Lemmings

Lemmings

Game No.	248
Voting	8.46 points, 46 votes
Developer	Thomas Mittelmeyer, Leon van Rooy, Alain Jansen, Greg Duddle
Company	DMA Design
Publisher	Psygnosis, E&E Software
Musician	Jeroen Tel
HVSC-File	/Tel_Jeroen/Lemmings.sid
Release	1994
Platform	Amiga, Atari ST, C64, MS-DOS, NES, SNES, Sega, Lynx
Genre	Logic, Strategy
Gamemode	Single player
Operation
Media
Language

Description[edit | edit source]

The game was released for the first time in 1991 for the Amiga and was after that converted to almost all well-known platforms.

Game principle:

In Lemmings you cannot control the actions of your small friends directly. Instead, you need to lift up some of them to a higher level of the lemming-being by giving them useful skills and talents. Only this way you will succeed in bringing these lemmings (and its friends) unharmed to the exit. To be able to allocate the different skills, choose the corresponding icon from the bar and assign it to the lemming of your choice.

As lemmings are not very intelligent, they always walk into the same direction until they meet an obstacle. Then they walk into the opposite direction. The player has eight options with each a certain number to influence the lemmings.

Climber: can climb up walls. The corresponding lemming gets sticky shoes and gloves and is this way able to climb even vertikal plains. Note: A climber stays a climber for the rest of the corresponding level. (The super-sticky shoes and gloves keep sticking to its paws...)
Floater: A lemming equipped with an umbrella can float savely down from any height. If a lemmings has been allocated the umbrella once, it will use it at any appropriate or inappropriate occasion (or sometimes not...).
Bomber: You activate the self-desctruction mechanism of the chosen lemming. Above the head of the unlucky lemming a 5 second countdown clock is shown and finally the lemming explodes and leaves behind a cloud of confetti. The lemmings do not like that. Note: This is a possibility to remove a blocker.
Blocker: This lemming stands around with arms stretched and blocks the way for its fellow lemmings. Blockers are very patient. They fulfill this function until the time has run out, if you let them.
Bridge Builder: Such a lemming builds bridges that always go up into the direction into which the lemming walked when you turned it to a bridge builder. Each bridge builder has 12 bricks. When they are used up, the lemming turns to a walker again, unless you allocate it another task (e.g. go on building). The bridge builder immediately stops building when all bricks are used up, when the bridge meets an obstacle or it bangs its head against something. Btw, you cannot build a bridge downwards...
Basher: Such a lemming digs forwards, but only if there is a suitable area in front of it. If it has dug trough a wall it turns to a walker again. (If it meets material that it cannot dig through it stops digging and just turns around.)
Miner: This lemming instantly generates a pickaxe and starts to dig diagonally downwards into its original moving direction and this until the tunnel is done and it falls out of it. Hopefully onto solid ground. The miner cannot dig through steel.
Digger: The chosen lemming instantly starts to dig vertically downwards. When it is throught it falls out of the digged hole. But this lemming cannot dig through steel.

Aim of the game:

A certain number of lemmings needs to be directed into the goal within a certain time.

Difficulty grades:

Fun - relatively easy, to learn the game principle
Tricky - a bit more difficult
Taxing - for prospective pros
Mayhem - for brain acrobats

Design[edit | edit source]

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2D screen that scrolls to the left or right when the cursor adjoins the border of the game section. The width of the section was minimized a bit to avoid time problems during the screen buildup. Great graphics with many animated lemmings and fitting music. Well solved controls by mouse + keyboard or joystick + keyboard.

Hints[edit | edit source]

Keys in the menu:

1 = start the game
2 = show intro
3 = enter password for levels
4 = change between music and sound effects
CRSR ⇑ ⇓ = difficulty grade

Keys in the game:

- = reduce the number of lemmings that enter the level per time unit
+ = raise the number of lemmings that enter the level per time unit
1 = climber
2 = floater
3 = bomber
4 = blocker
5 = bridge builder
6 = basher
7 = miner
8 = digger
Shift-Lock = pause
Inst/Del = (pressed twice)- bombs up all lemmings

Run/Stop = back to menu

further info:

You allocate a skill to a lemming by picking the corresponding icon with a press on the key, then moving the cursor with the help of the joystick or the mouse to the desired lemming and finally pressing the fire button. The corresponding lemming will then start immediately with the allocated activity (e.g. starts to dig immediately etc.). The only exceptions of this rule are the skills of the climber and floater. A lemming that has been allocated one of these skills does only use them when it meets a vertical wall or respectively a cliff.

You only have a limited supply of these skills per level. It is shown by the number above the corresponding icon. If the number is 00 you have used up all the supply of this skill.

Above the icon bar you see displayed from left to right the lemming type below the cursor, lemmings already freed and still to be rescued, solution in %, minutes and seconds left.

After solving a level a password is shown. Write it down, you will get back to this level by entering the password (key "3" in the menu) and you will not have to play the previous levels again.

Solution[edit | edit source]

Cheats[edit | edit source]

Passwords for the single levels:

Fun
Level	Code
1	–
2	GEDGILBFIE
3	BLIJKJAJDB
4	KJGHALBDDE
5	JIDJGHGFCL
6	LEHIHBEBJC
7	GCAAFKJLAD
8	HJBHFKDIJJ
9	IBBHHBLDHK
10	FJBHHKHAKH
11	HHEBFEJAKI
12	AFCCIJLIIH
13	JGFEEDDEHA
14	KKIHCKAGBB
15	EAFALALDCC
16	AFIBLCHEHC
17	JIFAHKBDIA
18	FFIBDFEBJC
19	FJCAJGLBBL
20	GHHILIKBAB
21	JCCLCADGAH
22	FDIKBBKDGC
23	BIKDLHEDIL
24	KDCAJKAKFG
25	KJEDHGCDCK

Tricky
Level	Code
1	DJKALCDKLJ
2	FHIBDFEDGF
3	JFIBLACJCL
4	HEEBEDIGHI
5	FADGGFADKJ
6	ECHGGDEDID
7	LEDBFKJABF
8	IBGHDGFEHI
9	IHKBBDKJDJ
10	EADGGDIFAH
11	ALALALHGBB
12	FDJCKJHGDA
13	AHLGDEDLHI
14	ECBIFCJKBB
15	LKJIFEBLAJ
16	CKLAGFKAJH
17	BHFGGAJLAE
18	LAFGFKLADA
19	ELLISAAAAH
20	EAHGAKBDCD
21	LAGBABCIEA
22	HALGFEDFLK
23	BHLDLEJGDE
24	DFIJFJIKLE
25	DHKHBKDIFK

Taxing
Level	Code
1	IGDGKDIJFA
2	CCHALCJGBB
3	CACAGJGAFA
4	JFIBIEJLAF
5	HDCGLGFELF
6	JILKFECIEK
7	HILILAIHEL
8	GELEEAHGCC
9	JKFGGLBDGH
10	JKFIFCKKBB
11	LKJIGFCDIH
12	JAHEEDEBDE
13	CAJDJKILAC
14	JAICIFCHAD
15	GCCKHEDICG
16	IHCGCJLIGB
17	GIIHGFAIJG
18	CAJCIKFEBH
19	GDALLDJLKD
20	AHAFKJLCBL
21	CGDHAKBDCC
22	LKLGGBFKIH
23	KLIAAHAJJI
24	HAFGKGLDHK
25	JIFKIEDLEJ

Mayhem
Level	Code
1	BCHIAFKCIG
2	JCADJFEDFC
3	GKFGJLDJLE
4	IJCFFEDALI
5	EACJALHACG
6	KJKFEJCBDH
7	CABDJGHFDG
8	GJGGLCJAJC
9	LKAFLBFGJA
10	FDKBDHAGHC
11	FAFGGAHIIH
12	LEFGEJCJKI
13	KHKBLEDIHI
14	DHKIKBCABJ
15	CGFEEDCEHC
16	AHEFFAHHEA
17	EFGHFKCGDH
18	GJEBAKBDAC
19	EAJACHGBJK
20	AJGBDJLIIG
21	GFDILCDHEL
22	KDJAKGFCHG
23	BIDAJIKBIB
24	JIEEKAAJDG
25	FCELKBBLLK

Cracks with training mode:

DYTEC‎ (Dynamic Technologies) 9th April 1994
AFL (Alpha Flight)

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