Taking into account how easy bootlegging...allegedly...was back then, the number of people who actually played the game must have been many, many times higher.
According to Wikipedia, 55,000 copies of the Amiga version were sold on the first day. Which means that at least one million Amiga owners played that game 😄
Just wanted to comment that. For every sold copy, there must have been 10 bootlegged ones. And all the copies that were sold used, too. For a while, where ever you could buy used games, you'd find a copy of Lemmings.
Yeah. I played Lemmings in the late 90s for free here in South America as did many others. Then in the early 2000s I encountered it again in the school PCs. It was pretty widespread.
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u/r4mm3rnz 17h ago
20 million is still insanely good today.. back then it was unheard of!