Bullfrog Productions, game featured: Populous, acquired by EA in 1995
Maxis, game featured: Sim City 2000, acquired by EA in 1997
Westwood Studios, game featured: Command and Conquer - Red Alert, acquired by EA in 1998
DreamWorks Interactive LLC, game featured: Medal of Honor, acquired by EA in 2000
Honorable mention to Mythic Entertainment/Bioware, acquired by EA in 2006
Song referenced: Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
I dunno. Maxis is a bit of a mix bag. Had EA not brought them, they might have gone bankrupt.
Fair, but they’ve long since been dismantled and still hold a special place in our hearts.
Yes, SimCity 3000 and 4 was very-very good. Sims 1 and 2 were also under EA, and they weren’t a cash grab like 3. Spore was also fun. The last SimCity, in 2012 was shit.
Spore would have been an amazing game if it was like the early demos and not transformed into some weird kid thing.
Spore was fun until you get the last stage then it became tedious.
“Wait….my species has achieved space flight. Why I’m constantly fixing all these issues? I just want to explore and stuff.”
Your feeling of helplessness is your best friend, savage!
That quote is from RA2, produced by EA.
It’s a good one, but rules are rules.
Bullfrog was a lost legend of development. Back when Peter Molyneux wasn’t a pile of lies in a trenchcoat.
I fell for the lies every time. I felt like a teenage girl dating a cheating ex, telling myself he really changed this time, it would be different.
Well maybe we needed a dog control button, Peter!
Maybe I’m still not over it. I’ll see myself out.
After Fable was where I drew the line.
The crazy thing was Fable was actually good! Once you got past Peter’s grandiosity and fabrications, it was a fun, albeit a little shallow, experience.
But Peter had to be out there carrying on about how we could cut down a tree and that same tree would be a stump in the future, or something like that.
Electronic Arts? More like Electronic Farts.
RIP all those beautiful studios. (I dont have any memories of Dreamworks Interactive though)
