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- LEMMINGS
-
- Typed by ??? Edited by PARASITE.
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- LEMMINGS THE GAME
- Lemmings is an intriguing one or two player game in which you help hordes of
- otherwise-mindless creatures- known as Walkers - escape over 100 hostile
- enviroments.
-
- Lemmings drop through a trapdoor onto each screen and, as they're creatures
- of very little brain, they need all the help they can get to survive the
- dangers that lie Within.
-
- To assist these cuddly, yet suicidally stupid creatures you use your mouse
- (similar to a Lemming but it has more buttons) to select a skill from the
- panel of icons at the base of the screen. Once highlighted you then choose
- a suitable Lemming, from the hundreds on screen, to perform that skill. You
- have a strict time limit in which to get a required percentage of little
- perishers through each level.
-
- A quick Brain , the ability to plan ahead and lifetime's dedication to the
- Save A Lemming Campaign are required to get the right Lemming to perform
- the right action at the right time. A forgotten Blocker or a misplaced
- bridge could spell disaster for every Lemming on screen.
-
- BEFORE PLAY COMMENCES
- Load Lemmings in the usual manner until you see the Nain Menu Screen.
-
- Lemmings is organised into four increasingly difficult game categories:
- FUN, TRICKY, TAXING, MAYHEM. The FUN category consists of 30 levels and is
- designed to familiarise you with the game concept and how to work with
- Lemmings skill attributes. You don't have to start with this category.
- You can go directly to any of the higher skill categories but we suggest
- that you begin with at least a few of the levels in the FUN category to get
- the feel of the game before proceeding to the more difficult categories.
- TRICKY, TAXING and MAYHEM increase the difficulty with the MAYHEM level being
- the most difficult. Each of the Game Categories has 30 levels.
-
- PASSWORDS
- After you complete each level you are shown a password on screen. Make a
- note of it, as you will be able to go directly to that level when you play
- Lemmings again and don't wish to re-play a level you have already mastered.
-
- Click on the One-Player icon to begin a one-player game.
-
- Click on the Two-Player icon to begin a two-player game.
-
- Click on the New Level icon to select a level that you've reached before.
- Enter the password then select a one or two player game.
-
- Click on the Music/Fx icon to toggle between playing music and limited
- sound effects or no music and Full sound effects.
-
- Click on the up/down arrows icon (on right hand side of the screen) to
- select a style of play: FUN is the easiest mode, followed by TRICKY,
- TAXING and MAYHEM (MAYHEM being the hardest). Each style features 30 levels,
- complete them all and you're taken to the next style up in play.
-
- Style has no effect in a Two player Game.
-
- CONTROLS
- Mouse (A Second Mouse is required for a two player game)
-
- Point and click on your chosen icon (or use Z, X or the cursor keys) to
- highlight it then - if required - point and click on selected Lemming.
-
- Pushing your mouse left or right to the screen edge scrolls the play area -
- simultaneously holding the right mouse button scrolls faster. You may
- also scroll the screen by dragging the cursor over the small map (right
- of icon panel) or instantly zoom to any area of the level by clicking in the
- map.
-
- P Pauses Game
-
- Each level displays an access password when completed.
-
- DISPLAY EXAMPLE:
- ____________________________________________________________
- | | | | | | | | | | | | |
- | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 |
- | | | | | | | | | | | | |
- | -- | ++ | | | | | | | | | | |
- |____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____|
-
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
-
- ICONS (FROM LEFT TO RIGHT)
-
- * - Decrease flow of Lemmings on to the Level
-
- * - Increase flow of Lemmings on to the level
-
- 3 - Climber - Climbs Vertical Surfaces
-
- 4 - Floater - A brolly opens to ensure safe descent.
-
- 5 - Bomb to dispatch single Lemmings (one way to get rid of Blockers)
-
- 6 - Blocker - stands with arms outstretched to block passage of fellow
- Lemmings
-
- 7 - Bridge Builder - Builds bridges, each limitedto twelve building bricks.
- When a Lemming has laid his twelfth brick he turns to look at you for a
- moment...If you click on him again he will lay another twelve bricks and
- so on, otherwise he stops buildingand becomes a walker once again.
-
- 8 - Basher - Digs horizontally, will only dig when a suitable surface is
- directly ahead of him
-
- 9 - Miner - Uses a pick to dig diagnally down
-
- 10 - Digger - burrows vertically
-
- 11 - Pause - gives you time to think
-
- 12 - Nuke 'Em destroys all Lemmings - should you find yourself in a
- 'no win' situation (double click to activate).
-
- The green display to the right of the icons depicts the whole level.
-
- The square cursor on that display depicts the current area shown on
- screen. Each skill level may only be used a limited number of times
- (shown above on each icon).
-
- *(One-Player mode only)
-
- DIRECTLY ABOVE THE ICON PANEL ARE (LEFT TO RIGHT):
- Lemming Identifier, plus the number of Lemmings currently under the cursor
-
- Number of Lemmings currently occupying the level
-
- % of rescued Lemmings
-
- Time remaining to complete level
-
- THE TWO PLAYER GAME
- In two player mode the screen is vertically divided into two by a Lemming
- Level Indicator. This indicator displays the amount of Lemmings each player
- has successfully rescued from the level.
-
- The left player controls the blue Lemmings and the right player controls
- the green Lemmings (Surprise!). Each player has his own exit and competes
- to get as many Lemmings (either his or his oppoments) safely through it.
-
- Each player has 40 Lemmings in his team on the first level but on later
- levels this number is dependent on how many Lemmings where saved by
- individual players the previous level.
-
- Lemmings instinctively head off in the direction of their own exit as soon
- as they can enter the level.
-
- Each player hhas his own set of skill icons.
-
- Pressing 'P' key pauses the game.
-
- Both Players have to click on Nuke 'Em for Lemming Annihilation to take
- place.
- The Two player game consists of 20 levels and is played until both players
- fail to rescue any Lemmings.
-
- SOME POINTS TO NOTE
-
- Metal (shown as square plates and usually used to contain liquids) can not
- be dug through or exploded away.
-
- Builders stop constructing bridges:
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- (i) When they run out of bricks
- (ii) If the bridge hits a solid object
- (iii) If the Lemming hits his head while building
-
- Miners and Diggers keep digging until they fall.
-
- Bashers keep digging until there is no more land in front of them.
-
- A climber or Floater retains these skills until the current level is won
- (or lost) or until they die - a Lemming given both these skills becomes an
- Athlete.
-
- All other skill icons take effect as soon as you click on a Lemming - Care
- must be taken that there is something to dig in front of a Basher or he will
- give up straight away and you will have wasted a skill.
-
- End.
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