What's special about Lemmings for me is the aesthetic design. When I was playing it as a kid, I was always fascinated by the environments; they were huge, surreal, and hostile, and the Lemmings seemed so tiny and fragile no matter how simple the level. It was quite an immersive experience; I felt like I was a part of their world, struggling alongside them in the hopes of reaching the land beyond that door.
Very, very cool. I really enjoyed watching this. I used to watch my dad play Lemmings on DOS as a kid. This is a very different approach! We used to try and save 100% or as close to that as possible. I remember my mom going to bed and telling my dad it was bedtime for me. He said okay one more level... three or four hours later she caught us still playing!
This "Lemmings" was much better than "Oh no! More Lemmings" in several ways; for one thing the "Fun" levels were tame enough without being too tame and there wasn't much difference between the quality of the graphics
Holy smokes, I just watched your StarCraft videos. I decided to search for Lemmings, and I was shocked you're the same RU-vid channel I was just watching for a totally different video game.
Odd. When i played on the dos, the music didn't skip the main loop at the special levels when playing from the start, but did when using passowrds to start from the special levels. For example, theme 5 should have played on fun 23 instead of 6. Ah well. Nice to see some love for this classic game.
Dang. thankyou for this, I used to play the original lemmings, on no! more lemmings and 2 the tribes alot as a youngster on our old dos computer. The music takes me right back, the ol green bottles hanging on the wall jingle ahh XD actually this kinda sets child me free, some levels were just too hard to figure out. It always kinda disturbed me anytime I had to blow up a lemming to create a path, Young me was like Naah that cant be the answer, surely there is a way to save everybody? And no, not really when u look at the tools they give u, that was the correct answer. Dang, Lemmings can give u some real thought about humanity and existence in general with some very simple situations, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few kind of thing, thats some real talk O___O You cant save Everybody. Some people have to die for others to live. Thats Raw.. Anyway, thanks very much for showing me the rest of the game, i probably would have never got around to it! ^_^ The pixel art on the backgrounds is phenomenal! some creepy visuals for my childhood mind from back then, even though the movement is minimal it can still feel like a creepy, scary large world :O
When I played Lemmings on DOS, it wouldn't skip songs on those special levels. Let's say "She'll be Comin' 'Round the Mountain" played in a level before one of the special levels (Like Beast of a Level or Menacing) then the next level would play "Twang" like the "You'll Need Bashers for this one" level. Did you mod the game or is this a different version? And does the music default back to "Pachbel" if you retry a level? That kinda irked me with the original Lemmings, but at least the levels weren't "Do whatever you want" for twenty levels and then sudden difficulty spike like with "Oh No More Lemmings"
How did you get a copy of lemmings? Online all I can find is demos, Microsoft has a free windows 8+ version which is full of bugs and doesn't work on some levels.
At the 1st 40 sec I just noticed that it isn't efficient. 10% is the requirement and did not detonate the rest to jump to the next lvl. Or is it a save as much possible run too?