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Today I bought "Intellivision Lives!" for the Gamecube with my Walmart Christmas gift card. Yes, I suppose I could have spent $20 on my preps for my bunker for the coming TSHTF perfect superstorm that is going to bite us in the arse come 2010, but I couldn't resist passing this little gem.

I never owned an Intellivision. My recollection of this machine is from playing UTOPIA with one of my very good high school chums and he would whip me time and time again. If this good chap is by some slim chance happening to be reading this, I declare that I challenge him to a rematch.

I quite enjoy this Gamecube disc. It has 60 games including of course the topic of this thread: UTOPIA. The game was years ahead of its time. Although other games that came after are more advanced (such as Civ II, Sim City, etc), there's a simplicity to this game that makes it universally timeless. It's the perfect strategy/nation building game. You have to secure a food supply, create an industrial infrastructure, build a military and provide social services to increase the quality of life for your people. Being aware of peak oil/energy issues, I was able to figure out that the carrying capacity for my island nation was no more than 4000 population and played the game as such Of course, I didn't have a human opponent so I was able to easily create a sustainable country without any military threat save for those pesky pirates.

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cador', 'T')oday I bought "Intellivision Lives!" for the Gamecube with my Walmart Christmas gift card. Yes, I suppose I could have spent $20 on my preps for my bunker for the coming TSHTF perfect superstorm that is going to bite us in the arse come 2010, but I couldn't resist passing this little gem.

I never owned an Intellivision. My recollection of this machine is from playing UTOPIA with one of my very good high school chums and he would whip me time and time again. If this good chap is by some slim chance happening to be reading this, I declare that I challenge him to a rematch.

I quite enjoy this Gamecube disc. It has 60 games including of course the topic of this thread: UTOPIA. The game was years ahead of its time. Although other games that came after are more advanced (such as Civ II, Sim City, etc), there's a simplicity to this game that makes it universally timeless. It's the perfect strategy/nation building game. You have to secure a food supply, create an industrial infrastructure, build a military and provide social services to increase the quality of life for your people. Being aware of peak oil/energy issues, I was able to figure out that the carrying capacity for my island nation was no more than 4000 population and played the game as such Of course, I didn't have a human opponent so I was able to easily create a sustainable country without any military threat save for those pesky pirates.