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Fun! Wasn't on the other submission, a list of retro Polish games. Maybe it doesn't qualify as retro though.

Submitter (but not original author of the game) here.

Sadist (and its sequels) was little-heard of among the Polish gamers of the late 90s and early 2000s, but it did manage to amass something of a cult following. IIRC there was a small but vibrant forum in its heyday, and the game's online fanbook (now read-only) has 700+ entries.

The author, Grzegorz 'GAD' Drozd, was a frequent poster to pl.comp.lang.pascal in its heyday. In addition to Sadist, he also produced many other DOS and Windows freeware games, most of them single-handedly. His site (gadz.pl) is well worth checking out.

Is this the right gameplay video? https://youtu.be/yZi7GF4NsNg

It is indeed!

I was wondering what the game looked like. From that video it seems to be "lemmings with the weapons of worms", which actually looks like it would be fun to play, for a bit at least.

I learned of its existence when someone installed it on all the PCs in my school's computer lab. For some reason it was common knowledge that it was written in TurboPascal, even though back then none of us knew what the hell was a Turbo Pascal.

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