This pin features a traditional Floater Lemming, drawn in the fasion of the original lemmings. I can't say I know for a fact where this came from, but I read it came packaged with the old PC and Mac versions of the game. It's a gold colored pin featuring a floater lemming. It's been sitting on my shelf ever since I got it a year or two back. I've had quite a few things fall off my packpack, such as a Garfield Fan Club pin and a keychain of a Mega Man met, so I wouldn't dare put this pin on there. They only come up once in a while on eBay.

There was a set of twelve of these, one for each Tribe. I have only been lucky enough to get the Classic and Medieval pins. The Classic one is almost like the original Floater lemming pin above, except it's drawn in a more cartoony style. The Medival lemming features a lemming in a brown knight outfit weilding a sword. I believe they were randomly bundled with the computer version of the game in Europe. That meant two things - first, in order to get them all, you either had to buy multiple copies of the games (and pray that you get a different pin in each one), or buy them. Both are difficult, as twelve copies of the game could drain a pocket fast (plus the fact it's obviously discontinued), and these things never come up on eBay. Second, the Americans got gipped. Eh, I guess it's only fair. Europe never got a release of Chrono Trigger.

I got this off eBay from Great Britain. Since Lemmings did originate in Scotland, it is sensible for all the good products to be kept in Europe. This shirt features the group of lemmings standing in front of the Talisman, as shown on the cover of every version of the game I've seen. For some reason, it's missing the Beach and Shadow tribes, but the screen print is professional quality and has a Psygnosis copyright on it so I'd be willing to be it is authentic Lemmings merchandise. It's actually quite soft, too, but I almost never wear it because it's so dang rare. Chalk one up to being at the right place at the right time.

If you happen to be wondering what that black circular thing is off to the right of the picture, that's my cat's tail.

And here is a good look at her. Her name is Arlene. She did not like the flash on my camera.

Now that you know a little more about my personal life, let's move on.

There's two of these, "The Genesis Quest", and "The Hypnosis Enigma". They're little more than Choose Your Own Adventure books. Some people are nuts over these things, but I never cared for them. As with all the other Lemmings products, I think this was Europe only, probably Great Britain since it's in English. You select which tribe you want to do, select which types of lemmings you want, make choice, and go to the appropriate paragraph. Yes, it's not done in pages. It's done by paragraph numbers, and there's 400 paragraphs and only eight tribes to work with. You go through the book making choices such as how to battle a dragon in the Medieval tribe, and hope you "complete" that tribe. It has some illustrations, but I don't like them that much. Seriously, a real novel would have been much cooler.

I think this was another Britain only thing, but you can play it on an American record player. If you don't have a record player, you're not missing much. I only paid $5 for this (including the shipping), and the only things I got out of this were a few laughs. There's only two songs on it, one on each side. One side has the Lemmings SFX Mix, and the other has a song called "I Think You'd Better Do What He Says". And they both suck.

The sleeve features the twelve tribes standing in front of the Talisman with a giant "SFX" written on it. If you go on eBay, you'll frequently see a Blink 182 Lemmings record. I don't believe that has anything to do with the computer lemmings, and I'm honestly not willing to spend the money to find out.

Side A is a rap remix of songs from Lemmings 2: The Tribes. It starts out with a rather nice remix of the Lemmings 2 title screen, but once the singer starts it's all downhill. The deep voiced singer is VERY unfitting, as lemmings sound like chipmunks. A high pitched singer would have been irritating, yes. But when fans can get it better than the professionals, you know something's wrong. I can't understand the words well, except for one line that goes something like "an explosion occurs and a lemming goes down", obviously talking about the Bomber/Exploder. The tune of the song consists mainly of the title screen music, but occasionally the singer stops and we hear a nice remix of the Medieval tribe song. But it's still not that great of a song.

PenguinMan of Penguin Notes game me a link a while back to a remix of it done in Dance Dance Revolution style, and it's actually quite enjoyable. I was not able to find a link to it from Penguin Notes, so I just uploaded the song onto my own server. I guess it's better in the long run, as I don't like outside linking. I don't know if it shares the exactly same lyrics (it probably does, what with the exploder comment in both of them), but I'm not willing to listen to that crappy song again to find out. Since I'm sure you don't want to back out and go to the Music Station to download it (I know I wouldn't), you can click here to download it (5:41 5.20 MB).

Side B has almost nothing to do with lemmings. After three loops of a weird jump of music and words involving "Get down, stay down", "I think you'd better do what he says", and the Andy Griffith Theme (I'm not kidding - they put somebody whistling the Andy Griffith theme on here), we finally get something. However, it uses a "warped" effect which makes it incredibly difficult to understand, so all I can make it is that it has something to do with lemmings and an exit.

There's a 12" version with an extra song on it. I saw it once, and failed to obtain it. But if that third song is anything like these two, I don't think I should get too worked up over it.