This is the Japan PC Engine cover and while it’s better and more faithful than the previous one, it still tries to convey a bit of action, although I do like the ominous background.īut let’s finally boot this sucker, shall we? They tried to make it more compelling to convey action, but as you’ll see, Populous is anything but an action game. This is the US SNES cover and it’s just a poor man’s version of the original cover. I simply wish it had more elements to it, though. Now this cover is a bit more ominous, but it also conveys what the game is about more properly than the previous one, I think. While it doesn’t give the players nearly any indication of what the game is really about, one can’t deny that it’s visually striking, to say the least. This is the first and most famous cover and I have to say that it’s a good art rendition of the game itself. To help the team visualise the gameplay, they used LEGO blocks.īut before looking at said gameplay, let’s first look at the covers, shall we? And then, after increasing and reducing the terrain into flatland, the peeps were programmed to build houses that would grow in size the more flatland would be available to them. Peter Molyneux came up with the initial idea of Populous first by watching Glenn Corpes’ work and then by experimenting with the AI, in which small sprites (called “peeps” by Molyneux) travel through the land until they encountered water. In 1992, it was ported to the Acorn 32-bit and the following year for the Macintosh. In 1991, it was ported to the Master System and Turbografx-16.
The following year, it was ported to the Genesis/Megadrive, PC-98, Sharp X68000 and the SNES/Super Nintendo.
It was originally released in 1989 for the Amiga, Atari ST and DOS. Populous is a managerial/strategy game developed by Bullfrog and published by Electronic Arts. And it’s only fair that I start with Bullfrog’s first and possibly biggest success ever: Populous. Well, it isn’t too hard to figure out which Bullfrog game I’ll start reviewing for this retrospective.
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