PowerMonger - Amiga - Best RTS Computer Games (Bullfrog/EA 1990)

[@ShamanKish]

Played this on Atari ST. Great game, and one of the first 3D games at that time.

[@doteaters]

It had a very rough 3D engine, but it was still pretty spectacular for the time.

[@swampjajc]

Such a great game I am amazed no one has remade a new version of this, I used to play it for hours, running over fields chasing sheep LOL

[@Rlc1975-t7w]

So glad that I found this. I was obsessed with powermonger. And completed it as a 15 year old. Brings back so many memories.

[@doteaters]

So you battled all the way down to the bottom right land? Impressive.

[@Rlc1975-t7w]

@@doteaters yes! For hours most nights I would play; it was my brothers amiga (in his bedroom) which I thought was good of him.. 11 pm. "come on now go to bed"

[@doteaters]

I guess he realized it was for a good cause. ;)

[@TheMedievalNerd]

You have to applaud how with virtually little to no dev tools. In a world where concepts like UI/UX are still in their infancy. They came up with these games with pretty deep mechanics and systems. Clumsily deliveried at times. But they still damn tried. Now devs have all the tools, and UI/UX examples of countless genres. And yet we dont seem to see this complexity as often in games.

[@endikoa7928]

Like many Amiga's game, this one, I ll never forget. 😔

[@FrogmortonHotchkiss]

"Cracked by Skid Row"--ha ha, brings back memories, that does...

[@okeep1]

When I get bloody rich, I'm going to contract a remake of Power Monger with current graphics engines. but the sound effects will be the same...LOL Yea... thud thwap muhhhuhhhuhhh dit dit dit dit dit dit dit. Yea....meeeeehhh bleeeet. ooohaaah oooh ahhh yeeeeaaaah.

[@VincenzoLaSpesa]

Hey, did you get rich? we are waiting here :D

[@olivier6800]

Will current generation fell the same when they will look at Fortnite/LoL past video, in 30 years?

[@vinnyf4754]

Still waiting.....

[@meanmole3212]

Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

[@jeanpierreragequit1726]

One of my favorite introduction. Brings back good old memories.

[@doteaters]

Yes! Truly an epic game introduction that got the blood racing for battle!

[@ryan3730]

I loved this game. Remember reading that Peter didn’t want to put a pause button in. Glad he did.

[@OneEyedGamerChannel]

Damn, I loved this game so much

[@Perebynis]

One of the best games ever. Still waiting for a remake.

[@helge000]

Oh man, those sound effects... tells me how many countless hours I must have sunk in this game

[@doteaters]

Yep, the sound effects really made this game come alive.

[@andy7666]

I loved this game so much as a kid! I put years into playing this game, just messing about quite alot of the time.. I was nowhere NEAR finishing it!

[@ThomasConover]

You even took the time to record the unique sounds made by the floppy disk special game loader which only PowerMonger had. Now that’s what I call attention to details. ❤

[@doteaters]

It's actually the floppy sounds included with the emulator, but thanks! 😇

[@ianlaybourn3033]

This was probably my favourite game when was younger. Got it from one of those computer game clubs where you had to buy a game every month and if you didn't pick one they would choose one for you anyway. This really needs a modern remake :-)

[@MediaFilter]

We didn't have those clubs, but thanks for the laugh! Sounds like fun.

[@smm8761]

Spent a bunch of time tracking this game down, as I could not remember it's name. Then I stumbled across bullfrog and knew I was on the right track. I just showed it to my teenage kids as I was celebrating gleefully. They were laughing their heads off asking if I played it on a potatoe Hahaha. I told them we suffered with these games so they have games like overwatch and pubg. I remember my older brother soldering ram to the motherboard of our pc so it could play ultima underworld. Not sure but it was like a whopping 16 bytes or some tiny amount compared to today's standards. Good memories!

[@doteaters]

Today's​ kids will never know the struggle of IRQ conflicts.

[@Juissimies84]

Same here "S Mm"! I´m now 33 yrs old and i remember playing this game with friend´s Amiga when i was like 10, perhaps. Also couldn´t remember the name and it´s been bugging me since, until now. So relieved that i finally know the name of this game and get to see it played once again. Now i can die in peace lol.

[@KampfkunstBremen1]

If it exist for mobile would buy it now, spend many hours in my youth with it

[@doteaters]

It would definitely have to be rejigged to work on mobile, what with all those tiny buttons. And I have to say, when you start doing that with these classic games, you end up not having the original game anymore. Still, you're right, it was a total time sink.

[@MegaChrisDaniels]

great memories, we were young at this time :)

[@doteaters]

Were we ever this young? Yes, we were. ;)

[@KingCrimson82]

Its the first title to use a full model of the "command and conquer" engine. You click on a troop and tell them where to go, you get a verbal response and you caan choose from a menu what they are supposed to do, you "farm" people and food insteaad of berium or Spice, you invent things and you gain ground and more houses to finally rock over the opponent.

[@thekrunkymonkey]

I used to LOVE this game. Ahh the memories.

[@joe9songs]

Awesome! I loved the way if you recruited soldiers when one of them was a shepard tending to sheep, you could have sheep in your army as a portable food source. Man, I hope there is a remake of this game one day!

[@Volatile-Tortoise]

The guy has a human skull as a belt buckle. A true dark ages battle lord.

[@doteaters]

Or Edge Lord.

[@MetaSkillz1]

I was having flashbacks to my days as an Amiga addict, and trying to remember the name of this. Thank goodness I found it! I love the music / sound FX so much :)

[@xThe13thWarrior]

Loved this game, wish they'd remake games like this, I'd pay a fortune to have this for the PS4.

[@Volatile-Tortoise]

Imagine a sequel to this with peek modern graphics and a huge budget. Throw in some medieval “sim city” elements (dark age village management) and you would have heaven right there.

[@alessiochemeri2059]

We played this a lot with 2 amiga connected with a self built null modem cable. This game was awesome.

[@Dontpanic4242]

what a great game. my childhood

[@aplape1878]

I spend so much Time for this Game ,

[@okeep1]

I beat it many times.. 7 total armies at once.. hundreds of soldiers. with maxed weaponry.. the key is zooming out to slow the game speed down.. and zooming in to speed it up as in during inventing processes. you need the game fast... but most of the time during battles you want the game slowed way down so you can colorize use of aggression stances. so as to force taking over armies not slay them off. especially the enemy generals. you want him on your side. :)

[@adroharv9213]

there's something you just can't convey when showing a more modern gamer these games. I guess it ties into less being more with your imagination solidifying the experience in a way in fact that you can't get these days. It's why reading a good book is always so rich and why people that played these games will always know something over the new kids of today. I wouldn't trade my experiences of old with the new of today despite some obvious gems in modern gaming

[@doteaters]

You've really hit the nail on the head about game nostalgia. Well said.

[@adroharv9213]

It's nice there are still people and channels that keep these games relevant. It might not be many but I'd be willing to bet that at least a few people are intrigued enough to try older games as a result of a channel like this

[@doteaters]

Adro Harv I'm not always so on the mark about the emotional nature of video game nostalgia as you've been here, but if you're interested you can check out my website about the history of video games here: thedoteaters.com/ It's called The Dot Eaters, and covers the early history of video games from pre-PONG systems to about the era of the NES. Drop a comment in an article if you feel so inclined.

[@Mintcar923]

Adro Harv I had this on Amiga! I don’t recall being much into it though.. I was all over Sid Meiers Pirates & later Civ 2.. When people bitch & moan these days about a mere hiccup in the frame rate I honestly wanna just strange em

[@adroharv9213]

yeah it's a different era now. I do feel glad to have been from these so called lesser times because you do tend appreciate certain aspects more like you say

[@ShaneMcGrath.]

Remake this game on pc in full hd glory pleeeeease! Best game I had on Amiga 500. Thanks for posting I forgot how much I loved the intro music in it's day.

[@mishabakunin4354]

Loved this game. I wonder how it will run on my Amiga 500 mini...

[@lurkerrekrul]

I liked the two Populous games, and this looked great, but even with the manual, I never could figure out how to play it properly.

[@doteaters]

Yeah, they were pretty complex for the time.

[@lurkerrekrul]

When I first played Populous, I had no luck at all following the tutorial in the manual, using the tutorial game option. Everything moved too fast, which I guess was done to speed up the learning process, but it just became unmanageable. Then I followed the tutorial while playing the regular game and it all made sense. With Powermonger, I just found it overwhelming.

[@Khaos969]

Best game I ever played on my Amiga ..... masterpiece

[@pdennisb]

I used to love playing this game back in the day on my Amiga 500. A list of my favorites are bellow in no order. If you're looking for any good titles to emulate these are fun ones. 1. Powermonger 2. Powermonger 2 3. Castles 4. Castles 2 5. Populous 6. Populus 2 7. Wings 8. Das Boot 9. B-17 Flying Fortress 10. Gunboat 11. A-10 Tank Killer 12. Monkey Island 12. Monkey Island 2 13. Sim City 14. Metal Masters 15. Sinbad 16. Myst 17. 688 Attack Sub 18. Hunt for Red October

[@smalon75]

There was a Powermonger 2 or are you thinking of the World War 1 data disk?

[@pdennisb]

I think you're right, it was the WWI data disk.

[@trojanfoe]

Excellent stuff. I had forgotten about it...

[@BigR91100]

oh the good old days, this game just rocked.

[@hawkez2003]

I saw an interview a few years ago with Peter Molyneux. He Basically said this was the worst game he ever made. He appeared to be ashamed of it. I was shocked since I have always loved this game. I loved to goto a new village, buy all of their weapons they had in stock and then use them to destroy them and take back what you paid for them. Each person had a name. It was ahead of it's time. The Amiga version was awesome.

[@Hellwyck]

He hated it because it went out on time, not 10 years after the due date.

[@AndrewNewZealand]

Did anyone ever play the spin-off to this called Fishmonger??? ;) A humble fisherman trying to survive :)

[@Daracdor]

I`d love to be able to play this again .

[@josefgiven]

had this game back in the day and loved it very much. Clicked on the vid link expecting to laugh at how badly the intro/title music had aged, but instead it pwned me :\

[@Khaos969]

Amiga was just a legendary computer no doubt... this was one of the best games I ever played...this and the populous series!

[@beachlife2968]

This is why i loved the Amiga as it had games like this with massive depth. The Megadrive and snes took over and had great game but not games that hooked me for hours on end

[@weasel75]

Lol, those sound-effects just timewarped me ^_^ I liked it even more than Populous, partly because of the 3D ... and the bows n arrows :D

[@doteaters]

I think I messed up on this video, I kept building ploughs because I kept the aggression stance on low while building. I really wanted pikes! ;)

[@kefhomepage]

wish they would remake this game , loved it

[@AndrewNewZealand]

"Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror."

[@Midwinter2]

This game was a tragic missed opportunity. It had a brilliant engine and interface - the game structure was brilliantly set up. But they forgot to include the gameplay! Once you got over the novelty of the set-up, there was nothing left to do.

[@doteaters]

Truth. And funny thing about your username, because Midwinter has a similar kind of setup.

[@McAND]

fantastic strategic Remember Amiga :)

[@56Sandron]

Bei tempi in cui contavano piu le idee dei mezzi.

[@shawndimery]

I love this game so much!

[@toniomiklo2406]

Fantastic game. I remember the number of units you could move on screen at once. A novelty for the period. Then came Rome Total War.

[@doteaters]

You definitely ended up with a giant glob of soldiers moving across the land. And a lot of clashing and grunting as you moved on that last large city.

[@steverogers6273]

remake when? loved it

[@Flexcat010]

intro music = epic

[@jailer75]

god i miss this game!!!!. Who remembers the WW1 add-on???

[@beachlife2968]

Yep. I always regret not playing Powermonger more as i still had loads of the map to do.

[@brucewrigleysgumchewz4667]

I loved this game. I rented it a lot on Sega Genesis back in the 90's (so much so I shoulda bought it). I always thought some of the noises it made were funny. like WTF is that noise it makes while you sit there not doing anything? Like a winding scraping noise lol. And when you command your army to do something it always says "GET" ... what's up with that? lol great game anyway.

[@doteaters]

Bruce Wrigleys Gumchewz I'll assume that the Genesis version was similar in this way as the Amiga version (which was what I played), where your commander would say "Yeah" with various amounts of excitement depending on what you ordered your army to do. He would whisper "Yeah" if he didn't like your order, and shout "YEAH!" if he really liked it. So if you told him just to go slaughter a sheep nearby he'd respond quietly, and when you ordered him to attack a village with maximum aggressiveness he'd shout excitedly. To me it always sounded like a loud belch when he was happy. As you say, the sound was excellent in Powermonger. It's one of my favourite things about the game.

[@brucewrigleysgumchewz4667]

It sounds more like GET than a Yeah. A Get.. with part of the G sound missing. I watched this video and the sounds are very similar though the pitch is a little higher here. Its more muffled in the Sega version tho. Typical Genesis 8 bit audio sampling

[@doteaters]

Bruce Wrigleys Gumchewz It wasn't very clear in the Amiga version either, so it might have been some snippet of code that was transported fairly verbatim from platform to platform. It didn't really sound like "Yeah" either, but I think that's what the instruction manual says he says. Although when he's quiet I think you can hear the word more clearly. As I said, when he barks it it just sounds like a belch or a grunt.

[@brucewrigleysgumchewz4667]

The Genesis manual didnt even mention that part. EA was the dev who ported it over. Now if I could only figure out what in the world that sfx was that played just after your army slaughters a sheep and is sitting there camped out. Sounds like beating or something lol. It stops playing once you move to a new spot.

[@sloubry]

+Bruce Wrigleys Gumchewz I think you are talking about the sound made by the fire - when they are all sitting around it. Also, he does not say "get" but "yeah" with different tone of voice, depending on the moral of his troups.

[@iveno_]

What game is similar to this game, I would love to play a game like that again !

[@kalsolarUK]

populous maybe?

[@doteaters]

I'd say, of the era, a very similar game is Megalomania, which is a lot of fun to play in its own right. It does, however, share the same flaw as Powermonger, where the gameplay gets highly repetitive.

[@ArdaKaraduman]

Somehow I liked Megalomania more. It was more accessible, easier to get into. Powermonger's interface is little bit more harder to figure out.

[@iveno_]

Megalomania I played too, I wish they'd bring a game like that for newer game platforms. I think I like powermonger better, I was so young when I played it.

[@Khaos969]

Possibly the best strategy game ever made!

[@Ahibasabala]

It's been so long ago all i remember is something about sheep.

[@rexapis2125]

CRACKED BY SKID ROW. IGNORE CHECK

[@FrogmortonHotchkiss]

This game could be vastly improved just by making the viewable area larger, which would be easy now.

[@antolepore]

Come li facevano all epoca questi giochi? Esistevano gli engine?

[@okeep1]

Populous 2 had good controls, but it lacked the feeling of risk that Power Monger gave us. Populous (1) ruled because it was 999 levels with varying degrees of difficulty. but none of them could beat Power Monger because of the raw strategy required to beat it. I got huge rushes out of forcing 6 generals to work for me. huge rushes when i could force an entire army to work for me, maybe killing only one of them just before they cave in to my might! walking in to battle with maxed weaponry...

[@fatty3383]

This game used to puzzle me..some maps were really good and engaging. While others were a big pile of 💩 I found a lot commands didn't work and there was no context or direction..and you could absolutely tell the game developers got p##ed of naming the population when you select on a random person and they were called arghh or fhjuu or something to that effect lol 😂

[@doteaters]

The game itself is a lot of fun initially, and the new maps you come across make things marginally interesting as you go along, but it becomes just so damned repetitive after awhile you start longing for the cold feel of steel in your guts.

[@Bokaj01]

...bumtibum....bumtibum....bumtibum...

[@WadeReweti]

Can someone comment as to whether a cannon was achievable in this game? I remember as a kid an older cousin saying he created one but I never could do it lol

[@supportwakatipu6092]

Sure was. It was a bit random what your army would create, The manual said that it would depend on what resources were around, you needed aggression three in a village next to a mine.

[@MrLunithy]

You needed a mine and a black smith in the town with the commander set to level 3 aggression to make it.

[@doteaters]

Yeah, I always felt this game was unfairly maligned. Of course, it does have to take the blame for Black & White, because, as you say, this game was the example Molyneux always used where there are just too many buttons on the screen, so let's go with a gesture-based interface!

[@John-k6f9k]

I can clearly see the roots of Age Of Empires 2 here. An interesting concept, but the AI was too passive, and the ranged weapons way too powerful.

[@petemoss8625]

my girlfriend left me cos of this game LOL!

[@jezz2k]

@FrogmortonHotchkiss Skid Row are still going

[@eval_is_evil]

or on Android maybe? would be total pwnage

[@stevewilliams8257]

Got this for Christmas on Amiga 33 years ago......

[@doteaters]

That's a great gift to find under the tree.

[@SalamiNugget]

I still dont get it :(

[@doteaters]

What is it, exactly, that you don't get?

[@kawailan]

Make an Oculus Rift version!!!!

[@ZeRiverman]

Software Failure. Press left mouse button to continue. Guru Meditation #00000004.00001970

[@doteaters]

Luckily I didn't come across one of those in this video.

[@roosjen]

0:01 *enemy's

[@roosjen]

*enemies' (if there is more than one enemy)

[@HighwayUK]

was good but populous 2 was better

[@muoriutube6064]

I got this game for free in 1993 with my first PC, I never figured out how to play, because the game crashed always 99% of times, and 1% was slow and unplayable ... i hate this game! C & C was the first game of this type that were worthy of being played

[@syruspich5484]

Fuck ea