#lemmings

[dedalvs]

Top 3 Games That Don't Exist Anymore

LEMMINGS (1991)

Absolutely incredible puzzle game (based on the great lemming myth) where you attempt to guide a horde of lemmings to their home. Obstacles get in their path, so you have to give them jobs (building staicases, bashing through walls, digging, through the floor, stopping other lemmings from moving) to help them get home. It was cute, simple to understand, and INCREDIBLY difficult—especially once you got to the difficulty level "taxing".

WHAT HAPPENED TO IT

Folks just forgot about it and it kind of bounced around, never getting picked up when things like the Wii online store came out. After some remixed variants it never got a proper release.

HOW TO PLAY IT NOW

Aside from emulators, there's a free (with purchases) iOS/Android version of Lemmings now. The functionality is similar, and it's definitely cute, but it's not exactly the same in terms of gameplay, sound (the music!), and the levels are different. I'd love to be able to play the original levels again.

BOOKWORM ADVENTURES (2006)

Utterly incredible spelling game. You play a cute little bookworm who has to travel through time and literature to battle beasties by spelling words. The longer the word you spell (and the more value the letters have as in Scrabble) the more damage you do. It's cute, it's educational, it's fun, it's competitive (there are records for biggest word, most damage, etc. so you can compete with friends); it's a nearly perfect game. And there was a sequel, too!

WHAT HAPPENED TO IT

EA purchased PopCap games and then, one day, for apparently no reason, removed it from their online store. And that's it. It's gone. Forever.

HOW TO PLAY IT NOW

You can pirate it, but otherwise, the closest I've found is a mobile game called Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey by Bacon Bandits. The core functionality is there, but it's not really as clever or as cute or as fun. There's an Easter egg for fans of Bookworm, and bless them for creating a very similar game, but it is just not the same.

UNIRACERS (1994)

Also called Unirally, this was am awesome concept that was perfectly executed. You're unicycles that race really fast and do crazy tricks. All the stunts have names, you get points for them, there's track obstacles. It's simple, pure, unadulterated fun.

WHAT HAPPENED TO IT

This absolutely drives me up a wall. Pixar sued the makers of Uniracers because they said their unicycles looked like the unicycle in their short film Red's Dream from 1987. Like ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Thematically, the two things aren't similar at all, and, as the creator of the game said, "[t]here's not a lot of ways you can bring life to a unicycle without looking like the one Pixar did". Like...duh. The judge who made this ruling did irreparable damage to video games.

HOW TO PLAY IT NOW

There's no legal way to play this game, and, thanks to Pixar, there likely never will be. I've never encountered anything similar. It was such a unique play experience.

[sacredwhores]

Michael Haneke - Lemmings, Part II: Injuries (1979)

[never-obsolete]

Holiday Lemmings (1993)

[bethanythebogwitch]

Welcome to the United States of Rodents, featuring such states as:

New Hamster

Chinchillinois

Gophlorida

Hutiawai'i

Iowater Rat

Arizokor

Alabamara

Voleginia

Georgerbil

Beavermont

Porcupinnsylvania

Washinguinea Pig

Degutah

North Capybara

Californutria

New Jerboa

Moussissippi

West Viscacha

Marmotsachusetts

Lemmichigan

Colorato

And of course, Rhodent Island

[tinsil]

little blue guys journeying home cross paths

[kattypulsar]

https://www.instagram.com/the_everything_burger/

[retrocgads]

USA 1993

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Lemmings don't intentionally jump to their deaths.

(Image credit: AGAMI stock via Getty Images)

[sm0cz3k]

" an angel and an alien ponder how alike they are "

honestly when i first saw thronglets i immediately thought of lemmings,,, imagine if they met inspo and extra doodle below

i couldnt help myself its really fitting

[art-of-bee]

DOS HELL is a real place that you will be sent at the first sign of liking old video games. appearing at tatorsgames streams near you!!

ko-fi + commissions 🌃 twitch 🌃 more pixel art 🌃 do not repost

[anguraresearch]

Lemmings (1983) with english subtitles Read about the play here

Performed by Tenjo Sajiki Directed by Terayama Shuji and J A Seazer

Ankenjo's second translation project, Lemmings is a satirical stage play about the journey of two roommates who try to find a solution to the sudden disappearance of a wall in their apartment, just as the walls of reality crumble around them.

[sacredwhores]

Michael Haneke - Lemmings, Part I: Arcadia (1979)

[attackofthegiantleeches]

[arconinternet]

Crashed (Zines, 1994-1997)

You can read them here.

You can play tons of ZX Spectrum games and other programs in your browser here.

[tinsil]

studious lem

[duchampscigarette]

Michael Haneke - Lemmings, Part II: Injuries (1979)