Episode 495: The Lemmings Series (Patreon)

Who’d be a Lemming? If the traps don’t get you, it’ll be the slime, lava or – every Lemming’s worst enemy – gravity. Still, I’d take any of those over having to play 3D Lemmings ever again.

Yes! It’s true!! Stuart Gipp and Dave Bulmer have emerged from the pea soup (Lemmings reference) in order to discuss what’s left of the series following Jeremy Parish and the Retronauts East gang’s retrospective episode and developer interview. For that reason, we don’t focus much on the original Lemmings, but we do take you on a breezy ride through the rest of the franchise up to 2006, whereupon it sadly ended and no more Lemmings games were ever made ever no they weren’t shut up.

We also touch on series spin-offs, associated literature, and of course myriad memories of our personal experiences with the games. Where do the sequels go wrong? Where do they go right? Are there any misconceptions about the series that we clear up? What of the console ports? Who is Willy Poobum? All! Yes, all are covered in this informative and admittedly extremely puerile episode.

Art: Leeann Hamilton; edits: Greg Leahy

• 10:59 - Lemmings (Amiga): Ten Green Bottles
• 18:35 - Lemmings 2: The Tribes (Amiga): Menu/Main Theme
• 29:19 - Lemmings 2: The Tribes (Amiga): Shadow Tribe
• 42:01 - All New World of Lemmings (PC-CD): Classic
• 52:26 - Lemmings Paintball: Nice
• 1:02:34 - The Trap Door (ITV): Theme Song
• 1:13:11 - Lemmings (ZX Spectrum, 2020 Enhanced): Dance of the Reed Flutes (The Nutcracker Suite)
• 1:30:13 - Holiday Lemmings (DOS): Time Waits for No Lemming
• Closing - Lemmings (ZX Spectrum 128K): Stage BGM