Hidden Easteer Egg in Lemmings 2

[manic23]

Hi, just thought I'd post this here as it is rather fun. Seems there is a hidden Easter Egg in the SNES version of Lemmings 2, whereby you can blow up our favourite little critters with a Nintendo Super Scope light gun!

http://www.retrocollect.com/News/long-lost-lemmings-2-the-tribes-easter-egg-reveals-super-nintendo-super-scope-compatibility.html

[Minim]

Interesting! Maybe they carried this particular idea forward into 3D Lemmings as a gimmick for the PC-DOS version. Typing Rasputin in-game turns the cursor into crosshairs.

[Prob Lem]

This really is fab. Who knew, until now, that the "Rasputin" cheat in Lemmings 3D had a progenitor?

I wonder if this was known to the guys at Clockwork Games and that's why they included it, or if it's just a coincidence? (I mean, they may not have known what the chaps at DMA Design had done!)

For that matter, I wonder if similar Easter Eggs and cheats exist in any other Lemmings games, now that we know that there's more than one of them?

EDIT: Haha, minimac, you took the words right out of my mouth - I was just writing more-or-less the same thing before it told me that another reply had appeared while I was writing mine.

[manic23]

Just shows how little I know, I did not know about the 2D Lemmings Easter Egg, going to try that tonight

[Prob Lem]

What's astounding about the Lemmings 3D one, is that it even has unique sprites just for it, that are only used when you use the cheat, and cannot be seen in any other way.

[exit]

Interesting . . ..
I've never heard of easter eggs in Lemmings, it sounds cool, though!

Nice avatar, manic. I know what it's from.