You know you've played too much Lemmings when...

[Clam]

I found this thread once when I was looking through the old (really old) forums, and I figured now is a good time to bring it back since... well, you know.


You know you've played too much Lemmings when...

You tell people that your house was built using the brick tileset.
Your standard response when someone asks you for help is "Just a minute!"
You keep a bear trap and 10 ton weight handy, just in case.
You have a flashing "OUT" sign above your front door.

and, of course...
You take a week of in an attempt to preserve your sanity.

[Proxima]

You see a traffic warden holding his arms out and think you have to turn round.
You think you can jump off cliffs safely if you carry an umbrella (don't try this at home!)
You're afraid of going out in the snow in case there are icicle traps.
You wonder how anyone manages to make horizontal bridges and whether it's a glitch.
You blow yourself up if you're not going to get home in time because it makes no difference anyway.

[Minim]

You know you've played too much Lemmings when...

You tell people that your house was built using the brick tileset.

Yeah, I have played too much lemmings because I made the level "Brick layered lemming house".

[Pooty]

Your standard response when someone asks you for help is "Just a minute!"

Haha, subtle. I like that one.

You know you have played too much Lemmings when you shout "Yippee!" (or go "Bwok!") when you return home.

[Minim]

"Bwok?" What do you mean by that?

[Pooty]

It's how I remembered the original home sound at the time of posting that, but it sounds closer to "Boing!", thinking about it.

[namida]

I always described it as "Dawh". xD

[LemSteven]

You know you've played too much Lemmings when...

... You can't make it through a day without humming at least ten choruses of Lemmings music.
... Your entire diet consists of Lemming Drops, Pea Soup and Diet Lemmingaid.
... You yell, "Basher!" in a squeaky voice and start pounding on walls or doors, hoping to break through.
... Your greatest fear is getting eaten by a giant lizard.

[Clam]

You write a program that spits out all the words to "Ten Green Bottles".

Would you believe I actually had to do this today for my course work?

[Dullstar]

Are you serious?!

You know you've played too much Lemmings when your opinion on an OS can be based on its reaction to .dat files in a folder (because Lemmings uses them!).  To my knowledge, my old XP installation is the only OS that ever reacted like that.

[GigaLem]

You know you've played too much Lemmings when...

You serch it on you tube
you play them with toys
you draw pics of them (even the gameplay)
you pretent you buid the stairs climb,over the railing and so dose your little sis

[namida]

When you only walk in a straight line, and if you're turning, only in 90/180 degree angles. (too much L3D )

[Clam]

In case our new forumers haven't seen this yet...

You've played this game just a little too much, and it's impacting on your life in some rather unusual ways. Like...


-You check the position of your house on the town map and declare it "invalid" because it doesn't line up with the grid.
   - You then demand it be moved so that it does.

-You see someone standing still next to a wall and try to walk through it.

-You apply for a job at the Steel Works.

[Dullstar]

-You apply for a job at the Steel Works.

LOL!

You know you have played too much Lemmings when you post on the Lemmings Forums and hit SuperLemming!

[Minim]

You know you have played too much Lemmings when you post on the Lemmings Forums and hit SuperLemming!

Um... probably not, there could be more posts by someone on the Off Topic Discussion forums.

-You apply for a job at the Steel Works.

LOL!

Oh yeah! That is the funniest and best ever joke.

[Minim]

...you think the fireplace was created using the fire tile set.
...you apply for a job in the boiler room.
...you dig the dirt with a pickaxe.

[GuyPerfect]

*Cracks his knucles* Okay, guys. Let's give this one a go...

You know you've played too much Lemmings when...

• You try to make your hair bounce when you walk
• You hold buckets high over your head to pour them out
• You're only comfortable putting twelve books in your backpack
• You'd rather hear the MIDI version of the radio
• You scream "Armageddon!" when you need to clear something and start over
• You've researched Lemming on Wikipedia
• You begin to associate individual musical pieces with different kinds of weather
• You try to stomp on metal surfaces just to hear them go "clink"
• (Insert here a joke about posting on a Lemmings forum)
• You think clams should have eyeballs (oh, I so went there!)
• Jellybeans make that one music get stuck in your head...
• You're agitated when a five-second countdown doesn't end with "Oh no!"
• A friend of yours hears you listening to the music and wants to use it as her cell phone's ringtone...
• The same friend uses the "Oh no! *Pop*" sound on her phone for text messages
• Still the same friend and you immitate the Lemmings voices while playing the game and something happens
• I should really give that friend a call and see how she's doing

[Dullstar]

There's a such thing as a clam without eyeballs?!    Heh heh.

[Clam]

...you think the fireplace was created using the fire tile set.

For most of the year, yes. But you know you've really played too much Lemmings when...

- You think that when you decorate the fireplace for Christmas, you can put your hand in there and you won't get burnt.


Hey, you guys just gave me a great idea for something to put in my "personal text" space

[Tim]

...you try to speed-walk out of the shopping centre.

[Dullstar]

..because you're using fast forward!

[Clam]

• You walk into fences expecting to be able to climb through them
• You go to a baseball game expecting to see the players whack each other around the park (Simon: "to turn around")
• You forget everything you ever learned about percentages - but on the plus side you can count past 80 now
• You see someone change direction when walking and lament the waste of skills
• You put a buzzsaw in your mousetrap

 

[Prob Lem]

You know you've played too many Lemmings games when...

• You put a jelly bean dispenser on your desk, and then wonder why there aren't lemmings building around it
• Your grandmother knitted you a toy lemming when you were a kid
• You still have the aforementioned lemming
• You've been creating ongoing Lemmings-derived fiction for most of the time that the series has been around
• You work lemming puns into your life as far as is possible
• You expect your hat to magically come back to you if you throw it at people
• You expect the aforementioned people to be happy and grateful that you threw your hat at them or otherwise collided with them
• Saying "Let's go" before you go out somewhere is commonplace for you
• You frequently find yourself saying, or at least thinking, that funny little "Uh?" thing from the builders in Lemmings 3D if you see something bizarre or confusing
• You install a sensor in the frame of your front door that causes the playback of the appropriate sound effect when you leave and return home
• Your first thought when you see chunks of steel is of Lemmings
• You've taken a "What Type of Lemming Are You?" quiz and the result was actually your favourite tribe
• You have hosted a Lemmings-themed pencil-and-paper RPG session
• You have a mortal fear of the common, humble potato, even though research thus far has proven nothing*
• You can look at a bottle or tin and imagine a revolving puzzle on its surface
• The Lemmings games have somewhat influenced your sense of humour and speech-patterns in some way
• You wonder what "Lemmingese", as joked about on the box for Lemmings 3D, might sound like if it were a real language
• You noticed that the removal of the animation frames that show Evil Ed with a cigarette from the PlayStation version of Lomax was not as thorough as it could have been
• Your Christmas cake this year is going to be Christmas Lemmings-themed

*(Potato fields are somewhere you just will not go. It's far too risky.)

Whilst some of these are purely humourous, there are a number that really do apply to me. (And, yes, I'll try to get a picture of the cake once it's been made.)

[Mikex62]

You know you've played too much Lemmings when...

• You buy a crochet Lemming! (I have..)
• You make a CHINK sound whenever you hit metal.
• You make a Lomax hat out of a metal cup and red feathers.
• You pretend a play house as Mr. Lemming's house.
• You bash snow like a Lemming. (I did that too...)
• Hack a game's graphics to replace the character with a Lemming