"Lemmings do not commit mass suicide. It's a myth, but it's remarkable how many people believe it."
The sensational Amiga puzzle video game called "Lemmings" helped perpetuate the idea, too. :)
The sensational Amiga puzzle video game called "Lemmings" helped perpetuate the idea, too. :)
Maybe if I tried to play it again I’d realise that it was my limited 10 year old mind after all!
You can see the manual here: http://www.abandonia.com/files/extras/28074_Manual.pdf (jobs are on page 17)
In Lemmings 2 it was an important mechanic that blockers would stop blocking if you removed the ground underneath them, since by doing that you'd get credit for saving them instead of killing them. It tended to defeat the concept of the blocker, but I suspect the same was true in the original.