Lemmings

Dauphin · October 25, 2002, 09:06

Remember them. They were great. My penchant for killing small defenceless creatures was quelled by that game.

I enjoyed Lemmings two - the tribes far more, it was much more 'story based' with maps and individual skills. I used to play it on an old amiga... so alas I no longer have the game to reminisce.

alva · October 25, 2002, 09:40

You should be able to find it somewhere

(don't know if will still run on XP machines though)

btw: I hated that lemmings 3d cr*p

, what was that about

Skanky Burns · October 25, 2002, 09:59

I loved the original, but somehow lost the game and whatever originals of it I had.
They were cute with their little blue hair and their little explosive heads.

Heresson · October 25, 2002, 10:01

Lemmings... In the times that I didn't yet have a decent computer, and all of my friends did, I remember it was their topic number one to talk about - I always wanted to play it, but never had a chance.

Eli · October 25, 2002, 10:18

Awww... Lemmings...

Do you remember Vikings?

Maquiladora · October 25, 2002, 10:41

I think my favourite Lemming was the one with the jetpack or the mortar

Grumbold · October 25, 2002, 11:31

Loved the original lemmings but the maps that required single pixel accuracy at speed were just too frustrating

Dauphin · October 25, 2002, 14:07

Quote:

Originally posted by Eli
Awww... Lemmings...

Do you remember Vikings?

I recall the name vaguely.

ixnay · October 25, 2002, 15:49

Lemmings 1
Lemmings 2

Lemmings Chronicles

Enjoy.

alva · October 25, 2002, 22:43

There are some good games on that site (remember pitfall

, raid over moscow, beach head......

)

Dauphin · October 26, 2002, 09:55

Quote:

Originally posted by ixnay37
Lemmings 1
Lemmings 2

Lemmings Chronicles

Enjoy.

I downloaded it earlier. Its in DOS, and for some reason its very slow/unresponsive, the graphic quality is atrocious and the music makes my system crash. So much for nostalgia.

Maquiladora · October 26, 2002, 10:26

Do you mean Lemmings 2? I downloaded it, unzipped all three zips, ran install.exe and it said L2 wasnt installed.

Dauphin · October 26, 2002, 10:27

I downloaded it from a different site.

http://www.utahdesign.com/lemmings/downloads.html

Maquiladora · October 26, 2002, 10:58

Well it works now. Yeah it was kinda slow and the resolution is poop and I had to play with no sound too. I did almost finish the first level though, but i ran out of balloons and they all perished in a pile of blue and green pixels.

alva · October 26, 2002, 11:15

set your xp in win98 compatibility mode, that might help

right click on the exe. file--->properties---->compatibility mode

ixnay · October 26, 2002, 13:23

You can always download an SNES emulator and get the roms for those games if you want.

Dauphin · October 26, 2002, 14:08

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Originally posted by Maquiladora
Well it works now. Yeah it was kinda slow and the resolution is poop and I had to play with no sound too. I did almost finish the first level though, but i ran out of balloons and they all perished in a pile of blue and green pixels.

Use the canon!

DrSpike · October 29, 2002, 09:39

Lemmings 2: The tribes has to be one of my all time favourite games. I spent hours playing this on my Amiga, though I never did finish sports 10.

Tau Ceti · October 29, 2002, 20:25

Is that the one where you have to make bridges by throwing javelins and hitting exactly on the end of the last one?

DrSpike · October 29, 2002, 20:34

The very same

It is probably the most frustating level of any game ever. I actually broke a mouse after flawlessly executing the first few bridges (you had to be pretty much perfect because of lack of guys that could make bridges) and screwing up one of the final spears.

Pavlov · October 29, 2002, 20:58

Awww, Lemmings...

It's easy to forget how frustrating a game can be.

The Pioneer · October 30, 2002, 03:25

I still play Lemmings on my Palm. I played them on the PC and GB before they were very good games but not mya all time favorite.

So long....

Drew Dude · October 30, 2002, 08:32

Was Lemmings 2 the one where you could also get a gold, silver and bronze rating for each level.

FlameFlash · November 1, 2002, 13:37

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Originally posted by The Pioneer
I still play Lemmings on my Palm. I played them on the PC and GB before they were very good games but not mya all time favorite.

Where can you get a hold of a Palm version!?

It's a fun game every once and a while, and to play it portably would be great!

pg · November 2, 2002, 12:17

all the lemming games were good until they started to change so much stuff... i just wanted more levels w/ the same gameplay.

king arthur's world for snes was kinda lemmingish. took me forever to beat that.

Adagio · November 4, 2002, 10:25

Lemmings...just mentioning it, brings back some memories...good memories

Too bad, they haven't made any good lemmings game since Lemmings 2...and too bad it wont run on my computer (I have tried two different OS)

When they deside to make another Lemmings game, they should go back to the roots: No 3D (unless they deside to put more money in the game, than they did to the last couple of Lemmings games...)

I like the idea of having to control two different "teams" of Lemmings, in a level, and I really like the idea, there's several different types of Lemmings (normal Lemmings and water Lemmings)

But I don't like Lemmings in 3D, it's takes too much time to code, and very difficult to make user friendly...and I don't like the idea, they made in Lemmings Revolution, were the map size is the same, no matter which level

What I'd like to see in a future Lemming game, is MP ability...they had only MP in Lemmings (1) AFAIR, would be nice if they included it again, since it was fun...would also be great to have a MP game, were the goal wasn't to get your Lemmings from beginning to end, but instead, a game, were there's no (physical) goal (Anyone remember the practice levels in Lemmings 2?), but instead have a goal, were you should simply just make the other Lemmings "History"...with other words: "Get rid of them"

In Lemmings 2, you had several "weapons" like spear and bazooka, they could simply just add a function, were you could kill (oh, NO

) other teams Lemmings, by throwing a spear at them, or shoot a bazooka...

In such games, a bazooka could really do some hurting to the enemy (if a bazooka could kill all Lemmings nearby)...and you know how bad a practice level (In Lemming 2) could look like, after having played for some time...now imagine 4 players (with 100 Lemmings each) fight each other until there's one winner...it's going to look like a warzone

Drew Dude · November 4, 2002, 11:59

Well we know where Worms came from now. I'm just wondering how the constant movement of 100 Lemmings would play if you had to tackle another opponet who also had 100 Lemmings constanly in motion. My guess is that your brain would start hurting very quickly.

DarkCloud · November 4, 2002, 13:10

The Vikings?
are you referring to the game which vaguely resembled Sid Meier's Pirates?

Adagio · November 4, 2002, 13:15

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Originally posted by Drew Dude
Well we know where Worms came from now. I'm just wondering how the constant movement of 100 Lemmings would play if you had to tackle another opponet who also had 100 Lemmings constanly in motion. My guess is that your brain would start hurting very quickly.

Ok, sure, 100 Lemmings, might be too much, but how about just 20 Lemmings per team

FlameFlash · November 4, 2002, 13:18

Quote:

Originally posted by Drew Dude
Well we know where Worms came from now. I'm just wondering how the constant movement of 100 Lemmings would play if you had to tackle another opponet who also had 100 Lemmings constanly in motion. My guess is that your brain would start hurting very quickly.

That would be part of the fun!