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Lemmings 2 came out for the Game Boy in 1994, developed by DMA Design. It was one of those puzzle games you'd see people hunched over on car trips or in the back of a classroom, a small green world contained in your hands. This was a time when portable games were often simpler adaptations of console hits, but Lemmings 2 felt like its own complete experience, a deep and sometimes maddening challenge packed into the cartridge.

You don't control the lemmings directly. Instead, you assign one of many special skills to individual lemmings to guide the whole marching crowd to the exit. Your main objective is to get a required number of them to safety on each screen. The game introduced a huge variety of these skills, like building bridges, floating with umbrellas, or even digging in specific directions. You have to think several steps ahead, planning the route while managing the relentless forward march of the group. The pacing is methodical, and the difficulty ramps up significantly, demanding careful observation and quick cursor work. It feels like conducting a chaotic, tiny orchestra where one wrong note can lead to a cascade of failures.