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Populous

  • 1989
  • SNES and Game Boy
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  • 4th generation

History

Peter Molyneux and Bullfrog let a deity raise land in Populous so a population can expand and fight. Lower a coast and the little settlers drown; lift a hill and they build farther from the enemy's book.

The 1989 computer original is the god game people named first. Walks of the faithful, papal magnets, and floods are divine interventions spent from a mana bar while two civilizations race.

Console ports, including the Super Nintendo, followed that computer original. The raised land and the tiny wars remain the play, even when the mouse becomes a pad.

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RAWG record

RAWG rating3.47 / 5
Ratings43
RAWG date1989-06-04
ESRB on RAWGTeen
GenresStrategy
DevelopersNot listed
PublishersNot listed
Platforms on RAWGpc, macos, game-boy, snes, macintosh, commodore-amiga, atari-st, genesis, sega-master-system

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