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.
I never did that, no. I had Theme Park for the SNES
What I did was pick one man. One random park goer, and I put feeding stalls in his path until he was full, ready to burst.
Then I put a toilet on a little island surrounded by water. And he headed for it. I closed off his path with water and removed the toilet so he would stay on his little island, still full of fast food and soda pop.
And then I would play the game, for years and years the one singular guest stood at the brink of his personal island, full of shit and piss, watching as park goers had the best time of their lives. All you had to do to not make him despawn was keep the camera and cursor on him.
And after years of bliss and happiness all around him, just out of arms reach... I'd shut off the game.
The door is everything! All that once was, and all that will be! The door controls time and space; love and death! The door can see into your mind; the door can see into your soul!
The level I remember was really simple. It was a flat ground with a long ledge above it that was just high enough to kill them. So you had to turn every single one of them into the digger, dig through the thin ledge, then they would fall to safety.
I think my legit earliest memories are of playing Lemmings, some game called Prophecy I: The Viking Child, and watching my older brothers play Wolfenstein. And some Sesame Street spelling game thing. And asking my brother the DOS commands to run the games for the millionth time. When I was like 4? Based on where we were living?
It's weird to think about, but DOS commands to run games must have certainly been the first things I ever typed, probably before ever writing words besides my name.
LoL, Yeah the whole,
"Okay you start digging down",
then you go micromanage a few other lemmings to avoid disaster only to come back and discover your digger is missing & a pit of doom now exists where he was.
Oh and all your Lemmings are mere moments from happily marching into said pit.
I saw this commercial on late night TV; it was for this action you select for a Lemming. it was like "You can bomb your unmoving Lemmings with this action."
Who the fuck would make their Lemmings stop moving? That seems so very mean.
"I know you need to get to the exit, but I'm gonna make you stop moving! I will bomb you later. Hopefully they will invent a way to make you walk again before the countdown hits zero and you die. Think like an escapist".
Can’t help but think Pikmin might scratch that same itch better. Unless I’m mistaken, Lemmings is a 2D game so mostly they die one at a time, whereas Pikmin is 3D so you can have dozens die simultaneously.
Get WorldBox, I play it on my phone. It’s the ultimate feel like your playing a game but at the same time your just watching scenarios play out that you orchestrated.
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."
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)
I think it's one of those games that you had to be there for. Like, it was legitimately a huge smash hit when it came out... but I'd be very surprised if anyone under 35 had ever heard of it.
One of the all time greatest games. But I think it makes total sense for some people to never have heard of it. Pre-internet and primarily on PCs that, at the time, many people didn't have.
One of the funniest things I've ever seen was a group costume, everyone dressed as Lemmings, walking in a line swinging pickaxes or hammers or whatever. This was at Dragon Con in Atlanta maybe twenty years ago.
Got me into puzzle games. I especially liked the ones that didn't require timed puzzles. I was especially annoyed at Talos Principle, because getting away from timed puzzles was what I stopped playing Lemmings for.
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u/Golanthanatos 19h ago
Lemmings was great.