bryce@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bryce Nesbitt) (12/30/90)
A demo disk for a new game showed up here and has caused an instant sensation.
"Lemmings" is unlike any Psygnosis title to date. Lemmings is funny, witty,
upbeat, unoffensively cute, lighthearted, challenging, addictive and a lot
of fun.
The computer lemmings, like their namesakes, will walk off cliffs. For that
matter, they will walk off anything at all. Your job is to get "most" of your
lemings from the entrance to the exit. I say most because you will often need
to blow up a few to get the job done.
The lemmings start droping into the world, and you the player have to start
guiding them. You have a pallete of "personalities" to impose on the
lemmings: climber, floater, bomber, blocker, digger, builder, miner, and
basher. The lemming you select mindlessly carries out the task you specify --
even if that means dumping a hundred lemmings to their squishy little deaths.
Each level is a puzzle... how to get the lemmings home with tools given.
Great fun. The demo disk had just 5 levels... as soon as I find out where
to buy Lemmings, I will. Finally a game with good _gameplay_; the fact that
the graphics are great and the animation is inspired is secondary. This
will be a clasic.
The demo disk runs perfectly on an A3000 running 2.0. The game is fast and
playable on an A500.
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{X o} . Bryce Nesbitt, Operating Systems Group, Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
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U USENET: bryce@commodore.COM -or- uunet!cbmvax!brycedrtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Donald Richard Tillery Jr) (12/31/90)
If this is a demo, can we get it uploaded to ab20.larc.nasa.gov? Rick Tillery (drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu)
bryce@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bryce Nesbitt) (12/31/90)
>If this is a demo, can we get it uploaded to ab20.larc.nasa.gov? The disk contains a copyright notice, and did not come with permission to redistribute. Answer: no. -- |\_/| . "ACK!, NAK!, EOT!, SOH!" "Lawyers: America's untapped export market." {X o} . Bryce Nesbitt, Operating Systems Group, Commodore-Amiga, Inc. (") BIX: bnesbitt U USENET: bryce@commodore.COM -or- uunet!cbmvax!bryce
bunny@cbnewsm.att.com (Laura A. Eppright) (12/31/90)
Sounds great, but will it work on a 3000 <ha, ha>? -- Laura A. Eppright AT&T, 30 Knightsbridge Rd Piscataway, NJ att!attbl!attmail!leppright
nad@tegra.COM (Nancy Durgin) (01/01/91)
In article <1990Dec31.141327.15548@cbnewsm.att.com> bunny@cbnewsm.att.com (Laura A. Eppright) writes: >Sounds great, but will it work on a 3000 <ha, ha>? >-- >Laura A. Eppright >AT&T, 30 Knightsbridge Rd >Piscataway, NJ >att!attbl!attmail!leppright I have a copy of the demo (which I got on disk with Amiga Format magazine), and not only does it run on the 3000, it even runs under 2.0. However, there's something goofy about the disk/file format, so it doesn't seem to be copyable, even if it was redistributable (which is unclear). Cute game, though. Nancy -- ============================================================================== Nancy Durgin | (Usual disclaimers | Tegra-Varityper, Inc. uunet!tegra!nad | apply...) | Billerica, Massachusetts ==============================================================================
xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) (01/01/91)
seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes: >In-Reply-To: message from bryce@cbmvax.commodore.com >You forgot to include *demented* in your description of the Lemmings :) >>From Psygnosis' ad the game appears to be for children...but not after you >start playing it. These guys have a very twisted sense of humor! >But don't get me wrong, I think the game's great...very addicting. OK, so now all you folks with the demo disk and the Psygnosis address right there handy, write them _letters_ _immediately_ promising to buy this great game _only_ _if_ they nuke their braindead copy protection and go to word in the manual or something that doesn't degrade the floppy, and make it HD installable. This is your _big_, _big_ chance to influence their next and subsequent releases! Even Shadow of the Beast would be bearable if it would just run off HD to cut down the 2.5 minute restart to some reasonable delay. Kent, the man from xanth. <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>
jcs@crash.cts.com (John Schultz) (01/02/91)
In <1990Dec31.141327.15548@cbnewsm.att.com> bunny@cbnewsm.att.com (Laura A. Eppright) writes: >Sounds great, but will it work on a 3000 <ha, ha>? Works fine (We've played all levels in the demo on the 3000). John
jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) (01/03/91)
In article <16966@cbmvax.commodore.com> bryce@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bryce Nesbitt) writes: >The computer lemmings, like their namesakes, will walk off cliffs. For that >matter, they will walk off anything at all. Your job is to get "most" of your >lemings from the entrance to the exit. I say most because you will often need >to blow up a few to get the job done. > Just a nit, but the truth is that Lemmings do NOT leap off cliffs. This was an old wives' tale that grew to common belief because of a Nature Movie that showed them doing it (they were in fact thrown off the cliff by PAs). The director "knew" they did it, but couldn't get them to do it on their own, so he gave them some help... -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey A. Sullivan | Senior Systems Programmer jas@venera.isi.edu | Information Sciences Institute jas@isi.edu DELPHI: JSULLIVAN | University of Southern California
jcs@crash.cts.com (John Schultz) (01/04/91)
Someone asked for the passwords, the only one we bothered to write down was level 5: VMXDGHTLIQ. John
borgen@stud.cs.uit.no (Boerge Noest) (01/05/91)
In article <16966@cbmvax.commodore.com> bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt) writes: >to buy Lemmings, I will. Finally a game with good _gameplay_; the fact that >the graphics are great and the animation is inspired is secondary. This >will be a clasic. I LOVE that animation, it's full of character! ( :-) ) If you want the to see the demo then buy the December(I think) number of Commodore User (British, Emap Publishing (I think)). How on earth do you beat level 3? >{X o} . Bryce Nesbitt, Operating Systems Group, Commodore-Amiga, Inc. -- |/// borgen@stud.cs.uit.no (Borge Nost) \\\| |// ...and then there was AMIGA... \\| |/ studying at the worlds northernmost university (Tromsoe, Norway) \|