Anyone remember Populous? Theme Park? Wing Commander? Road Rash? Of course you do! These were some of Electronic Arts' strongest franchises in the late 80s and early 90s.
While we haven't heard too much about them lately, at least they're on the minds of EA's lawyers. The publisher has just recently filed new trademarks for all four titles. Which could mean nothing, of course. But one could dream of things like remakes or even re-releases.
Word had it a new Road Rash was in the works, and then canned; Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach was pretty sure his music would be featured in the game, too. As for the Bullfrog-developed titles Populous and Theme Park, the trademark discoveries are timely. Speaking with Kikizio recently, EA Bright Light studio boss Harvey Elliot recently talked about interesting and possibility of renewing old Bullfrog IP. He even specifically calls out Populous and Theme Park.
Trademarks were dug up over at superannuation, who sorts through that stuff so we don't have to. It's so boring.
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4:20 PM on 08.11.2009
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I loved that series.
Great and important series in the history of the medium. Landmarks in a lot of ways, they really did a lot to advance the technology in the early and mid 90s.
I hope sentences like that will never obfuscate the true geniuses behind those games.
Wing Commander Arena is still fresh in the memory to be excited about this piece of news.
as a Lad I was addicted to the original
Also, I second the Mutant League request.
If anything comes of this, then EA are on track to go from my least favorite developers to my favorites. Whatever happened at EA to make that change is the greatest thing ever.
All those discs!
My other memories of the PC version include taking over a week for someone with 10 years of PC tech supoprt experience to get the game running (gotta love DOS multi-boot batch files just to play a game) and missions taking 5 minutes to load up before starting (I eventually got 15MB of EXPANDED memory and those times dropped to 1 minute....HOOT!).