RetroAhoy: Lemmings

Originally uploaded 16th December 2011.
Reuploaded here to consolidate on one channel.
5 new RetroAhoy episodes follow this original run.

[BazilRat]

Lemmings was one of the first computer games I played, at school on our.. .Acorn computers in 1992-3. The teachers and students were both all just as hooked, and the hi-score contest between students and teachers was quite heated.

[grfrjiglstan]

So even before GTA, Rockstar showed us that mass murder of a species can be fun!

[xisumavoid]

Lemmings 2 was an absolutely fantastic sequel, a much more polished game with rich themes, better music and a greater range of challenges in the levels. Although the original gets the credit for being just that, i always preferred L2 the tribes. Never completed it 100% though :-)

[GideonIon]

...Why does it feel like every video I watch, it inevitably leads back to Grand Theft Auto? It feels like a conspiracy by this point.

[dillmon]

There is something so surreal about lemmings maybe its the music or the the way that the lemmings walk to their deaths, but I always have an existential crisis when I play it.

[FPSGHoST]

Unbelievable. I never knew it was rockstar games.

[XC]

I like how Stu mentioned Disney and the movie that started this misinformation. In the movie, that scene was really the people scaring and forcing the animals off a ledge.

[Lofote]

Trivia: On the C64 the lemmings themselves were not Sprites, but background graphic, the background (=level) itself was sprites ;)

[YellowDice]

So Rockstar made Lemmings? damn the more you learn I guess the pedestrians you see in the games are the new Lemmings.

[BrySkye]

Sadly, in the year following when this video was originally uploaded, Studio Liverpool was closed down by Sony after what was essentially an audit of all their European games development studios, bringing to an end the legacy of one of the most prominent, historical UK development studios in Psygnosis.
Maybe worth adding that detail in as an annotation?

[TYNEPUNK]

Excellent I worked at DMA/Rockstar in the early 2000's. Really proud, was only there a short while before I became an indie :)

[Ze-Germanzuk]

This was the first PC game I ever played, my school had an after school club where you could play on their computers. They had Lemmings and some game where you play a flying dinosaur with a gun on its back and flew around shooting things(no clue what it was called) but Lemmings was always so cool

[aztecwarrior]

Man, I used to and still sometimes watch your cod weapon videos. Crazy how time flies, this video was so good I stopped eating until it was over. Magnificent content.

[StickFreeks]

Lemmings is one of my earliest memories of a video game. I wasn't allowed to touch the computer, but I watched my mom play it for a couple days. She ended up rage quitting it! Must've been pretty hard. XD

Thank you for this showcase, it brings back memories.

[boombaby]

In my Amiga times, someone gave me a demo disc of Lemmings with four playable levels, long before the craze started. I immediately knew that this would go very very big. It was such a fresh experience and felt like you had known this forever at the same time.

[SonofMrPeanut]

Note on the Lemmings Myth:
It emerged from Canada & Scandinavia. Though some species of lemmings will leave the group after a population density line is crossed, even crossing perilous conditions to do it, observers in both regions noticing the decreased numbers started the rumor of them committing mass suicide.

When White Wilderness was being filmed, they were (ironically) aiming to dispel the myth of mass suicide and clarify it was just migration. However, to add "drama" to the scene, they pushed the lemmings off the cliff to their deaths, the crew not even certain if they were actively aiding the migration or not. Despite their original intention, their action (along w/ the narration selling this as a mania/sudden irrational compulsion) not only reinforced the myth but made it considerably more widespread than before.

[Synwolf]

I love his phrasing sometimes: "...the game Blossomed into a pioneering puzzler, and paired with a high degree of polish..."

[FrogSplsh]

thanx for reuploading these retroahoy's. I didn't know them before. Entertaining snack bits to watch.

[AntonioBrandao]

One of the 10 best games of all time! How many hours of endless fun!! Don’t understand why there isn’t a modern working version available!!!

[FelisSilvestrisBE]

It's been a while, but thank you for the shot of nostalgia. I had the original lemmings and Chistmas lemming for the amiga 500.
Good times ^^.