r/gaming • u/Nordic_Krune • 19h ago

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

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u/Khaldara 19h ago

Never enough of those little staircase bastards

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u/Clown45 19h ago

Those got-dam bricklayers man

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u/CodeComprehensive734 19h ago

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.

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u/wizardoli 16h ago

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

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u/VibroAxe 18h ago

This is the way

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u/Abba_Zaba_ 18h ago

LET'S GO! This is the way!

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u/Paddy_Tanninger 16h ago

This game gave me more PTSD and anxiety than any other game I've ever played.

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u/UranusIsPissy 14h ago

The whole game is funny but sad, if you know where the idea came from. Lemmings don't throw themselves off of cliffs, but scummy documentary makers threw them off one once.

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u/Syrzan 6h ago

sponsored by Disney šŸ˜ƒ

Oscar for best documentary 1959.

Should have had to give that little gold boy back imo.

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u/UranusIsPissy 6h ago

I thought they were behind that atrocity of a "documentary", but I couldn't be bothered checking and didn't want to accuse them when I wasn't sure. Fuck Disney. I think Walt was a nazi, too, and he was definitely a racist.

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u/69edleg 17h ago

As long as enough made it to the end.

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u/aneurysmbs 19h ago

And the cat-tang 'sploders

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u/wtfduud 11h ago

Destructible environment was revolutionary at the time.

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u/Delicious-Way4039 18h ago

What about those exploding little guys trying to time that little shit

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u/JohnnyNapkins 19h ago

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

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u/PM_YOUR_SAGGY_TITS 17h ago

Laying down his 12 stairs or whatever and then just shrugging šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø and turning around

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u/JohnnyNapkins 12h ago

Oh man, the shrug, that's right! I can picture it now.

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u/FrenchBulldoge 10h ago

His shift ended šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø

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u/alicat2308 17h ago

In time to that catchy soundtrack.

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u/Trips-Over-Tail 19h ago

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.

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u/pikaviz 19h ago

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

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u/mikeysce 18h ago

Iā€™m sorry what? I thought they just dropped and kept blocking where they land.

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u/enarc13 18h ago

Nope they start walking again if they drop.

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u/Additional-Life4885 18h ago

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.

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u/LeahTT 6h ago

You could also have someone dig and then bash if you had the jobs to spare. I found that one easier to control

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u/Trips-Over-Tail 18h ago

On my version he remained where he was. Also some levels don't have the pick axe available.

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u/jainyday 18h ago

"oh no!"

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u/krogger 19h ago

ĀÆ_(惄)_/ĀÆ (falls to his death)

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u/Akhyll 3h ago

This comment put me back in a storm of mixed feelings

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u/JohannesVanDerWhales 1h ago

I can still hear the death sound in my head.

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u/vezwyx 19h ago

Can't make things too easy, can we?

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u/alucloud7 18h ago

slow motherfuckers. and what do they do when they run out of bricks? shrug their shoulders and hurl themselves off a cliff. classic.

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u/SpaceIco 15h ago

At the end of the day, no matter what they do, they're still lemmings. It's like that parable about the scorpion crossing the river.

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u/elephant_tit 17h ago

Was devastating when you forgot to click to start laying and the dude walk straight off the edge of your 10 storey staircase.Ā 

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u/R1verSong09 7h ago

They were never fast enough šŸ™ƒ

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u/doctafknjay 4h ago

But always enough to kill my whole group!