Lemmings

The Lynx version arrived in 1993 from DMA Design themselves — the studio that would later become Rockstar North — the second Psygnosis title converted for the handheld after Shadow of the Beast, and the surprising thing is how well it survives the shrink. The Lynx's hardware scaling and its genuinely usable colour give it more room than the other handheld ports of the era got, and the levels are the real ones rather than a reduced set.

For collectors it is the sealed premium that stands out: a sealed copy trades at many times a loose cartridge, one of the widest gaps on the platform. That is exactly the situation where the packaging, not the game, is the asset — and exactly where the Lynx's reprinted-box problem lives.

This is the Master System version of Lemmings, released by Sega in Europe on 24 November 1992, with Probe Software handling the conversion. The original DMA Design game appeared on the Amiga in 1991. The goal is to guide a group of lemmings to an exit, saving a required number by assigning limited quantities of eight skills to individual lemmings so they can alter the terrain or their own behavior.

This is the Genesis version of Lemmings, developed by Sunsoft and published by Sunsoft and Sega. The original DMA Design game came out on the Amiga in 1991. You guide a group of lemmings to an exit, and to save enough of them you assign a limited number of eight skills that change the terrain or a lemming's own behavior.

The Genesis cartridge came out in North America in July 1992, in Japan on 20 November 1992 and in Europe on 10 December 1992.