To help get into the festive spirit, I went looking for: Christmas Lemmings! Which is really just regular lemmings with snowy levels and the little guys in red costumes. Oh, and adlib-card FM Synthesis renditions of “Good King Wenceslas”. Which coming through Dosbox’s sound emulation will probably drive you mad within around 7 minutes.
What I hadn’t realised tho, is that there were *four* editions. Xmas Lemmings 91 and 92 were just 4-level freebies, used to publicise the Oh No! expansion. Holiday Lemmings 1993 and 1994 were commercially released, although at 16 levels each I guess they were probably quite cheap.
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I’m not sure if Christmas and gaming go hand in hand – apart from this I can’t really think of too many festive games.
FIFA used to remind me of Christmas, because I used to ask for it every year – until Pro Evo came along. And watching Die Hard recently almost made me dig out DH: Nakatomi Plaza.
I repeat: almost. In short – a seasonal update seems unlikely!
December 29, 2007 @ 3:08 pm
"And watching Die Hard recently almost made me dig out DH: Nakatomi Plaza."
Do it!
DOOOOO IT!
January 1, 2008 @ 11:44 pm
Excellent Nakatomi Plaza review! I’m glad someone else felt the enemy count was a little excessive, even for an FPS.
Strange that it turned out that way. I’d been following it as a Duke3D mod whose team Fox apparently bought out. They were fanatical in the early Duke days – obsessing about recreating the anamorphic lens used in the first plane shot of the film, lying to Fox to get into their Century City tower to shoot reference and texture photos – I can’t help but wonder if the game would have turned out better if it stayed a Duke fan mod.
Anyway, still a fun one. I wouldn’t give it the time of day if it weren’t Die Hard, but because it is, I still break it out every now and again. Though the sewer level usually blows too much to suffer through…
Thanks for reviewing it!
January 23, 2008 @ 6:55 am