[Intro][Amiga] Populous

Video game intro for Populous for Amiga.

Interesting use of game's own engine and mechanics for this intro.

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[KStone66]

I did some checking the other night and Shadow of the Beast has an awesome soundtrack. Bloodmoney is great. I owned an Atari ST at the time but swapped it for an Amiga 2000 because a) the Amiga had better games and b) the music was much and much better. I had a great time when I'd figured out how Protracker worked and was able to load songs from games such as Lotus TC 2 and create mixes. Those were the days... :)

[kad3t]

@KStone66

Amiga had slightly better graphical capabilities due to it's customized graphical chips with hardware scrolling (also paralax) and blitter (thanks to which we could enjoy 64-colour graphics and in some cases after loads of "hacking" and pushing machine to its limits even 256 on vanilla A500). As for music the only difference was that Atari ST had MIDI port which Amiga didn't (by default as there were obviously MIDI extensions).

[beIIend]

@kad3t The Amiga had a four channel stereo sound chip and the St didn't???!

[kad3t]

@beIIend

Four channel stereo 8bit 22kHz IIRC. As for ST, I'm not sure...

[luki79uk]

Thanks for posting this - I always loved the epic music of the Populous intro on my A500 - your video brings back good old memories! favorited

[jaybo197306]

This was fantastic in its day. The only game I ever played all night. I remember the shock of seeing daylight out of the window

[raskaskoneisto]

Oh god, that end part of the title song is so cool. You know, when the lone snare comes in.

[raskaskoneisto]

Music by Hubbard? Should've realized. This game, especially this intro, really made an impression on me when I was... 8 or 9 years old, I guess. Never got the hang of the game, really, but that didn't matter that much, at least to me it didn't. It was just... magical to simply play around and try stuff on my Amiga 500.

[tuegy]

Lame!!! Atari ST destroys all!!!!

[7StringsLover]

Beautiful memories. Thank you sir for bringing back some blissful images from my childhood. And awesome music, too. It still comes to my head at times, after all these years.

[zecle]

who is rob ? XD XD