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Title: Populous Has anyone played this game before ??
Post by: Nec.Game.head on March 31, 2014, 10:11:15 AM: I'm curious to find out if anyone on here has any experience with playing Populous ?? I started going through the tutorial which is all in English so I imagine it's playable without having to know how to read Japanese. My question is to anyone that's played this before is it worth playing ?? Looks fairly interesting so I'm willing to give it a go if it's worth the try ...

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Title: Re: Populous Has anyone played this game before ??
Post by: Black Tiger on March 31, 2014, 10:24:20 AM: It's a great game and lots of fun, but not for everyone.

Only one way to find out if you'll enjoy it.

I imagine that Promised Lands might be more entertaining and it's also cheap.
Title: Re: Populous Has anyone played this game before ??
Post by: Keith Courage on March 31, 2014, 12:16:46 PM: It's an awesome game. I used to play it a lot when I was younger on my friends radio shack tandy color computer. Same exact game.

Oh and the theme song is awesome! Not sure why the bass drum sounds so realistic on this game but so crappy on other turbo chip games.
Title: Re: Populous Has anyone played this game before ??
Post by: wildfruit on March 31, 2014, 08:01:45 PM: Populous was the first pce game i bought. Earthquaking people brings great satisfaction.
Title: Re: Populous Has anyone played this game before ??
Post by: wolfman on March 31, 2014, 11:41:20 PM: Quote from: wildfruit on March 31, 2014, 08:01:45 PM
Populous was the first pce game i bought. Earthquaking people brings great satisfaction.

Yep, I confirm :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Populous Has anyone played this game before ??
Post by: Digi.k on April 01, 2014, 01:54:59 AM: love it and and love the scorchy sound samples. I think the heart beat samples played throughout the game are unique to the pc engine version ??

I don't recall it appearing on the genesis, snes versions .

Also again love the sound samples.
Title: Re: Populous Has anyone played this game before ??
Post by: _joshuaTurbo on April 01, 2014, 04:58:53 AM: I believe the other systems had the heartbeat sounds during gameplay as well. :)

Here's my son and I playing around with it last year!
Title: Re: Populous Has anyone played this game before ??
Post by: Punch on April 01, 2014, 05:27:21 AM: I like it but I prefer the piano MIDI theme 100x times.
Title: Re: Populous Has anyone played this game before ??
Post by: BigusSchmuck on April 01, 2014, 08:45:34 AM: I suggest getting the promised lands as it has a lot of added content and is in ENGLISH! But yeah, its a great game.
Title: Re: Populous Has anyone played this game before ??
Post by: wildfruit on April 01, 2014, 09:40:19 AM: Populous on game boy now that is a treat
Title: Re: Populous Has anyone played this game before ??
Post by: Black Tiger on April 01, 2014, 10:14:46 AM: Quote from: wildfruit on April 01, 2014, 09:40:19 AM
Populous on game boy now that is a treat

You should try Populous on the GT/TE, Nomad and Game Gear. :wink:
Title: Re: Populous Has anyone played this game before ??
Post by: Dicer on April 01, 2014, 04:40:59 PM: I just scored promised lands for $13 looking forward to it...
Title: Re: Populous Has anyone played this game before ??
Post by: Keith Courage on April 01, 2014, 08:25:42 PM: The only thing I don't like about the promissed lands CD is that if you play the original game on it(meaning the original chip version) The graphics look dull and faded compared to the hu card. No idea why this is. So because of that I own both the hu card for the original and then promissed lands for the add on version.
Title: Re: Populous Has anyone played this game before ??
Post by: wolfman on April 02, 2014, 10:17:29 PM: Quote from: BigusSchmuck on April 01, 2014, 08:45:34 AM
I suggest getting the promised lands as it has a lot of added content and is in ENGLISH! But yeah, its a great game.

Err....isn´t the original Populous in English as well? Afaik only the manual is in japanese...I can´t remember having seen any japanese glyphs on the gamescreens :-k
Title: Re: Populous Has anyone played this game before ??
Post by: SignOfZeta on May 12, 2014, 09:14:39 AM: Yeah, the whole thing, the HuCard version anyway, is totally %100 English.

And the game in general is great. I've been a fan since the Amiga version.
Title: Re: Populous Has anyone played this game before ??
Post by: wolfman on May 12, 2014, 09:31:47 AM: Quote from: SignOfZeta on May 12, 2014, 09:14:39 AM
Yeah, the whole thing, the HuCard version anyway, is totally %100 English.

And the game in general is great. I've been a fan since the Amiga version.

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I wonder why they never ported "Powermonger" to the PCE...since it was a follow-up it might have been a good seller anyway...