The Table Top Sports Games of Chris Saguisag
Fight #1
Marciano was relentless after Dempsey broke his nose in the 2nd, easily winning the next 4 rounds until the ref stopped the fight at 1:32 of the 7th round. Dempsey was also knocked down in the 2nd, shortly after the broken nose.
Fight #2
After splitting the first two rounds, where Foreman gave Tyson a bloody nose in the first, Foreman knocked Tyson out 34 seconds into the third.
So we have our Heavyweight Championship Bout all set:
The Brockton Blockbuster, Rocky Marciano, versus Big George Foreman
Stay tuned!
And then sometimes you come across stuff that looked like a great idea at the time, but 5 years later you still haven’t done anything with that idea.
This was something I tried to pull together using PLAAY’s 2014 World Football Association card sets.
In my Soccer Blast box, I found three used score sheets, one for an MLS match, one for an EPL match, and one using a pair of pieced together teams from this 2014 set.
One of those teams was the Azkals, the Philippine National Soccer Team.
There were a bunch of cards that came with the set with player ratings, but no names. I asked the game designer if I could create a team with the unnamed cards, he said it was possible, but they would probably be inferior to the pre-made teams.
So I created the Azkals, with names generated from random lists of Filipino first names and last names.
I didn’t note the score of any of the games, but I recall playing the Azkals and they were defeated by whatever team I put against them.
Perhaps someday I’ll do something with these card sets.
Stay tuned!
I’m having so much fun playing Net Results Soccer that I’ve decided to make it my primary soccer sim, and Soccer Blast my secondary. The top three soccer replays listed are played with Net Results, the last one played with Soccer Blast. Final Score and The Beautiful Game are being semi-permanently shelved.
The tables now reflect the priority that I place in playing these replays. Baseball, soccer, and auto racing are my top played games. I haven’t touched football in almost 3 years, and have yet to start basketball or hockey.
Baseball season sims (1917, 1921, 1971) are all Ball Park Baseball, short projects are played with History Maker Baseball (D’Acquisto ’74) and Inside Pitch (Gooden ’85).
Racing sims are all Red White & Blue Racing.
Football (Broncos ’67) is split between Inside Blitz and Second Season. The Harbaugh ’90 project is played with Second Season.
Basketball (Warriors ’67) will be played with Inside the Paint.
Hockey will be played with Inside the Crease (Leafs ’67) and Hockey Blast (2014 quarter finals).
Stay tuned!
Hey, Chris, why don’t you play any sports sims on your computer?
Because the few times that I did, all I would do would simulate a season and be done in a few minutes. There’s no fun in that.
And it would take about the same amount of time to play a dice and cards game or match as it would on the computer.
My only use of a computer during a game replay is to keep score, and occasionally look up pinch hitters/relief pitchers used in a given baseball game that I’m replaying.
And truth be told, lately I’m enjoying the heck out of my soccer games and scoring them by hand.
I did have Strat-O-Matic on my old PC, but never installed it on my newer PC. I maybe played 1-2 full games using the 2010 season card set.
I also had Strategic Baseball Simulator on some of my PCs in the past, but again I played a handful of games or simulated an entire season.
And of course I had APBA on my PC for the longest time, and simulated individual games, just to hear the prerecorded play by play voices that were added.
I’ve looked at the PC games from Inside Sports and Replay, but I figure I have plenty of their table top products to keep me busy for a long while.
Bottom line is that I get the most satisfaction from rolling dice and flipping cards when replaying games.
