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A short homage

By yicky yacky (Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 08:01:00 AM EST) (all tags)

to mcc, Rogerborg and the Amiga old school.

Am meant to be working. This is far more interesting.

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Lemmings Rule by anonimouse (4.00 / 1) #1 Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 08:05:45 AM EST

...although I have never played any variant on an Amiga.

Girls come and go but a mortgage is for 25 years -- JtL

I only ever played it on an Amiga by yicky yacky (4.00 / 1) #4 Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 08:15:42 AM EST

Finished it (part 2 - the tribes) when I was young, but never with gold rank. Tried to finish it with gold rank when I was about eighteen but didn't have a 'save disk', so it was on permanently. Got 3/4 of the way through and an impromptu power cut killed the effort. It's personal: This time, it dies.

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Then you never really played Lemmings. by ObviousTroll (4.00 / 1) #15 Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 01:48:44 PM EST

Psygnosis must have single-handedly doubled or tripled the number of Amigas Commodore sold.

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: I was an ST fanboy by anonimouse (2.00 / 0) #16 Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 01:44:27 AM EST

So I wouldn't know anything about that
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One of us has me confused with someone else by Rogerborg (4.00 / 2) #2 Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 08:11:12 AM EST

I was Sinclair Spectrum (16K, old skool)-> Commodore 64 -> Sinclair QL (*) -> Atari ST -> x86en.

* Jumble sale. Yes, if you pried one key out, then turned it upside down, all of the keys fell out.

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Metus amatores matrum compescit, non clementia.

Heh. by yicky yacky (2.00 / 0) #5 Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 08:20:16 AM EST

I did sameSpeccyAsYou -> dodgySpeccy2A (128k with inbuilt tape) -> Amiga -> ...

Your name-check was more to do with the fact that it's a screenshot of the comedy Scottish tribe ("Highlands"), who stagger drunkenly into the telephone box when they get safely to base. ;)

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Aaaah, OK by Rogerborg (4.00 / 1) #7 Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 08:28:17 AM EST

The lack of four-pixel tartan kilts threw me.

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: Surley by Zoomzoom (4.00 / 1) #10 Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 08:57:04 AM EST

The bright orange Russ Abbot style hair was enough to give it away.

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Levels 1-10 used to be online by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #3 Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 08:11:20 AM EST

And playable, but the link is drawing a blank. http://faino.org/lemmings/

An all time classic, loads better than Worms.

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Yeah. by yicky yacky (2.00 / 0) #6 Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 08:22:50 AM EST

Just got an irrational hankering to play the whole thing, just like when I was a kid, so downloaded an emulator. Really good, though - infectious - more fun than a lot of modern FPSs I've played, to tell the truth.

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Always worth remembering though by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #8 Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 08:31:26 AM EST

That most games on the Amiga and the ST were a pile of shit. Speedball and Lotus Esprit Racing are the only other decent ones I can remember. Oh no, hang on... Dungeon Master, Defender of the Crown, Populous, Xenon.

Eeh, the world were better when we were lads.

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I'll see your Xenon and raise by four by yicky yacky (4.00 / 1) #9 Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 08:40:26 AM EST

Bubble Bobble (+ Rainbow Islands), New Zealand Story, Tanx and, last but by no means least, Apidya (Battle at Meadow's Edge) - I loved that game ...

Aye. It were.

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8 bits were better. by Breaker (4.00 / 1) #11 Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 09:28:58 AM EST

Raid Over Moscow, Paradriod and Infiltrator were the 3 bestest evar games for the C64.

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I was a Speccy user by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #17 Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 03:01:24 AM EST

Jet Set WIlly, Great Escape, Head over Heels, Elite and quite a few others. There's a lot of rivalry between C64 and Speccy people but we had pretty much the same games from what I can remember.

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Enemy! by Breaker (4.00 / 1) #18 Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 03:53:36 AM EST

Where's your sprite masking and collision detection support? And SID chip, baby!

Also the C64 used to have that "blow sprites up 2x" option.

Oh, and Way of The Exploding Fist. And IK+. Heh, the theme music used to drive me batty.

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Bah by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #19 Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 03:55:13 AM EST

Yours was a better computer but, um, C64s just weren't as cool as Spectrums.

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: Ahem! by Breaker (4.00 / 2) #20 Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 05:44:19 AM EST

Cool? Yes, just you keep telling yourself that.

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Is that really the graphics quality? by DesiredUsername (4.00 / 1) #12 Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 09:43:07 AM EST

I remember thinking those little guys were so cute. Now I can barely make them out. What's the second one doing...pouring acid on the ground?

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: Few things at random by yicky yacky (2.00 / 0) #13 Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 10:24:31 AM EST

Firstly, the image above has been scaled down from what was on my screen, so that probably has an effect. Secondly, It's running inside an emulator (UAE / WinUAE). The emulator is running in the Amiga 500's 800 x 600 mode, and the game itself is at 720 x 568 within that. Because it's running inside a GUI, with rendering set at a different resolution, there's all sorts of (extra|inter)polation going on too. Thirdly, The level above is one of the most ~~tartan~~ spartan in the whole game - other levels look more plush, and the lemmings' appearance differs from level to level. Fourthly, it's the Amiga version, not the graphically-enhanced DOS version which more people are familiar with. Between those somewhere is probably your answer. :)

Having said that, it still looks pretty damn close, whilst playing, to how I remember it. A lot of the cuteness comes from the animation / motion, together with the excellent audio track, rather than the sprites themselves.

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Whut-Oh! by ObviousTroll (4.00 / 2) #14 Tue Feb 01, 2005 at 01:46:16 PM EST

I remember staring at close ups of the little buggers trying to figure out how they made 8x8 pixel characters flounce when they walked.

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