| The two British reviews print different player counts for the NES version. Nintendo Magazine System marks it "2 PLAYER" and describes a two-player mode, in which player one fires and works the icon system and player two navigates. Total! lists it as "1 player", in its review and again in its December directory. Nintendo Magazine System also notes that the Blue Danube plays during automatic docking, with an option to turn it off. | p. 132 (image 132), Total! Recall directory | Magazine |
| Total!'s directory of NES games in December 1992 repeats its issue 11 mark for Elite, 96%, and calls the game "probably the best space flight sim ever". | p. 132 (image 132), Total! Recall directoryp. 132 (image 132), Total! Recall directoryp. 132 (image 132), Total! Recall directory | Magazine |
| Total! reviewed the NES Lemmings in its November 1992 issue: one player, from Ocean, £43, out now. The review, signed James, found it "just as addictive a game as on the 16-bits" and gave it 85 percent, with 8 for looks, 7 for sounds, 9 for gameplay and 9 for life span. Total!'s directory in the next issue repeats the 85% and sums the game up as the "world's most sadistic brain-bender" made onto the NES with its puzzles intact, with fewer levels than other versions but good looks and sound. | p. 133 (image 133), Total! Recall directory, NESp. 133 (image 133), Total! Recall directory, NES | Magazine |
| In Total!'s December 1992 guide to the best games on each Nintendo machine, the NES puzzle pick was "Boulderdash or Lemmings". Of the staff quoted, one called the NES Lemmings "a miraculous achievement on the old eight-bit box!" and another "every bit as good as any other version I've seen". A third wasn't enthused, since the original "didn't send me wild with delight", and a fourth liked it despite its 14 lemmings at a time and plainer looks. | special feature p. 4 (image 76), the NES column's puzzle entryspecial feature p. 6 (image 78), NES puzzle gamesspecial feature p. 6 (image 78), NES puzzle gamesspecial feature p. 7 (image 79), NES puzzle gamesspecial feature p. 7 (image 79), NES puzzle games | Magazine |