I will be going to GDC 2019 in a week’s time, in a development I still find quite surprising. Mike Dailly will be giving an hour long talk deconstructing Lemmings*, and has spent the previous month agonizing (I assume) over writing the content. He tells me this will be his biggest audience ever and, in …
Tag: Lemmings
Apr 16
Lemmings Tribes Pins
What amazing things I can find when rummaging around in the attic. I thought I had found all the DMA memorabilia, in boxes and scattered around everywhere, but apparently (and fortunately!) not. They were created, I believe, as promotional items for Lemmings 2: The Tribes. Of course there were twelve tribes in total and I’ve …
Jan 20
Newly Appeared Lemmings Graffiti
Sometime in the last week someone has taken the effort to paint an entire Lemmings level on a wall in Dundee, which as you know is the spiritual and literal and physical home of Lemmings. As is usual for this kind of thing, no-one knows who the artist is. And if they do then they …
Jun 03
Lemmings Plushies
Oct 05
Lemmings Merchandise is Go!
Lemmings Licensing (via @LemmingsPorts). After being around since 1991, Sony is bringing us Lemmings spin-off merchandise: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has embarked on a licensing programme for the popular game, with the appointment of four new licensees. Back in the early nineties Lemmings was pretty popular. Non-games appearances were rare but not unknown. A cartoon …
Jul 26
Lemmings Statues Appear in Dundee
The first I knew that something was happening was a number of Lemmings references in my Twitter stream a few days ago. Without any warning it seemed that overnight a handful of Lemmings statues had appeared, climbing over a wall. It wasn’t until today that I was able to get the time to go and …
Jan 26