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We were deforming the world in Populous in 1989 ... and people drowned.
by SixSigma 13y ago
We were deforming the world in Populous in 1989 ... and people drowned.
- dragontamer 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7424517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7424517 I know. Early 90s gaming was awesome. Such flexibility in games is a rare sight today.
- SixSigma 13y agoI have the 5 1/4" floppy of Populous on my shelf (which is why I knew the year). Sadly I can't play it any more because of the 1980's DRM. Even if I could get a 5 1/4" drive working in my modern PC, the game asks you populations of various world cities for which the answers are on an un-photocopiable (black on dark red) sheet that came in the game box which I have sadly lost. hmm I just looked on GOG and it's $5.99 http://www.gog.com/game/populous http://www.gog.com/game/populous Annoying though, when you have it already :) I got the three pack for $15, gog bless. Even better, you get free games too including Beneath a Steel Sky - I never finished that either - I am a happy gamer.
- SixSigma 13y agoI was wrong about the DRM, that mechanism was Sim City Populous asks you to identify a picture, which came on a separate sheet from the manual. It is disabled in the GOG version (although it still asks you the question but without checking the answer).