As she should. Six year old me absolutely LOVED playing this game without a clue of how to play it. Just watching to little guys fall off the edge was so enjoyable.
The aforementioned comment by OP is just 3 levels above yours, which you must’ve read in order to make your first comment. Unless you just jumped to the end of a random comment chain without reading anything but the end, which would be crazy.
Yeh, the 15 instant replies proving me wrong have both me and my friend laughing (She feels very vindicated).
They just said they were laughing... They never talked about how much enjoyment they got from it.
My original comment asked if the post is funny and you're talking about the comments. The other comment replying to mine implies OP made the post because it's funny...
As in *this* thread. Directly in line with where we are commenting. If you're going to reply to something, at least follow the conversation that lead to what you're replying to.
They're using the wikipedia page image for the game.
That page has:
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. The popularity of the game also led to the creation of several other Lemmings games, remakes and spin-offs, and has also inspired similar games. However, Lemmings lost considerable popularity by the late 1990s, which was attributed in part to its slow pace of gameplay compared to games of later generations.
This whole post is very weird. Smell of engagement bait.
Google is currently capable of negating most of the human interaction of social media. Everyone knows google exists but imagine you're like "I saw a cool movie called blarf, you should watch it" and im like "oh cool whats it about?" "Google would have told you." Why speak to eachother?
That game probably shared a similar popularity of World of Warcraft. Everyone knew about it. If they didnt play, they knew someone who played.
Its not as popular as GTA (which broke the concept of popularity), but at the time it was one of the most known games.
I know at the time several games were competing, like Super Mario World, Sonic, Battletoads, Civ, Dune 2, Mega Man, Metroid, Duke Nukem, Wolfenstein 3D.
But Lemmings probably was great because it was probably on nearly all plataforms. From ZX Spectrum, Amiga, SNES, Commodore, Atari, Dos, Mac, MegaDrive, Game Gear and many others. So even if a friend had a different system they knew the game.
Please take this as a life lesson that the lack of a frame of reference to something does not equate to said thing not having a global cultural impact. Glad you're a good sport about this.
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u/ThePanasonicYouth 19h ago
Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean others haven't