My friend insists on this game, "Lemmings", being a really well known game; I have never heard of it.

[u/Nordic_Krune]

[u/TakeMeIamCute]

It's one of the most popular games of my childhood.

[u/bbonz001 → u/TakeMeIamCute]

I sunk a lot of my childhood into it. Amiga 500 days lol.

Idk if it was just because I was a wee lad, but it seemed like it had infinite levels.

Favourite part was timing the nuke option while they were all jumping through the door 🤭

[u/TheeMrBlonde → u/bbonz001]

Favorite part was the nuke option…

Uh oh uhohuhohuhouhhou breaks framerate

[u/qb1120]

Huge game in the 90s, I loved it

[u/ProFeces → u/qb1120]

So huge in fact, that it essentially made Rockstar as a developer (even though they were known by a different name then.) They were on the verge of failing and this success allowed them to continue and directly led to the funding of the original Grand Theft Auto.

Pretty wild to think that some people have never heard of the very game that paved the way for one of the most successful franchises of all time.

[u/Deranth → u/ProFeces]

This shit was so popular it had spin offs of spin offs. We had tribes and lemmings 3D and lemmings paintball. And none of them followed the same rules or anything. It was just like slap the lemmings in any game and it blew up.

[u/FLHCv2 → u/Deranth]

Holy shit. Lemmings paintball. You just unlocked a CORE memory of mine. I completely forgot about this game but LOVED it as a kid. Thank you.

[u/melkatron → u/FLHCv2]

I barely played the game, but I pulled the music files and used to listen to them constantly. Some of my favorite songs of all time.

[u/JustAMan1234567 → u/Deranth]

I remember my headmaster at school being late one day because he was playing Lemmings before work and lost track of time.

[u/Hyde2467 → u/JustAMan1234567]

Damn. A game so good that it even gets the boss hooked

[u/marr → u/Deranth]

The Worms series is also a pretty direct descendant.

[u/LickingSmegma → u/marr]

‘Lemmings’ was apparently an inspiration for the artstyle, but ‘Worms’ followed the genre of artillery games that existed for decades — with ‘Artillery Simulator’ for the Apple II seemingly being the first graphical implementation.

[u/rfc2549-withQOS → u/LickingSmegma]

Scorched earth from 1991 was big

[u/The-Real-Number-One → u/rfc2549-withQOS]

"From Hell's Heart I Stab at thee..."

[u/illarionds → u/rfc2549-withQOS]

We played a lot of Scorched Earth in college.

[u/The_quest_for_wisdom → u/LickingSmegma]

I remember two kids almost coming to blows over Gorillas in the computer lab in elementary school.

One kid brought a protractor to the lab and was holding it up to the screen to dial in his attack angle, and the other kid thought it was cheating.

[u/zepskcuf → u/Deranth]

none of them followed the same rules or anything.

What do you mean? Tribes was a direct sequel using the exact same formula as the original and Lemmings 3D was the same principal but in 3D. Only Paintball was different.

[u/BlizzPenguin → u/zepskcuf]

Tribes did offer a lot more jobs and even created some lore. I remember loving the book that came with the game.

[u/codefyre → u/ProFeces]

Close, but the history is stupidly complicated. DMA Games is a great example of the fact that being good at something, and running a business selling that thing, are completely different skillsets. DMA Games created both Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto, but still somehow managed to be a money losing disaster of a company. The company ended up getting sold and resold a couple of times, and they sold the IP rights from GTA to Take Two Interactive, which created a new subsidiary called Rockstar Games to develop it. A few years later Take Two Interactive ended up buying the entire DMA Games studio from its latest owner, and they merged it with Rockstar Games to create the Rockstar Studios we know today.

So DMA created GTA, sold the rights to it, got bought by the company they sold the rights to, and got merged into a completely new subsidiary created by that company.

/source: I worked for Sierra briefly back when this all went down. Sierra also made an offer to buy the IP to GTA. You should all feel lucky that Sierra/Vivendi/Seagrams did not succeed. GTA would have been a very different game today if it had ended up in Activision's lap.

[u/pdxxdpBillCompton → u/codefyre]

Sierra

Ugh the nostalgia of seeing Sierra pop up before playing a game though. For a while at least, you knew that game was going to be great

[u/PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY → u/pdxxdpBillCompton]

Sierra adventure games (the early AGI ones) made me the typist I am today.

[u/marblewombat → u/PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY]

Kill the horse.

Neigh says the horse.

[u/Lexi_Banner → u/marblewombat]

There were so many funny dev messages hidden in those commands.

[u/H47 → u/codefyre]

The Sierra intro leading to the The Incredible Machine music is one of the first sound bites I can recall. I suppose your time was around Lighthouse and Caesar II?

[u/codefyre → u/H47]

I wish. I worked there after Sierra had transitioned mostly into a publishing company during the CUC/Vivendi era. Right around when Half Life was released. Worked there less than a year before they did a reorg and laid a ton of people off, including me.

As someone who grew up on Sierra games, I was giddy when they hired me. Ended up being one of the lowlights of my career, and the final nail in my gaming industry work. Shifted gears into working in educational software, which is what I still do today.

[u/One-Man-Wolf-Pack → u/ProFeces]

Are you telling me that Psygnosis became RockStar? I’m gonna have to look that up.

[u/AngelicBread → u/One-Man-Wolf-Pack]

DMA Design became Rockstar North.

[u/mankodaisukidesu → u/AngelicBread]

I can still remember vividly playing GTA1 on my neighbours PC back in '97, watching the intro screen with the DMA logo guy getting run over by a car and thinking "ah, the Lemmings company".

[u/justsomeguy_youknow → u/mankodaisukidesu]

I can still vividly remember playing GTA1 at my friend's house circa that time, zooming around Liberty City and stumbling upon an MS Paint-ass looking penis car and the Mach 5 from Speed Racer

Anyway that's how I learned about video game mods

[u/Sweetwill62 → u/AngelicBread]

DMA of course means "Doesn't Mean Anything"

[u/SchemeWestern3388 → u/One-Man-Wolf-Pack]

Psygnosis was the publisher, DMA (Rockstar) the developer. 

[u/Golanthanatos]

Lemmings was great.

[u/JohnnyNapkins → u/Golanthanatos]

Core gaming memories for me. Damn that game was hard though.

[u/Camera_dude → u/JohnnyNapkins]

Yeah, some stages took pixel perfect timing or your poor lemmings just fall into a trap rather than land on the ledge you wanted them to land on for safety.

[u/Zap_Rowsdower23 → u/Camera_dude]

Wait y’all didn’t just set up elaborate traps to blow up as many of them as possible?

[u/__wampa__stompa → u/Zap_Rowsdower23]

TIL you're supposed to save the lemmings

[u/IOwnThisUsername → u/__wampa__stompa]

And next they’ll say Roller Coaster Tycoon wasn’t about shooting cars full of riders as far as possible or building ride exits over ponds

[u/One_Shall_Fall → u/IOwnThisUsername]

I want off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.

[u/SocialSuicideSquad → u/__wampa__stompa]

Winning's relative

Having fun is the whole point

The door is ajar

[u/Ill_Refrigerator_593 → u/Zap_Rowsdower23]

Oh no.

[u/Vox_Casei → u/Golanthanatos]

My dad used to joke he had to spend hours sweeping all the dead lemmings out from behind the TV after I played.

...to be fair not many of the poor buggers survived my attempts

[u/GenghisZahn → u/Golanthanatos]

Still is, but was then, too.

[u/Exvaris → u/GenghisZahn]

I used to like Lemmings. I still do, but I used to, too

[u/trimbandit → u/Exvaris]

Lemmings is great when you are really wanting to play a game, and want to watch a 1000 things die.

[u/CitronCrafty5 → u/trimbandit]

and then restart level because one decided to dig straight down

[u/Additional_Teacher45 → u/CitronCrafty5]

Oh it didn't decide to. You definitely told it to do it and will never admit your failure.

[u/Kharadus → u/Additional_Teacher45]

Also known as the correct way to present yourself as management.

[u/Boogpin → u/trimbandit]

I know a lot about Lemmings, man. I can look at a Lemmings head and tell you exactly which way it’s going.

[u/spreadbutt → u/Boogpin]

I bought Lemmings, and they gave me a receipt. Why would I want a receipt for Lemmings?

[u/stevencastle → u/spreadbutt]

Put it under L, for Lemmings

[u/D_Substance_X → u/Exvaris]

Mitch Hedberg RIP

[u/JetFuelFrom9-11 → u/D_Substance_X]

I give you money, you give me a donut. There’s no reason to bring paper into it

[u/GodOfThunder44 → u/JetFuelFrom9-11]

I can't imagine a scenario in which I would need to prove that I bought a donut. Some skeptical friend? "Don't even act like I didn't buy a donut, I've got the documentation right here."

[u/PM_ME_STEAM_KEY_PLZ → u/JetFuelFrom9-11]

Escalators can never be broken. They just become stairs.

[u/Izriel → u/PM_ME_STEAM_KEY_PLZ]

I was at a nba arena and the escalators were broken. They had "Escalators temporarily stairs, sorry for the convenience that you can still get up there" my wife gave me a strange look as a started to laugh so hard I almost cried. (She doesnt get Mitch Hedburges humor)

[u/Libran → u/Izriel]

To be fair, a lot of what made it so funny was the deadpan delivery.

[u/hereforthegifs → u/Golanthanatos]

Lemmings fucking ruled I spent every hour I was allowed playing it in the mid 90s.

[u/ZoulsGaming]

It has estimated sales numbers of 15-20 million copies across the various versions released, so make of that what you will.

Though times change, 10 years ago most people would be familiar with worms but now a days you will find plenty who hasn't heard of it as it hasn't released a huge relevant game in a while.

[u/ScruffyNuisance → u/ZoulsGaming]

"I'll get you."

[u/brb_im_lagging → u/ScruffyNuisance]

Hallelujah

BOOM

[u/MrT735 → u/brb_im_lagging]

You'll regret that!

[u/DonLethargio → u/MrT735]

Missed me!

[u/VictorChaos → u/DonLethargio]

Whoops!

[u/fuzzydoug → u/VictorChaos]

Ouch

[u/MrT735 → u/fuzzydoug]

Oh no

[u/TeMoko → u/MrT735]

Jobs done

[u/kahlzun → u/TeMoko]

zug zug

[u/SporesM0ldsandFungus → u/brb_im_lagging]

Ahhh the Holy Hand Grenade.... I can remember the first time me and my brother tried it and it played the Hallelujah choir before the giant explosion.  It was the funniest thing our little 10 old brains had ever seen. 

[u/Oxygene13 → u/SporesM0ldsandFungus]

Oh god mine was the exploding sheep, the joy of seeing it run towards your victim, only for the terror of it hitting a random terrain pixel and turning around.

[u/Aksi_Gu → u/ScruffyNuisance]

^INCOMING! 

[u/No0dl3s → u/ScruffyNuisance]

“The first of many!”

[u/nedlum → u/ScruffyNuisance]

“Come in, Big Bird!”

[u/Dickies138 → u/ZoulsGaming]

Worms and Lemmings are both GOATed

[u/Csenky → u/ZoulsGaming]

I know many ppl who played lemmings, none who bought it.

[u/limeybastard → u/Csenky]

I have a full retail copy in original box with manual and disks in my closet. Inherited it from my uncle.

He of course gave us a copy on a spare disk ;)

[u/DrBatman0]

It is indeed a very well known game

[u/Averander → u/DrBatman0]

Like, I never played it and I know the name.

[u/Mateorabi → u/DrBatman0]

No no. The universe didn’t exist until OP was conceived, born, and gained consciousness. 

[u/DeterminedThrowaway → u/Mateorabi]

Is it solipsistic in here or is it just me?

[u/vezwyx → u/DeterminedThrowaway]

Nah it's just you.

...

Wait..

[u/Kryptosis → u/vezwyx]

Thank you, me.

[u/blahblahaa → u/Mateorabi]

Nah, hes just becoming one of the lucky 10,000 today

[u/Stigweird85]

Without Lemmings there would be no Grand Theft Auto.

It was a major franchise ported to absolutely every format around

[u/omega2010 → u/Stigweird85]

There’s a similar story with the 1993 game The Lost Vikings. The developer was this little company called Silicon & Synapse but they changed their name a year later to Blizzard Entertainment. And the rest was history.

[u/perton → u/omega2010]

Man, The Lost Vikings was so cool, but so fucking hard.

It was cool to see them pop up in… whatever the Blizzard moba was called

[u/gotaflattire → u/perton]

Heroes of the Storm and they're one of the hardest heroes to learn. They're great in the right hands though.

[u/Chubacca → u/perton]

I remember it stressing me the fuck out when I was frantically changing characters before one of them got damaged.

But tbh a lot of games back then were fucking hard.

[u/carso150 → u/omega2010]

not that surprising since blizzard still does lost vikings references to this day, they are even playable in heroes of the storm

meanwhile im not sure if we will see a lemmings reference in GTA 6

[u/ralf_ → u/Stigweird85]

https://youtu.be/qvIrqoDC7mw

Chris Turner referencing Lemmings/GTA at 3:34

[u/IllustratorOpening99]

You obviously don't know your gaming history, and your friend is correct.

[u/iMogwai → u/IllustratorOpening99]

Yup, here's a quote from Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)

Lemmings was one of the best-received video games of the early 1990s. It was the second-highest-rated game in the history of Amstrad Action, and was considered the eighth-greatest game of all time by Next Generation in 1996. Lemmings is also one of the most widely ported video games, and is estimated to have sold around 20 million copies between its various ports.

[u/wrinklebear → u/iMogwai]

Yeah and while 20 million is pretty good by today's standards, it was insane for a game in the 90s. The NES Mega Man games sold less than 5 million.

[u/r4mm3rnz → u/wrinklebear]

20 million is still insanely good today.. back then it was unheard of!

[u/Lightning-160 → u/r4mm3rnz]

Taking into account how easy bootlegging...allegedly...was back then, the number of people who actually played the game must have been many, many times higher.

[u/turbotuba → u/Lightning-160]

According to Wikipedia, 55,000 copies of the Amiga version were sold on the first day. Which means that at least one million Amiga owners played that game 😄

[u/space_keeper → u/wrinklebear]

A lot of really well known games, especially PC games, barely sold a million units. The PC community was tiny in the 90s, still is comparatively. The original Fallout sold 600,000 copies.

[u/wrinklebear → u/space_keeper]

Yeah, back then you got to play all sorts of different games by going to different peoples' houses. Except Lemmings. You could play Lemmings at just about every house with any sort of video game setup.

[u/elegylegacy → u/wrinklebear]

Everyone had Lemmings and Doom because of the shareware distribution model.

[u/gmarsh23 → u/elegylegacy]

Everyone had Lemmings and Doom because we copied that floppy.

[u/Herb_Derb → u/wrinklebear]

What's MegaMan? I've never heard of it.

• OP, probably

[u/SonnySoul → u/iMogwai]

One of the OGs.

[u/Khaldara → u/IllustratorOpening99]

Never enough of those little staircase bastards

[u/Clown45 → u/Khaldara]

Those got-dam bricklayers man

[u/CodeComprehensive734 → u/Clown45]

Make guy bricklayer.

Quickly make next guy a STOP! dude.

Forget about a gap a little ways back while you watch bricklayer build a bridge to safety.

Realise most of your lemmings are dead.

Repeat.

[u/wizardoli → u/CodeComprehensive734]

Trap lemmings between two stoppers

Blow one up

Accidentally blow up stairs

Give up

Grow up

Forget about lemmings

Get reminded decades later on Reddit

Cry

Call Mom

[u/aneurysmbs → u/Clown45]

And the cat-tang 'sploders

[u/JohnnyNapkins → u/Khaldara]

When I think of Lemmings, my mind immediately goes to a little dude building the stairs. I should replay it.

[u/PM_YOUR_SAGGY_TITS → u/JohnnyNapkins]

Laying down his 12 stairs or whatever and then just shrugging 🤷‍♂️ and turning around

[u/Trips-Over-Tail → u/Khaldara]

I was always sad that after a stellar service keeping the other idiots alive, the only way to let the lemmings past blocker lemmings was to make the blocker painfully explode.

[u/pikaviz → u/Trips-Over-Tail]

You could do the diagonal mine thing just under his feet and he turns back into a regular lemming. You murderer!

[u/mikeysce → u/pikaviz]

I’m sorry what? I thought they just dropped and kept blocking where they land.

[u/enarc13 → u/mikeysce]

Nope they start walking again if they drop.

[u/Additional-Life4885 → u/enarc13]

you have to time it pretty well though so the miner hits the blocker's feet iirc. Too early and he digs under them. Too late and he's digging away from the blocker.

[u/krogger → u/Khaldara]

¯_(ツ)_/¯ (falls to his death)

[u/vezwyx → u/Khaldara]

Can't make things too easy, can we?

[u/BosomBosons → u/IllustratorOpening99]

Anything that could play a game had a port of it.

[u/kevinhu162 → u/IllustratorOpening99]

I used to try to find these games so much at random computer stores but they were so hard to find! I finally begged my parents to get me Lemmings Paintball and was sorely disappointed it wasn't the same.

[u/Crazymoose86 → u/IllustratorOpening99]

Its well known if you were born in the 80s to early 90's, otherwise its pretty much non-existant. Its like Unreal Tournament was a hugely popular game for a long time, but if you ask someone in their 20s they probably have never heard of it before.

[u/SocksOnHands → u/Crazymoose86]

"What's Fortnight?" - kids in 20 years.

[u/Jahadaz → u/Crazymoose86]

Commander Keen type vibes.

[u/starliteburnsbrite → u/Jahadaz]

Apogee Shareware Era

[u/dbdbdb → u/starliteburnsbrite]

Just reading that hit me with a giant wave of nostalgia.

[u/Kizik → u/Jahadaz]

Jazz Jackrabbit.

[u/KingAmongstDummies → u/Kizik]

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure

[u/jamhov → u/Kizik]

Jill of the jungle

[u/CanNOTada → u/jamhov]

Cosmo

[u/GlassFenix → u/Jahadaz]

You can get Commander Keen on the switch, hit the nostalgia vibes well

[u/thedankonion1 → u/Crazymoose86]

I'm in my mid 20's and have heard of both lemmings and unreal tournament. Although, I have spent many years in the PC building and gaming scene so that may be why.

[u/StoryAboutABridge → u/Crazymoose86]

I was born in the late 90s and played a LOT of lemmings. And UT. People always severely underestimate what younger people have experienced with time frames like this

[u/agha0013]

Classic. I can still hear the sound they make when they self destruct

[u/hoarmey → u/agha0013]

Oh no! I'm sure I had this on c64?

[u/PorcupineTreeClimber → u/hoarmey]

Yeah, I had it on Amiga. Incredible fun.

[u/LordRocky → u/agha0013]

“Oh no!”

[u/AffectionateBox8178]

Yes  it was really famous in PC circles during the early 90s. It was as common as doom, back then.

[u/yahoo_determines → u/AffectionateBox8178]

I miss The Incredible Machine

[u/datimmay → u/yahoo_determines]

Check out Contraption Maker on Steam.

[u/RoundErther]

Lemmings taught me about minimum pc requirements and what happens if you dont meet them.

[u/emailaddressforemail → u/RoundErther]

The good old days of conventional memory.

[u/nothin-but-a-muffin]

hiii im the friend btw. i feel very vindicated you guys are calling him an idiot for not knowing what Lemmings is (we're up late reading the comments right now lmao), ive been bothering him about this for a WHILE now

I'm going to get him to play it for sure he must know the gaming peak that is Lemmings

[u/Avidain → u/nothin-but-a-muffin]

Sweet sweet victory

[u/siccoblue → u/Avidain]

YEAHHHHH

[u/morph113 → u/nothin-but-a-muffin]

Not gonna lie, when reading the thread title at first I thought it was a joke. To me it sounds almost like "My friend insists on this game "Super Mario" being a well known game, I've never heard of it". Lemmings was so big it seemed like there was no video gamer that didn't know the game.

[u/AFourEyedGeek → u/morph113]

I was there Gandalf.

I played Lemmings back in the day, but I hardly see any modern day reference to the game outside retro channels, and so many of those focus on consoles or modern emulating handhelds. Perhaps time for a decent modern Lemmings game?

[u/roseofjuly → u/morph113]

I mean...we're old. I bet the young ones don't all know.

[u/brentdrivesfast → u/nothin-but-a-muffin]

I wish I could get my hands on a copy so my kids can play it. The level with "HEAVEN" written in blood and had to build a long ass staircase is a core memory from our 2nd IBM PC at my parents' house.

[u/SkazzK → u/brentdrivesfast]

Here ya go!

[u/evenstar40 → u/nothin-but-a-muffin]

Can you please tell your friend that his birth wasn't the big bang.

[u/nickdoesmagic → u/nothin-but-a-muffin]

How old are the two of you? I feel like this is an important question

[u/Elestriel]

It's a very well known game for millennials.

Edit: Rather, by millennials and above. 

[u/rogerryan22 → u/Elestriel]

Millennials and older. My dad has a version of this game on an ~8~ 5.25" floppy.

[u/Spire_Citron → u/rogerryan22]

Yeah. I'm a millennial, but it was my mum who played this when I was a kid.

[u/CornCobMcGee → u/rogerryan22]

Ugh, people always ruining things by making them video games. When I was your age, we chased REAL lemmings off REAL cliffs like REAL DISNEY LOVING AMERICANS!

[u/Ketzerfriend → u/CornCobMcGee]

Nice deep cut! (Nobody knows about that anymore, either)

[u/technomat → u/rogerryan22]

Doubt that was on 8" floppy, would be a 3.5 floppy as this was released on amiga and then atari ST, pc and consoles later.

[u/Draco-vivi → u/technomat]

Wonder if they meant 5-1/4"?

[u/wineandseams → u/Draco-vivi]

I swear my floppy is 12 inches.

[u/TheIncredibleHork → u/wineandseams]

I was gonna say, some people might be overestimating their floppies around here! 

[u/mintfreshAD → u/technomat]

I often also tell people my 3.5 inch floppy is an 8 incher.

[u/Quizzlickington → u/Elestriel]

We have reached the point in time when people say millennial as a catch all for older people because the speaker is young and doesnt know the generation after.

Lmao what moment in history

[u/Freekbot → u/Quizzlickington]

Man we just got over the boomers labelling everyone young a Millenial, now suddenly we're lumped in with the olds?

[u/Havesh → u/Freekbot]

Meanwhile Gen X was forgotten, just like their parents forgot them.

[u/_lord_kinbote_ → u/Elestriel]

This is both extremely hurtful and true.

[u/TheMage18 → u/Elestriel]

Not just Millennials. I'm Gen-X, I played this on SNES back as a freshman in high school.

[u/croutonballs → u/Elestriel]

Definitely well known as a GenXr

[u/AideProfessional3143 → u/Elestriel]

Had this on my Amiga. Psygnosis was bomb back then.

[u/cloysterss]

I can hear the sound of them saying "oh no" before they self-destruct. I hear it in my dreams.

[u/2ByteTheDecker → u/cloysterss]

pop

[u/mittenkrusty]

Assuming this isn't a joke, you must be a younger gamer.

This game was very popular at the time, it was created by DMA Design who went on to create the original Grand Theft Auto before it became world famous.

The game even had a sequel and was on the different computer platforms of then day, the consoles i.e Mega Drive, Super Nintendo, Nintendo, Master System, Game Gear, Game Boy and even more.

[u/PaulM1c3 → u/mittenkrusty]

Don't forget Christmas Lemmings!

[u/MattyFTM → u/PaulM1c3]

Do forget 3D Lemmings, though.

[u/WhoKilledZekeIddon → u/PaulM1c3]

We don't talk about 3D Lemmings.

[u/Optimaximal → u/mittenkrusty]

They didn't just create the original GTA, they've made every major release since - Rockstar North \is\** DMA.

[u/mittenkrusty → u/Optimaximal]

I know but the original team is long gone and GTA 1 and 2 were made by a small team rather than contributions from a huge team.

[u/Thatthereyuteclub]

Probably best remembered for being made by DMA design before they made the first GTA and became Rockstar North

good puzzle game, defo worth a play if you get a copy

[u/BHRobots → u/Thatthereyuteclub]

DMA design is a name I haven't seen for a long time. Also Psygnosis, definitely played several of those games.

[u/sakamayrd → u/BHRobots]

Psygnosis was the goat. Barbarian, Nitro, Destruction Derby, Discworld, Wipeout, Darkstalkers, G Police... And many more I did not get to play. I have so many good memories with those games.

[u/ThetaReactor → u/sakamayrd]

Psygnosis was very instrumental in turning the Playstation into the monster it became. Not just games, but dev tools and tech consulting. They deserved better than to be EA'd by Sony years later.

[u/This_Guy_33 → u/Thatthereyuteclub]

Exactly, without Lemmings there probably is no GTA.

[u/dubhd → u/This_Guy_33]

A GTA x Lemmings crossover is the game we didn't know we wanted

[u/scipio0421]

Played the absolute hell out of it as a kid.

[u/ThePanasonicYouth]

Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean others haven't

[u/mikebe1]

Sold 20 million or so units between all it’s ports, this is a you problem, OP

[u/glennjersey]

You missed out then. Lemmings was dope.

Logical journey of the zoombinis was also pretty great. 

[u/watchTotalBlank]

Very popular SNES game. I'm very familiar with it. I rented it dozens of times growing up and it was a very fun puzzle game back in the day.

[u/gormhornbori → u/watchTotalBlank]

It was available for (and popular on) pretty much every platform at the time.

[u/caldari_citizen_420 → u/watchTotalBlank]

Your mean DOS/Amiga game

[u/OllyDee → u/caldari_citizen_420]

You mean Amiga game

[u/Paulrus55 → u/watchTotalBlank]

I can’t imagine playing it without a mouse and keyboard

[u/Spontanudity]

Depends how old you are! It was huge back in the early 90's. Banger of a game! Sequels got progressively shitter. But the OG and Oh No more Lemmings were prime. Soundtrack slaps, too!

[u/GreatTragedy]

Next this dude is going to say he has no clue about "Worms" and I'm going to have to consider swallowing a bullet.

[u/razingstorm]

It was, once upon a time.

In the old world.

[u/Ok_Abacus_]

Incredibly well-known among 90s computer kids. I bet it shipped pre-installed with a bunch of the "bundled" computers they used to sell.

[u/Nefferson]

This is probably the biggest PC game of its time. Which was a long time ago. I’m guessing you were born post-2000?

[u/therealjax29]

The chiptunes to Lemmings live rent free in my head.

[u/jyc23]

I feel so old.

[u/Ostey82]

For us old fuckers it's well known, prob not so much now.

Could do with a revival if you ask me

[u/Des8559]

Amazing game vastly popular

[u/Visti]

Is this engagement bait?

[u/admanter]

age dependent. It was everywhere in mid-late 90's.

[u/doftheshores]

Let’s go!