Footage from the video game Lemmings

Dundee emerged as a centre for game design in the mid-1980s after the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club nurtured the programming skills of Mike Dailly, Dave Jones, Russell Kay, who would all become internationally significant game creators.

Lemmings, which was released by their company DMA Design, was one of the most successful videogames of the early 1990s, with over 15 million copies sold worldwide.

The initial idea came from a competitive challenge to find as many moving objects on the screen as possible at one time. Small moving characters moving en masse across the screen made the team think of the apocryphal story of small rodents leaping from cliffs. DMA Design also created the first two versions of Grand Theft Auto in the late 1990s.