A tier list video of all music in the original Lemmings (SNES)

[Tiduas]

Hi all!

I have made Youtube content for a few years very casually. And while I've always been a huge Lemmings fan I haven't done anything with the franchise yet... until now!

I'm currently experimenting a bit with tier list videos as I really enjoy the process of making them and just made a video about the Lemmings version I grew up with, the one for the Super Nintendo.
I would love to see how my opinion differs from yours on the topic of Lemmings music and anyone watching gets a huge "thank you" from me. I hope it's okay to post this here, otherwise I'll remove it ASAP of course. I also hope it's a fun watch or at least is good second monitor content while doing other stuff! 

Ranking ALL Music in Lemmings (SNES) [Tier List] (54 minutes)

[kaywhyn]

Hi @Tiduas,

Thank you for sharing with us! I must say, you have a great voice and accent!

Anyway, I responded with my thoughts to your question in your pinned comment on the video. Please let me know if you're able to see it. If not, I can repost my comment which I luckily have saved just in case. I'm not certain if YouTube has taken issue with it just because I linked to some playlists in the comment.

[Tiduas]

Thank you so much for the kind words @kaywhyn! I very rarely hear much said about if my voice and talking actually fits for videos or not, but since I'm usually not hearing anything I have come to accept that it's at least acceptable. So it's very much appreciated to hear a comment like yours to get a confidence boost. 😁🔥

I looked into your comment but can't see it on the channel unfortunately. I would guess that it's because of the playlist link that Youtube didn't like it which is a shame. Would love to read it here instead then!

[kaywhyn]

Copy/paste my reply to your pinned YouTube comment on the video:

I haven't played the SNES port of Lemmings, but I do think the music is at least decent. Far better than the Amiga Lemmings music tracks IMO, which I honestly can't stand to listen to anymore I really don't see how people like that port's music, though admittedly the Amiga was pretty hot stuff back then if you were one of the people fortunate enough to own such a machine back then, for which this is one of the original ports of the game. I didn't, and I still haven't played the Amiga port of Lemmings.

As for the question, I must say that the Dos version has the best music soundtrack for the game of Lemmings. In a way, I'm a sucker for the Dos version due to how I grew up with the Dos version of Lemmings. I started off with the floppy, so I was first acquainted with the Tandy Dos soundtrack. About 1-2 years later, I later owned the CD that bundles both Lemmings and ONML. This one uses a higher quality redbook CD audio version of the Tandy Dos music tracks. The redbook CD has, IMO, the best version of the AWESOME music track. I actually spent more time growing up with the redbook CD audio and also got to experience this version of the AWESOME music track first before the Tandy version despite having played the floppy version of the game first.

Playlist of the Dos Tandy soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYnKFyDMmhs1MmwLoEkriIXmnB7sQnfv4

Playlist of the redbook CD audio:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL75CABB4561CE61F0

Note that in the second playlist, that isn't the CD I owned. Instead, I owned the notoriously very difficult to find gray CD by Slash. At least from what I understand, other than the publishers being different and the one in the playlist being a half green CD instead of gray like mine, they're identical in every way, according to a user who took a look at them on the Discord.

I still have the physical CD copy on me to this day, even about 30 years later! I will be posting my CD image dump to the Internet Archive sometime later today, now that I'm done live streaming both L1 and ONML and know that it's fully functional. It's unfortunate that I can't play the game by running it through my physical CD anymore, as it always throws installation errors and other issues that the game has when running it through Dosbox, but luckily making an image dump does work, so I was very happy to have played the CD version of the game again after so long and having not been successful in the last several years.

Other than Dos, the only other ports of the game I've played are the PSP and Genesis/Mega Drive. I went down to my local Game Stop to get PSP Lemmings on the day it was released back in 2006, when I was a junior in high school at the time I had an actual PSP to play it on at the time. For the latter, I played that on an emulator either in the late 2010s or sometime in the early 2020s. Both the PSP and Genesis have quite decent sounding music tracks IMO and hence I like those in addition to the Dos and redbook CD Dos audio.

So yea, to summarize, I grew up with the Dos version of Lemmings and prefer its soundtrack to the Amiga, and I also like the redbook Dos CD audio, with a bit more of a preference for the latter due to being higher quality. I also like the  PSP and Genesis/Mega Drive soundtracks, though for the latter certain soundtracks at least, such as it has a pretty good She'll be coming round the Mountain IMO.

Thanks for sharing with us at the Lemmings Forums and looking forward to future videos from you! I'm also on YouTube with the same username as the one I use on the Lemmings Forums, and the link to my channel is also in my signature

I looked into your comment but can't see it on the channel unfortunately. I would guess that it's because of the playlist link that Youtube didn't like it which is a shame. Would love to read it here instead then!

Absolutely, my pleasure on the compliment!