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    Populous

  • First released on 5 June, 1989 for Amiga
  • Fantasy
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    Real Time Strategy (RTS)
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  • First released on 5 June, 1989 for Amiga

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    About

    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!

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    Amiga, PC DOS, Atari ST/STE, PC-98, Sharp X68000, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Master System, TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine, Acorn Archimedes, Mac

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    Imagineer
    A Japanese software company. They published games (developed by other companies) for various console systems, and ported various Western games for Japanese systems, such as SimCity, Populous, Might and Magic, and Wolfenstein 3D, among others.
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    Hudson Soft
    Hudson Soft was a Japanese video game publisher and developer, headquartered in Sapporo, Japan. Founded in 1973, it was bought by Konami in 2000, who owned the company until March 1st, 2012, when Hudson was shuttered and officially made part of the larger Konami Digital Entertainment group.
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    Electronic Arts
    At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play.
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