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Lemmings

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Lemmings
Lemmings cover
Developers
DMA Design
Windows Visual Sciences
Publishers
Psygnosis
Release dates
DOS May 1991
Mac OS (Classic) 1993
Windows 3.x (Win32s) 1994
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Side view
Controls Point and select
Genres Platform, Puzzle
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Fantasy
Series Lemmings
Lemmings guide on StrategyWiki
Lemmings on MobyGames
Lemmings on Wikipedia
Lemmings 1991
Oh No! More Lemmings 1991
Xmas Lemmings 1991
Lemmings 2: The Tribes 1993
Holiday Lemmings (1993) 1993
The Lemmings Chronicles 1994
Holiday Lemmings (1994) 1994
Lemmings 3D 1995
3D Lemmings Winterland 1995
The Adventures of Lomax 1996
Lemmings Paintball 1996
Lemmings Revolution 2000
Let's Go Crazy with Lemmings 2001
Lemmings X-Mas 2004

Warnings

The Windows 3.x version of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

Lemmings is a singleplayer side view platform and puzzle game in the Lemmings series.

Key Points

Has multiple fan remakes that come with custom level support and are designed to work on modern computers - NeoLemmix and SuperLemmini are two of the most popular, though the latter requires a copy of Lemmings for Windows 95 to function.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
Windows 3.x
Mac OS
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound effects and music can be disabled in Windows version
Surround sound
Subtitles
Visual sound effects can be enabled in Windows version
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
WinG
Software renderer
DOS video modes CGA, EGA, MCGA, VGA
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
The Win32s version can be set up to run on 64-bit Windows.[1]
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 3.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 8086
System memory (RAM) 512 kB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) CGA, EGA, MCGA, VGA
Sound (audio device) Adlib, PC Speaker, Sound Blaster compatible
Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) Intel 386
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

  1. Anglofying & running Japanese Lemmings for Windows - last accessed on 20 March 2023
    "Now to run it on something like Windows 10, it’s just a matter of copying the WINLEMM.INI into %sysroot%, along with placing a copy of WING32.DLL into the %sysroot%\SysWOW64 directory and you are good to go!"