Does Anyone Remember 'Utopia'

[Patine]

I know this should probably be in the Classic Civ's or even Off-Topic forums, but hell, all my friends are here, so I'll post here rather than reminesce with complete strangers. Does anyone remember the Intellivision game 'Utopia?' It was the first Civ-style game I ever played, back in the mid-80's. Though ultra-simplistic, even as Civ1 goes, I played it for hours back then. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Or, does anyone know any other pre-Civ1 Civ-style games?

[Varwnos]

Utopia had far better graphics than Civ1





I also owned Megalomania and Powermonger, although i never understood how the latter worked.

[Tigey]

The second graphic looks almost identical to Populus on the Megadrive...


Powermonger was all about killing as many sheep as possible, conscripting everyone, and getting lucky by finding a village that had a Workshop, and nearby Iron/Trees, in order to build weapons to stand a chance against enemy armies. It was quite good, in that you often had to go guerilla, finding and attacking undefended villages, and avoiding the enemy army whilst you built up your strength...

[curtsibling]

Ah! The golden age of games!

*sobs*

[Boco]

Wiki says Utopia was a mano-a-mano game. No version with an AI?

[Varwnos]

Originally posted by Boco
Wiki says Utopia was a mano-a-mano game. No version with an AI?

Utopia was an Amiga 500 game. I doubt that any amiga strategy was multiplayer before the settlers (not even sure if settlers 1 was multiplayer). Utopia had AI all right

[Boco]

Ah. So this has PDA or cell phone potential?

If anyone wants to give CS a Christmas present...


Ruben Monteiro from Portugal, a totally devoted Amiga and Amiga-games fan, organized the "Amiga: Immortal" project, a CD with brand new studio-recorded versions of hits from Amiga game music.

Track listing:

1. CDROM data (video and website)
2. Shadow of the Beast - Intro
3. Shadow of the Beast - Eerie Forests
4. Shadow of the Beast - The Cavern
5. Shadow of the Beast - Beast's Stronghold
6. Shadow of the Beast - Underwater
7. Shadow of the Beast - Game Over
8. Dafel: Bloodline
9. Project-X '99
10. Superfrog
11. The Final Odyssey
12. Blockhead II
13. The Strangers
14. Harlequin
15. Utopia
16. Space Station 3000
17. Gunbee F'99
18. Turrican
19. Alien Breed 3D

[curtsibling]

Awesome find, Boco!

If I could find a working 'Red Baron' emulator, I would have the perfect xmas!

[CapTVK]

Hey! I also have that CD...small world

[AGRICOLA]

You can find a huge selection of freeware/abandonware at the-underdogs

EDIT: Dammit, I can't get the link to work so do a search on "the-underdogs".

Both Utopia and Red Baron can be found there.

Have a perfect xmas, Ciaran.