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Lemmings is such a fun game! I played many hours of it trying to perfectly solve its many puzzles. Lemmings inspired Ron Millar, a designer at Silicon & Synaps

Lemmings is such a fun game! I played many hours of it trying to perfectly solve its many puzzles. Lemmings inspired Ron Millar, a designer at Silicon & Synapse (later Blizzard Entertainment), to invent The Lost Vikings, our first original game: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Vikings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Vikings The original design for Vikings was very similar to Lemmings but saw massive changes during the course of development, going from many Vikings to five to eventually just three. We owe a debt of gratitude to the Lemmings devs for inspiring our efforts.

muzani 3y ago
I loved the Lost Vikings as a kid! It's actually charmed me about as much as Lemmings, though if I had to pick, I still prefer Lemmings' dark humor.
- rob74 3y ago
  Yeah, the ambivalence between "oh, I want to save every one of these cute little critters" and "f** this, I'm sick of it, I'll just click 'nuke' instead of pressing the escape key to restart" was really something special...
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cptskippy 3y ago
The Lost Vikings was one of my favorite games growing up. There have been so many attempts to copy the formula (e.g. Trine) but none have been so memorable or endearing. The character and level designs are wonderful.
- jacobolus 3y ago
  Does anyone know if there's a good way to play Three Vikings on a modern laptop or iPad?
  - opengears 3y ago
    You want to look into emulators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator . vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator that should also work on iPad. https://vamigaweb.github.io/doc/about.html https://vamigaweb.github.io/doc/about.html
  - imadethis 3y ago
    It's included in the Blizzard Arcade Collection, which you can at least get on PC today for $9.99 USD.
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- rob74 3y ago
  Two more memorable clones (that also changed the formula a bit, but the basic premise of "save x critters to progress" is the same) are "World of Goo" (https://store.steampowered.com/app/22000/World_of_Goo/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/22000/World_of_Goo/) and "Spirits" (https://store.steampowered.com/app/210170/Spirits/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/210170/Spirits/).
kwar13 3y ago
Many fond memories of The Lost Vikings!
alecthomas 3y ago
Just wanted to say I loved The Lost Vikings, thanks for many good memories :)
apigalore 3y ago
Just want to express how much I also loved The Lost Vikings!
Jare 3y ago
Haha I didn't know there was such a direct connection! When we were building Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, I think the games were referenced the most were actually both Lemmings and The Lost Vikings, with Cannonfodder as a 3rd one - there was very little inspiration from the RTSs that Commandos was apparently more similar to.
- postexitus 3y ago
  Ah, no wonder my favourite game from the "modern era" was Commandos. Lemmings, The Lost Vikings, and Cannon Fodder were my top 3 from Amiga times. Thanks for the good memories.
- pwillia7 3y ago
  OMG Cannon fodder ... You just nostalgia memories me
  - gpderetta 3y ago
    "war has never been so much fun".
    - joquarky 3y ago
      The title song was impressive for the time. I still remember it vividly.
    - qingcharles 3y ago
      Almost every week since that game came out that songs comes into my head. It's way too catchy.
tisdadd 3y ago
I remember watching my folks play both games as a child and then doing so myself. Not sure which I got through first but know they were both before i turned five as it was at our first house. Have been contemplating playing then again as it's been 30 years now. Still have the floppy's in storage, lol. Such great games.

muzani 3y ago

I loved the Lost Vikings as a kid! It's actually charmed me about as much as Lemmings, though if I had to pick, I still prefer Lemmings' dark humor.

rob74 3y ago
Yeah, the ambivalence between "oh, I want to save every one of these cute little critters" and "f** this, I'm sick of it, I'll just click 'nuke' instead of pressing the escape key to restart" was really something special...

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cptskippy 3y ago

The Lost Vikings was one of my favorite games growing up. There have been so many attempts to copy the formula (e.g. Trine) but none have been so memorable or endearing. The character and level designs are wonderful.

jacobolus 3y ago
Does anyone know if there's a good way to play Three Vikings on a modern laptop or iPad?
- opengears 3y ago
  You want to look into emulators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator . vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator that should also work on iPad. https://vamigaweb.github.io/doc/about.html https://vamigaweb.github.io/doc/about.html
- imadethis 3y ago
  It's included in the Blizzard Arcade Collection, which you can at least get on PC today for $9.99 USD.
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rob74 3y ago
Two more memorable clones (that also changed the formula a bit, but the basic premise of "save x critters to progress" is the same) are "World of Goo" (https://store.steampowered.com/app/22000/World_of_Goo/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/22000/World_of_Goo/) and "Spirits" (https://store.steampowered.com/app/210170/Spirits/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/210170/Spirits/).

kwar13 3y ago

Many fond memories of The Lost Vikings!

alecthomas 3y ago

Just wanted to say I loved The Lost Vikings, thanks for many good memories :)

apigalore 3y ago

Just want to express how much I also loved The Lost Vikings!

Jare 3y ago

Haha I didn't know there was such a direct connection! When we were building Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, I think the games were referenced the most were actually both Lemmings and The Lost Vikings, with Cannonfodder as a 3rd one - there was very little inspiration from the RTSs that Commandos was apparently more similar to.

postexitus 3y ago
Ah, no wonder my favourite game from the "modern era" was Commandos. Lemmings, The Lost Vikings, and Cannon Fodder were my top 3 from Amiga times. Thanks for the good memories.
pwillia7 3y ago
OMG Cannon fodder ... You just nostalgia memories me
- gpderetta 3y ago
  "war has never been so much fun".
  - joquarky 3y ago
    The title song was impressive for the time. I still remember it vividly.
  - qingcharles 3y ago
    Almost every week since that game came out that songs comes into my head. It's way too catchy.

tisdadd 3y ago

I remember watching my folks play both games as a child and then doing so myself. Not sure which I got through first but know they were both before i turned five as it was at our first house. Have been contemplating playing then again as it's been 30 years now. Still have the floppy's in storage, lol. Such great games.