# I'm looking for a very old game...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 4, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-very-old-game/272899 "2004-11-04T02:42:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-very-old-game/272899/1 "2004-11-04T02:42:26Z")

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… that my father and brothers and I used to play.

On my dads Commedore 64.

It was called, if memory serves, Galactic Empire.

It was composed of a grid, with letters of the alphabet being planets. You would get a planet, with a unique color. Each planet created ships, and you could send your ships to other planets to take them over.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

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**Author:** ![Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirka_T_Bawa)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-very-old-game/272899/2 "2004-11-04T03:55:11Z")

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This sounds very familar to a PC game I used to have back on my 286. I remember there being news (for in game) and funny messages scrolling on the bottom of the screen? Does that sound familar? I probably have the game on a 5.25 floppy in my garage, but I don’t have a 5.25 floppy drive anymore ☹

If you find the game let me know, I might be intreasted.

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**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-very-old-game/272899/3 "2004-11-04T05:29:29Z")

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Look anything like [this](http://www.virtualapple.com/galacticempiredisk.html) ?

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**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-very-old-game/272899/4 "2004-11-05T19:53:16Z")

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Sadly, no. The game that I remember is incredibly simplistic.

No graphics, nothing so fancy as that.

It was literally just a graph on one half, with a listing of “planets” (just a list of letters, with the ship production that would happen each turn.

If you Google Galactic Empire, all you get is Star Wars stuff, dang it.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-very-old-game/272899/5 "2004-11-05T19:57:17Z")

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Looks like [Arnold](http://arnold.c64.org/) has it but you’ll need a C64 emulator.