A few years ago, I stumbled across an interesting, if bizarre, turn-based strategy game set in space. The goal was to build up colonies, explore, and basically become a sci-fi middle manager. What a perfect opportunity to get my geek on again, years later.

It had been such a long time I had to do a Google search to find the site and see if it still existed. It does, much to my delight! It’s called Galactic Conquest, and clicking my mouse to build and destroy a Galactic Empire has eaten up valuable hours of my life over the past two weeks.

While the membership seems to be down to about 60 or so gamers logged in on average, it is sometimes amusing to watch the real-time scrolling chat as other members talk trash on each other in a way that only the hardest of hardcore geeks can do. (I find myself at quite a loss when it comes to the trash talk.)

It’s a complicated, yet simply run game that just takes up space and time in your browser. No need for any downloads, no payments made (unless you want to pay them, and I have in the past but not yet for this session), no need for hardcore dual Xtreme graphics accelerators with fluid release cooling solutions. None of that is needed for this turn-based game. What is a turn-based strategy game, you may ask? *snort* Noob!

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