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Genre: Strategy
System(s): PSP
ESRB: Unknown
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Lemmings, a Commodore Amiga computer game developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis in 1991, was one of the most popular computer games of its time. Several games magazines of the time awarded the game maximum review scores.
Psygnosis, also known for the WipEout series, had its greatest success in Lemmings. Famously, the concept for Lemmings came from an animation created by Mike Dailly over a lunchtime, to prove a point about how small a character could be on screen.
The game was unique and based around concepts previously untried. There are 120 levels, and on each level, the player must guide a group of up to 100 lemmings home by giving individual lemmings various commands. The "lemmings" of the game are small, green-haired beings that mindlessly walk en masse into any danger in their path. They are not the same as real-life lemmings, although they were named after the popular myth that real lemmings behave in a similar suicidal fashion.
Of the numerous sequels the only one to achieve the success of the first was Lemmings 2: The Tribes, which added twelve specialist tribes of lemmings, each with their own type of level and specialist workers.
The game briefly gave rise to a new genre, described in magazines at the time as the "save 'em up", a joking reference to another popular genre, the beat 'em up.
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