Monthly Archives: October 2020

Friday Night Legends

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I’m surprised I didn’t post about this game until now.

Friday Night Legends, a *high school* football game.  The game comes with a sampling of Texas high school teams, since the game creators are from Texas.

It doesn’t have individual players, and just 6 plays on offense and 6 plays on defense.

It took me the better part of two and a half weeks to get though one game, but it’s a fun one.  I made a few mistakes as one does when trying out a new game.

I randomly picked 2 teams that came with the base game: Sealy 1978 and Kerrville Tivy 2010.

It wasn’t until I looked for graphics for these two teams and saw the significance of them.

Sealy Tigers 1978:


Some running back named Eric Dickerson.

Tivy 2010:


A quarterback named Johnny Manziel

And the results of the game I played reflects these two players.

Sealy Tigers 37
Tivy Antlers 10

Seally scored 5 rushing touchdowns (plus one FG and one missed XP) to Tivy’s 1 passing TD.

Did Dickerson score them all?  Maybe.  And Johnny Football probably threw that one TD pass.

I didn’t take very good stats, to be honest, But I’ll try to next time I play this game.

Though I should try the college counterpart to this game as well.

Stay tuned!

GridZone

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Around six years ago I started a league (the Pan-Dimensional Gridball Coalition) for a game called Gridball, which later became GridZone.  The game was created by Gary W. Brown.

It was a reimaging of American football, with 7 players on offense and 7 on defense.

I created a few teams based on friends, family, and fictional characters.

I played a couple of games and then went on to other games/leagues.

Mr. Brown has reworked GridZone into a more polished game called GridZone Turf War and I decided to pull out my old teams and order a copy of the new edition.

I’ll probably rework the teams and eliminate the friends and family names, making all the teams consist of fictional characters.

The 8 teams I had created:

  • Cestus III Invaders
  • Gallifrey All-Stars
  • Tottenham Roosters
  • Sparta Warriors
  • Westeros Ravens
  • Rylos Gunstars
  • New York Titans
  • Tatooine Dewbacks

And I’ll come up with a better league name.

Stay tuned!

2011-12 EPL

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Since I tend to play more Dice United than any other of my soccer games, I’m going to start the 2011-12 Tottenham Hotspur English Premier League season.

That season came with the game in the first place, or more specifically, 4 top teams from that season, and the remaining 16 were available as a separate purchase.

My first sample match, Spurs v. Arsenal, which was actually the 6th game of the season, resulted in a 2-nil win for Spurs.  I’ll throw that result out and play it in the correct order.

First up for Spurs:

edit: Away against Manchester United.

I see that this is listed as the first played game, but round 2 of the 2011-12 season.  Everton was supposed to be the first match, but for some reason it was actually the 20th.

Stay tuned!