Famous Gaming Moments
Amazon's customers pick their favourite moments of all time, led by Lemmings
A poll of gamers on Amazon.co.uk has revealed that dispatching your first lemming is the world's top gaming moment. Apparently the sensation accompanying the event caused such a maelstrom of emotions that it affected Amazon's customers forever. In a close second place was the sound of the infamous motion detector from Aliens Versus Predator, described by one customer as "the scariest thing to hit my PC, ever." Completing the top three was finishing Tetris Game B on level 9, height 5, getting the dancing Cossacks and the Space Shuttle. Other popular moments included getting chased by a T-Rex in Tomb Raider and sniping an enemy in the head from 500 metres in GoldenEye on the N64. We were unable to get hold of DMA Design to discuss the result this afternoon, but we pulled this quote from DMA's then-PR-and-writer-man Brian Baglow in Edge, January 1997 out of the archive: "Don't ask anybody at DMA what their favourite game is." "Is it Lemmings?" "No, it f*$%ing is not!" Take a gander at the press release for the full list.