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StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game

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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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1. 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.