# What was this game? (Colecovision?)

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**Created:** [January 3, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-colecovision/566232 "2011-01-03T16:47:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-colecovision/566232/1 "2011-01-03T16:47:09Z")

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I just remembered a game a friend of mine had growing up, that we would play late into the night. It was 2-player, and we each had an island that we developed, sort of SimCity- or Civilization-style. You’d build farmland, city pieces, etc. Occasionally a hurricane would come by and swipe out everything on your coast and you’d have to rebuild.

Ring any bells?

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**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-colecovision/566232/2 "2011-01-03T16:57:11Z")

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Utopia was on Intellivision. Deinfitely had hurricanes wiping out parts of islands, crops, etc.

Fortune Builder was on ColecoVision.

.[http://cgi.ebay.com/Fortune-Builder-Colecovision-1984-W-Manual-Super-Rare-/180606810412?pt=Video\_Games\_Games&hash=item2a0d01392c#ht\_820wt\_906](http://cgi.ebay.com/Fortune-Builder-Colecovision-1984-W-Manual-Super-Rare-/180606810412?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item2a0d01392c#ht_820wt_906)

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**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-colecovision/566232/3 "2011-01-03T17:03:04Z")

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Screen Cap of Fortune Builder:

> **[Fortune Builder - Coleco Vision - Games Database](https://www.gamesdatabase.org/game/coleco-vision/fortune-builder)**
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> Fortune Builder on the Coleco Vision. Published by Circuits and Systems. Developed by Coleco. Released in 1984. Download game manual. Play Game music. View video of game. Screenshot of game. Title screen. Box artwork.

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**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-colecovision/566232/4 "2011-01-03T17:07:47Z")

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It says Fortune Builder was one player so I’m going to guess it was Utopia. The description in the OP sounds exactly like it.

> **[Utopia (video game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(video_game))**
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> Utopia is a 1982 strategy video game by Don Daglow released for the Intellivision and Mattel Aquarius. It is often regarded as among the first city building games, and credited as "arguably the earliest ancestor of the real-time strategy genre." In July 2010, the game was re-released on Microsoft's Game Room service for its Xbox 360 console and for Games for Windows Live.
> Utopia is a two-player game in which the two players each control one of the game's two islands. It lacks an AI opponent, alt...

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-colecovision/566232/5 "2011-01-03T17:10:04Z")

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> [@Jophiel](#):
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> It says Fortune Builder was one player so I’m going to guess it was Utopia. The description in the OP sounds exactly like it.
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> [Utopia (disambiguation) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(video_game))

Winner!

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