The Table Top Sports Games of Chris Saguisag
After playing one period of APBA Hockey, I felt oddly… calm, almost at peace with the universe.
One pass through the rule book and I seemed to have gotten most of it down, in addition to a few suggested hints on play along the way.
The result was a period of tabletop hockey that reminded me of and felt like actually being at a hockey game.
After I finish this game up (tonight, I hope) I’ll tackle Strat-O-Matic Hockey, and if I’m really adventurous, I may pull out In the Crease Hockey.
Stay tuned!
Replay plans for the various hockey games:
Stay tuned!
Around my workstation/table top play area are the following games, waiting to be played.
More hours in the day, or an extra day in the weekend.
I’ll get to all of them, along with the baseball and football and racing and hockey games.
Stay tuned!
I think I found a possible reason why I can’t seem to wrap my head around Inside the Paint and Inside the Crease basketball and hockey games. And it’s dumb.
Both of those games use a fast action card (FAC) system as opposed to dice. I like rolling dice more than flipping cards.
This may be why I’ve found Glory Days Boxing more fun to play, for me, than Title Bout II, which also uses a FAC system.
And I was able to grasp the basics of SSG basketball because of it’s dice roll mechanic similar to Payoff Pitch Baseball. I’ve tried using the FACs for Payoff Pitch, but always find myself reverting back to using dice.
I was never a big Statis Pro Baseball gamer because of the cards.
I did pull out Statis Pro Basketball this morning, and may try to play a game to see if this reasoning holds water or not.
Stay tuned!
I still can’t seem to pick up playing table top basketball or hockey.
i was able to learn a new football game today without any problems.
I can play baseball, auto racing, soccer, football, boxing, wrestling and golf games.
But every time I start to setup and read the rules for hockey or basketball, my brain can’t seem to grok.
Frustrating.
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!
