Is Lemmings [SNES] Worth Playing Today? - SNESdrunk

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[@reinforcedpenisstem]

Always thought there should have been a Lemmings and Worms crossover.

[@n64fan60]

Wormings? Wormlings?

[@user-sl6gn1ss8p]

@@n64fan60 I was thinking "Worms vs Lemmings", kind of in the vein of Alien vs Predator, but Wormlings just sounds like something that should exist : )

[@BeckBomberGirl]

and it was all in place considering that Team 17 developed the PSP remake of Lemmings

[@tarquinnff3]

I can't believe I never noticed how similar Lemmings and Worms look and feel to play. Worms was one of my favorite SNES games back in the day. I guess I should give Lemmings another spin.

[@nathanstrik]

@@n64fan60 Lorms, or Wemmings. 😁

[@nimaiiikun]

This is one of those games I always saw in magazines and thought I'd try it one day. fast forward 30 years later, I still haven tried it. Lost vikings is another one

[@anon_y_mousse]

I'm in the same boat. Still haven't tried it. Though I still kind of want to.

[@thecunninlynguist]

LV is awesome! It's on all modern consoles via that Blizzard arcade pack. I never played LV2 as a kid, so it was fun being able to try it.

[@HighLanderPonyYT]

Procrastination is a biatch.

[@Nordlicht05]

I had it on a dos pc. Liked it

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Never played lemmings? Thats a staple in gaming. Play it now or today. You are doing yourself disservice if you don't.

[@myerklamb8529]

When i was about 7 years old, my pretty hip grandma not only had a computer (when most families, including ours, didn't), but she also enjoyed some computer games including lemmings. She was a very straight laced, conservative woman who certainly didnt approve of most video games but she thought lemmings taught a lot of spatial awareness and strategy and me and my siblings loved playing it at her house

[@ArcaneAzmadi]

Sometimes I've found myself wondering whether the idea for the Worms series was "What if Lemmings but the lemmings were trying to kill each other?"

[@janlentan892]

That's actually exactly what the Worms series originally was designed as. The concept was called "LemArtillery", but since Team17 didn't own the Lemmings, the characters were changed into worms. AFAIK one of the random messages upon starting a round in the first Worms game says "***Artillery".

[@cb4n409]

Lemmins was definitely an inspiration for Worms' aesthetic, but the gameplay was actually pretty much directly lifted from Scorched Earth, a shareware game that came out in 1991 with tanks taking potshots at eachother in turn based physics gameplay and a lot of humor. Scorched Earth was inspired by previous games going back all the way to the infancy of computers

[@janlentan892]

@@cb4n409 Also true!

[@Charles.Wright]

@@cb4n409 indeed!

[@terrylyn]

And scorched earth was influenced by "tank wars" from 1990, but I think there has been artillery games way before that e.g. gorillas.bas which was an example qbasic program which came with ms-dos. @@cb4n409

[@soulred5195]

The 2 player mode is super fun and chaotic, and I think it's exclusive to the SNES version. I also remember playing this in typing class when I was in middle school. As my old computer teacher used to say, "We don't play games in school. We experience software." He would literally tell you no if you asked to "play Lemmings", but if you asked to "experience Lemmings", he'd say yes.

[@Lembritt]

On the Amiga you also get 2 player mode. I played it alot with a friend in school who had an A500+. Don't know if any more ports got 2 player mode.

[@cinnamondan4984]

I’m a teacher and do the same. I call games incidental learning activities.

[@TheT0nedude]

No, you can play 2 player on Amiga as well, it's the best version.

[@Turbo-D]

lemmings and worms are just always worth playing imo 👍👍

[@HighLanderPonyYT]

My aesthetic sense disagrees.

[@skycloud4802]

I think both are timeless ideas.

[@auralunaprettycure]

I also would argue the Lemmings SNES port is worth playing in particular it’s one of the best ports of the OG game that is not for computer. I mean the computer versions are preferred, but this snes port is great.

[@ThatRedHusky]

Gotta love DMA. First it was Lemmings then it was Body Harvest. When you play Body Harvest you CLEARLY see the formula they were working with that soon after became GTA 3.

[@LilDeuceDeuce]

The phrase "the best Amiga port on the SNES" makes me feel all warm and fuzzy with nostalgia, but also makes me feel a million years old trying to imagine explaining that to my kids

[@ValkyrieTiara]

Lemmings was so ubiquitous back in the day that the idea of having to explain it to someone makes me feel older than anything has in a long time lol

[@dschult3]

Someone get this man a Super Scope.

[@SNESdrunk]

Honestly I've never really wanted one, I don't have enough room for yet another giant piece of plastic

[@dschult3]

@@SNESdrunk You've got to mount it on the wall.

[@EddieSlabb]

We need a Super Scope bandolier for daily carrying.

[@gpsxbx5097]

​@@dschult3below the deer head

[@VitaEx]

The puzzle game that comes on it was pretty addictive

[@TheJadeFist]

I remember enjoying Lemmings on Dos/Windows 3.1 quite a bit back in the day.

[@cube2fox]

Same, but the levels quickly became too difficult for me.

[@5dollarshake263]

I used to rent Lemmings for SNES once and awhile. Always a ton of fun and some real good tunes sometimes.

[@gordordf1091]

Once in a while.

[@deanolium]

Absolutely loved Lemmings on the Amiga. Very addictive, though the waiting around can sometimes get annoying. But levels are short enough (and have passwords) that it's a great pick up and play game.

[@duffman18]

That reminds me, I've been meaning to buy that PS5 game that's basically 3D modern Lemmings. It's called Humanity. But yeah I had Lemmings and Oh No More Lemmings for the PS1 back in the day (it was on the same disc if I remember right) and I loved them. I used to love using my Xplorer thing (a Gameshark-like device) and just giving myself infinite numbers of every kind of lemming, and not even really trying to beat the levels properly, just messing around with it like it's a sandbox and just seeing what you could do. But yeah I loved Worms for PS1 too for the same reason. Barely ever tried to play it normally (cos I rarely had anyone to play it with and Worms never really worked great as a single player game). Just giving myself infinite amounts of every type of worm weapon and treating it as a sandbox too. If the original Lemmings games were on ps5 I'd buy them again for that too. But they do at least have the modern Worms game (the most recent one anyway) and they have the sequel to Worms, Worms Armageddon for the PS1 available on the PS5 that has awesome graphics for the time, it looked like cel shaded cartoons. These kinda games really blew my mind as a kid and completely changed my whole idea of what video games could even be, cos I'd never played anything like them before. I had only really had platformer games up till then, on the mega drive we had before getting the PS1. I also got Doom for the PS1 which did a similar thing, I'd never even seen a first person shooter game before playing that. And the PS1 version of Doom is better than the PC version in some ways (like the music, and the mood lighting) But yeah Lemmings and Worms were just completely unlike anything I'd ever played before. I'm so glad my family decided to buy them for me, I'd never heard of them before, so they were very good choices of games to buy for a 7 year old.

[@anon_y_mousse]

Worms was a lot of fun. We installed it on the school computers and played the heck out of it way back in the day.

[@3rdalbum]

The PS1 port of Doom is very competent, but did you really say the music was better than the PC? Sorry but I don't remember any of the music in PS1 Doom. It was instantly forgettable. Are you sure you're not thinking of the 3DO version of Doom, which was played by an actual band?

[@BlitzerkidSix]

I could have sworn these came from a company called Psygnosis. Thanks for the nostalgia trip. Reminds me of Grandpa Jack. My oldest friend and I would call it "Australian mining" when we blew them all up.

[@thecunninlynguist]

you know how we have that "Does it run doom" thingy? They should do one for lemmings. Never played the console versions, but had it for my old ass PC...loved me those midi tunes.

[@mendelovitch]

1:29 - "Just plain exploding".

[@charaznable9209]

This was a fun game, I remember the levels becoming progressively more creepy/disturbing the further I got into the game.

[@terrylyn]

This was an absolute classic on PC/Amiga. The music on the Sound Blaster was so good.

[@Mikebumpful]

Good on the Soundblaster but PERFECTION on the Amiga!

[@terrylyn]

Amiga is often better in early 90s but PC soundtrack in this case blows it out of water IMHO. @@Mikebumpful

[@Mikebumpful]

@@terrylyn Guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I'm not a big fan of the FM synth in the AdLib and early Soundblasters, while the Amiga's bitcrushed sample based MOD's have a timeless vibe!

[@grawlix311]

You nailed it in the first line; I rented this at my local video store. When I saw the video, it brought me back

[@bufordhighwater9872]

Lemmings was one of the few games we had for our Gamegear, so my siblings and I spent so many hours playing it.

[@NintendoComplete]

I loved this game so much as a kid!

[@bigedwerd]

And to think, if a Disney documentary hadn't thrown actual lemmings off a cliff this game wouldn't exist. I hope that is a misconception

[@tanman99]

No it’s true.

[@brentjorgenson8593]

This was one of the games that got my daughter into retro gaming, so it'll always have a place in my heart just for that!

[@bobmcbob4399]

I played this and other releases on original Acorn Archimedes computers in our high school computer lab. Music was fantastic. I even wrote a BASIC jukebox that could play whatever song in the game you wanted too. Great machine and great game.

[@bigfern2392]

The amount of memories you just flooded my mind with this video is amazing! It is such a great puzzle game. Nice Video!

[@Delekhan]

Used to play Lemmings on the SNES with my Mom back in the day. The first two difficulties were hard enough but you are right for the harder levels: pixel perfect. Thanks for the great vid!

[@andrewsegers7942]

Playing this with a d pad sounds like an absolute nightmare.

[@petesmart1983]

Well it was a port of an Amiga game , it actually not too bad to control with the pad

[@FelOld]

The game has good controls.

[@rafaelkuhn5154]

I just recently played through the SNES version of "Lemmings" again and had a great time. I think it's worth mentioning though that when there are more than 50 Lemmings on screen, the game suffers from really bad slow-down. You don't get that one on the Genesis version, which also has many different exclusive levels, so if you dig the game it's worth owning both ports.

[@the_real_tay_loud2072]

Does the gen version have split screen multiplayer? That’s why my friends and I used to rent it all the time😂

[@rafaelkuhn5154]

@@the_real_tay_loud2072 Yes it does, and apparently four of the twenty multiplayer stages are Genesis-exclusive.

[@FairyRat]

Man I loved messing around with massive job selection in Lemmings 2 back in the day. I played on DOS but glad to see the SNES ports are so well-made, Lemmings deserve it!

[@mattb6522]

Good review! Lemmings was everywhere in the early '90s! It is a fun puzzler and was quite unique for the time. A childhood friend of mine had the first Lemmings on the SNES and it was a lot of fun trying to solve each puzzle. It took time to adjust to the D-Pad movement instead of a mouse, but it was manageable. I might have to try this one again as well as the sequel. I remember some of the original puzzles could get quite cryptic in later levels!

[@sinistarx7746]

I completely forgot about 'Tribes' that was such an amazing game😅 Great content, as always!

[@asimplenameichose151]

Played the heck out of this as a kid on SNES - two-player mode was a blast with a sibling. Because of the maps and available jobs, it could quickly turn into chaos and sabotage :)

[@nottiredofwinning3736]

This one was in my library of about a dozen games growing up. It saw a lot of action - great puzzle game and plays great on snes.

[@pablor.sepulveda9929]

Your videos are a nice way to start everyone's day

[@mattalan6618]

not mine

[@nathanstrik]

You know you can scroll through the selected skills with Y (scroll left) en X (scroll right)? You don't have to select them with the cursor. Also, L and R scroll the screen. Oh, and at 2:10 you don't have to time it... just turn a Lemming into a blocker next to the wall and then blow him up. He'll stay perfectly still that way.

[@mtshark7]

Awesome review man!

[@Indie-A-tom]

I had this on PC. One of my first ever games, and it was a lot of fun playing to finish or just making most of the chaos. A true classic.

[@ManAboutTown1000]

Two of the best puzzle games ever made. I loved playing them as a kid but could never beat them.

[@spitt0110]

first time i played this was on a old apple power pc. fell in love with it. could never find it for my pc but rented it for snes.

[@bigduke5902]

It's always fun to hear how others who grew up around the same time I did used the video rental store. For me, my top tier games were anything at all that was new and our local store put their new releases for the week on the top shelf, making it easy to see. I remember going in and seeing the giant Earthbound box had appeared one day and would call them all the time asking if it had come back in yet. I played a ton of NES and SNES games and almost the entire N64s library just renting anything that showed up on that new release shelf.

[@IsilZhaSB]

This was absolutely a favorite rental for me. Loved doing the multiplayer with friends where you could screw each other up. Some of the multiplayer maps were so insanely difficult you'd have to work together.

[@svcross-do]

I played so much lemmings on DOS. My favourite game.

[@corvaxblackfeather6529]

A Game i never would skip over... it's a great fun time and allways a good choise no matter what ^^

[@FranklySean]

Wow, this one really brings me back. Haven't played this since I was very, very small

[@Erekai]

This is one of my more favorite SNES carts I own. I don't think I've ever actually completed the game, but I like to sit down with it from time to time and play a few levels and basically mess around. The music is really great and there's just a certain charm to this game that keeps me coming back for more.

[@JR-gl1nx]

I live about 35 minutes from Dundee, Scotland, where DMA design was based. There are really cool wee bronze statues of the Lemmings in one of the parks. Instead of being on top of the stone pillar base, they are using skills depicted in the game to climb it.

[@petesmart1983]

Lemmings was a great puzzle game which was simple but addictive and challenging. Had the master system version and pretty much the same(also on pc)

[@dnachistatrax1029]

Got this, for my birthday (instead of Mortal Kombat) I was pissed, at first...but ended up, loving it...the music, is timeless & I still play it, to this day 👍👍

[@thenostalgiafactor5023]

Total length of video: 340 secs. Total length of "SNES Drunk": 2.5 secs. .74% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".

[@IanDeMartino]

I'm pretty sure on that one level you don't have to time the bomber lemming. You can make him a stopper right next to the wall and then blow him up. Thanks for this video. I never played the SNES version but I had this on my Mac back in the day. Such a great game, I might go fire up DOSBox and play it. Rockstar or whoever owns the rights now really should release it on Steam or something though. As you mentioned, it was on practically every platform imaginable back in the day, probably even more than DOOM, but now you have to play it "anyway you can" if you don't have an old console, and that really is a shame.

[@LanEXHikari]

Good old Lemmings, and must play just for the experience alone. Thanks SDrunk ✌🏼

[@MentalLiberation]

I totally agree with the first thing stated about having a gaming hierarchy for rentals. And this game always seemed to come up on the list when the first choices weren't there. This was always available and I remember us playing with a lot when we first got it as a rental or borrowed from a friend. I wasn't really good at it either but I was always curious about trying to finish it because I do love a good challenge. I ended up getting part 2 and never finishing it. Part of me wishes to finally do that one day. That said, Lemmings is worth owning on the super Nintendo. But if you never have, that's ok, too. It's definitely a game that would be nice to own but not out of necessity.

[@unj]

The 2 player Lemmings which is in the Atari ST, Amiga, SNES, and Genesis exclusive are so much fun. I remember really screwing over friends by sending one lemming over to just blow up their ladders or dig a hole that caused tons of chaos. Lots of fun and an underrated 2player simultaneous game from the era. The SNES version is fun, but I will admit this is the kind of game you will really be happy to have mouse precision to get the lemmings clicked at just the right time.

[@WhispyWoods.]

Great vid 👍

[@VitaEx]

Wow you listed almost the exact same games as my rental experience lol I did enjoy lemmings quite a bit as my mom liked playing it and didn’t always want to play the games I played so I guess that made me like it more. There’s plenty of levels to try

[@mrtree1368]

Great episode Been waiting for this one . Now let's do one on the gameboy versions

[@GretchZ]

Oh, man. This is making me nostalgic… for Worms. Back at a 90s LAN party

[@CSGraves]

I remember a DOS copy came with my first sound card. I was hooked, but could never get past 'I have a Cunning Plan' until very recently. The SNES port is pretty solid.

[@zackspiker_]

I loved the sequel on my Dad’s packard bell. Also this was on the cover of the Nintendo Power I got from my parents after my only piano recital.

[@Saxdude26]

Huh, I was actually streaminng Lemmings last month. What good timing!

[@PFBM86]

The Genesis version of Lemmings was really interesting. They were able to port it over with most of the mechanics from the Amiga version intact, but due to memory limitations the maximum level size had to be significantly reduced. This meant that a bunch of levels from the Amiga had to be cut, but they replaced them with entirely new levels, many of which were quite clever! There were also a few extra difficulty modes on the Genesis, each of which consisted entirely of new levels. IIRC it had a total of something like 100 new levels that weren't in the original game. Many of these levels were never included in any other release and their existence remains relatively obscure even in the fan community. Some of the new levels did end up getting remade in Oh No More Lemmings (or maybe they were in ONML first and remade for the Genesis - I don't remember if ONML was released before or after the Genesis port.) 5 of the new levels were ported to the SNES version as well, bringing its level total to 125.

[@Justforvisit]

Just a legendary classic, these Lemming Games ❤

[@irkalla100]

Still to this day, my childhood friend and I will do the "uagh!" Sound the lemmings make when they fall to their deaths. We played the heck out of this game just building. Not a surprise we love games like Factorio and Satosfactory now that we're old lol

[@thecorrectoification]

I had so much fun with it when I was a kid.

[@ringbling420]

This game was always something you could fall back to if you had to - thankfully my grocery store always has something and I only resorted to it once that I can remember. Still - fun game I wouldn't mind stumbling onto the cartridge.

[@39zack]

Lemmings is the game that introdused me to "canon in D" and it since been my favorite clsssical piece if not my favourite musical piece period.

[@nozoto]

I played a lot of the windows version of this puzzle game. It is such a load of fun!

[@grizzlehatchet1]

Tribes 2! Man what a fun game. Incredible movement mechanics

[@joshuagoforth1658]

I had this game for my gba and even though I didn’t understand how to play properly I adored it

[@hemangchauhan2864]

I love in pixel art games where tiny characters are moving. One of the joys was seeing tiny men in Cannon Fodder move around.

[@Chronobus]

Man! I'm so glad I grew up playing lemmings on the Super Nintendo! One of my favourite games growing up but it's a shame the series is no more.

[@skycloud4802]

I remember playing Lemmings on a PlayStation demo. I had a lot of fun with it, so I had no qualms about gping out to buy it, but never actually got around to it. Always ended up as a curiosity at the back of my mind.

[@michaellombardi1620]

I had a port of the first game! It was good fun!

[@Michirin9801]

This is the version of Lemmings I played, I always liked the music in it!

[@ReaperCore15]

in the same vein troddlers is fun too ! ( just realised you did a video about it too, 10 years ago ! )

[@dink1318]

loved this game as a kid

[@Lurker1222]

Fun Fact! The soundtrack was done by Cold Storage, the same man who did the soundtrack for Wipeout on the PS1. Amazing!

[@nuclearphish8051]

Having been introduced to Lemmings on the Amiga, I was a bit skeptical on how playable it would be on consoles with d-pads. But it worked beautifully. The ability to move the cursor while the game was paused was genius and made the controls bafflingly smooth. Also, I'm quite sure there was a way to fast forward the lemmings even on the first game.

[@willrobinson7599]

Great game on virtually every system it was ported too . The versions that u could us a mouse wherever best for me

[@JamieBainbridge]

Great memories playing Lemmings on my fax machine.

[@jasonz7788]

Awesome thanks 👍

[@trueneese8080]

I had this on PC and later the PS1. Such a fun game!

[@zitrodivad]

ooh i loved lemmings! can’t believe they don’t make it anymore

[@Steelflight773]

I loved this game as a kid. I never knew about the second one though.

[@Cimone90]

Fun fact: the lemmings exist because the creator needed to come up with tiny sprites that had detailed animation for a game called Walker on the Amiga. After Walker came out, they turned the tiny sprites into lemmings.

[@moverofobjects]

I expected you to say that this was your d tier list, pleasantly surprised it was on your bsquad!

[@CrazyHomelessWeirdo]

I remember Limings being big in the 90s and then you just stop hearing about them. I always wondered what killed the franchise. During that time in the 90s, when it was most talked about it felt like it was going to be one of those games that would be around for a long time to come and that.m by now, we would have many, many sequels And then after the first one It felt like it went quietly into a corner and was soon forgotten about. I always was curious what killed it from becoming one of the next big franchises.

[@Hektols]

I guess that the franchise stopped when he creators of Lemmings, Psygnosis, were acquired by Sony and made them focus in other franchises.

[@Str0b0]

The Incredible Machine series were another great puzzle games of the 90s .

[@franciscodelaurentii]

Loved playing on PC when I was a kid

[@RejonMunchausen]

A game (and sequels) I played to death...but only ever on consoles with a controller...one of these days I might have to track down a PC compatible version with mouse support and play it how it was designed

[@PFR1930]

I owned it for Master System. Fun game.

[@SPac316]

I rented this a few times as a kid. We had some good laughs with it, torturing the poor critters! lol

[@Larry]

The US SNES version of Lemmings has censored cutscenes strangely, the Japanese version is uncensored. DMA also worked with Childrens Television Workshop (makers of Sesame Street) on a third Lemmings game and a Lemmings TV series, but it didn't go very well. CTW's suggestions on changing the game pretty much doomed the thrrequel.

[@Spacemutiny]

The music in this game is *chef’s kiss*

[@vikdaddy]

Many lost hours playing on this. Always remember it being one of the few games my dad played too.

[@MJFallout]

The Sega Mastersystem version (of Lemmings 1) is also solid and enjoyable. In that you only ever get 20 Lemmings though, so there's less room for error sometimes. There are some Sega-themed levels in that version, too.

[@joshuaturner1072]

This is an amazing game! There is a mobile version now that isn't anywhere near as good. I really wish there was a remake or a 3D sequal. It really is a great game that starts super easy and gets almost impossible. LOVE THIS GAME!

[@Zanji1234]

i played it on my 286 DOS PC with monocrom (yellow) monitor and my cousin even bought a complete walkthrough since some levels were TOOO Hard

[@Ratralsis]

I remember playing this on SNES with my dad when I was a kid, and by that I mean that he would play it on weekends sometimes when he wasn't overworked and I'd watch him try to figure out the harder puzzles. I was too young and also dumb to get far myself.