The Table Top Sports Games of Chris Saguisag
As a side note, I seriously have to curb the number of ‘active’ projects I have going, and stick with games (and sports) that I like to play.
Baseball and racing will always have a spot in my rotation. Soccer and hockey take the next tier, with football and basketball lower on my list.
I also have golf, tennis, boxing, wrestling and lacrosse in various forms. Of those, I have to be in the right mood/mindset to play any of those. None of those games are ones I consider playing with a long-term ‘season’ or replay.
And then there’s the least played games: bowling, roller derby, demolition derby, and some interesting fictional sports. Someday, I keep telling myself.
I just started the 2013 SCRAM season, and the 2024 SCRAM/SCRAM-B sets arrived in the mail today. Yikes.
So yeah, I need to curb my habit, considering the vast amount of other hobbies I have and would like to pursue as well.
Stay tuned, I guess…
The San Francisco Fog was a Major Indoor Soccer League franchise which existed for only one season, 1980–1981.
– From Wikipedia
I picked up this shirt from American Retro Apparel, and it sent me on a search for a print-and-play tabletop indoor soccer game that I remember picking up a few years back.
I couldn’t find my printed copy, so I’m going to have to print a new copy of it.
I then went on a search for the schedule for the Fog’s 1980-81 season, to no avail.
So now I figure I’m just going to create a short schedule for the season and play it out with all the teams, not just the Fog.
No idea when this is going to get started.
Stay tuned!
I recently acquired a set of teams for APBA Soccer for the 2018-19 UEFA Champions League. Instead of replaying the actual schedule, I decided to have an alternate draw for the Round of 16.
Borussia Dortmund v. Roma
Barcelona v. Schalke 04
Paris-Saint Germain v. Athletico Madrid
Porto v. Liverpool
Bayern Munich v. Tottenham Hotspur
Manchester City v. Lyon
Real Madrid v. Ajax
Juventus v. Manchester United
Not sure when I’ll start this one, but the match ups should be interesting.
Stay tuned!
In addition to pulling the APBA games off the shelves, I also pulled the Strat-O-Matic games as well.
I was surprised to find that I have the 1994-95 NHL season set for Strat Hockey.
Arguably my favorite Sharks team, at least in the early years of the franchise.
I mean…
I may replay that Sharks season, in addition to the 1991-92 Sharks season (ordered earlier this week from APBA).
I ordered a new set of parts for Strat Hockey, in addition to the 1945-46 NHL season, in honor of
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I’m not sure why I’ve been going back to the roots of tabletop sports gaming, first with APBA Golf and Soccer, now with the hockey games. I just seem to be wanting something more in my game play, as much as I enjoy playing similar, newer games of the same sports.
Oddly enough I have no desire to go back to APBA or Strat-O-Matic Baseball.
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I also don’t feel like going through the 1995-96 hockey teams and reversing trades to get accurate rosters, so if I end up playing that season, it will be with existing rosters.
I noticed the inaccurate opening rosters when I was about to play Blackhawks vs Sharks, and Sandis Ozoliņš was not on the Sharks roster, having ended the season with Colorado.
He scored the first goal for the Sharks that year. I only remember that because he also scored the first goal for the San Francisco Spiders that season.
Anyways, I felt a little miffed that the rosters were wrong, so I went looking for a list of transactions for that season, and then decided that to heck with it, and will just play with the existing rosters.
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Another pair of games that I pulled off the shelf and put right back: APBA and Strat-O-Matic Football.
Never learned to play either. Maybe when the football season rolls around I’ll pull one of them out, but Second Season and Inside Blitz are good enough for me for now, to scratch the football itch. Which doesn’t come up too often, TBH.
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So is this a tabletop renaissance? Maybe.
We’ll see how it goes. I think I’ve played more tabletop sports games this year already than I had in the last 3 years.
I plan on continuing the following ongoing replays:
Baseball
1921 NY Giants (Payoff Pitch Baseball)
1971 SF Giants (Ball Park Baseball)
Soccer
2015-16 Tottenham Hotspur (APBA Soccer)
2020-21 AFC Richmond (Dice United)
Racing
1984 Winston Cup (Red White & Blue Racin’)
2012 SCRAM (Red White & Blue Racin’)
Football
1960 Denver Broncos (Fast Drive Football)
1967 Denver Broncos (Second Season/Second Season Express/Inside Blitz/Grid Iron Wars)
At some point I plan on adding hockey and basketball into the mix, as time permits. I just have to decide which replays to include:
Hockey
1966-67 NHL (Hockey Blast)
1969-70 Oakland Seals (Hockey Blast)
1991-92 San Jose Sharks (APBA)
2013-14 IHL (Hockey Blast, fictional)
2022-23 Central Cities League (Stone Cold Hockey, fictional)
Basketball
1960-61 Syracuse Nationals (Bank Shot Basketball)
1966-67 San Francisco Warriors (Inside the Paint)
2022-23 Basketball League of America (Highlight Maker Hoops, fictional)
And of course I’ll be tracking all the games right here.
Stay tuned!
