The Complete History of Lemmings is an article written by Mike Dailly, one of the developers. The 'droopy-nosed' design of the lemmings was inspired from UK children's books The Wombles, created by Elizabeth Beresford. The Acorn Archimedes version added a bonus track in the 13th spot, which is a remix of the theme from the 1990's game Mad Professor Mariarti. In the Atari ST, MS-DOS, Super CDROM², FM Towns, Sega Genesis, Atari Lynx, and 3DO versions, as well as any version that doesn't include all 17 tracks, the order listed above is not followed. The Amiga, PC-98, CDTV, Super CDROM², X68000, FM Towns, NES, Sega Genesis, Atari Lynx, and C64 versions also had an additional theme song that played upon booting up the game, known as March of the Mods. Based on the game Shadow of the Beast II. Shadow of the Beast II: the fourth special track.Awesome: the third special track: Based on the game Awesome.Shadow of the Beast: the first special track.She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain: based on 'She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain'.2 (the part used as funeral march) and Wagner's 'Bridal Chorus' (popularly known as 'Here Comes the Bride'). Ten Lemmings: a mashup of traditional songs, including 'Ten Green Bottles', Chopin's Piano Sonata No.Forest Green: based on 'O Little Town of Bethlehem', also known as 'Forest Green' (adapted into the hymn 'All Beautiful the March of Days'), mixed with the melody from the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.This is the only track to play in the Spectrum version.

London Bridge is Falling Down: 'London Bridge is Falling Down', the English folk tune.

Rondo Alla Turca: based on 'Rondo alla Turca' from Mozart's Piano Sonata No.

This is the least played of the 17 main tracks as it is replaced twice by one of the four special tracks.

Keep Your Hair on Mr Lemming: an original track.

Dance of the Reed Flutes: based on 'Dance of the Reed Flutes' from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.

How Much is that Doggie in the Window: based on the song (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window? written by Bob Merrill in 1952.

Tim 5: an original track, also known as Mind the Step.

Tim 3: an original track, also known as Lend a Helping Hand.

Dance of the Little Swans: 'Dance of the Little Swans' from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

One Way or Another: an original track.

Tim 2: an original track, also known as Smile if you Love Lemmings.

Lemming 1: an original track, often confused with Pachelbel's Canon by the fandom, but the chord progression is different.

Can-Can: 'Galop Infernal' from Orpheus in the Underworld (the music by Offenbach often used for the can-can).

There are 21 tracks in Lemmings, which are played in the following order (in the Amiga, SNES, CDTV, Mac, X68000, and CD-i versions): Psygnosis asked Tim Wright to replace the offending tracks, who often used arrangements and reworkings of classical and traditional music to avoid copyright problems. This had been common practice, but at that point there was a growing awareness of music copyright.

Music was originally created by Brian Johnston (Scott's younger brother), who sampled bits of copyrighted music. DMA Design initially wanted to use a null-modem connection between two machines to allow competitive play, but ended up using the ability of the Amiga to have two mouse pointer devices usable at the same time and thus created the split-screen mode.

The two-player option was inspired by then-current games Populous and Stunt Car Racer.

SUNSOFT (also present in the Super Nintendo version, albeit with only five levels).

On the Sega Genesis version there are two additional difficulties: The levels are grouped into four categories on most platforms: These skills were the Climber, the Floater, the Bomber, the Blocker, the Builder, the Basher, the Miner, and the Digger.

Lemmings introduced the eight skills used by most Lemmings games.

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