The Table Top Sports Games of Chris Saguisag
Uncharted territory, as this game was actually played between the Giants and 49ers.
Final from Candlestick Park: (Game 19 – January 20, 1991)
Blowout win by the 49ers. Bears go one more game than in real life, but fall short of the Big Game.
I’m gonna play the Super Bowl that didn’t happen, the 49ers vs. Bills. Can the 49ers three-peat?
Stay tuned!
This is as far as the Bears went in the 1990 post season, having been defeated by the New York Giants in the Divisional Round.
Final from Giants Stadium: (Game 18 – January 13, 1991)
In this replay, the Bears move on to the NFC Championship Game at Candlestick Park vs. the San Francisco 49ers.
Next: NFC Championship game vs. the San Francisco 49ers.
Stay tuned!
This was a replay that I started 6 years ago, playing out the rest of the 1990 season with Jim Harbaugh not injured down the stretch.
The one game I had played with the full Second Season rules resulted in the Bears beating Tampa Bay 23-10.
As with my 1967 Broncos replay I never went back to it because of the time involved in playing a full game of Second Season.
Now that I’ve rediscoved Second Season Express, football games go MUCH quicker and the results suit me fine.
So here we go with the rest of this replay!
Final from Soldier Field: (Game 16 – December 30, 1990)
Jim Harbaugh throws 5 touchdown passes in the final game of the regular season.
The Bears lost this game in real life, but the win doesn’t affect the standings (Bears still win the division) or the playoff matchups (Bears still face off against the #3 wildcard spot, the New Orleans Saints).
Next up: Wildcard Playoff Game: New Orleans Saints vs. Chicago Bears.
Stay tuned!
I bought Second Season Express back in 2019, put it in the Second Season game box, and let it sit for about 3 years.
Tonight I finally pulled it back out, after having a nice game with History Maker Baseball Express, and continued my 1967 Denver Broncos season replay.
I should have done this 3 years ago. Chances are I’d be finished with the replay by the time COVID rolled around in March 2020.
Final from Rice Stadium:
Broncos record: 2-3, which still better than their real-life record at this point in the season (1-4).
Next up: Bills come to Bears Stadium in Denver.
Stay tuned!
This week I picked up History Maker Baseball Express from PLAAY Games. It’s a quick-play version of their History Maker Baseball Game.
After one play with the first game of my Baseball America 2022 league, I think it’s a good game. I may run the entire season with this game engine.
Game 1: New England Minutemen @ Portland Mavericks
Mavericks 10
Minutemen 1
WP: Sinclair
LP: Rentschler
Game took longer than advertised (10 minutes) because of learning the game mode.
We’ll see how often I get to this one, and how I end up presenting game stats.
Stay tuned!
One of the first non-APBA/Stat-O-Matic games that I picked up was History Maker Baseball.
It came out 10 years ago, and as PLAAY Games usually does, they introduced a fictional league for this game called Baseball America.
I opted not to get that league, instead picking up the Century League along with the 2012 MLB season.
As it’s the 10th anniversary of History Maker Baseball, it’s also the 10th anniversary of Baseball America, which they commemorated with a deluxe card set, with bigger cards and names of the teams on the cards.
I picked up the PDF of the standard edition, having recently picked up their new basketball game.
And of course I created my own variation on the fictional league, keeping most of the existing team names, and retaining the rosters intact.
I took all the unsigned players and distributed them equally among the 12 teams, giving each of them 27 players on their rosters.
Here are the teams!
My additions were Portland, Detroit, Terre Haute, Seattle, and Bay City (San Francisco).
As to when I’ll start up this league?
Stay tuned!
PLAAY Games came out with a basketball game called Highlight Maker Hoops.
I picked it up along with the fictional Basketball League of America (BLAM) 2021-22 season.
As usual I’ve started by creating a league. It’s unnamed at the moment, but here are the teams:
Eastern Conferences:
New York Guard
Chicago Express
Cleveland Nets
Boston Commons
St Louis Bombers
Cincinnati Royals
Western Conference:
Denver Dynamos
Tulsa Bandits
San Francisco Pioneers
Phoenix Sunset
Kansas City Knights
Los Angeles Stars
I’m not sure if I’ll keep BLAM league name, but we’ll see.
Stay tuned!
June 12th, 2016: the Mogro Farm 500 @ Northern Lights Motordome, Northern US.
Race results and current standings:
Jordy Pettis maintains the series points lead over Ray Bob Walker. Marlon Marave (2nd) has his best finish in his career.
Next: the Kampin King Presents the Plantation 400 @ Dixie Regional Raceway.
Stay tuned!
