10 Retro Christmas Video Games To Fill Your Stocking

10. Christmas Lemmings

Here's one for the older gamers out there, as we go back to a festive spin on a retro classic. Lemmings is one of the most widely ported and successful games ever made, featuring on consoles ranging from the Amiga to the Sharp X68000 to the Super Nintendo. In addition to sequels that followed this wildly successful game, there was also a series of smaller releases between 1991 and 1994 known as Christmas Lemmings.

They began with demos with just a few extra levels in 1991 and 1992, before receiving two full releases in 1993 and 1994. The gameplay for these festive additions remains unchanged from the base Lemmings game, where you have to prevent anthropomorphic lemmings from walking off the edge of many a cliff. Except this time the little buggers are wearing Santa suits in a snowy landscape.

As addictive as the game can be, it may not be the most child friendly for Christmas, because nobody should have to explain to the kids why you've just sacrificed one Lemming for the good of the pack.