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Originally posted by Strobe@Mar 9 2005, 11:39 PM
according to all my sources of information, it has been released in 1992!
and populous 2 has been published in 1993.
did i make a statement that it has been published AFTER pop 2?
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I would just like to clear up the game releases mentioned here (and give my 2 cents worth). Powermonger was in fact way back in 1990, the Powermonger WWI data disk came next in 1991 followed by Populous 2 later in 1991. How am I so sure? I have both original games sitting here in box and manual (original version=Amiga version naturally).
I also recall upon the release of Powermonger, everyone eagerly asked "is this the sequel to Populous?". Meanwhile Bullfrog were busily working on Populous 2. When it finally came out, of course it topped the charts in no time. Now I didn't much get into Powermonger originally although I've been playing it a bit lately. It is a fairly open game if you know what I mean. You can play it how YOU want to. On the other hand, I LOVED Populous 2 and played it for months on end... Populous 3 (1998 on PC only) was a deadloss and a wasted sequal (although the nice Direct3D graphics were decent in its day).
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On doing a little more research I discovered Powermonger was only ported to PC in 1992. Hence the confusion over release dates, the Amiga version was definitely 1990. Like many games in those days, the original version was on Amiga, all other versions were ported across. Of course there were many games written for PC that were also ported back to Amiga (I instantly think of games from SSI, Microprose and Sierra).