Look: 7/10 I know this is an incredibly simple screenshot, but I just like the tone of colors like this.

Really nice to see some graphics in strategy/sim, especially empire-building. Added a nice touch to it. Almost more like Risk, etc., rather than just constantly entering in numbers. Cool to have the precipitation graphics too

Play: 6/10 Welp, I know I always say it, but sim/strategy isn't my favorite genre. Especially early empire-building types. But here goes nothing. As usual with early console games, the "manual" (box art) helps quite a bit to get acclimated. Cool that there is a 2-player mode, tho I didn't test it at all. I just can't get that into these numbers-based "did you feed enough people, but then make sure you put money into defense" etc gameplay. It just doesn't grab me I guess. Definitely advanced for its day, but I dropped it after 5-10 minutes.

Feel: 7/10 Certainly worth a playtest, as I did, even if the genre ain't your thing. Even if just for the graphics and rudimentary gameplay alone. If you love strategy/sim/empire games, this definitely is worth a playthrough. Even tho I didn't really play it long, nor did it blow me away, I can't deny how advanced it is for its release year, how innovative it was with the multiple factors rather than just food-war-population of earlier strategy/sim games, and how important it was for the rise of the few strategy/sim games I do like (I know, I'm so juvenile, but Sim Theme Park and, believe it or not, that much maligned Roller Coaster Factory game.)

Attachment: 5/10 Hm, seems I will have to figure out Intellivision emulation because it keeps coming up. I had mostly heard bad things about the console, but I will have to see for myself. So far, I certainly have been biased toward Atari 2600 for consoles and Apple II for microcomputers. Edit: Welp, I am glad I found some Reddit thread to help with this, tho I'm still banned from Reddit lol, but I can now run Intellivision properly on MAME! Turns out loading the software straight from MAME gets a little messy. Anyway, this certainly wasn't the game that sold me on the console; nevertheless, glad to have easier access to it so I can start playing Intellivision games more readily.