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From: bryce@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Lemmings ----- a preview of a great game
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Date: 30 Dec 90 03:43:04 GMT
Reply-To: bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt)
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A demo disk for a new game showed up here and has caused an instant sensation.
"Lemmings" is unlike any Psygnosis title to date.  Lemmings is funny, witty,
upbeat, unoffensively cute, lighthearted, challenging, addictive and a lot
of fun.

The computer lemmings, like their namesakes, will walk off cliffs.  For that
matter, they will walk off anything at all.  Your job is to get "most" of your
lemings from the entrance to the exit.  I say most because you will often need
to blow up a few to get the job done.

The lemmings start droping into the world, and you the player have to start
guiding them.  You have a pallete of "personalities" to impose on the
lemmings: climber, floater, bomber, blocker, digger, builder, miner, and
basher.  The lemming you select mindlessly carries out the task you specify --
even if that means dumping a hundred lemmings to their squishy little deaths.

Each level is a puzzle... how to get the lemmings home with tools given.
Great fun.  The demo disk had just 5 levels... as soon as I find out where
to buy Lemmings, I will.  Finally a game with good _gameplay_; the fact that
the graphics are great and the animation is inspired is secondary.  This
will be a clasic.

The demo disk runs perfectly on an A3000 running 2.0.  The game is fast and
playable on an A500.


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