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Populous

DOS - 1989

Also released on: Acorn 32-bit - Amiga - Atari ST - Genesis - SEGA Master System - Sharp X68000 - TurboGrafx-16

Alt names ポピュラス, ポピュラス外伝, Populous Gaiden
Year 1989
Platform DOS
Released in France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States (1989)
Brazil (1991)
Genre Strategy
Theme Managerial, RTS, Real-Time
Publisher Electronic Arts, Inc.
Developer Bullfrog Productions, Ltd.
Perspectives Isometric, Diagonal-down
Dosbox support Fully supported on 0.70
4.57 / 5 - 54 votes

Description of Populous

Populous (aka ポピュラス, ポピュラス外伝) is a video game published in 1989 on DOS by Electronic Arts, Inc.. It's a strategy game, set in a managerial, real-time and rts themes, and was also released on Acorn 32-bit, Amiga, Atari ST, Genesis, SEGA Master System, Sharp X68000 and TurboGrafx-16.

Populous has the following addons available: Populous: The Promised Lands, Populous: The Final Frontier and Populous: World Editor, don't miss them!

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Comments and reviews

KC 2018-08-31 1 point DOS version

The game seems to work, but it asks for a password, I can not get past the password. I guess I will try POP.BAT as someone suggested. But I don't know why that would bypass a password. I am on a Mac using Boxer.

Kyle P 2017-07-16 1 point

Great! But the SNES version is bar none the best version! Still, Thank you very very much for uploading this! I loved this game growing up!

Sabbath 2016-12-01 1 point

Thank you for this game !!!

Noah McDaniel 2016-08-10 0 point

I'd like to try this game

zxthehedgehog 2016-06-14 1 point DOS version

For those who cannot get the program running:
Open the POP.BAT file, not POPULOUS.EXE.

FoNUS 2016-04-10 1 point Amiga version

Try the Amiga version with a decent emulator.
Works for Me.

Giant Squidy 2016-01-31 0 point DOS version

As another poster has mentioned, I can only run the keyboard editor, but not the POPULOUS.EXE file with DOSBox. Also, this game is currently on GOG, is this correlated?

Planet 2016-01-23 0 point DOS version

edit pop.bat to say populous vga adlib sound : it sounds better :D

ShunFu Jin 2015-03-31 -1 point DOS version

I couldn't get it to work in DOSbox... They keyboard setup program works, but not the populous.exe ...

bill 2015-02-25 0 point DOS version

dosent work on windows 7 64x bit

Hoodrich 2014-09-02 0 point DOS version

I bought this game on origin and I couldn't even activate. Now I had it for free and it works.
*FACEPALM*

Apollo 2014-04-04 0 point DOS version

Bummer deal all around. Shame on everyone.

Angie Diego 2013-09-03 0 point DOS version

Incompatible with newer windows, too. Fail.

Angie Diego 2013-09-03 0 point DOS version

The gog.com download is not free, so why is it there? This site is supposed to be about freeware

Mary 2013-06-06 2 points DOS version

Can someone please put the manual. I can't get through the verification check.

Frank 2012-12-27 0 point DOS version

still trying to download it :S

armchair rambo 2012-08-18 0 point DOS version

this game has always rocked...

Thomas R. McKee 2011-09-14 1 point DOS version

KEWL

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Buy Populous

Populous is available for a small price on the following website, and is no longer abandonware. GOG.com provides the best release and does not include DRM, please buy from them! You can read our online store guide .

Other Releases

Populous was also released on the following systems:

Acorn 32-bit

Amiga

Atari ST

Genesis

SEGA Master System

Sharp X68000

TurboGrafx-16

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