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StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game

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1. spiffytech ◴[] No.45655904[source]
I have dreams of porting the old Strategic Commander game to newer devices. Someday I hope it rises to the top of my todo list. I logged hundreds of hours on that game playing with my friends and brother.

Taking turns via IR blaster or pass-and-play was amazing in an era without wifi or cellular data. No account signups or anything, just point your devices at each other and you had a game going. And without continuous connectivity, asynchronous play was the default way games worked, so it worked great.

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2. dlcarrier ◴[] No.45656537[source]
I miss playing SubHunt (https://palmdb.net/app/subhunt) and I can't find any remakes for other systems.

It's easy to get it going in an emulator, but I'm surprised games of that type never caught on, in their own right.

3. henrebotha ◴[] No.45660905[source]
Oh my god, I had completely forgotten about that one until now.