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Populous
Bullfrog Productions
June 4, 1989
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Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, StrategyDevelopers
Bullfrog ProductionsRelease Date
June 4, 1989 (35 years and 11 months ago)Publishers
Tec Toy, Electronic Arts, Imagineer, Hudson SoftContent Rating
T Violence
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Miracles are child's play. Earthquakes are serious fun. The all-powerful can perform miracles in their sleep. But omnipotence isn't what it used to be. These days, it takes awesome natural disasters to dominate a world. You give them good land. You tell them when to farm and when to fight. You make them content beyond their wildest dreams. But then they become raging arsonists. What's a deity to do? Disasters are your divine prerogative - volcanoes, quakes, swamps. For stubborn non-believers, nothing beats a flood for spring cleaning. Cruel ice, lush grassland, parched desert... With 500 worlds, a deity's work is never done. Populous is the original god-game, a strategy title that lets you shape the isometric isometric world and the fates of its inhabitants. Be sure to check out one of Bullfrog's earliest classics, from the mind of Peter Molyneux!
Genres
Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, StrategyPlatforms
Acorn Archimedes, PC-9800 Series, Sharp X68000, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Atari ST/STE, PC (Microsoft Windows), TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine, Mac, DOS, Amiga, Sega Master System/Mark IIIDevelopers
Bullfrog ProductionsRelease Date
June 4, 1989 (35 years and 11 months ago)Publishers
Tec Toy, Electronic Arts, Imagineer, Hudson SoftContent Rating
T Violence
Franchises
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