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Originally Posted by owen83
Peter Molynoux who previously created populous and later black and whte and later the movies created this gem
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I did work experience, at school when I was 14/15, at Bullfrog's main offices in Guildford back in 1994/5. I met Peter Molyneux then, along with a few of the other heads of department, before Bullfrog was totally absorbed by EA and became Lionhead and eventually Lame.
Not entirely clear, the memories from that long ago, but I think they had just released
Magic Carpet or
Syndicate Wars, as I was given copies of all the games that Bullfrog had produced up until that time as "wages" for work experience.
I didn't actually do any work... Just sat around with a bunch of techies and talked about Megadrive games and how much better PC's were for games - especially if you had a Joypad.
I don't think that Monsieur Molyneux was the chief designer for
Black and White (I'm certain that he wasn't for
B&W 2)... Pretty sure that he wasn't for
The Movies, either.
But then, Molyneux has always been a name that's synonymous with Bullfrog / Lionhead, if not Microsoft. Yet.
A piece of trivia I can remember is that
Populous, from 1989, may have been the first game to be self-published under the trading name Bullfrog, but Molyneux's first game (also self-published, in 1984 or something) was a business simulator, much like the text-based
Drug Wars or
AIV Network$, called
The Entrepeneur. I don't think it did very well, as I've never found a copy.
One of my friends - a guy who got married to this really young, bulimic Chinese girl who seemed to have only gotten hitched for the UK residency (she was a mega-bitch and I'm pretty sure she was cheating on him. Not subtly either) - was one of the leads on
Fable. He's got this gold DVD framed along with the box artwork.
We used to go climbing together at Craggy Island.
Rock Climbing, especially the urban indoor centres, is great for picking up chicks.
Everyone's got an excuse for checking out their belaying partner's tight buttocks, strapped into a harness, being squeezed in all the right places to make you not concentrate on feeding the rope and, instead, focus on how the muscles move under the spandex / lycra shorts.
Martin never really picked up on the women that tried to hit on him.
He may be an excellent programmer and be exceptionally good at his job - but, for a 30-something year old man, he's got the social skills of a 13 year old...
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Incidentally, if
Theme Park is unprotected now, does that mean that all the other Bullfrog games from this date and before can be unprotected now..?
Magic Carpet is also a 1994 game.
That'd be good.