Category Archives: PLAAY Games

Print-and-Play

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One problem I have is finding time to play games.

A further problem is preparing print-and-play games for play.

Case in point:

I originally purchased this game during PLAAY.com’s 2018 holiday sale, and even printed out the game and the expansion team set that was sold separately.

The original teams:

  • Houston Hombres
  • Los Angeles Lunatics
  • New York Nukes
  • Detroit Rippers

The first 4 expansion teams:

  • Minnesota Chill
  • Seattle Droids
  • San Francisco Heroes
  • Cleveland Stevedores

I let the game sit on a shelf, and every time they released another expansion, I’d get it and print it out, but I only ever cut out the original 8 teams.

By the time I collected the rest of the teams they had released the game as a boxed edition.  And since I already had everything in print-and-play format, I decided against buying the boxed edition.

I finally did get around to cutting out the 16 remaining expansion teams, and have yet to cut out the international expansion teams.

  • Vegas Bada Bings
  • Miami Maelstrom
  • Pacific Dreadnoughts
  • Phoenix Inferno
  • New Orleans Big Fun
  • Chicago Binge
  • Boston Malcontents
  • Denver Wild Blue
  • Dallas TNT
  • Gulf Coast Splash
  • Kansas City Drifters
  • Atlanta Gems
  • Milwaukee Buzz
  • Washington Panic
  • Philadelphia Mongrels
  • Nashville Twang

I did manage to print and cut out the coach cards, and assigned a coach to each of the 24 teams.

Now I just need to figure out a play format, and a league format, though 12 teams per conference and 4 teams per division makes the most sense, I suppose.  At least until I introduce the International teams into the mix.

And I suppose I should play an exhibition game or two so I can learn how the game plays.

Stay tuned!

Golf: TPC Summerlin

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I meant to play a round a couple of weeks back, as a quarantine distraction.

So here we are today:

2020 Quarantine Invitational, from TPC Summerlin, Las Vegas, Nevada.

I randomly chose 4 golfers from PLAAY’s fictional 2017 Pro National Golfers set.

Results:

Somers and Weber were tied after the 16th, still tied after the 17th, and a birdie on the 18th by Weber gave him the win.

Such excitement!

*golf clap*

Not sure when the next golf match will be, though next month is the second annual John Price Invitational.

Stay tuned!

1979: Darlington

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September 3, 1979: Southern 500

Race results and current standings:

For only the fourth time in my replay, the real life race winner won.

Your race winner, David Pearson, driving the Rod Osterland #2 in place of injured driver Dale Earnhardt.

Darrell Waltrip maintains the points lead over Richard Petty.

Next: the Capital City 400 @ Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway.

Stay tuned!

Soccer Blast

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I just played a game for the first time in a while.

I made some mistakes, I think, no, I’m sure, so what was supposed to be the first game of the 2017-18 Tottenham Hotspur season replay will just be a “get reacquainted with the game” matchup.

Spurs won 1-0 over Newcastle United.

Replay of the replayed match will occur later.

Stay tuned!

Trading Card Game

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A couple of years back PLAAY Games came out with a “Quick-Rate” supplement for History Maker Baseball which allowed you to create teams using ordinary baseball cards.  It came with a few packs of 1987 Topps wax packs to help start out your teams.

I created a Topps 1987 team and then bought a couple of packs of current baseball cards and created a 2018 team.

I played 1/2 a game and put the game away.

Almost 2 years later, I opened the History Maker Baseball game box and found the unfinished Trading Card Game.

I finally finished it.  There’s no box score since I hand scored this one.

1987 Topps  3
2018 Topps 6

WP: Jacob deGrom, LP: Dennis Eckersley, S: Marcus Stroman

1987
L. Andersen: 5.0 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 2 K, 1 BB
D. Eckersley: 3.0 IP, 3 ER, 5 H, 3 K, 0 BB

2018
J. deGrom: 7.0 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 5 K, 1 BB
M. Stroman: 2.0 IP, 0 ER, 1 H, 2 K, 0 BB

HR: Cespedes (1)

This was an interesting play through, which I’ll play on occasion for fun now that I’ve dug it out.  I have stacks of cards from 2019 and a couple of packs from 2020, perhaps I should pit those two seasons against each other.

Stay tuned!