Lemmings

North American Amiga box art.

Lemmings is an action puzzle game developed by DMA Design Limited and published by Psygnosis Limited for the Amiga in 1991, and later ported to dozens of other platforms.

I got a copy of Lemmings for MS-DOS around 1993 because it came bundled with a piece of hardware. I think it was my Sound Blaster 2, but I'm not positive. I played through all 30 Fun levels and started on the Tricky levels, but got bored with it, but I really enjoyed the ported DOS music for the game.

I'm not sure where my disk went, but I do remember the game had a verification mechanism where it required the original disk to be in the diskette drive to play, and copies of the disk wouldn't work. A pretty devious anti-piracy measure for the time, but it didn't stop people from altering the game's binaries to bypass the check.

Status

I do not own the game and I have not beaten the game.

Review

• Overall: 5/10
• Best Version: Not sure.

Good

• The background graphics look great for the time, and the lemming animations are really cute.
• The arranged children's songs fit the game perfectly, and the original music is great.
• The point-and-click interface works really well.
• Some later stages use the same map as an earlier stage, but give you a limited set of lemmings to work with, which forces you to have to solve the same puzzle in a more convoluted manner, which I think is a great idea.

Bad

• The instruments used in the Amiga version are really obnoxious.

Ugly

• In the final levels, the game becomes less about solving a puzzle and more about having to click on the exact pixel at the exact second. This isn't fun, it's tedious.

Media

Box Art

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  This is the original box art used by the Amiga. Most ports use this art work, only with variations on the layout. I love the multitude of lemmings in the background all doing silly things. My favorite art.

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  The UK Macintosh art shows a deviant lemming with a pick-axe and a lit stick of TNT with various lemmings falling to their deaths. Kind of disturbing!

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  The European Mega Drive box shows a line of lemmings cheerfully jumping off a cliff to their deaths. It's also a bit disturbing.

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  The Game Gear box art shows a bunch of copied umbrella lemmings smiling at a single lemming without an umbrella falling to his death. Again, disturbing.

Documentation

• Lemmings - Manual.pdf

  Game manual for Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS.

• Lemmings - CDTV - Manual.pdf

  Game manual for CDTV.

• Lemmings - NES - Manual.pdf

  Game manual for NES.

• Lemmings - SNES - Manual.pdf

  Game manual for SNES.

• Lemmings - GG - Manual.pdf

  Game manual for Game Gear.

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  The Official Companion.

Maps

• vgmaps.com/Atlas/PC/index.htm#Lemmings - DOS.
• vgmaps.com/Atlas/NES/index.htm#Lemmings - NES.
• vgmaps.com/Atlas/MasterSystem/index.htm#Lemmings - Sega Master System.

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  ZX Spectrum.

Fan Art

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  Comic by Zac Gorman.

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  Fan art by Artbybones.

Videos

• youtube.com/watch?v=7SgDS-16UFA - Longplay, Amiga 1/2.
• youtube.com/watch?v=v5Rd-xGt6aU - Longplay, Amiga 2/2.

Download

This is the MS-DOS demo version of Lemmings.

• Download (Info) - Demo.

Titles

Language	Native	Transliteration	Translation
English	Lemmings
Japanese	レミングス	Remingusu	Lemmings

Links

• mobygames.com/game/lemmings - MobyGames.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game) - Wikipedia.
• codiekitty.com/LEM/index.htm - Fan site.
• shikadi.net/moddingwiki/Lemmings - Modding Wiki.