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Populous



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Electronic Arts published Populous in the year 1989. It's a very good simulation game, part of the Populous series. Populous runs on DOS and can be played by 2 players.
Awards and accolades:
status: abandonware game abandonware
system: DOS
released: 1989
publisher: Electronic Arts
developer: Bullfrog
designers: Peter Molyneux
genre: simulation : god game
view: 3rd person, isometric - 2.5D
series: Populous
multiplayer: LAN or Internet (1-2 players)
input: key keyboard, mouse mouse, joy joystick
distribution: floppy3 3,5 floppy disk, floppy5 5,25 floppy disk
graphics: CGA, EGA, Hercules, Tandy, VGA
sound: Adlib, PC speaker, Roland, Tandy

DOWNLOADS

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FACTS AND TRIVIA

Facts and trivia and collector's notes texts are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. These texts use material from this Wikipedia article.

The 2001 game Black & White, also led by Molyneux, has been called the spiritual descendant of Populous.

An expansion pack called Populous: The Promised Lands was made available, which added five new types of landscape. In addition, another expansion disk called Populous: The Final Frontier added a single new landscape-type and was released as a cover disk for The One.

Populous was possibly one of the first games to use a non-linear level progression: the score for each game was calculated from the game statistics, for example the number of towns, the number of successful battles etc. Depending on the score the player could progress to a different world or level and quite typically jump five to ten levels forward each time.