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Lost Nintendo Entertainment System port of Populous found

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Mar 26, 2025
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Populous was a flagship game of the 16-bit era, creating a new genre from scratch and showing what computers such as the Amiga A500 and Atari ST were capable of. It was popular enough for 8-bit conversions to be attempted, and one of these abandoned efforts has surfaced decades later: a port for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It's amazingly accurate…

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