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points by TacticalCoder 3 days ago | 0 comments
> ... is one of those times when nostalgia is so overwhelming

1991, Psygnosis (of course), Commodore Amiga (double of course!): my little brother was 9 y/o at the time and we were teenagers and we'd play Lemmings like crazy on our Amiga.

My little brother couldn't speak english yes but he'd imitate the "oh, nooooo" sentence Lemmings you'd "suicide" would make.

More than three decades later my brother is still nicknamed "Lem" after "Lemmings" and that's how we call him. And about two decades ago, he gave his consulting company a name sounding like "Lemmings" (spelling slightly different). He's still "Lem" and he still has got that company.

Oh noooooooo!

[–] detritus 3 days ago
One of the best features of the Amiga (and perhaps Atari ST?) was the two player version. A mouse in each of the joystick sockets, each player starts from opposing ends of the map in a splitscreen view, having to get to the other and obviously not interfering with the opposition's efforts. Ahem.

An evil game. Such fun. I wish they'd expanded on it more...

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