Man, the soundtrack of the original Lemmings is indelibly etched into my brain -- cheery MIDI tracks of everything from classical music to folk tunes.
danwills 2 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!
danwills 2 hours ago [-]
I just learned that one can get the mods here (lemmings 2 actually even used a real tracker called OctaMED!):
Such a classic sound! Reminds me of the similarly brilliant Star Control II soundtrack (which was also tracker music)!
bluedino 7 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.
herniatedeel 3 hours ago [-]
Quite the line: "a case of mordant laddish humor ramming slightly askew."
georgemcbay 7 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.
jtbayly 7 hours ago [-]
It’s actually mentioned in the article.
TacticalCoder 7 hours ago [-]
oh noooooooo!
romland 7 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!
georgemcbay 7 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.
romland 6 hours ago [-]
Yeah, absolutely! Blood Money. I am almost embarrassed that I remember so many of the samples!
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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)!
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.
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.
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.