Category Archives: PLAAY Games

Racing

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I should just start every racing series that I have planned.

Or not.

I don’t think there’s enough room in the game box for all the card sets.

Plus I would need to print out more scoring sheets.

And then I’d burn myself out on racing, like I did with baseball.

And then I’d go back to baseball.  Or start football and soccer again.

Ah well.  Maybe I’ll just play Terraforming Mars or Leaving Earth.

Stay tuned!

Soccer: EPL 1985-86

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I have a bad habit of picking up games and/or season sets for games and never playing with them.

That said, PLAAY Games has announced the upcoming release of the English Pro League 1985-86 season set.  I don’t think I have any soccer sets from the 1980s.

I probably will not know a single player in that set.  At least with the 1977 North American Soccer League set I knew… one guy, and that was Pelé.

And it’s been a while since I actually sat down and played a game of Soccer Blast.

All this means is that I’ll probably end up ordering the set and sitting on it indefinitely.

Ah well.

Stay tuned!

Racing News: 2016 SCRAM Series

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CS MOTORSPORTS SIGNS DRIVER MARLON MARAVE

CS Motorsports has announced the formation of a new SCRAM racing team, to participate in races as soon as possible.

The CS Motorsports  #23 Honda Accord, currently unsponsored, will be driven by newcomer Marlon Marave, a native of the Philippines.

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The image above was generated from the This Person Does Not Exist website.  I took the name from two real Filipino race car drivers, Marlon Stockinger and Pepon Marave.

His card:

Hopefully I’ll get to run a race with him later this week.

Stay tuned!

Racing: Next

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Once the 3 current series are finished, the next 3 series that will be run are as follows:

I had found that I set up Google sheets for the Pioneers Series, which is based on the Pioneers of Racing set from PLAAY Games, and consists of drivers from the 1950s. The racing venues include dirt tracks and short tracks from the era of moonshiners.

I also found that I had set up a schedule for the return of the Starbucks Cup Series, with twice as many races, with a whole slew of new drivers, and the removal of others. That may be run when I get to the 2019 SCRAM season, since I have the 2018 SCRAM and SCRAM-B series set to be run alongside the 1999 Winston Cup series.

Stay tuned!

Football Status

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So.

I have to get off my ass and get back to what I started 4 years ago, the 1967 replays.

It’ll happen.  Hopefully sooner rather than later.

That 49ers replay may or may not start before Super Bowl LIV.

As for the other type of football:

These replays will get as much attention as I can muster, when not busy/distracted.  I’m less inclined to play the 2008-09 replay due to the fact that Spurs did so poorly that season, and the game engine for Net Results Soccer is slightly different for 2008-09 than from the 2017-18 seasons.  It can get a bit confusing.

Basketball and hockey have never been started, so no need to make a post about either of those sports replays.

Stay tuned!

Let’s Go Racin’, Boys!

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So.

That’s 45 races left to finish the 3 racing series that I’m currently running.

I can probably finish the Truck Series in a week or so, I’m going to shoot for that by the beginning of February.

Winston Cup ’79 can be tied up in a couple of weeks or more, maybe I can finish that in February.

SCRAM ’16 will take longer, maybe I can finish in March or April.

This is of course subject to change due to scheduling and whatever other games I may be distracted by.

Plans moving past the series completions are to start the 1989 Winston Cup Series and the 2017 SCRAM Series.  I want to avoid having 3 series going at the same time, again, until I get to the 1999 Winston Cup Series and the 2018 SCRAM Series, where I will also run the 2018 SCRAM-B Series.

I never stopped being a race fan, I just stopped being a NASCAR fan.

Stay tuned!