Populous (NES prototype)

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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)

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