What did Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux do before he started mucking around with freakily realistic talking avatars for Project Natal? He founded Bullfrog Productions and oversaw some of the greatest, most iconic games ever committed to, er, floppy disk. It looks like we might be seeing some of them again soon too.

Based on the principle that old games never die; they merely lie in cryogenic stasis awaiting a lucratively opportune moment for re-release we’re actually very surprised that the Bullfrog back catalogue hasn’t been exploited-to-death long before now – especially since Electronic Arts owns it all. Anyway, things may be about to change on that front, as EA’s Harvey Elliot tells Kikizo.com:

“I’m personally a huge fan of Populous and Theme Park, they were some of my favourite games – many years ago, obviously – and I’d love to see both of those remade.”

“I’m going to look at them at some point, I think there’s an opportunity to bring those back in the future, but only if it’s right for the time and not just a ‘remake’ or something. We’d need to do it in a way that’s true to the original values, but would still make a great game today.”

So that’s a bit of promising news, we think. We’ll keep a super-keen eye on this and let you know what develops. Fingers crossed that Elliot’s trawl through the Bullfrog archives also touches on Magic Carpet, Powermonger and anything in the Dungeon Keeper series. Ooh, that’d be almost too cool...