Monthly Archives: April 2025

Major Baseball Replay Change

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Since I’ve switched over to  Digital Diamond Baseball as my score card, and it’s now possible to simulate (computer plays both sides) any given game, I’ve decided to change the format of how I run my replays as follows.

I will now play the opening game of any given series and simulate the rest of the games in the series.  This equates to me playing roughly 1/3rd of a season’s worth of games for a single team, or about 56 games.

For example, in a four-game series against the Cincinnati Reds from July 21-July 23, I will play out the July 21st game and the computer will simulate the remaining 3 games, including the Sunday doubleheader.

This may give me time to actually finish some of these replays that I’ve started years ago, and start/finish ones that I had planned.

For now I’ll try this schedule with:

  • 1969 Seattle Pilots season replay
  • 1971 San Francisco Giants season replay
  • 1977 San Francisco Giants season replay

If they work out I’ll add other baseball replays as well.

I’m not sure how I’m going to move forward with the 1921 NY Giants and the 1917 MLB replays, neither are available in Digital Diamond Baseball.

Stay tuned!

Race! Formula 90

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I pulled another racing game out of storage.

This was a Kickstarter from a couple of years ago.  The oddest part of the reward was the painted metal cars add-on.

Nice cars, but the main player color cars are orange, red, white, black, blue, and purple.

The game adds extra AI cars in black (2, superfast), yellow (3, fast) and purple (3, slow), so it’s odd that a couple of player colors are also AI colors.

But looking at the painted metal cars set, there’s no blue or orange, two pairs of white/light grey, and green, which are neither a player or AI car color.

Plus the fact that the non-AI cars come in pairs, when all you’re running is a single car in this game, not a team of 2, is odd.

I went ahead and 3D printed some replacement cars (based on an upscaled file for a Formula D car) plus a bunch of 1964-era F1 cars in the approximate scale/size.

Plus I ordered a half dozen metal cars to use from Eureka Miniatures.

First car is from the first edition of Race! Formula 90, second car is the plastic one from the 2nd edition, 3rd is a painted car from Eureka Miniatures.

I’ll be painting the metal ones from Eureka Miniatures in the 6 appropriate colors.  I may have to look into paint schemes from the 1980s-90s for these cars, because of their styling (there’s a small air intake above the cockpit).

Stay tuned!

Classic F1

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I have two versions of this game, one that I acquired and printed out in 2015, and an updated version that’s been sitting on my hard drive since late 2020.

I think it’s about time that I sat down and learned this one.

This is a lap-by-lap recreation of F1 races, and the most recent set that I picked up has all the world champions up to 2019, and the 2019 season set.

Other seasons that I have are 1981, 1988, and 2016, and a variety of historical tracks.

I may just take 20 championship drivers and 20 or so tracks and run a season, if I decide not to replay one of the seasons I have.

Stay tuned!