Friday, July 20, 2012

Better Enjoy Your Weekend, Part 2

Who Doesn't Like a Game About Mindless Mass Suicide?

In the latest installment of my Better Enjoy Your Weekend series comes Lemmings.  Lemmings was a game that was originally released on something that we called a 3.5" floppy disc despite the fact that it was rigid and only its predecessor the 5.25" disk was actually floppy.  I actually remember playing this game from the DOS command prompt on my first computer, a 486 my family bought in the 1990s.  I'm happy to report that through the magic of the internet the exact Lemmings game I remember from my childhood is available here.
Level 1

I suggest that if you do try to play the game, you do so on at least the "Tricky" difficulty setting because the "Fun" setting is too easy even for a guy like me who does not play a lot of video games.  Also, if you do play, be prepared for the annoying fact that after you assign a task to a lemming you will have to click on the action icon twice to select it for the next Lemming.

10 comments:

  1. Ahh I loved Lemmings. It was a pretty fun game and I wasn't too bad at it.

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  2. I've never heard of this before but damn it sounds kind of fun, mindless mass suicide sounds like a fun concept for a game to me, I have to try this game out.

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  3. Addicted. Nice going, man.

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  4. Friggin passwords.. had to google them to even see themm and then it wouldn't allow me to use it wtf..

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  5. dude thank's for this i will try this game

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  6. oh my gosh Lemmings takes me waaaaay back! I used to play that game to death (excuse the pun, lol).

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  7. I prefer my mass-suicide in a punch bowl.

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  8. >free game friday
    YOU STOLE MUH GIMMICK!

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  9. I will go with the "Fun" setting. I like easy.

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