Category Archives: PLAAY Games

1989: Winston Cup

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I’m only halfway into the 1979 Winston Cup season, and I’m already looking at starting the 1989 Winston Cup season, when this guy won the Championship:

The bingo chips are making a difference by reducing the setup/takedown time of the Red White & Blue Racing game.

And truth be told, I need a break from table top baseball after finishing the 1967 San Francisco Giants replay.

Maybe I’ll start 1989 Winston Cup when I’m about three-quarters of the way through the 1979 Winston Cup season replay.

Stay tuned!

Bingo chips

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So what’s with the Bingo chips that I got today?

In Red White & Blue Racing, there are certain drivers in every race that are designated as ‘TV drivers’, who are featured (for good or bad reasons) during the race week, and get a better chance in qualifying and in advancing forward during a race.

In the original game, the TV drivers are identified by a slightly different colored card.

But another player on the PLAAY.com Facebook page showed off his idea of using a different colored ‘chip’ to designate the TV drivers.

The ones that I got are slightly bigger than the game’s original blue ‘performance’ chips, which are used by drivers to win or fend off challenges for position with other drivers.

This change eliminates the need for the second set of cards, thus speeding up setup and reducing the contents in the box.

This may or may not change the likelihood of me playing this game more often.  Which is good considering the number of race seasons I have and the current replays I have running (SCRAM 2016, SCRAM Trucks Pepsi Cup, Winston Cup 1979).

Stay tuned!

Addendum

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I picked up a couple more items from the PLAAY.com Holiday sale:

  • Fury Football (concept game)
  • Tropical Tour courses for History Maker Golf
  • 1980 Pro Season for Bowl-O-Rama

I’ve played exactly one game of Bowl-O-Rama.  It’s fun, I just don’t pull it off the shelf when I have other replays to run.  Maybe an actual season, with a schedule, will get me to play this one more.

I should set up a golf tournament tour, maybe 10 courses?

Fury Football was developed around the same time as the game that became GridZone, as a quicker play football simulation.  It’s designed to be a quick play ‘concept game’, much like 1890s Fight Club from last year.

Stay tuned!

Seasonal Additions

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Thanks to PLAAY.com’s Holiday sale, the following will be added to my long list of unplayed sports seasons:

  • MLB 1999 post-season for History Maker Baseball
  • NHL 1957-58 season for Hockey Blast
  • SCRAM-B 2018 season for Red White & Blue Racing
  • EPL 2017-18 season for Soccer Blast

I’m guessing that I’ll play 1999 or SCRAM-B first.

Stay tuned!