The Table Top Sports Games of Chris Saguisag
You know you have too many seasons when you misplace not one, but two sets of MLB National League season cards.
I can’t seem to find the 1978 and 1985 NL card sets for Inside Pitch baseball. I last played with them in September of last year. The 1988 NL set is all I found in the Inside Pitch game box.
Ah well, they’ll turn up eventually, I suppose.
I’m surprised I didn’t post about this game until now.
Friday Night Legends, a *high school* football game. The game comes with a sampling of Texas high school teams, since the game creators are from Texas.
It doesn’t have individual players, and just 6 plays on offense and 6 plays on defense.
It took me the better part of two and a half weeks to get though one game, but it’s a fun one. I made a few mistakes as one does when trying out a new game.
I randomly picked 2 teams that came with the base game: Sealy 1978 and Kerrville Tivy 2010.
It wasn’t until I looked for graphics for these two teams and saw the significance of them.
Sealy Tigers 1978:
Some running back named Eric Dickerson.
Tivy 2010:
A quarterback named Johnny Manziel
And the results of the game I played reflects these two players.
Sealy Tigers 37
Tivy Antlers 10
Seally scored 5 rushing touchdowns (plus one FG and one missed XP) to Tivy’s 1 passing TD.
Did Dickerson score them all? Maybe. And Johnny Football probably threw that one TD pass.
I didn’t take very good stats, to be honest, But I’ll try to next time I play this game.
Though I should try the college counterpart to this game as well.
Stay tuned!
Around six years ago I started a league (the Pan-Dimensional Gridball Coalition) for a game called Gridball, which later became GridZone. The game was created by Gary W. Brown.
It was a reimaging of American football, with 7 players on offense and 7 on defense.
I created a few teams based on friends, family, and fictional characters.
I played a couple of games and then went on to other games/leagues.
Mr. Brown has reworked GridZone into a more polished game called GridZone Turf War and I decided to pull out my old teams and order a copy of the new edition.
I’ll probably rework the teams and eliminate the friends and family names, making all the teams consist of fictional characters.
The 8 teams I had created:
And I’ll come up with a better league name.
Stay tuned!
