Bullfrog Productions
Type	Defunct
Founded	1987
Headquarters	UK
Key people	Les Edgar and Peter Molyneux
Industry	Computer and video game industry

Bullfrog Productions was a UK computer game developer that was founded in 1987 by Les Edgar and Peter Molyneux, and was one of the entrepreneurs of video gaming. The company became famous for their third release, the innovative god game Populous released in 1989. Image File history File links Bullfrog Productions logo, scanned from Theme Park classics PC box by wS A larger image of just the image logo can be found here below: File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Peter Molyneux OBE (born 1960 in Guildford, Surrey, UK) is a computer game designer and game programmer, responsible for well known God games Populous and Black & White, among others, as well as Business Strategy games such as Theme Park and most recently, The Movies. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games. ... Peter Molyneux OBE (born 1960 in Guildford, Surrey, UK) is a computer game designer and game programmer, responsible for well known God games Populous and Black & White, among others, as well as Business Strategy games such as Theme Park and most recently, The Movies. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

At the time of the creation of Bullfrog Productions, Les Edgar and Peter Molyneux were already involved in an enterprise called Taurus Impex Ltd. It produced a Relational Database product called Acquisition, for the Amiga platform, that mainly sold in the North America. The bullfrog part of Bullfrog Productions name came from bull as in Taurus (Impex) and frog because Les Edgar's daughter loved frogs. Peter Molyneux OBE (born 1960 in Guildford, Surrey, UK) is a computer game designer and game programmer, responsible for well known God games Populous and Black & White, among others, as well as Business Strategy games such as Theme Park and most recently, The Movies. ... The original Amiga 1000 (1985) with various peripherals The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced home entertainment and productivity machine. ...

Electronic Arts, Bullfrog's publisher, acquired the studio in January 1995. Molyneux had become an Electronic Arts vice-president and consultant in 1994, after EA purchased a significant share of Bullfrog. Molyneux left Bullfrog in August 1997 to found Lionhead Studios whilst other members of the original team founded Mucky Foot Productions. The last titles to bear the Bullfrog logo were published in 2001. 2004 met the final end of Bullfrog when Electronic Arts combined their side studios into EA UK. EA redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Lionhead Studios is a United Kingdom-based computer game development company led by industry veteran Peter Molyneux, and taken over by Microsoft Game Studios in April 2006. ... Mucky Foot Productions was a computer game company founded in 1997 by 3 ex-Bullfrog developers: Mike Diskett, Fin McGechie and Guy Simmons. ... EA redirects here. ... EA UK is a Chertsey, England based video game developer, owned by games publisher Electronic Arts. ...

Notable titles

Populous was the first widely successful title by Bullfrog (screenshot on Amiga)

• Fusion
• Aquarium
• Dungeon Keeper
• Dungeon Keeper 2
• Flood
• Gene wars
• Hi-Octane
• Magic Carpet
• Magic Carpet 2
• Populous
• Populous II
• Populous: The Beginning
• Powermonger
• Syndicate series
• Theme Hospital
• Theme Park
• Theme Park World (aka Sim Theme Park in the US)
• Theme Park Inc (aka SimCoaster in the US)
• Tube

screenshot Amiga Populous, made myself. ... screenshot Amiga Populous, made myself. ... The original Amiga 1000 (1985) with various peripherals The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced home entertainment and productivity machine. ... Dungeon Keeper is a PC strategy game released by Bullfrog Productions in July 1997. ... Dungeon Keeper 2 is an IBM PC strategy game developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1999[1] for Microsoft Windows. ... Flood is a 1990 computer game developed by Bullfrog Productions. ... Hi-Octane is a racing game released in 1995 for the IBM PC, Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn developed by Bullfrog and based upon their earlier Magic Carpet game code. ... Magic Carpet is a video game released by Bullfrog in 1994. ... Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds is a 1995 computer game, the sequel to the Magic Carpet. ... Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods is a computer game in the Populous series for the Amiga and Atari ST computers, developed by Bullfrog Productions. ... Populous: The Beginning - is the third of the PC strategy god games of the Populous series, developed by by Bullfrog Productions in 1998, and often considered the definitive version. ... Powermonger is a real-time strategy game developed by Bullfrog in 1990. ... The Syndicate series was a series of violent isometric science fiction computer games created by Bullfrog Productions. ... Theme Hospital is a simulation computer game developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1997, in which the player designs and operates a hospital. ... Theme Park is a simulation computer game designed by Bullfrog Productions, released in 1994, in which the player designs and operates an amusement park. ... // The Basics Theme park world is a theme game, where you have to build a park, with rides and stuff to entertain the visitors. ... An in-game screenshot from the third themed zone, Arabian Nights. ...

External links

• Rap sheet at MobyGames
• Company profile at Home of the Underdogs
• Rhod's Populous & Powermonger collection
• Fusion at MobyGames