thedrexster3 hours ago
Man, the soundtrack of the original Lemmings is indelibly etched into my brain -- cheery MIDI tracks of everything from classical music to folk tunes.
danwills2 hours ago
Same here! However a friend had an Amiga and the music there was sample-based like a demoscene 'tracker' (but in a proprietary format), so it also had that lovely sample-based aspect ;) I still listen to extracted/covered versions of some of those to this day!
danwills2 hours ago
I just learned that one can get the mods here (lemmings 2 actually even used a real tracker called OctaMED!):
https://www.camanis.net/lemmings/music.php
Such a classic sound! Reminds me of the similarly brilliant Star Control II soundtrack (which was also tracker music)!
bluedino7 hours ago
So many parallels with Angry Birds.
Appeals to all groups, released on every platform. Then come the sequels, special editions (like Christmas Lemmings), and then it just kind of faded away.
Lemmings just didn't get a movie and merchandising.
herniatedeel3 hours ago
Quite the line: "a case of mordant laddish humor ramming slightly askew."
georgemcbay7 hours ago
> For a while there in the early 1990s, there seemed to be good reason to believe that Lemmings was on its way to becoming one of gaming’s perennial franchises. Developed by DMA Design of Dundee, Scotland, the original Lemmings game took the world by storm upon its release in 1991
DMA Design later created the GTA series and was rebranded Rockstar North when they were acquired by Take-Two. So they did end up creating a giant franchise (though "perennial" could certainly be debated given the gap between GTA 5 and GTA 6).
In any case the principles involved have probably been too busy sleeping on mountains of GTA 1-6 money to lament the untimely death of Lemmings too much.
That said, as a gamer I personally prefer Lemmings.
jtbayly7 hours ago
It’s actually mentioned in the article.
TacticalCoder7 hours ago
oh noooooooo!
romland7 hours ago
In my mind, and I have not played it since the Amiga days, it's a very curt "oh no". Amazing, I can still hear it!
georgemcbay7 hours ago
I can still hear it as well.
I can also still hear "First there was Menace... Now, Psygnosis presents... a DMA Design game... Blood Money. (there's a whole lot more coming...)".
DMA had very good sound design for the time.
romland6 hours ago
Yeah, absolutely! Blood Money. I am almost embarrassed that I remember so many of the samples!