Old game

[LordMaul]

The game I'm thinking of was fairly old, and came out in the shareware days. It had a black screen with a grid of gray lines, and you would select the squares in the grid and choose what to assign them as (either a farm, a factory, etc. and were denoted by little icons of airplanes, farm-looking things, stick-figures for men, etc.) and the goal was to somehow have the most squares or something, and you needed the farms for food for your men (who also occupied squares), and so on. VERY simple looking game but it was really fun and addictive. I think it could be played as two players or single player vs. computer.

I think it was called something like Domination, Total Domination, Global Annihilation, or something along those lines, but I can't find info for it on Google.

Any help? I think I posted about this a while back, but I don't think the thread went anywhere.

 

[BrianH1]

no, but reading this made me remember Total Annihilation. wow thats an old memory.

 

[Juno]

total annihilation! i loved that game until starcraft stirred me out of RTS games forever.

 

[IronWing]

There was a game like that for Intellivision called Utopia. It had two islands, one for each player. You could build farms, factories, schools, hospitals, and fortresses. You could also fund insurgents on the other player's island. You had to balance food/health/education/security to win. You also had a fishing fleet to earn income and there were hurricanes that would rip through the islands every few turns. The optimum solution in Utopia was to cover the island in factories while providing barely sufficient food, schools, and hospitals. Schools lowered the birth rate and hospitals kept folks happy.

 

[LordMaul]

Yeah, similar, but I checked screenshots...very different, and obviously way too colorful. The farms were red, factories green I think, airplanes blue and maybe one more color, but everything else was black and white/gray with black being the predominate color on the entire screen.

 

[geckojohn]

starcraft was a great game!

 

[gneGne]

Originally posted by: geckojohn
starcraft is a great game!

Corrected.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: gneGne

Originally posted by: geckojohn
starcraft is over-rated!

Corrected.

now its correct

 

[LordMaul]

more help?

 

[LordMaul]

Dammit, SOMEONE's gotta know!

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: gneGne

Originally posted by: geckojohn
starcraft is the best game ever made

Corrected.

now its correct

Suits me like that

 

[aCynic2]

I think I remember that game. It was like a precursor to sim city, sim civ and other games like that (may be it was a another company's offering when sim city was just starting out). I think one of the title words was Domain or Dominion, not domination.