Old Video Game Companies

[denomis 10]

use to love playing lemmings on my Amiga A500+

 

Sony own lemmings now and supposedly are making a psn/vita version.

[Rich 12]

Sony own lemmings now and supposedly are making a psn/vita version.

 

Damn, I've wanted an Xbox version of Lemmings for years, and now it'll probably never happen

[PlayStation 10]

Sony own lemmings now and supposedly are making a psn/vita version.

 

a modern day version probs wont feel the same as the classic one.

 

so i will probs give it a miss.

[Rich 12]

a modern day version probs wont feel the same as the classic one.

 

so i will probs give it a miss.

 

Indeed, several years ago I played a demo of Lemmings 3D on the PC, it was crap compared to the 2D original IMO, and even 17 years ago running a 3D game at anywhere near full tilt required a Ninja PC.

[denomis 10]

a modern day version probs wont feel the same as the classic one.

 

so i will probs give it a miss.

 

Indeed, several years ago I played a demo of Lemmings 3D on the PC, it was crap compared to the 2D original IMO, and even 17 years ago running a 3D game at anywhere near full tilt required a Ninja PC.

 

Are you both daft? A 2D lemmings on touch screen vita would be awesome.

[PlayStation 10]

Are you both daft? A 2D lemmings on touch screen vita would be awesome.

 

Not if its modern graphics and feels nothing like the classic one. There's only one lemmings game for me.

[Locksley 10]

Kuju Entertainment used to have a studio in Sheffield, latterly known as 'Chemistry'. They were working on a really promising looking WWI FPS called 'To End All Wars'. I was hoping to get a placement there a few years ago but they kinda just disappeared, I can't find any info on what happened to them. Kuju itself is still going though.

 

EDIT: ah, well whatta ya know... http://kotaku.com/5278300/kuju-entertainment-closes-its-dedicated-unreal-engine-branch

[slh73 32]

 

Damn, I've wanted an Xbox version of Lemmings for years, and now it'll probably never happen

 

Why? It would be an awful thing to play with an xbox controller, needs either a mouse or touchscreen.

[luke1989 10]

Doesn't that segasonic guy off here work for them?

 

Yes he does. He's my brother.

[Unisol 12]

I wrote quite a few games in my early teens i.e. adventure games, jigsaw like puzzles, an Olympics game etc and was going to start a company called Amsoft, then girls came along and spoilt all that, Amstrad took the name and that was it.

 

I hung out with the Gremlin guys for a while in their shop. Didn't they go on to become Gremlin Graphics and now exist as Gremlin again?

 

Biggest regret of my life was not becoming a full blown geek and continuing in my quest, I reckon I'd be very rich now and probably living in silicone valley.

 

Doh!

[jacobmph 10]

Gremlin Graphics was taken over by the French company Infogrames in 1999 and then closed down in 2003. The staff went on to found Sumo-Digital who are still around today (based near Meadowhall) and employ many of the same people who worked on the classic Gremlin games (Tony Crowther and Peter Harrop, for example).

 

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Monty Mole was remade by school children as part of the 2012 Games Britannia festival and is available to download for free on the Windows 8 store. It includes a bit of background about the game's Sheffield-based heritage.