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Whoa, crazy. At first I thought they just made some sort of JS VM with a canvas output. Nope. Each individual lemming is its own HTML div that moves around the DOM on top of the background image... someone took a lot of time to rewrite this whole thing into basic HTML. Nutty and brilliant, lol.

It's actually a much nicer experience than trying to play it in a Dosbox emulator on the web: https://classicreload.com/lemmings.html

If you are interested in details, the author has a blog:

https://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3881/dhtml-lemmings-primer...

For the opposite experience, get lemmings from the windows store (or whatever that's called nowadays).

The most cynical, half-assed, unwinable, borderline unplayable pile of crap that is trying to be passed off as lemmings. It's like they gave a first year programing student two screen shots and a bad description of the game and then ran that through even worse machine translation and the result was shipped directly to end users.

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