Powermonger Almost Got Fantasy, Feudal Japan, & American Civil War Expansions, Here’s Why It Didn’t

“We were gonna push the 3D a bit more.”.

When we were interviewing former Bullfrog developers for our ‘Making Of’ feature on the RTS Powermonger, there were a few topics we knew we had to explore, with the major one being the game’s cancelled expansions.

As you may or may not already be aware, back when Bullfrog released the original game for the Atari ST and the Amiga, it announced some fairly ambitious plans for a bunch of data disks that would transform the game’s setting to World War 1, the American Civil War, Feudal Japan, and a fantasy world. However, only one ever saw the light of day (Powermonger – World War 1 Edition), with the rest quietly being put to one side. As a result, we wanted to see whether we could tease out any information about these other disks to see if there was actually any work done on them.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

“We were gonna push the 3D a bit more.”.

When we were interviewing former Bullfrog developers for our ‘Making Of’ feature on the RTS Powermonger, there were a few topics we knew we had to explore, with the major one being the game’s cancelled expansions.

As you may or may not already be aware, back when Bullfrog released the original game for the Atari ST and the Amiga, it announced some fairly ambitious plans for a bunch of data disks that would transform the game’s setting to World War 1, the American Civil War, Feudal Japan, and a fantasy world. However, only one ever saw the light of day (Powermonger – World War 1 Edition), with the rest quietly being put to one side. As a result, we wanted to see whether we could tease out any information about these other disks to see if there was actually any work done on them.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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