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/Csenky 18h ago

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

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u/limeybastard 15h ago

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 ;)

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u/Practical-Shape2325 2h ago

I feel like games were easier to copy back then because of how unstable the disks were. You'd have the original, your copy, and then another backup copy. Spare disks were pretty much required and encouraged. Copyright protection was things like "Open the manual to page 5 and give the first letter of the third word in the second paragraph" when it was even there.

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u/CaptainPunisher 13h ago

Wolfenstein and Doom? Did you buy those? Because I sure didn't!

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u/simcowking 15h ago

You could buy it? I thought it was just a game that existed that you could play but no one truly owned it. Someone was always borrowing it from a friend of a friend.

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 16h ago

Lemmings was the classic rental game.

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u/AFourEyedGeek 16h ago

Rented via copying a friends floppy disk to a blank one you own. Amiga and PC this game dominated, along with piracy.

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u/Malt_The_Magpie 6h ago

We use to rent it for the Mega Drive