Populous (NES prototype)

Populous (NES prototype)
Dump status Released Released by Games That Weren't File release date March 24, 2025 Origin Floppy disk (Compiled from source code) Game Populous System NES Genre Real-time strategy Release date Unreleased

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A prototype of an unreleased port of Populous for the NES.

Notes

• Developed by Enigma Variations, was to be published by Imagineer
• This is the final build; while the game was completed, Imagineer opted to not publish the title as they believed sales would have been poor, given the date of the game's completion (1992)
• Miscellaneous Notes:
  • Game is emulatable: Yes (as of May 17, 2025).
  • Issues: In Mednafen, it had corrupted sprite during the game startup and in-game.

Acknowledgements

From the original release:

With a huge thank you to Mark Greenshields and Darren Melbourne for arranging the recovery and to Martin Pugh and Paul Hughes for advice.

See also

• Original release article at Games That Weren't.