old god style game on the PC.... whats the name!!

colinuk · 15 May 2007 at 16:15

Help.... asking everyone at work about a game i remeber playing but not the name, old age i guess.

Its a GOD type game, where you scroll along the screen, raising and lowering the land to make ponds and moutains to make it easier for your little people to be happy. The happier they are the more they pray and the more power you get.

It was before Black and White, before settlers ect.. but i cant rember the name...

any ideas?

AndyPants · 15 May 2007 at 16:18

Populous

easy one that Populous 3 i thikn to be more specific.

Will_3rd · 15 May 2007 at 16:20

^^ damn I was going to say that

Bald-Eagle22 · 15 May 2007 at 16:20

Me to , great game in its time

AndyPants · 15 May 2007 at 16:29

Hmm got me wanting to play Populous 3 now... grr Where is the CD again ?

Zefan · 15 May 2007 at 16:32

Populous: The Beginning, ROCKS.

davecarter · 15 May 2007 at 16:35

Zefan said:
Populous: The Beginning, ROCKS.

Yeah brings back memories, im sure I have the cd somewhere do you think its compatible with vista

AndyPants · 15 May 2007 at 16:36

Better had be. Google Has the answer!

Zefan · 15 May 2007 at 16:38

I think it's abandonware now.

I certainly remember downloading it from a website and running it on XP (With modern resolutions too).

Nic Miller · 15 May 2007 at 16:44

Great game! Have been a fan since the very first one - infact I think the first one was so good because it was so simple.

Prob is I threw the disks away by accident !

Now I can no longer play them.

Zefan · 15 May 2007 at 16:45

Nic Miller said:
Prob is I threw the disks away by accident ! Now I can no longer play them.

Internet.

Down1oader · 15 May 2007 at 16:46

ah my fave god sim !

colinuk · 15 May 2007 at 17:11

YEAH!

cheers, been trying to remeber that name for 2 hours lol.....

Think ill go see if i still have it somewhere or if not, maybe even buy it lol... wasted a lot of hours playing that game, but man, it was good as i thik it was the 1st of its kind, not sure though, still bloody good though!

Cheers AndyPants, cyber beer on its way to you

ColiN

jim5000 · 15 May 2007 at 21:56

It was the first of its kind, and if i remember rightly, was the first game to have 'mana'. Pretty much every fantasy game of every kind has taken that from it

Nate--IRL-- · 15 May 2007 at 21:59

jim5000 said:
It was the first of its kind, and if i remember rightly, was the first game to have 'mana'. Pretty much every fantasy game of every kind has taken that from it

I don't think you would be right there

Dungeon Master for one example. Way before populous.

Nate

HangTime · 15 May 2007 at 22:05

Is Populous: The Beginning as good as Pop2?

Nate--IRL-- · 15 May 2007 at 22:08

HangTime said:
Is Populous: The Beginning as good as Pop2?

IMHO not even close, but try it anyway.

Nate

ShiWarrior · 15 May 2007 at 22:54

god game hmm

2 games spring to mind (ok not populous)

Dungeon Keeper
and
Black and white

tang0 · 15 May 2007 at 23:50

ShiWarrior said:
god game hmm

2 games spring to mind (ok not populous)

Dungeon Keeper
and
Black and white

omfg dungeon keeper, now that was a game ;>

Hades · 16 May 2007 at 00:17

HangTime said:
Is Populous: The Beginning as good as Pop2?

Nope. Pop2 wss superb. I remember a friend and I playing this head-to-head over a null modem cable on our Amigas.

Nate--IRL-- said:
I don't think you would be right there Dungeon Master for one example. Way before populous.

Nate

Not sure about that. According to archived reviews in Zzap magazine (remember that, lol?), Pop was first...

http://amigareviews.classicgaming.gamespy.com/populou1.htm
- issue 10, April 1989

http://amigareviews.classicgaming.gamespy.com/dungeonm.htm
- issue 48, 1989