We hardly play the classic game Lemmings anymore, but it was once very popular. Don’t think that the game will disappear, because something new is coming.
The game has become a classic. And rightly so, because this year the game will be thirty years old. The game is an Amiga game in which animals with green hair complete levels as they dig and build bridges. Be careful not to accidentally kill themselves along the way. And this anniversary is no small feat. The current licensee Excient is therefore going to have a documentary made about the game.
Lemming’s life
The documentary comes with the appropriate name ‘Can You Dig It? and traces its European PC origins to the current mobile variants. Previously, it has been ported to an almost infinite number of game consoles around the world.
Its success is partly due to the game’s dry humor and puzzle design. “If you visit Dundee, where Lemmings was originally created for Amiga by DMA Design, there is even a park with three small monuments to the Lemmings characters,” Exient Creative Marketing Manager Jamie Wotton told Ars Technica. “Very clearly – and hopefully the documentary will show this – the franchise has a special place in British culture.”
Documentary
The gimmick van Lemmings is based on an untruth; the real beings don’t commit mass suicide on a regular basis. That idea goes way back, but was popularized by an infamous 1958 Disney documentary, White Wilderness, in which a narrator says that Lemmingen often throw themselves off cliffs during migration. In reality, the producers of the movie allegedly pushed Lemmingen off a cliff into the water to capture footage for the segment, and the footage was not of the Arctic Ocean as stated (the video showed a river in Calgary).
The documentary is scheduled for an online release in late 2021 and will be directed by Richard Wilcox of the That Video Company team. Interviewees include the original developers, industry veterans such as Peter Molyneux, journalists and fans.
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