Amiga Longplay Lemmings (Part 1 of 2)

[@lfmm97]

I played this game in the late nineties. I have not thought about or even seen this game for more than 10 years. You have no idea how special this exact moment is for me. Manly tears.

[@57worldwide]

***** What were you playing it on in the late 90s?

[@Cowinspace]

57worldwide Probably on PC. Downside is that the PC version had crap music and sounds and worst of all, no "Let's Go!" at the level start.

[@57worldwide]

Cowinspace I remember the graphics being way better than all of the videos I have seen, for some reason

[@Cowinspace]

57worldwide That's just the combination of video compression and being shown at a scale well above the original resolution. Amigas rendered at 320x200 or 640x200 (NTSC) and 320x256 or 640x256 (PAL). So it also depends on the setting or emulation being used. If you want to see it rendered correctly try www(dot)oldgames(dot)dk/freeflashgames/arcadegames/playlemmings.php You'll see that it's tiny on a modern HD screen.

[@Eyzebian]

I know the game from the 90s as well. But me.. i remember how exhausting the gameplay was.

[@steerpike66]

This game was a work of sheer genius.

[@607]

Although there are quite a few not-so-well-done things about it, it is indeed an incredible concept, and the level design is brilliant.

[@theblacksheep1000]

Ok Ill be honest, I only came here for that badass soundtrack! hehe

[@karvakake]

Years ago, friend of mine and I watched this and the part 2 for 5 hours without breaks and not skipping! Totally cured both of our end of the world hangovers! I am quite sure, this channel had different name back then.

[@m.firzafadmaputra9569]

30 years anniversary for Psygnosis' iconic game and its mascot, Lemmings. >Sold over 20 million units worldwide various platforms >Greatest game originated from Amiga >Over 6 hours gameplay >Longlasting fun >Appeals for all-ages

[@dvsdez]

A game that not only is enjoyable to play, but also very emotionally attaching. The soundtracks are so beautiful that it can bring tears to my eyes. Truly the best game in the whole world! Unmatchable!

[@legionbeast]

"A Beast of a Level" is certainly the best tribute to another game I've seen in a while.

[@captainblood9616]

It's great isn't it? I went mental the first time I reached this stage as Shadow of the Beast is a favourite too. I remember half hoping Aarbron would come charging through and crush some of the Lemmings

[@DollyBelladonna]

Pysnoisis Makes me proud to be a gamer and a scouser, I was interviewed to be a games tester at the place, when Playstation owned it This takes me back to my childhood

[@nux-1st-impulse]

really fascinated ... :)

[@leeball4585]

Piss noises???

[@MrMisanthrope84]

That soundtrack is the soundtrack to my youth as much as the Super Mario and Sonic themes. I still have these melodies playing in my mind, with all of that glorious midi layering, total ear worms. And what I loved was how the animations of the lemmings actions were often in time to the music!

[@dvsdez]

This game was played extensively and as a result it is heavily imbedded into my brain. Still gets me choked up with all the fun, magic and mystery it contains, as well as the soundtracks that were so catchy and interesting. Thank you for the upload, as well as DMA Design and Psygnosis for creating this incredible game!

[@Scripture-Man]

I'll never forget the first time I saw Lemmings on my friend's Amiga. The game, and the system, seemed so astonishingly different and magical, with such incredible music. I'd never really seen a mouse before. It all seemed so out-of-this-world, advanced, luxurious, and extravagant. It was like my friend had a sports car - literally that level of extravagance. After seeing Monkey Island soon after, I knew that I had to own an Amiga! Those two games still stand as absolute seminal pillars of videogame history.

[@worshipper777]

Lemmings was a hell of a game! I especially loved the levels quoting previous Psygnosis games, like "Menacing" or the one with the Shadow of the Beast and Awesome scenario! Unforgettable.

[@Spacecookie-]

Ahh, I remember where all of my life went now.

[@mostropanigale]

Quanti ricordi. Avevo 7 anni. Grazie a questo gioco ho passato ore ed ore col mio papà.

[@Tubegaret]

I would love a new edition of lemmings!

[@Makielia]

O.O I haven't played this game in so long, yet I remember ALL of these levels! Just goes to show how much my family and I played this game back when dinosaurs roamed the earth... Thanks for posting this, this is great. =D

[@MrRetroville]

I love the Amiga. Greatest gaming computer of all time. I've been dying to see a new Amiga system, just for nostalgia's sake. But it can never be as innovative as the original Amiga, so I say, leave it be. Amiga lost in the PC wars, but they were/are still the greatest of them all. They changed the world of gaming. No other company has had that impact. None.

[@tomthecat4509]

Sega exists.....

[@I8A4R3]

Sega is Android OS bitch now......Playstore

[@Startdotnow]

Talk about bringing back memories....holy crap! When you hear the sounds, it almost feels like a time warp.......................I miss the Amiga.

[@Turanga1i1a]

Dang! You must forsake your whole life to get through this entire frickin game! Yet I thank you for doing so. I remember this from years ago. Several places I simply couldn't get through. Like that one level around 171:20 - that one's simply inhumane!

[@ratius1979]

Utterly fiendish level design! One of the all time greats, pure class 🥰

[@Yakkers]

I had this game for mac along time ago, I wish I could have enjoyed it but I was really young and it gave me nightmares. Something about the way it seemed so old and many of the levels had all sorts of painful looking traps, like those lightning zappers, flamethrowers and spindding blades. The hellish environments scared me too. I do remember it being fun, and watching this brought a lot of positive and negative memorires back. Thanks for uploading!

[@SlargTheGnome]

*sigh* I have yet to find a Lemmings video on KZbin that has the soundtrack I remember... I swear it was the prettiest stuff ever. Almost brought me to tears.

[@Picnicl]

The first game was perfect for the Amiga with its mouse. There were classical columns, jets of fire and menacing doors, metallic material, caverns, ice and forests. The elegant simplicity of the graphics on a black background in the Amiga games was all that was needed to highlight the little touches (like the way that they leap in to the door) and to make the Lemmings stand out as a wave with individual strengths that, God-like, could be assigned.

[@CintiaEmotion]

ESTO ES ORO! GENIO TOTAL EL QUE SUBIÓ ESTO!! :) QUE FELICIDAD!!

[@NeilRoy]

Level 22 (42:40) was my favourite due to the excellent music.

[@meh78336]

***** The god old Shadow of the Beast level and music :)

[@NeilRoy]

P Henry Yeah, I believe that level was called "A beast of a level" as well.

[@knight2000-NC]

Shadow of the Beast music!!

[@lltfdaniel]

Brings back memories i can also remember the starting levels.

[@foryouxanadu]

I found my old Amiga 500+ along with Lemmings 2 in my dad's attic a few weeks ago. Still working. Amiga will always be my first love!

[@siakisiaosi8982]

(WARNING) many lemmings died during the making of this video

[@RockmanZeroModernDay]

Some Lemmings died during the making of this video.

[@EarlOfMaladyCrescent]

I didn't realise this game was so big; six hours to complete it! Wow! I've not seen part 2 yet, but will do soon. I love that "Shadow of the Beast" type level. Very haunting music. & that foggy green colour scheme looks amazing.

[@chaunceydb]

The music to level 13 "We all Fall Down" (16:00-17:50) is fucking beautiful.

[@jukka-pekkatuominen4540]

chauncey db Amiga had always such a great music in those games!

[@LionmaneElsie08]

Thank you so much for uploading this. I loved this version of Lemmings the best. Memories ☺️☺️

[@hardcoreheaven4]

Apart from the scratching (which, let's face it, hardly matters) this is awesome. Just awesome. You are to be commended my friend!5/5 and faved!!

[@Amiga500_User]

Cute graphics, superb soundtrack and excellent gameplay all combined to one brilliant game! Love it!

[@vivvpprof]

Wow, level 19 (tricky) is absolutely maddening, I've spent hours working on a solution but came up with none so I thought I'd refer to this walkthrough to get the idea :D Thanks

[@sp0nge1337]

you are heroes, i've been following this for the PSP and Windows versions, id never have done Taxing 7 without you!

[@FamousAdventurer77]

This version of Lemmings had one of the best soundtracks ever. When is GOG going to put up all the old editions of Lemmings?

[@aaron75fy]

there's a lot of really tricky levels in this game, i'm impressed you mastered them

[@NeilMyatt]

one day, when the last Amiga fails to boot, videos like this one will be the only record of all those hours spent in the early 1990s before PCs and consoles took over 😊

[@funfun_2001]

LOVED the music for the Amiga version way back when and still do!

[@silverdamascus2023]

Fun fact: The company that made this game, DMA Design, is the same company that created the GTA series, and later became the studio Rockstar North. Come on Rockstar, make a new Lemmings game, I know you have many other more profitable series, but it wouldn't hurt making a new game of this one.

[@607]

I'm pretty sure they don't have the rights to it anymore. Do you know who made the semi-recently released Lemmings Touch?

[@PacGuy765]

+Victor Damázio like for PS4, Lemmings has been on every PlayStation Platform: PS, PS2, PSP, PS3 and PS Vita

[@aztechseran4244]

Indeed. I think Team 17 owns the rights, since they made some console games back in 2007.

[@aztechseran4244]

Yes, i believe it's Team 17, if they haven't sold it to anyone else. Maybe they could tell more, if someone wrote 'em e-mail.

[@bikerbiker2335]

Victor Damázio

[@MarkArandjus]

Thinking back this game was just so nonlinear, amazing for its time, I was always excited to see what the next level would be :D

[@g1cast-ReginaToday]

I was editing a timelapse capture of a construction site and the movement of the workers from a distant reminded me of this game that I used to play.

[@segaamusements2881]

Was playing this last night on my A600 Classic game that really only deserves to be played on the Amiga, good days these were :)

[@Bunnymoonstone]

My childhood ♥

[@kentakobashi2287]

Omg "Beast of a level" is shadow of the beast! Mind = Blown

[@mima85]

I just LOVED this game and it's fantastic background tunes!

[@sonicking]

AMiga lemmings was the best version, Brillant music, classic gameplay and etc. One of my best games ever and one of my cildhood classics.

[@GrimCerberus]

i waited for "easy when you know how". a level i can never do. i do it, but only by the skin of my teeth. i saw you seemed a bit panicky and clueless too. *cries* one day!! one day ill do it!!! my favourite one is the spooky one with the tree. the music on that one kicks arse. :D

[@BarryAirdrieFromDaUK]

i absolutely LOVE the music played at 47:20 This game reminds me of the great old days when i was a 15 year old teenager and i used to have an Amiga 600 and play this game all the time back in 1993.

[@notanotanota]

Arguably the greatest video game soundtrack ever created....

[@BizkitPark21]

I'm not into puzzle games as much but Lemmings is one of the best videogames ever made. I played Lemmings on NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, PC, Playstation, Gameboy, Game Gear, and PSP.

[@KingOfAllExcuses]

Oh. Thank you. After watching a few levels i kinda started to think thats what they did. Good job on the video!

[@DuncanMcA]

worth it for the music alone, so many nice memories :)

[@miroslavzima8856]

One of the few games I´ve played with my brother, mom and friends. Sweet memories :)

[@Genesivare]

That game is awesome! And music in it is just a masterpiece!

[@gazbertram5559]

this games brings back memories

[@sidonus]

awsome video, thanks a lot, a real sense of nostalga!! rellay bought back some old memorys :) good times

[@CFkimahri]

holy hell thats long 0_0. as always YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME you gonna do pegasus? i

[@pk22cm]

Either you are really good, or you have played really much. However, thanks for the nostalgy. Me and my sister sat for 2 years, on and of and finnally we made it. All 4 worlds. It was worth it!

[@tastybrains]

this was one my favorite games of all time. i forgot how good (and varied!) the soundtrack was.

[@HeroHeloCrack]

Oh mein Gott

[@yoe91]

One of the best games of all time.

[@johnnyhobbit]

Lemmings is a classic, I had it on the Snes, I could never manage the mayhem levels tho lol

[@twilighttadawn]

Super cool music!! and it brings back such fond memories.. go lemmings!

[@SirHilaryManfat]

Sigh... The good old days when games had originality and diversity. These days, gaming companies just churn out endless first person shooters and third person Grand Theft Auto/Tomb Raider/Metal Gear stealth games, with the odd sports game in between. With the Amiga you had sports games, shoot em ups, strategy games, point and click adventures, flight sims, platformers, interactive Cinemaware games, text based adventures... I could go on. In my opinion, modern gaming has devolved into bland cash grabbing monotonous FPS sequels and bland variations on third person games. I'm just thankful that there is such a growing Indie gaming scene that's keeping originality alive, although most kids these days would just pass those games up for the next bland Call of Duty sequel. I bought an Amiga, C64, Megadrive and SNES from Ebay, and i'm going to cherish those machines until the day I die. I still get enjoyment out of my Xbox360, PS4 and to a larger extent PC gaming, but I doubt i'll be looking back on them with the same nostalgia that i've had with the 8-bit and 16 bit machines. It's amazing how a longplay video of a 25 year old game can bring out such emotions and such a waffling youtube comment :)

[@wizzardoo6228]

Generalization

[@SirHilaryManfat]

Wizzard Oo Perhaps. but can you name any truly original games on the market today, that cover such a wide range of different genres? I'm not disagreeing with your opinion that I'm generalising, I'm just interested to see if you can think of any.

[@wizzardoo6228]

Animal House What do you mean with truly original? In my definition 95% of the games back then were just as onorginal as today.

[@wizzardoo6228]

Animal House I would not call that unique. Maybe the fist RTS, the fist roundbased strategy game ( which does not count really, because there where game like that before computers) , the first shooter e.t.c and thats it. All after that is not truly original. Besides that we still have those kinds of games.

[@SirHilaryManfat]

Wizzard Oo Which one? because in my mind they are all unique in the history of gaming. If you read my previous comment, I did explain that my definition of unique can be a general concept that is utilised in a unique way. Lemmings did this, by taking the platform genre and making something that had never been done before. Of course you can pick any game that's ever been made and pinpoint it to a basic genre such as a shooter or platformer, but that would be generalising. Something that you've already accused me of. So if you don't agree with generalising as a rule, then I don't understand how you can generalise the definition of an original gaming concept in such a basic manner? All the games I've previously mentioned took a basic format and made something unique with that format. If you look at games nowadays, first person shooters are just variants of Call of Duty. There maybe a slight addition here or there, but nothing that stands out from all the others. It's the same with third person games. Grand Theft Auto took the third person concept and created a unique sandbox game. Since then, it's just been regurgitated in different formats, from the Assassins Creed series to The later Resident Evil games (ruining the series in the process). With regards to other genres, Metal Gear Solid took the stealth concept and made it something amazing. Yet nowadays every stealth game is just a variant on that. Flight sims are still around, but it's extremely rare to find a modern flight sim release on the PC, let alone any other gaming platform. For instance, Microsoft's last release of their Flight Sim series is almost 10 years old now. It only survives, like most other flight sims, on community modding. And I know from personal experience that game modding is a fiddly and awkward. You also used to get sports games that covered just about every sport imaginable, from ice hockey, winter sports, summer sports, darts, wrestling. These days, most of the sports titles are just football and basketball. There's not as much choice.

[@RetroCubeXD]

I used to play this shit ALL THE TIME on DOS. I miss those days.

[@TheEukaryote]

Lemmings was an awesome game! This brought back memories! :-)

[@FredDude27]

The first stage music is "Infernal Galop" by Jacques Offenbach.

[@snaw3237]

Holy shit this brings back so many memories, i do havd tears in my eyes

[@martinezmartin4739]

Najlepsza gra logiczna w jaką grałem!

[@libertycap7109]

The music brings back memories

[@seanp8220]

Its fascinating to see solutions to levels that casued trouble

[@TheMoonPower]

God, I would stay awake for freaking hours playing this game. Jesus Christ, I still do!

[@AlphaAlex1]

ah the memories.

[@cosmickatamari]

I have a DOS VM with this and some older games when I wanna play games from my childhood.

[@GhostAnimals93]

This was the greatest strategy game of all time:)

[@tudorjason]

I so remember this game. It was aggravating and addicting.

[@MWaser]

Awww.... Lemmings... The game of my childhood.

[@caskinfg]

Level 11 used to drive me crazy when i was a kid !! great game :)

[@FlowerofDissolution]

Psygnosis had the rights to both Lemmings and Shadow of the Beast making it possible to do the crossover. Not to mention owning the rights to Menace ("Menacing" level 14, Tricky). David Whittaker wrote the music in both SotB and Menace. Great music indeed! ^^ I remember, when you got to those levels, it as such a ROFL moment seeing those other games in Lemmings!

[@petroidau]

The string sample plays scratchy on certain releases of Lemmings. I had the original disks for Lemmings on the Amiga 500 and a scene release with a trainer, on the original set the music played right and on the one with the trainer it didn't. I preferred having the trainer 9 times out of 10 as some of the levels were HARD! Cliffnotes: The music isn't broken by WinUAE, it's the game. :)

[@sunhuntin]

i remember mum would often play this until she finished. usually meant she was up after midnight, and i would go to sleep with the sound them being squished [when they fell from great heights with no umbrella] ringing in my ears.

[@AndrewO83]

Watching in 2018. Watching ALL the Amiga playthroughs of the games we used to have. Damn I wish I could play this game again but I can't be bothered setting up an emulator. Justs need a reboot from someone that I can play just by buying and installing the game on my laptop :P

[@84kingmartin]

Difford you should get a emulator for Amiga.. worth it dude.. took me 10 mins to set and get running tops..

[@Poser_Metal_Records]

Haha my dad had this game on our Amiga back in the day. Pain in the ass game!

[@mamawakikawasaki]

ah... i grew up on this game.. so much memories :)

[@irishbloke99]

What a game this was back in the day id love to replay it.

[@Suicide_nb]

Its on Android

[@seanseanston]

@CONRAIL1991 Nope, Lemmings is an Amiga game and famously so. According to Wikipedia, the DOS version came out a few months later after the Amiga's Feb. 1991 release. Hardly surprising too when the PC wasn't much for gaming at that point.

[@Shinnjid]

the game was really good, but the music made it fantastic! :o) used to love it as a child

[@Gr8Dane78]

I had the original on Amiga back in the days, and that also had the weird sound bug where 1 channel of the music sometimes sounded all scratchy. :-) Sure brings back a lot of memories.

[@dimebomb]

I can only imagine the sh*t we put our parents through with that "springy" sound effect!!??

[@chrisbjorn825]

I love the music in this game.

[@mekkabon]

I remember playing this game when I was little and I loved it ^^ The music always got stuck in my head~ It actually had some scary moments too, when you think about it. Lemmings could spontaneously combust, there was lava and fire everywhere, bear traps that shredded the lemmings to bits ._.

[@Ich_liebe_brezeln]

And don't forget the garrote, trap the lemmings and strangles them.

[@asza5]

One of my favorite games as a kid :)

[@Loganator47]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!! I love this game and have an old DOS-Version. Thanks for this amazing video

[@evillttlimp]

i always LOVED the music for level 22 (the beast of a level)

[@redplague]

43:56 Is that Shadow of the Beast?

[@jimmyworthington]

Remember getting stuck on levels, and dreaming solutions while asleep. Epic game.

[@Anofalye]

1 of the funny thing about this game is...new versions often have crappier graphics and sound effect (play on phone), and it still is a gem even with all the downgrades. Always popular!

[@TheClosetGamer]

I first played this on the SNES, I miss this game so much.

[@martinezmartin4739]

Przeszedłem wszystkie poziomy, ale przy włączonej opcji używania w nieskończoność wszystkich kopaczy, budowniczych itd.