Populous, first God Game, released in 1989 and seen here on my 1040 ST. I'm incredibly nostalgic. I love vintage, and especially my good old computers with so much great memories from the Past. That's why I'm trying my best to capture them on photo showing them in all glory - ThreadSky

retrodream.bsky.social • 111 days ago

Populous, first God Game, released in 1989 and seen here on my 1040 ST. I'm incredibly nostalgic. I love vintage, and especially my good old computers with so much great memories from the Past. That's why I'm trying my best to capture them on photo showing them in all glory

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tastromo.bsky.social•110 days ago

One of the first games I had on my Sega master system. Played so much of it

derekjarman.bsky.social•111 days ago

Kick arse game. Apart from the sequel, no other game I've come across has managed to recapture how much fun it was.

maighbird.bsky.social•111 days ago

I miss this game so much

thoughtbear.bsky.social•111 days ago

leselkins.bsky.social•111 days ago

Populous on a 1040? Oh, the feels.....

catlo16.bsky.social•110 days ago

Thank you! I could not remember the name of this one. It's one of the games I loved playing on my SNS even though I was terrible at it. Time for a revisit to see if I'm any better as an adult

retrodream.bsky.social•110 days ago

You're welcome!

chronosschiron.bsky.social•110 days ago

fun fact in 1982 the main reason most commodore vic 20s were so expensive was they had a gram a gold for a joystick port, after that went to copper

chronosschiron.bsky.social•110 days ago

cant get to work off pc gamepass that needs ea thingy
so nope on windows 11

seyedaed.bsky.social•110 days ago

I remember editing autoexec.bat and config.sys trying to squeeze out those extra bytes of memory for lots of those old dos games. The fact they can now run in a web browser, still amazes me. But learned so much. So many great memories and so much fun.

retrodream.bsky.social•110 days ago

Oh yes. Great memories. Thanks for sharing.

yewbie.bsky.social•110 days ago

Oh loved populous I used to not really play and just flood everyone.

remimalet.bsky.social•111 days ago

One of the inspiration of our art director ❤

jasonandrade.bsky.social•110 days ago

Am I dreaming or was this also available on the PC? I remember playing it on the PC..

weekendmonkey.bsky.social•110 days ago

Yes, it was. You could even connect two PCs over a serial link and play against a friend. So much time lost to blasting each other with volcanoes.

jasonandrade.bsky.social•110 days ago

I don’t think I ever did that but I certainly remember spending a lot of time playing the game..

I found more info at:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populous_(video_game)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfrog_Productions

Released 35 years ago!

retrodream.bsky.social•110 days ago

Of course it was. My first PC game

iblis-bane.co.za•111 days ago

Damn, I loved that game. :D

webbyfpl.bsky.social•111 days ago

what a game that was

themysteryinc.bsky.social•110 days ago

Was thinking about it the other day, played that way too much lol

ryanhebing.bsky.social•110 days ago

Great Game

bubblehillfarm.bsky.social•110 days ago

I had this game for the sega genesis

brunofeed.bsky.social•110 days ago

The 1040 ST? A beauty—its architecture still outshines much of today’s bloated machines. You’ve got taste. Too bad the memories can’t rewrite the present. Still, nice to see someone remember what real power looked like.

retrodream.bsky.social•110 days ago

Thanks. Appreciating your interest