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Psygnosis (Wipeout, Lemmings etc.) co-founder Ian Hetherington has died
- jl6 5y agoLemmings, Shadow of the Beast, Awesome, Hired Guns… psygnosis games had quite some musical talent behind them.
- sigmaprimus 5y agoLemmings was such a great and innovative game, I still have the original box and floppy and will have to play it again soon. Does anyone know of a web emulator that would save me some time?
- PickledHotdog 5y agoWeb based DOS emulators are plentiful - something like "Play lemmings online" will give you a few options if varying shadiness. Someone wrote a version using JavaScript that seems pretty straightforward (and no ads!) https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/ https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/
- dash2 5y agoIt has plenty of ads now.
- doublerabbit 5y agoI'm sure someone would love to turn the game into a freemium-game where if you wish to use bricks you've got to have LemmingCoins.
- PickledHotdog 5y agooh, perhaps Pi-hole was saving me!
- krylon 5y agoI do not, but there is an open source clone called Pingus that stays close to the spirit of the original: https://pingus.seul.org/ https://pingus.seul.org/
- playworker 5y agoArchive.org has a bunch of MS-DOS games playable in your browser, Lemmings is one: https://archive.org/details/lemmings_original_ms-dos_201705 https://archive.org/details/lemmings_original_ms-dos_201705
- snvzz 5y agoWhile that'd work, keep in mind Lemmings is an Amiga game. MS-DOS is just one of many ports.
- _joel 5y agoYou'd need a amiga floppy compatible reader for the PC[1] and then use an emulator [1] https://www.amigaforever.com/kb/13-118 https://www.amigaforever.com/kb/13-118
- snvzz 5y agoYou'd need a floppy image. It's easier to just download one. Amigaforever's KB is missing recent developments that make this very easy, e.g. GreaseWeazle.
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- woliveirajr 5y agoLemmings. I can see those little no-brained creatures everytime I (wrongly) do something in my computer 'cause I didn't thought of all consequences.
- Freak_NL 5y agoThere is a sculpture honouring the Lemmings in Dundee, Scotland: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lemmings-statue https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lemmings-statue OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2762662126 https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2762662126
- moepstar 5y agoiirc, somewhere around Shoreditch/London there was a wall with their logo - i was pretty psyched seeing the owl i haven't seen in quite a while :( Edit: just stitched 10 photos i've taken of that wall (09/2018), resized to ~iMac 5k x3 resolution and cut in 3 parts (i've got 3 virtual desktops) and set each as a desktop background. Link: https://imgur.com/a/V6LjRDN https://imgur.com/a/V6LjRDN Sorry for the lame stitching tho :(
- mxmilkiib 5y agoJute, jam, journalism, joysticks
- ItsBob 5y agoOMG, the mere mention of G-Police and I was catapulted back to the 90s... I loved that game! So much so, that I tried to find a copy of it earlier this year but couldn't get one (bootleg or otherwise) that would run :( Great memories! Sad news though.
- password4321 5y agoI didn't look too closely, this demo might be a step in the right direction: https://archive.org/details/GPOLICE https://archive.org/details/GPOLICE
- Thaxll 5y agoPsygnosis and England in general was a big player in the video game industry in the 90s, a bit sad that it went away since mid 00s.
- toyg 5y agoEurope in general seems to have largely lost edge in gaming at the end of the '90s, probably as a result of the death of 8-16bit. Then there was a bit of a renaissance once we adjusted, with the rise of Rockstar North, Ubisoft, and CDProjektRed. Maybe if the various English companies had converged, instead of selling to foreign interests, they could have survived.
- pjerem 5y agoYeah, I want to live in the alternate universe where Nintendo still owns Rareware
- bennysomething 5y agoMain reason the GameCube was a disappointment to me :(
- matmann2001 5y agoThere's always StarFox Adventures T-T
- bennysomething 5y agoThat could have been Dino planet! Rare were perfect fit for Nintendo consoles, not Xbox!
- GhettoComputers 5y agoThe US sold itself to foreign interests and aside from the anti China sentiment removed from superhero movies, and Apple kowtowing to Chinese interests it’s still the same.
- pjerem 5y agoThank you mister for all the joyful hours as a kid enjoying Destruction Derby.
- bhouston 5y agoFun fact, the original developer (not publisher) of Lemmings is also the original developer of the Grand Theft Auto series - David Jones.
- ChrisArchitect 5y agoThat is some amazing multi-decade/generational spanning.
- bhouston 5y agoWell to be fair GTA 1 was released in the late 1990s, where as Lemmings was released in the early 1990s. So his two largest hits were in the same decade.
- neom 5y agoI'm an amiga kid who grew up in Scotland, when I was young I always thought these guys were The. Coolest. Lemmings is such an amazing game. I remember the first time I saw someone play it, I had no idea how it could be fun, but as soon as I tried it, I couldn't stop till it was "done" - The only other game I've ever found as enjoyable is TIM, The Incredible Machine.
- flohofwoe 5y agoFrom my limited view of the world in the East German hinterlands right around the reunification, the UK simply was the pop culture hot spot of the 80's and early 90's (at least for music and video games). Almost all of the cool stuff came out of the UK. It was only with Doom that the US entered the stage :)
- detritus 5y agoAs an Amiga-owning Brit living in the South of Europe back then, as much as my eye was cast homeward culturally, it was also eyeing Germany quite a lot. You guys made great games too (never mind the demo scene, which Germany and the Nordics kicked British ass at) and I used to tune in to some German radio station on Saturday nights on Satellite radio and hook it up to a tape recorder so that I had electronic/dance music no one else in my school even knew about :) - belated edit I realise now, reading back, that you said East Germany. I forgot that was A Thing, for shame.
- flohofwoe 5y agoEast Germany actually had a tiny game development community of its own ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7xndvitLa8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7xndvitLa8 The computers just weren't exactly "game friendly", because custom chips like in the Western home computers weren't a thing. Think "ZX Spectrum" without ULA and half the performance.
- teddyh 5y agoWhile Psygnosis did develop many games, they did not develop Lemmings, they merely published it.
- gpderetta 5y agoyes, Lemmings was from DMA Design, which later became Rockstar North.
- nolok 5y agoTheir run on the PSX was great. The formula one games, g-police, rollcage, wipeout, the colony wars games, ... But my favorite of their oldies is Barbarian, I'm not sure how I like this more than lemmings, probably because I used to watch my dad playing back then.
- icedchai 5y agoPsygnosis games were amazing! I still remember the day I got Shadow of the Beast, Agony, Bloody Money, and, of course, Lemmings. These were all iconic, 1990's Amiga games.
- rjsw 5y agoHe worked for Imagine Software before founding Psygnosis. I went to the auction of the Imagine computers but everything went for much more than it was really worth.
- tinyhouse 5y agoLemmings! The wonder years.
- simonebrunozzi 5y agoShadow of the beast; Lemmings; etc. Amazing games that I played during my childhood on an Amiga 500.
- zepto 5y agoI remember Brattacas on the Atari ST, best played on the monochrome monitor!
- donorman 5y agoI did actually play Shadow of the beast on my beloved Amiga the other day, not that fun but a great technical show off. Lemmings is real fun though, can't believe the first Xmas Lemmings was released 30 years ago :-)
- tluyben2 5y agoI just switch it on for the music; not the same without the game graphics for the atmosphere. These 3.5 disks are robust; my disks are really old by now. They seem to hols better than cds.
- Erwin 5y agoI just started playing the Shadow of the Beast soundtrack on Spotify -- Allister Brimble was quite prolific with several hundred games scored. It's interesting to compare the Amiga 500 with its 640x256 resolution and 4096 colors driven by a 68K processor with 68k transistors (coincidence?) and my current 4K screen driven by a 3080ti card and 28.3 billion transistors. Certainly the computing and graphics power has increased greatly, but not so the music output.
- tluyben2 5y agoAh Allister Brimble; another great one. SotB I is David Whittaker though or maybe you had a different point.
- a45a33s 5y agoWipeout XL was pretty much the coolest a game could possibly be back in 1997, the other ps1 games from that era were impressive as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vuFnFQQ_pI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vuFnFQQ_pI
- leotravis10 5y agoA YouTuber named Kim Justice I feel had the best retrospective of Psygnosis as a whole. Check it out when you get a chance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvYlxnHOY-Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvYlxnHOY-Q They made a huge impact in the European and American gaming scenes and we're forever grateful for that.
- Newtonip 5y agoHe was 69 years old.