Syndicate was released in 1993 for DOS and Amiga, and was ported to many other systems including Mac, and Atari Jaguar with watered down ports even reaching Sega Genesis and SNES.
Syndicate with its themes of corporate espionage, and conspiracies of control set against a cyber punk dystopian future wears its inspirations on its sleeve while providing evidence that term “mature game” does not have to just mean scantily clad people or canned romantic dialog trees. I am here today to talk about one of their franchises that I was lucky to get into as a teen and helped define tastes and ideas of mine to this day.
Fans of Bullfrog Productions will still speak fondly of the development house despite their unceremonious slaying by EA in 2001. Though not every one of their series was a hit, you could always count on Bullfrog to come out with interesting titles and Bullfrog helped define strategy and simulation ideas in the industry. For those who haven’t heard of them, you are playing games influenced by their works to this day still.įounded in 1987 by Peter Molyneux and Les Edgar, Bullfrog Productions was a prominent development studio that produced hit classic series such as Populous, Magic Carpet, Theme Park, Dungeon Keeper, Syndicate and more. Veterans of the PC gaming world will likely remember them with a mixture of fantastic memories spent pouring hours into their creations combined with a bit of stale anger at the fate of the studio. Once upon a time there was a development studio called Bullfrog Productions.