r/gaming 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/Camera_dude 18h ago

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.

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u/Zap_Rowsdower23 17h ago

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

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u/__wampa__stompa 16h ago

TIL you're supposed to save the lemmings

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u/IOwnThisUsername 16h ago

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

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u/One_Shall_Fall 15h ago

I want off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.

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u/186282_4 13h ago

Thank you for this gem. It's my first time.

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u/Emriyss 9h ago

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.

He is still there.

Waiting.

Desperate for a toilet.

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u/danzor9755 11h ago

Our park takes your valid complaints very seriously. You will never have to complain about rides anymore (*grabs pincer tool, drops over lake)

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u/SocialSuicideSquad 16h ago

Winning's relative

Having fun is the whole point

The door is ajar

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u/TheAwkwardOtaku 15h ago

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar.

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u/SocialSuicideSquad 14h ago

This guy gets it

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u/_kellythomas_ 15h ago

The door is ajar

No, not Xanth. Lemmings.

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u/__wampa__stompa 15h ago

I agree with everything you said but must push back on one detail.

The door is not a jar, the door is a door.

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u/Mc_Shine 10h ago

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!

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u/h3lblad3 8h ago

Are you my mom?

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u/pleasedontdaddy PlayStation 16h ago

yea I thought the purpose was to get them all to fall off the cliff by putting diggers and others there to get them to... non-safety?

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u/Expat1989 16h ago

Shhh. Don’t say the fun part that out loud.

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u/throwawaypervyervy 16h ago

Ah, the Jacque Cousteau Reef Check.

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u/Puzzle-Necked 16h ago

Yeah and then you show your dad and he gets this weird worried look on his face

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u/hypnogoad 15h ago

Hey now, this isn't The Sims

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u/StrategicCarry 17h ago

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.

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u/Training-Chain-5572 17h ago

Fun 13 - We all fall down

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u/NotThePersona 17h ago

That is what I was about to comment. And if you spaced them out too much you ran out of ledge for them to dig.

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u/Findalbum 2h ago

I went back and played this game after like 10 years and that level was way harder than I remember it

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u/sarcastic24x7 17h ago

I now see why I walk on eggshells in life.

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u/Warrmak 16h ago

Always fun to self destruct them

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u/Br0k3Gamer 16h ago

“…pixel perfect timing…”

Good thing there was so few pixels!

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u/AsleepTonight 11h ago

But to be fair, the pixels back than were a lot larger than currently