Lemmings (video game)

Lemmings is a 1991 video game by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis, made for the Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and PC-DOS Computers, the game is about dumb antromorphic lemmings that fall off cliffs, your mission is to guide them on 100 levels, divided on 25 Fun, Tricky, Taxing and Mahyem levels, the game had massive sucess and was well-received. A level starts when one or more trapdoors open and an amount of Lemmings fall from these trapdoors, you will use neccesary skills like Climbing, Parashooting, Bombing, Blocking, Building, Bashing, Mining and Digging to save these dumb Lemmings, you'll also need avoid traps and tricks placed through the levels that can kill your lemmings, the level ends when all Lemmings reach the exit gate, you can lose a level if all your lemmings die, you saved a few lemmings or if the timer of the level expires. Lemmings has also 20 levels for 2 players to play, this mode took advantage of Amiga's use of 2 mouses and the ST's use of a mouse and a joystick. It's staff were 1. Programmers-David Jones, Russel Kay, Mike Daily 2. Artists-Gary Timmons, Scott Johnston, Mike Daily 3. Composers-Tim Wright, Brain Johnston. The beignnings of the game is when Mike Daily made a sprite in an 8x8 pixel box in Deluxe Paint, when Russel Kay noticed that they could make a game with those sprites and said ''There's A Game In That'', Kay later coined these sprites ''Lemmings''. Levels were made in a Deluxe Paint interface on which they created drawings/sprites and make them into objects, platforms, traps or terrain, Psygnosis tested these levels internally and some were difficult but beatable. Each of the designers had some wacky level titles, and some levels had clues on the titles, indicating what the player should do with the Lemmings. Music was originally made by Brain Jonhston/Scott Johnston's brother, who had sampled bits of copyrighted music, which had been a common practice at the days of yore of the 90s, but there was a growning awarenesss of copyrighted music, therefore Tim Wright replaced Brain's offending soundtracks and replaced them with old, classic soundtracks and original soundtracks. Lemmings received ''Oh No, More Lemmings'' an expansion pack containing 100 more levels, but much harder than the former Fun, Tricky, Taxing and Mayhem levels of Lemmings 1, it also received Holiday Lemmings, a christmas themed Lemmings with 32 additional levels. Lemmings had gotten 55,000 copies on the Amiga, in coparasion of DMA Designs and Psygnosis's older games, Menace sold 20,000 copies and Blood Money sold 40,000 copies, a lot maganizes praised Lemmings, Lemmings was included in one of 6 stamps by the Royal Mail to remember Britian's early game industry, it is BY FAR THE BEST GAME OF THE AMIGA.