Gamefinds: Sophie Houlden’s Picotron Remake of Lemmings

We love it when we find weird and unique indie games to tell you all about! Our alien friends to the left herald these occasions. It’s got every level of the original Lemmings, including variants from different versions, and the first Holiday demo collection, along with a smattering of extras with more on the way. Picotron of course is the successor to the popular Pico-8 fantasy console, more of a fantasy workstation, but you can still play Picotron Lemmings without buying the $20 tools. It doesn’t have music or many of the sound effects (including any digitized voices), but it does play very well. It’s smoother than the original and even has visual indicators for Climbers and Floaters, which the originals didn’t have. Lemmings is a true classic from the 16-bit era and even without music this version is a fine remake. And it’s free to play! One of those ports we mentioned was a web-based port from 2004, DHTML Lemmings, still online after all these years. Back then it was amazing to…