Ultimate Guide: Lemmings

When a game disavows responsibility for loss of your sanity, hair or sleep, it’s easy to dismiss it as hyperbole – but for Lemmings, it was closer to an understatement. Nick Thorpe looks back on DMA Designs’ critter-saving classic

If you ever imitated another child’s bad behaviour when you were young, you were almost certainly asked: “if your friend jumped off a cliff, would you do that too?”. Of course, if you were like us you’d claim that you would in order to remain logically consistent, an act of dishonesty which only further frustrated the adult and saw us frogmarched to the nearest cliff. But if you were a lemming, that statement wouldn’t be a lie – those guys just love chucking themselves off objects. They also love wandering into jets of flame, drowning, and generally doing very un-clever things. Not real lemmings, mind – their suicidal urges are something of a misconception – but the critters found in DMA Designs’ Lemmings. The ‘save-’em-up’ premise behind the game plays…

You're reading a preview of

The Amiga Book (Digital) - 1 Issue, The Amiga Book 3rd Edition

DiscountMags is a licensed distributor (not a publisher) of the above content and Publication through Zinio LLC. Accordingly, we have no editorial control over the Publications. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including those made in Publications offered on our website, are those of the respective author(s) or publisher(s) and not of DiscountMags. DiscountMags does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness, or usefulness of all or any portion of any publication or any services or offers made by third parties, nor will we be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information contained in any Publication, or your use of services offered, or your acceptance of any offers made through the Service or the Publications. For content removal requests, please contact Zinio.