So I’m chugging along in Lemmings on the PSP, and it’s going pretty well.  I’ve had to look up the solution to a couple of “Mayhem” levels so far but I’ve gotten to Mayhem 23 mostly on my own.

And Mayhem 23 is a bastard son of parents who were also, themselves, bastards, and quite possibly the whole bastard thing goes back for bastard generation upon bastard generation.

Ahem.

Anyway, so I went and looked up a solution and found out that it wasn’t really me, unlike the last two levels I’ve had to go and look something up on.

See, it’s got a ramp – and here I am assuming that you have played Lemmings, and if you haven’t you’re simply not my kind of people anyway – it’s got a ramp that goes all the way up to the top of the play field.

On PC and Amiga versions – and probably all older versions of Lemmings – when your lemmings walk up the ramp, they hit an invisible ceiling and turn around, so now they’re going the right way to build a critical staircase.

On the PSP, they walk right through the invisible ceiling and fall into water, drowning.

So: not only is it a reasonably nasty level in the original, but a bug in the PSP version makes it even nastier.  I have found at least one guy on the net who claims to have completed all of the classic levels on the PSP, though, so I’m going to assume it’s possible, but I’m going to bitch about it even so.