Category Archives: PLAAY Games

The Big Guys

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I was going through some older table top sports games in my collection, like this APBA Football game from 1995, and it reminded me of why I’ve chosen to play games from companies other than APBA and Strat-O-Matic.

I went on both those sites to see how much a season set would cost, and for APBA Football they seemed to run between $50-$120 per season.  Strat-O-Matic seasons ran $32-$42, but the oldest complete season was 2002.

A printed season from Inside Sports Games for Inside Blitz Football can run $42-$58, but they also offer a PDF option for $15-$17.

Downey Games offers Grid Iron Wars for $30 for a complete game with 1 season, printed, or $7.95 for the game parts in PDF.  Printed seasons run for $8-$15 while PDF seasons run $8-11.

PLAAY Games has Second Season for $49, with seasons going for $25-$33 printed, and $19-$21 PDF.

The major difference between APBA/SOM and the other companies is that with the former you’re getting individual player cards per team, while the latter have team sheets with all the players on a sheet.  At the moment, I prefer the team sheets to individual cards.

One plus, had I stuck with the Big Two, would be that I would have bought less seasons (in all sports games) than I currently own because of availability and price.  I only own one complete season for SOM Baseball (2011), SOM Football (2009) and SOM Hockey (1993-94), for example.

And in the picture above, those are the only two *teams* that I own for APBA Football.

New Year, New In Progress Chart

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Sure, let’s add the 1947 49ers replay, and put the 1967 Warriors replay back on the schedule.

Stay tuned!

Current

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Around my workstation/table top play area are the following games, waiting to be played.

  • SSG Basketball
  • Net Results Soccer
  • Glory Days Boxing
  • Face to the Mat
  • B25 – Prince of the Skies

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!

In Progress, Revision to the Revised Revision of the Revision

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The main change is putting the 1967 Warriors on hold, along with the 1988 Mets (revisited) replay.  I anticipate playing a soccer game with PSV soon, and hopefully starting basketball and hockey in the coming weeks.

Stay tuned!

In Progress, Revised Revision to the Revision

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Difficulty

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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.

2014 World Football Association

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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!

In Progress, Revised Revision

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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!

4+ Hours

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That’s how long it took to cut and sort the Net Results Soccer Champions League card set, and I’m probably only going to use half of the teams.

I’m beginning to think that this and Soccer Blast may be my two primary soccer games that I play.

No knock on either The Beautiful Game or Final Score, I just feel individual player cards are better than a full team card, which both TBG and FS use.

And I felt game play in NR and SB was more engaging, to be honest.

I may need to play a few more matches in each game to determine which replay I really want to do.

Stay tuned!