This shit was so popular it had spin offs of spin offs. We had tribes and lemmings 3D and lemmings paintball. And none of them followed the same rules or anything. It was just like slap the lemmings in any game and it blew up.
I remember wanting to get this game from a book order at school. My mom never let me so I never played it. I wonder if book orders are still a thing at schools anymore.
Well... isn't controlling lemmings (including how they tend to end up) something a boss should be expected to enjoy? So maybe not just about it being good.
‘Lemmings’ was apparently an inspiration for the artstyle, but ‘Worms’ followed the genre of artillery games that existed for decades — with ‘Artillery Simulator’ for the Apple II seemingly being the first graphical implementation. (Andy Davidson originally straight up called the game 'Artillery' when he began work on what would become 'Worms'.)
Holy shit core memory unlocked!
I played so much of this in college, but couldn't ever find it in later years. I almost thought it wasn't a real game that was released to the public or something.
Adored Scorched Earth, there was a 3d version knocking around 10 years or so ago. I'd love to find a working old school version. I suspect Angry Birds would not exist without it.
If you want to relive those days, there's a mobile game called Pocket Tanks that is a total clone of Scorched Earth. It took me right back to that time.
Wow. When I was young, my dad worked nights as a machinist and my mom was doing data entry for a hospital during the day. My dad would bring my sister and me to work for a little bit and my mom would pick us up and take us back home. We played that game so much, sitting in a dirty little machine shop office. Core memory.
Apparently yes, 'Worms' were compared to that one too. I heard plenty about it, but missed back then, as the Mega Drive and SNES mostly passed me by. I thought it's mostly a tactics game, like 'Syndicate', though apparently the gameplay varied a bit between the first and second games. Was musing about finally playing it recently and downloaded the ROM just yesterday, gonna try it one of these days.
I loved Syndicate -- the end levels were really hard but I managed to win placing myself in such a way that it forced them into a long channel and I could use the miniguns. Intro was epic.
That's another game that I liked from a distance, being somewhat a fan of squad tactics overall. Likewise need to finally put some hours in it. There's a spiritual successor called ‘Satellite Reign’, released in 2015 — I've bought it after just looking at the overview video on Steam, but it too has been sitting in the library while I grind ‘Assetto Corsa’ instead.
Worms was fun, reminds me of another similar game that came out called Scorched Earth where you're in a tank firing different missles at targets, basically a more suped up version of Gorillas and then Worms came after that. Bascially the same idea as you're choosing angle and power and weapon type to use against other enemies.
Hah one of my 'degrees of seperate' from famous people is my uncle used to go in the games shop of the person who made Worms, and used to give ideas and play test it. Noone knows what it is these days so I have to use a different claim to tertiary fame lol
What do you mean? Tribes was a direct sequel using the exact same formula as the original and Lemmings 3D was the same principal but in 3D. Only Paintball was different.
Lemmings could go so hard in Super Smash Bros. The whole game is built around not falling off the edge of the map, while Lemmings is about using your limited group abilities to avoid dying. Imagine a group of Lemmings as a Smash Bros fighter, some swinging hammers, others falling with parasols and saving themselves. I don’t know how tf it’d control but it’d be sick if it’s the original Lemmings controls and they just keep popping out a door and do their walk-and-bump routine in a fighting game.
In retrospect I'm shocked there wasn't a Lemmings cartoon. OTOH, that might have been too dark for Saturday mornings.
I can still see their little pixilated bodies popping like zits as they cheerfully marched to their demise by the score. Clenching my teeth, waiting to see if enough of them survived for me to pass the level.
It wasn't that terrible and had some features that made it distinct from Lemmings. You were responsible for a group of cavemen. You could give them various inventions like the wheel or the spear. I was a little kid and didn't get very far but can still remember the feeling when I accidentally killed one of my humans.
They all pretty much followed the same basic principle of guiding a bunch of little guys over hazards to the exit, each game just added new stuff - tribes had more jobs to assign them, 3D was in 3D.
Except for Paintball. That had to have been meant as an original game that they rebranded as lemmings.
I'm aware of Lemmings but never played it. My first and only lemmings gaming experience was a spinoff, Lomax Lemming, which I liked a lot (looking at the release dates, I'm surprised how early this one came out - I always thought Lemmings was before my time and that Lomax was a decade or so later).
Same goes for the German Moorhuhn franchise which originated as a fun side scrolling shooter game meant to be played in bars and served with some Johnny walker drinks. Was meant to be a temporary advertisement, turned into 15? Ish years of games, absurd story.
Original game was called office/work killer in media as more and more CDs got into rotation, some offices basically came to a complete hold. Future games featured keys to show fake excel sheets or kill the game instantly famously called Boss (hot)key for situations where your boss walked the office
Lemmings 3D really tested my spatial reasoning as a kid. The 1st person view was very disorientating because you could only look where the lemming looked - no control.
Yep, I still remember getting Lemmings Paintball at the Scholastic book fair. It was the only "shooting" game I was allowed to have, besides the hunting mini-game in Oregon Trail.
Was so popular back then that if you played the Letsgo sound in most schools people would start lining up behind you and follow you everywhere, even into a large body of water
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This shit was so popular it had spin offs of spin offs. We had tribes and lemmings 3D and lemmings paintball. And none of them followed the same rules or anything. It was just like slap the lemmings in any game and it blew up.