Lemmings

Lemmings doesn't have cheat codes. The tips and secrets below are the next best thing.

1. Use pause to plan. You can still scroll around the level and look before committing a single skill.
2. Blockers stop the crowd so you can sort out the path ahead, but you'll have to nuke or dig them free to save them.
3. Builders lay 12 steps of stairs. Click builder again just before they finish to keep a staircase going.
4. Floaters let lemmings survive long falls, and climbers scale walls. Give one lemming both to make a scout.
5. Speed up the release rate on easy stretches and slow it down when you need time to set things up.
6. Count the minimum you need to save. You rarely need everyone, so sacrifice a few if it saves the rest.

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• DMA Design was based in Dundee, Scotland, and later became Rockstar North, the makers of Grand Theft Auto.
• The idea grew out of a tiny animation test by Mike Dailly, with each lemming drawn in a box only a few pixels wide.
• Lemmings was ported to more than 20 platforms.
• Holiday Lemmings and Lemmings 2: The Tribes followed in the early 90s.