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Lemmings 2: The Tribes

The Game Boy Port of Lemmings 2: The Tribes is a major downgrade due to the much less powerful hardware, and the support of only a d-pad makes controlling this game a challenge. The graphics are much worse and…

31 December 1994

Lemmings 2: The Tribes is a strategy, released 31 December 1994 on Game Boy.

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What Lemmings 2: The Tribes is

Lemmings 2: The Tribes was released in 1994. It was published by Psygnosis. It is available on Game Boy only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Game Boy Port of Lemmings 2: The Tribes is a major downgrade due to the much less powerful hardware, and the support of only a d-pad makes controlling this game a challenge. The graphics are much worse and the view is much smaller. The music also gets rescored for the game boy soundchip which only supports basic chiptunes.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Lemmings series

Lemmings 2: The Tribes is the 32nd of 40 entries we hold in the Lemmings series. The next entry was Lemmings & Oh No! More Lemmings in 1995.

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What it launched against

Lemmings 2: The Tribes launched on 31 December 1994, within three weeks of Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw and Battle Arena Toshinden.

Released around the same time: Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw, Battle Arena Toshinden.

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When did Lemmings 2: The Tribes come out?
Lemmings 2: The Tribes was released on 31 December 1994 for Game Boy.

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