Game Classification

Populous Bullfrog (Peter Molyneux) (United Kingdom), Electronic Arts (U.S.A.), 1989  

Informations Analyses Serious Gaming
 

Classification

VIDEO GAME

Keywords

God game - Managerial - Real-time - Real-time strategy - Strategy

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick DESTROY : explanation of this brick CREATE : explanation of this brick MANAGE : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick
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Populous Populous is a computer game developed by Bullfrog in 1989 and is regarded by many as being the seminal god game. In 1991, Populous won the Origins Award for Best Military or Strategy Computer Game of 1990 as well as 1990 Computer Game of the Year in American video game magazine Video Games & Computer Entertainment. It was the first game in the Populous series, preceding Populous II and Populous: The Beginning. [source:wikipedia]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Amiga - Atari ST - Gameboy (GB) - Genesis (Megadrive) - Nintendo DS - PC (Dos) - PC-Engine / TurboGrafx-16 - Sega Master System - Super Nintendo (SNES)

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