{"id":1125,"date":"2015-05-04T14:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T19:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2015-05-06T10:15:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T15:15:35","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-game-boy-lemmings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1125\/retro-scan-of-the-week-game-boy-lemmings","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Game Boy Lemmings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/lemmings_gameboy_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/lemmings_gameboy_small.jpg\" alt=\"Psygnosis Ocean Lemmings for Game Boy advertisement - 1993\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Biggest Lemming I Ever Seen<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My brother received the IBM PC port of <em>Lemmings<\/em> as a gift (probably for Christmas) in the early 1990s.  It made a distinct impression in my young mind, with its vivid VGA graphics, a playful MIDI soundtrack, and charismatic little creatures that you could bid to do your every whim.<\/p>\n<p>I have never played the Game Boy version, but this ad caught my eye.<\/p>\n<p>When I wrote a feature about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/features\/top-whored-out-games\" target=\"_blank\">most ported games of all time<\/a> for 1UP.com back in 2007, <em>Lemmings<\/em> featured prominently with ports to 28 systems up to that point in time.  What can I say &#8212; <em>Lemmings<\/em> is a classic.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, November 1993, p.48]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s the best <em>Lemmings<\/em>-like or <em>Lemmings<\/em> clone game? (Other than <em>Lemming<\/em>s, of course &#8212; <em>The Humans<\/em> and <em>Baldies<\/em> come to mind.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biggest Lemming I Ever Seen My brother received the IBM PC port of Lemmings as a gift (probably for Christmas) in the early 1990s. It made a distinct impression in my young mind, with its vivid VGA graphics, a playful MIDI soundtrack, and charismatic little creatures that you could bid to do your every whim. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,26,9],"tags":[97,1100,295,162,1098,143,1099,755,1009,60],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","tag-97","tag-computer-port","tag-egm","tag-game-boy","tag-lemmings","tag-nintendo","tag-ocean","tag-portable","tag-psygnosis","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}