I wanted something quick to muss around with when I'm not doing school work, so I re-found this, a super old strategy game I used to love.
Really simple and everything, but still a blast. I guess there's still a pretty decent multiplayer community and they made a revised matchmaker a few years ago.
Long out of print, but some nice person uploaded the full version of the game in a cool little client.
thedakinihut.strategyplanet.gamespy.com/downloads.htm
From there you can go and find the matchmaker client. It's on another site, I believe.
*Look's like the link's down right now. Worked yesterday. Hm.
But anyways, people should play it. Works great on this netbook thang.
http://popre.net/
The base site for the matchmaker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populous:_The_Beginning
And a descrip.
I played the DS port a while ago and found it quite enjoyable. Fun game.
I think that's based on the first game.
"The beginning" is actually the third in the series and plays completely different.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMgZ1ReDbVs[/youtube]