Lemmings Oh, No! More Lemmings Christmas Lemmings Psygnosis, Inc, 1994

The Plot

Like their legendary real life cousins, the lemmings drop from their entrance and thereafter blindly walk in a line until they fall off cliffs, get "crisped " in a fire, drown, or suffer any one of many other horrible fates. Your task is to endow the appropriate lemmings at the appropriate moments with the skills necessary to save as many of their brethren as possible. You must save a given percentage to advance to the next puzzle. By building stairs, digging down or diagonally, blocking the way and other skills, lead the lemmings to the safe exit.

User Interface

The lemmings ' skills appear in boxes across the bottom of the screen. A skill may be selecting by clicking on it or by selecting it with a function key. Once a skill is selected, clicking on a lemming endows that lemming with the skill. Except for the "floater" skill a lemming may have only one skill. Not all puzzles allow all skills and the number of times you can use a skill is limited.

Comments

This is an extremely addictive game. After having solved all 120 of the original Lemmings puzzles I was presented with the "Oh, No! More Lemmings" disk containing 100 more puzzles. My anguished cry was "Oh No! MORE Lemmings". The puzzles are grouped into difficulty categories (four for Lemmings and five for More Lemmings). You can switch among categories at will but you must solve the games in each category in order. You can defeat this order by finding the "access codes" on the internet. "Christmas Lemmings" is a demo version with a few lemmings puzzles with a winter theme. It was available on the internet and was also included with the Logitech (c) mouse software.