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I'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
by neom 5y ago
I'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.