do anything.
@@Skyrilla how can this be a rip off of a 2012 video if the original upload of this video was in 2011?
Check the description, it iven states there that this is just a re-upload...
So Rockstar made Lemmings? damn the more you learn I guess the pedestrians you see in the games are the new Lemmings.
rockstar is Scottish, kinda cool
No, DMA made lemmings. By the time it was Rockstar North none of the creatives and original talent of the company remained.
@@TheBroz still the same company
there even is a lemmings easter egg in SA's las venturas.
They also made midtown madness
Sadly, in the year following when this video was originally uploaded, Studio Liverpool was closed down by Sony after what was essentially an audit of all their European games development studios, bringing to an end the legacy of one of the most prominent, historical UK development studios in Psygnosis.
Maybe worth adding that detail in as an annotation?
@Meier Di Capua To this day I still have no idea what the "EAT THIS!!!" annotations linked to on Machinima videos.
@Doge 1128
What are you on about? You can still edit comments.
@Doge 1128 Sadly, in the month following your original comment, youtube was shut down, ultimately benefiting humanity at the cost of cat videos
@@danb9447 Sadly, the red fox brilliant wheel egg ball elf mountain fork sparrow bread stack die arm
@@sweetberries4611 sadly in the year following your comment english was deleted
This was the first PC game I ever played, my school had an after school club where you could play on their computers. They had Lemmings and some game where you play a flying dinosaur with a gun on its back and flew around shooting things(no clue what it was called) but Lemmings was always so cool
Same here, Holy shit! Did you also have Dr Quandary and a caveman themed Mariokart clone on school computers?
Was that dinosaur game called Nanosaur by any chance?
My elementary school had us play this sci-fi action game called Math Blaster where you fought against a robot empire by solving math problems. As a little kid it felt pretty epic lol
How about Super Munchers.... And a couple years later Oregon Trail
Excellent I worked at DMA/Rockstar in the early 2000's. Really proud, was only there a short while before I became an indie :)
Radiant Silver Labs, thats interesting. what was that like? also, if you don't mind me asking, what was it that made you decide to go into indie development?
It was awesome, very high working conditions (and people bringing you bacon sandwiches to your desk in the morning!), and great people. I wanted to leave because actually being a coder on something like GTA, is not really designing games. By that point you are a cog in the machine and if you ever want to live your dreams of writing your own games (i.e you design them, you code them and you make all the high level choices), then you really have to become an indie.
Prove it, nerd
@@LickMyMusketBallsYankee my guy did you really try to insult someone with "nerd"? Go back to the 90s
(Fixed reply) Oooofffff coouuuurssseee you would say that. Nerd is such an outdated insult, that it aged like milk in the hot summer. Stop acting like a edgy 90's school bully who asks for lunch money. Now leave and never come back.
In my Amiga times, someone gave me a demo disc of Lemmings with four playable levels, long before the craze started. I immediately knew that this would go very very big. It was such a fresh experience and felt like you had known this forever at the same time.
Great description. I think this is the case for a lot of great art, music.
Man, I used to and still sometimes watch your cod weapon videos. Crazy how time flies, this video was so good I stopped eating until it was over. Magnificent content.
Lemmings is one of my earliest memories of a video game. I wasn't allowed to touch the computer, but I watched my mom play it for a couple days. She ended up rage quitting it! Must've been pretty hard. XD
Thank you for this showcase, it brings back memories.
Note on the Lemmings Myth:
It emerged from Canada & Scandinavia. Though some species of lemmings will leave the group after a population density line is crossed, even crossing perilous conditions to do it, observers in both regions noticing the decreased numbers started the rumor of them committing mass suicide.
When White Wilderness was being filmed, they were (ironically) aiming to dispel the myth of mass suicide and clarify it was just migration. However, to add "drama" to the scene, they pushed the lemmings off the cliff to their deaths, the crew not even certain if they were actively aiding the migration or not. Despite their original intention, their action (along w/ the narration selling this as a mania/sudden irrational compulsion) not only reinforced the myth but made it considerably more widespread than before.
Just a couple of months before The Lemmings hit the shelf's (well, the pirates...), there was a little demo circulating that had the lemmings (differently colored) walk around. It was just a cute demo, but then the Lemmings came out ....
I never found that demo on the interwebs :(
I remember playing this game when I was very young! My mom used to play it and introduced me to it.
I know how the levels look like after 2/3 of the game.
So I can say you have a good mom.
thanx for reuploading these retroahoy's. I didn't know them before. Entertaining snack bits to watch.
It's been a while, but thank you for the shot of nostalgia. I had the original lemmings and Chistmas lemming for the amiga 500.
Good times ^^.
I love his phrasing sometimes: "...the game Blossomed into a pioneering puzzler, and paired with a high degree of polish..."
I LOVED this game as a kid, had it for snes. I played it over and over, and sometimes would even just listen to the soundtrack with the option menu.
I loved this game as a teenager. I even downloaded the level editor and made my own levels. Oh the nostalgia.
My father loved this game but was never able to find a copy to show me, I’ve never known what the game he loved was like but yet now I know. All I can say is thank you. However sadly he is gone now, I’m sure he would have loved your small documentary.
One of the 10 best games of all time! How many hours of endless fun!! Don’t understand why there isn’t a modern working version available!!!
Ohhhh yeah.....good old days...
I remember playing a version on nitrome that had little ink blots and you controlled their routes by doodling ramps and walls and stuff. So many good games
Really enjoying everything on the channel! Kudos to all the great work.
I remember playing Lemmings on the PSP with better graphics years ago, weird that it wasn't mentionned.
I feel a bit over saturated by videos from Stu.
Do keep it up. :D
+Critterbot I keep seeing Xbox Ahoy videos pop up in my feed, i'm like oh wow these are old, fuck yea cant wait to watch them again!!!
I played this game as a child on the Atari ST, I would have been maybe 8 or 9. At that age I wasn't clever enough to be able to do the later levels, some of them seemed utterly impossible. I picked the game up years later as a young adult, and found that it is actually really well structured if you play it linearly. It starts with the easy stuff and then gradually introduces levels that require a bit of out-of-the-box thinking (one example is that it is possible to release blockers without blowing them up if you dig the ground out from under them). By the time I got to the Mayhem levels I was able to figure them out using the techniques I'd accumulated throughout the game, and the final level ended up being a cinch. It was really satisfying to be able to beat this game that had confounded me as a kid.
I love his voice so much. It's so soothing I could literally fall asleep to it.
This game actually looks really really fun
"And still exists to this day"
If only he knew...
Awesome vid. I really wish there was a clean, HD remake of Lemmings to play on PSN or XBLA. It's greatly missed!
You can tell Stuart has evolved his style since his last episode of this series. The sound is richer, and the script feels more evocative of his later style
I had forgotten Cold Storage did the Lemming Music. His Wipeout music is classic.
i had no idea there's music in lemmings for start :P and now to learn about him as Cold Storage oh dear :) missed a lot with just pc speaker back then :D dune2 music all along :(
Should make a video about the worms games
YES
First time seeing this video as I did not dig for older videos. I really hope Stuart will find his way back to videos, he is a unique storyteller, mesmerizing also... He is lost but hopefully shall be found again.
Nice coverage of the history and game mechanics. 👍🏻☺️
I used to love this game on the Acorn Achemedies, my old school had one of those back in the day and it had this game on it. It was the first time I'd ever seen Lemmings and it blew me away with the graphics and sampled music as I was used to 8 bit stuff.
Wow.... Lemmings was my entry-level-drug to PC games back in the early 90's
I was blown away by that atmosphere this game has...
I own Wipeout Omega Collection and had no clue that the original company that made the series was Psygnosis. Impressive work they've made
Honestly your videos are all beautifully made. Keep up the great work
This was one of my favourite games on the SNES!!! Thanks for the review
The Lemmings apart from the Turrets in the Portal games are probably the cutest ever.
Cuteness for both rely mostly if not near purely on audio.
because I grew up with Lemmings on the Amiga (and be cause I watched the brief history of graphics) you sir are gaining yet another Sub... but lemmings man... Love them !
I miss playing Lemmings. Used to stay up all night trying to beat levels. Sure wish I could find it again but alas I guess I am SOL for that game. Thanks to my son for sending this link to me.
This was the first PC game i played in the early 90s at a mates place before we even had our own PC. love it.
I love that voice
Thank you for all the memories.
There's an amazing homebrew port of Lemmings on the DS with nice additions like pre-selecting a lem and giving them a job when they get to where you need them to be.
i love how these videos often end with a developer that is super well known now. always surprises me.
Loved this game. I had no idea about the ongoing lineage of Psygnosis after the early '90's. I miss my Amiga!
In 2007 I threw out, yes threw out my still working Amiga 500+ with a cardboard box of about 200-300 disks! What was I thinking?
My sister and I 100%'d the game on co-op. No Lemming left behind!
Thank you for a great video - this game brings nostalgia from my times playing it as a kid on my Sega Megadrive.
I grew up with lemmings, had all the games, even "Operation Lemming". 2 player Lemmings was crazy fun.
I loved the original lemmings as a kid! And now Sony has it as mobile version! That I freely admit I'm addicted to!
I have Lemmings on my smartphone. I used to play it on MS-DOS and was so happy to find it on the Play Store! The new format is even better than the original. It was made mobile gaming!
Came here per recommendation from Luke Lapalooza, he mentioned the channel on LTT WAN-Show Nov.10 2023 - Awesome channel :-)
I played the original for so many hours as a kid :)
What a game. I remember it fulfilling something inside, like when u played it u realized u were craving it all along.
I loved this game, especially on the Amiga which had digitized sound effects. I think "A Beast of a Level" (the one with the trees he showed) was one of my favourites due to the excellent music for it (from Shadow of the Beast). So much fun.
Really interesting video! Loved Lemmings when I was a kid, and as a non-native English speaker it was so easy to get into without knowing a single English word.
It makes sense that the producers of such a good puzzle game would make GTA and RD later on. I used to love me some Lemmings!
Ah I love Lemmings as a kid (Snes version), although I never could get very far before getting stumped. I never thought about how good the sprites are for only being 8X8.
Great video. Lemmings was my childhood.
I know this video is older than the weapons series but in case you read this, make more. They’re ducking perfect.
OH! I owned the 3d Lemmings - thanks for bringing those memories back!
Haha! I don't play video games anymore but used to when I was a kid, just hearing this music brought up deep levels of oppressed stress from when I panicked and failed to get those lemmings safe!
I still remember the layout of the store where we rented this game. They’ve remodeled since.
One of my favourite games of all time.
Damn son, this is some good quality shit Stu
A perfect game to fool a innocent little child into unforgiving, sadistic gameplay
Lemmings was so fun on the PSP, the level editor was great.
I loved Lemmings and Lemmings 2, but I really feel both suffered from only one problem - picking out a lemming to bash or build or become a climber or whatnot in a dense crowd of the little buggers was sometimes pure chance and luck. The marker introduced in Lemmings 3D I think it was, really helped. Lem 3D was actually pretty damn good, with a perfect difficulty curve, some really inventive, thoughtful and challenging level design and a great soundtrack. Sadly, the graphics have not aged well at all, being around the PS1 / 3Dfx era. I remember with Lemmings 2, all levels could be completed by saving all lemmings, and that was the "true" (gold) challenge. But if you killed off some members of a tribe, you had less to complete the next levels in the same set. Go back and improve a loss, and you needed to carry it through the remaining levels as well. Pretty ingenious.
Lemmings 3 however... what a disappointment. It changed stuff up too much, it didn't look right, the zoom felt claustrophobic, it was harder to understand, yet felt way too simplified, and it was planned to be a proto-DLC type model. I recall reading an interview in a magazine with one of the producers (?) saying including all the tribes in Lemmings 2 had been "a mistake" because they could have sliced them up to sell as mission packs. Hence why here there were only three tribes included, with the others planned to be sold as expansions. But the game sold poorly, and they were never released. Like the Matrix sequels, it's best to forget all about this one.
I love the Lemmings franchise. I still have a copy of The Lemmings Chronicles and a user guide for Lemmings Revolution.
The story of DMA was one I already knew, but I never knew that Psygnosis would become studio Liverpool. They released one of my favorite racing titles: F1 Championship edition
Had a friend who was an artist who did a couple of the lemming designs for an unofficial spin off game on the Amiga in the early 90's. Operation Lemming. There is a video if the game on TH-cam. Crude but challenging I remember.
"cutesy puzzle game with a suicidal twist"
What a *sentence*, Jesus Christ.
I remember playing Lemmings.. I was like 5 and i loved the game.. Dunno where I can play it now..
Lemmings on the PlayStation was one of the first game I ever played and the first puzzle game. I had actually forgotten about Lemmings
Lemmings 3D was the game, I believe
They are animated so well
Lemmings. One of the games I began my Let's Play series on.
this actually makes me wanna play lemmings again ...great video man...
If I had more free time I'd make my long planned lemmings mod: It's called Islemmings! The lemmings are replaced with turban wearing mustafa-al-habibs on their way to Mecca, naturally they blow themselves up in spectacular fashion, taking out public schools, mosques and priceless historical landmarks on the way - if there's a programmer out there with a little free time, please run with this idea!
This was my game as a kid. Lemmings 2 in particular. Funny that my name is Lomax... a complete coincidence, but one I enjoy.
I hope, as a budding game developer, I will create Lemmings vs. Worms.
I find this stuff so interesting! Great job Stu
"(...) SCE Studio Liverpool who persist to this day"
...oh... good old times...
The happy sound they made when they reached the exit was so satisfying
So the guys that made lemmings, made gta, awesome :)
Good videos man! I'm subscribing.
lemmings is very nostalgic for me. played it loads in school on the acorn archemedies and atari st at home.
Y'know, it occurs to me that Shadow of the Beast was kind of the Dark Souls of the era... I know that's become a meme by this point, but it's kind of true. Non-linear, somewhat obtuse, known for its brutal difficulty... SotB wasn't all that great though.
Anyway, Lemmings remains my favourite puzzle game of all time. I think the fiendish, clever design of the puzzles remains unsurpassed in gaming. And... holy crap, did you say the music was done by Tim Wright, aka Cold Storage!? No wonder I loved it so much!
When I first saw this playing in a computer shop I actually thought it was a higher resolution screen than it was because of the well animated sprites.Bear in mind monitors back then were a little blurry so you couldn't see the pixels as well.
By the way Lemmings made an appearence in Hired Guns.
So good quality in these lectures :)
Now I wonder if there is a video for The Incredible Machine too. @_@
Lemmings 3 (my version was known as Lemmings Chronicles) was a seriously underrated game. It was my favorite of the Lemmings games, though I do love the original to death. Too bad it's pretty hard to get Lemmings 3 to run on any modern computer. There really ought to be a gog.com re-release of these games.
How did I not see this... this game was my childhood 💙
6:04 "Who persists to this day"
...Well, that statement aged like milk. They were shutdown less than a year after this video was originally uploaded.
I remember playing Lemmings on a MSDoS emulator at computing class. Such a great game...