{"id":4575,"date":"2023-07-09T13:34:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2023-07-26T11:56:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:56:49","slug":"renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/2023\/07\/renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"Renaissance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to pulling the APBA games off the shelves, I also pulled the Strat-O-Matic games as well.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised to find that I have the 1994-95 NHL season set for Strat Hockey.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably my favorite Sharks team, at least in the early years of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>I mean&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lv33GVZX1b0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I may replay that Sharks season, in addition to the 1991-92 Sharks season (ordered earlier this week from APBA).<\/p>\n<p>I ordered a new set of parts for Strat Hockey, in addition to the 1945-46 NHL season, in honor of<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZZyDsF-Gp3o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why I&#8217;ve been going back to the roots of tabletop sports gaming, first with APBA Golf and Soccer, now with the hockey games.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough I have no desire to go back to APBA or Strat-O-Matic Baseball.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>I also don&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed the inaccurate opening rosters when I was about to play Blackhawks vs Sharks, and Sandis Ozoli\u0146\u0161 was not on the Sharks roster, having ended the season with Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>He scored the first goal for the Sharks that year.\u00a0 I only remember that because he also scored the first goal for the San Francisco Spiders that season.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Another pair of games that I pulled off the shelf and put right back: APBA and Strat-O-Matic Football.<\/p>\n<p>Never learned to play either.\u00a0 Maybe when the football season rolls around I&#8217;ll pull one of them out, but Second Season and Inside Blitz are good enough for me for now, to scratch the football itch.\u00a0 Which doesn&#8217;t come up too often, TBH.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>So is this a tabletop renaissance?\u00a0 Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how it goes.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;ve played more tabletop sports games this year already than I had in the last 3 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; I may replay that Sharks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,302,296,10,70,303],"tags":[14,44,124,142],"class_list":["post-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apba-golf","category-apba-hockey","category-apba-soccer","category-baseball","category-football","category-som-hockey","tag-baseball","tag-football","tag-hockey","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4605,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions\/4605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}