what the hell?  

First get a life. You "dont" have to have an English degree to make games.

Second, why the hell does that matter?

Im a programmer, when I do "real" documentaion, I'll add punctuation where its needed, hell I might even use a spell checker. I certainly dont give a shit about it on a bloody forum. I bet you add punctuation on text messages with your mobile phone dont you?

My english sucks, I make no complaint, but I dont need it for my job, which I do damn well.

And after an insult like that, to actually ask me for something - anything. well, no. Bugger off.

Yeah, I was talking L2 on the SNES here... although the Steel Mines was mine, I did it on the Amiga, the Mac guys managed to mess up without my help....for a change.

I remember the MONO version on the mac had a problem with Pea soup. The "peas" were the wrong shade of gray, and so you couldn't see them  

You could usually tell my levels. Pretty pictures... funny names (island of the wicker people - I had just seen batman), fast food kitchen... hero time... and the rest.

Gary's were ALWAYS minimalist with surrounding irrelavent  "fluff".

Scotts were "normal" I guess.

Damn, I better start watching what I say here. &#A0; Keep forgetting how many people here were actually involved in the development of the Lemmings series.

It's just that the SNES version's puzzles are considerably dumbed down. &#A0;Besides changing skill distributions here and there, they often changed the terrain, sometimes so much so it really "ruined" some of the levels. &#A0;Like, in one case they change the terrain so that whereas originally you have to do work to hold back a crowd, now it's like there's a pit there already in place to contain the crowd.

Basically, I felt let down that after comparing my solution based on the SNES version with walkthroughs based on other versions, I have no choice but to scrap my progress on the SNES version and start anew with the real version of the puzzles.

Also, what happened to so many of the traps? &#A0;Like for example the Boogieman (red eye) traps in the Cavelem tribe? &#A0;It is completely absent in the SNES version!!! &#A0;(or at least on the ROM I downloaded anyway)

I do agree the graphics are good, and the SNES version likely has the best sound and music thanks to the SNES choice of audio hardware. &#A0;Overall I enjoyed it a lot but I did wish they didn't dumb down the puzzle, but as I said, SNES marketing probably has to target to a younger audience. &#A0;That, or they think SNES gamers are less intelligent or something...... O_o

Well, if you ask Gary Timmons who re-did a huge chunk of the levels, he would tell you that these were in fact much more finely tuned. The Amiga+PC ones were rushed at the end, but on the SNES we had much more time, so Gary (and a guy called Gareth) spent much longer crafting them.

Many skills were dropped due both space, and because they were pointless. For example, the cannon.... waste of time. Roller! Whats the point. Many skills seemed like a good idea at the time, but just didnt add anything new, and so were dropped. Traps were usually down to memory, and since they were just ways to kill, they didn't usually spoil the level.

Believe it or not, Gary actually prefered playing on the joypad(!), and although I think we had finally got a good Lemmings control system for the jotpad, I think he was nuts - particually since we had the SNES mouse! He however, liked the ability to pause and "step" lemmings a frame at a time.....

The number of lemmings being dropped from 100 to 80 was a technical descision. I just couldn't draw 100 and keep the speed up - it was only 3.5Mhz! They were ALL drawn with the processor! This affected most levels, and since they all now had top be tweeked anyway, we took to oppertunity to  fine tune them.

And since Gary was Mr. Lemming in those days... I think he was right

Interesting how the various versions have all these differences. &#A0;Then again I shouldn't be surprised, considering how they mutilated Lemmings 2 the Tribes on the SNES. &#A0;(I guess they are, um, targeting a "younger" audience for the SNES port. &#A0;)

Hay!! That was my pride and joy that was!!! What was wrong with it?   ::

The SNES one looked so much better than the rest, what with the neat parallax background, falling SNOW on the polar level, AND! if you stuck a superscope in port 2, you can shoot them!!!

Oh, and click on the dot on the screen to get "visual" sound effects...

*sniff*.... I done good on that...  

Actually, the first prototype was done on the PC by Russell Kay about a year before the Amiga one even started.

Both games were developed side by side (along with the ST one), and since the Amiga and ST versions had total control over palettes, we were forced to use the PC as the limiting factor.

And yes..... I do know what Im talking about

Taxing 16: Mary Poppins' Land
 
Good: Challenging
Bad: Why is it called Mary Poppins' Land? It doesn't even look like Mary Poppins' Land!

Because they had to use thier umbrellas to float down -  just like......

It was "land of" because they ALL floated down... like a world full of "Mary Poppins" - sad, I know.

Play the Windows one, run in a REALLY hi res, and use printscreen - you should get the whole level in!