Lemmings (DOS)
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- For other games in the series, see Lemmings.
Lemmings is a puzzle game where you try and safely lead a line of lemmings to the exit of a dangerous room. Because they simply walk forward, regardless of the hazards that lie ahead of them, you must change their behavior to keep them from falling, drowning, burning, being squished, and any other manner of horrible death.
You do this by giving the lemmings various jobs like digging, climbing, building, blocking, etc. Each stage increases in difficulty; the first 20 stages or so are relatively easy and teach you the basics of the game. The next 20 teach you more of the advanced tactics and require you to get creative. However, by the time you reach the last levels, the game becomes aggravatingly difficult. It stops being about figuring out the puzzle, and starts being about how accurately you can time your clicks. And since they only give you just enough lemmings to finish the stage, a single mistake forces you to restart the entire level.
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Music
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Lemmings features a combination of unique songs, nursery rhymes, classical pieces, and covers from other video games. The original soundtrack was composed by Tim Wright and Brian Johnston, and their music was arranged for the DOS port by Tony Williams. Music is not tied to specific levels and simply cycles through tracks 2-18 as you beat each level. However, this pattern is interrupted on four special levels, E1M22, E2M14, E3M15, and E4M22 which do have custom music.
The music could be played either on AdLib or any other OPL2 compatible, or on the Tandy 3 Voice.
Both Lemmings and Oh No! More Lemmings would eventually be bundled together on one "Double Pack" CD starting in 1992 with Colin Anderson's digital audio arrangement of the original soundtrack, but at the cost of their AdLib and Tandy 3 Voice soundtracks. The CD audio would eventually also be included in the 3DO and Philips CD-i versions in 1994, however 6 songs from Oh No! More Lemmings were not arranged.
Recording
The following output prefixes are used:
- - AdLib
- - Tandy 3 Voice
- - CD Audio - 1992 Double Pack release
Floppy version
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Note: Track 108 is missing some notes.
Double Pack (CD release)
The CD audio was extracted to WAV using IsoBuster, then converted to Ogg Vorbis through Audacity. The tracks seem to be based on the MIDI music used in Lemmings for Windows 95 and are identical to the PlayStation version.
Credits
- Ripper: Valley Bell (VGM), TheAlmightyGuru (drivers)
- Recorder: TheAlmightyGuru (OPL2), binarymaster (Tandy 3 Voice), Breakin' Benny (CD Audio)
- Game Credits:
- PC Music By: Tony Williams
- Music By: Brian Johnston
- Music By: Tim Wright
- Not Credited Composer: Traditional
- Not Credited Composer: David Whittaker
- Not Credited Composer: Ennio Morricone
- Not Credited Composer: Jacques Offenbach
- Not Credited Composer: Loulou Gasté
- Not Credited Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Not Credited Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Double Pack (CD release):
- Not Credited Composer: Tony Carr
- Not Credited Arranger: Colin Anderson
Game Rip
The original music files are in the AdLib.DAT and TandySnd.DAT files and have yet to be ripped properly. The VGM rip was made by logging the AdLib data from DOSBox. This rip should be updated once the original music files have been properly extracted.
The DAT files were decompressed with ldecomp program. The decompressed AdLib.DAT file contain the titles of the music tracks, although several of them have been updated to their current titles to better fit what the song actually is.
Audio Devices
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The game automatically detects the presence of an AdLib device or a Tandy device, in that order.
Sound card detection can be disabled using the options documented in LEM4.DOC:
-a Switches off the adlib sound board autodetect -t Switches off the Tandy sound chip autodetect
CD release includes the same drivers, however the digital audio CD music is being forced, which requires a CD-ROM with MSCDEX driver installed. Otherwise the game will exit with an error message:
ERROR : Unable to find MSCDEX extensions
Releases
Floppy version
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Links
- mobygames.com/game/683/lemmings/ - MobyGames (floppy version).
- mobygames.com/game/12725/lemmings-oh-no-more-lemmings/ - MobyGames (CD release).
- gamefaqs.com/pc/564576-lemmings - GameFAQs.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game) - Wikipedia.
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| Lemmings (1991) |  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  • 
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| Oh No! More Lemmings | • • • • • 
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| Xmas Lemmings | •
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| Lemmings: Special Limited Edition - Double Pack | • • • •  •
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| Holiday Lemmings (1993) | •
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| Lemmings 2: The Tribes | • • • • • • • • •
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| Holiday Lemmings (1994) | • •
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| The Lemmings Chronicles | •
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| Lemmings 3D | • • • 
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| Lemmings Paintball | 
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| The Adventures of Lomax | •
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| Lemmings Revolution |
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| Lemmings (2006) |  •  •  •  • 
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| Lemmings: Touch |
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| Lemmings (2016) | • 
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| Notable Songs | Lemming 1 |
| Notable Personnel | Tim Wright • Tony Williams • Brian Johnston |
| Notable Companies | Rockstar North |
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