YSK you can play the original lemmings on PC at HTML5 Lemmings 🕹️ Play on CrazyGames
YSK you can play the original lemmings on PC at HTML5 Lemmings 🕹️ Play on CrazyGames
HTML5 Lemmings is the up to date version of this classic retro arcade game that so many people loved. Lemmings are cute and lovable animals that unfortunately have suicidal tendencies! You must help these adorable creatures avoid an early grave and direct them safely through each level - stop them f...
Why YSK
One Of Lemmy's creators mentioned it as part of the inspiration for the name, so it's a nice dive to play the game.
Per Wikipedia
In a 2020 post, Lemmy's co-creator Dessalines wrote about the origin of the name Lemmy. "It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals. I was playing that old-school game Lemmings, and Lemmy (from Motorhead) had passed away that week, and we held a few polls for names, and I went with that."
Of note is that Disney won an Academy Award for their 1958 nature "documentary" which included a scene about lemmings. This scene showed lemmings jumping off of a cliff into a river, while the narration said the lemmings were committing mass suicide.
The entire scene was staged. Lemmings do not exhibit the mass suicide behaviour Disney was "documenting."
I work in doc filmmaking professionally and we sometimes site Lemmings when we question the moral accuracy of something we're working on aka "don't pull a Lemming". It's a famous example of what not to do for us.
Sidenote this game was huge in my childhood we used to play it on my dad's work computer haha.
I dread to think how many hours I lost to this game. PC was obviously the best experience back then because you absolutely need a mouse. Playing on a gameboy was not so good.
Because of that early shockumentary, the idea of lemmings jumping off the ledge is now permanently lodged into the hive mind of humanity. So much so, that there are several games about it. The ramifications will probably continue to ripple through society in the coming decades.
The Academy has a track record of changing what qualifies as a "documentary" when something usually wins.
Fun fact, this company eventually became Rockstar.
i'd be down for a theme where little lemmings are navigating the ui like pixel palls
Very cool! Thanks
A Blocker from the original lemmings
Hi there! Thanks for posting. Will you please format your post so the title begins with YSK? It's rule 1. Have a great night!
Apologies, I thought I had, but I must have inadvertantly overwritten it. Just now fixed.
Thanks! It's no problem.
Hi there. I hope you're enjoying your time on YSK! This post is not necessarily formatted properly with YSK in the title nor is it about something that can make your life easier in my opinion. However, our team has been very busy and didn't catch that before it started gaining comments here. I'll allow it to remain up but in the future, posts like this should be directed to Today I Learned. Thanks for posting!
i remember playing this as a kid on my family’s comp. the little stair* guys were great
Builders MVP!