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Originally posted by Daedalus
I was the first kid on my block (grew up lower-middle class) with a household computer, a sweet IBM PC XT 286 we bought used ~1985. When Earl Weaver Baseball came out (or at least when I first got it, ~1987), it was so far ahead of it's time for sports simulation games that it blew my mind. It had a Commissioner add-on disk that allowed you to create your own players using baseball stats, create your own leagues, rules, play or manage, etc.. I literally created every team & player in MLB using the stats from the back of the cards on my 1987 Topps baseball card set one summer. Because, well, I wanted to play with the most current season stats vs. the previous season that came with the game. At the time I fully expected I'd do this every year until I died, but somehow got sidetracked (think I hit puberty or something). Hoping to get back on track in retirement.
Commodore 64 had a similar game called Micro League Baseball with a commissioner disk for creating your own players/teams/leagues. I was actually in a Micro League Baseball League well before fantasy baseball was a thing. We drafted off last years stats from the baseball almanac and met once a week on 2 computers to play 3 games each every week.
I was the first kid on my block (grew up lower-middle class) with a household computer, a sweet IBM PC XT 286 we bought used ~1985. When Earl Weaver Baseball came out (or at least when I first got it, ~1987), it was so far ahead of it's time for sports simulation games that it blew my mind. It had a Commissioner add-on disk that allowed you to create your own players using baseball stats, create your own leagues, rules, play or manage, etc.. I literally created every team & player in MLB using the stats from the back of the cards on my 1987 Topps baseball card set one summer. Because, well, I wanted to play with the most current season stats vs. the previous season that came with the game. At the time I fully expected I'd do this every year until I died, but somehow got sidetracked (think I hit puberty or something). Hoping to get back on track in retirement.
Commodore 64 had a similar game called Micro League Baseball with a commissioner disk for creating your own players/teams/leagues. I was actually in a Micro League Baseball League well before fantasy baseball was a thing. We drafted off last years stats from the baseball almanac and met once a week on 2 computers to play 3 games each every week.
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Originally posted by sunder B
Commodore 64 had a similar game called Micro League Baseball with a commissioner disk for creating your own players/teams/leagues. I was actually in a Micro League Baseball League well before fantasy baseball was a thing. We drafted off last years stats from the baseball almanac and met once a week on 2 computers to play 3 games each every week.
Ha, nice. The lady who used to watch me after school as a kid had a husband who was somewhat of a "techie". I was ~8, it was ~1984, and he had the first computer I'd ever seen. He had a Summer Olympic Games game that he'd let me play while I was there. I can only imaging the graphics look like a child's scribbles nowadays but it was amazing to me.
Then ~1987 my buddy's family got a C64 and I remember endless hours one summer playing a game called California Games (I think) that had skating, surfing, hacky sack, bmx, etc. It was awesome.
Man I miss being so easily astonished and entertained...
Commodore 64 had a similar game called Micro League Baseball with a commissioner disk for creating your own players/teams/leagues. I was actually in a Micro League Baseball League well before fantasy baseball was a thing. We drafted off last years stats from the baseball almanac and met once a week on 2 computers to play 3 games each every week.
Ha, nice. The lady who used to watch me after school as a kid had a husband who was somewhat of a "techie". I was ~8, it was ~1984, and he had the first computer I'd ever seen. He had a Summer Olympic Games game that he'd let me play while I was there. I can only imaging the graphics look like a child's scribbles nowadays but it was amazing to me.
Then ~1987 my buddy's family got a C64 and I remember endless hours one summer playing a game called California Games (I think) that had skating, surfing, hacky sack, bmx, etc. It was awesome.
Man I miss being so easily astonished and entertained...
Edited by Daedalus on Feb 3, 2021 15:47:27
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Originally posted by Daedalus
Man I miss being so easily astonished and entertained...
You're still here, so....
Man I miss being so easily astonished and entertained...
You're still here, so....
Originally posted by Daedalus
I was the first kid on my block (grew up lower-middle class) with a household computer, a sweet IBM PC XT 286 we bought used ~1985. When Earl Weaver Baseball came out (or at least when I first got it, ~1987), it was so far ahead of it's time for sports simulation games that it blew my mind. It had a Commissioner add-on disk that allowed you to create your own players using baseball stats, create your own leagues, rules, play or manage, etc.. I literally created every team & player in MLB using the stats from the back of the cards on my 1987 Topps baseball card set one summer. Because, well, I wanted to play with the most current season stats vs. the previous season that came with the game. At the time I fully expected I'd do this every year until I died, but somehow got sidetracked (think I hit puberty or something). Hoping to get back on track in retirement.
In 88 i was a kid still playing seasons of RBI baseball, keeping track of statistics for every game in notebooks with my buddies lol.
I was the first kid on my block (grew up lower-middle class) with a household computer, a sweet IBM PC XT 286 we bought used ~1985. When Earl Weaver Baseball came out (or at least when I first got it, ~1987), it was so far ahead of it's time for sports simulation games that it blew my mind. It had a Commissioner add-on disk that allowed you to create your own players using baseball stats, create your own leagues, rules, play or manage, etc.. I literally created every team & player in MLB using the stats from the back of the cards on my 1987 Topps baseball card set one summer. Because, well, I wanted to play with the most current season stats vs. the previous season that came with the game. At the time I fully expected I'd do this every year until I died, but somehow got sidetracked (think I hit puberty or something). Hoping to get back on track in retirement.
In 88 i was a kid still playing seasons of RBI baseball, keeping track of statistics for every game in notebooks with my buddies lol.
Daedalus
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Originally posted by Theo Wizzago
Strat-o-matic.
Played it one weekend in the mid-80s with 3 friends. Loved it and would have kept playing, but my friends weren't as into it as I was since video games were the new and exciting thing. I think if we'd have had some more recent cards/players (I think it was my buddy's dad's game from years earlier), I could have convinced them to keep playing.
Strat-o-matic.
Played it one weekend in the mid-80s with 3 friends. Loved it and would have kept playing, but my friends weren't as into it as I was since video games were the new and exciting thing. I think if we'd have had some more recent cards/players (I think it was my buddy's dad's game from years earlier), I could have convinced them to keep playing.
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Originally posted by Sithas~Cult~
In 88 i was a kid still playing seasons of RBI baseball, keeping track of statistics for every game in notebooks with my buddies lol.
RBI was awesome!
Baseball Stars was also an awesome console game, with it's ability to manage a team and make/hire/fire players. The Lovely Ladies were legit.
In 88 i was a kid still playing seasons of RBI baseball, keeping track of statistics for every game in notebooks with my buddies lol.
RBI was awesome!
Baseball Stars was also an awesome console game, with it's ability to manage a team and make/hire/fire players. The Lovely Ladies were legit.
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Originally posted by gruppo
we just got 30 inches of snow, after shoveling my driveway and sidewalks i am moving painfully slow
Same...
we just got 30 inches of snow, after shoveling my driveway and sidewalks i am moving painfully slow
Same...
sunder B
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Originally posted by Daedalus
Then ~1987 my buddy's family got a C64 and I remember endless hours one summer playing a game called California Games (I think) that had skating, surfing, hacky sack, bmx, etc. It was awesome.
California Games was great. Mainly the half pipe, the BMX and the surfing. Also had roller skating and frisbee (flying disk)
Software maker was Epyx. They did all of the "Olympic" type games They had a summer games and winter games along with California games and World games. I loved World Games.
World Games :
Weightlifting (Russia)
Slalom skiing (France)
Log rolling (Canada)
Cliff diving (Mexico)
Caber toss (Scotland)
Bull riding (United States)[1]
Barrel jumping (Germany)
Sumo Wrestling (Japan)[2]
Then someone did a knockoff called "Knight Games" which was like a renaissance fair competition
Then ~1987 my buddy's family got a C64 and I remember endless hours one summer playing a game called California Games (I think) that had skating, surfing, hacky sack, bmx, etc. It was awesome.
California Games was great. Mainly the half pipe, the BMX and the surfing. Also had roller skating and frisbee (flying disk)
Software maker was Epyx. They did all of the "Olympic" type games They had a summer games and winter games along with California games and World games. I loved World Games.
World Games :
Weightlifting (Russia)
Slalom skiing (France)
Log rolling (Canada)
Cliff diving (Mexico)
Caber toss (Scotland)
Bull riding (United States)[1]
Barrel jumping (Germany)
Sumo Wrestling (Japan)[2]
Then someone did a knockoff called "Knight Games" which was like a renaissance fair competition
Daedalus
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Originally posted by sunder B
California Games was great. Mainly the half pipe, the BMX and the surfing. Also had roller skating and frisbee (flying disk)
Software maker was Epyx. They did all of the "Olympic" type games They had a summer games and winter games along with California games and World games. I loved World Games.
World Games :
Weightlifting (Russia)
Slalom skiing (France)
Log rolling (Canada)
Cliff diving (Mexico)
Caber toss (Scotland)
Bull riding (United States)[1]
Barrel jumping (Germany)
Sumo Wrestling (Japan)[2]
Then someone did a knockoff called "Knight Games" which was like a renaissance fair competition
Ah yes, I remember World Games. For whatever reason I really liked the cliff diving event.
So much fun time "wasted" as a child that I can't even remember without someone reminding me of now...and even then I don't remember half of it. Apparently binge drinking fairly regularly from 18-28 years old really does kill brain cells.
California Games was great. Mainly the half pipe, the BMX and the surfing. Also had roller skating and frisbee (flying disk)
Software maker was Epyx. They did all of the "Olympic" type games They had a summer games and winter games along with California games and World games. I loved World Games.
World Games :
Weightlifting (Russia)
Slalom skiing (France)
Log rolling (Canada)
Cliff diving (Mexico)
Caber toss (Scotland)
Bull riding (United States)[1]
Barrel jumping (Germany)
Sumo Wrestling (Japan)[2]
Then someone did a knockoff called "Knight Games" which was like a renaissance fair competition
Ah yes, I remember World Games. For whatever reason I really liked the cliff diving event.
So much fun time "wasted" as a child that I can't even remember without someone reminding me of now...and even then I don't remember half of it. Apparently binge drinking fairly regularly from 18-28 years old really does kill brain cells.
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Originally posted by Daedalus
Ha, nice. The lady who used to watch me after school as a kid had a husband who was somewhat of a "techie". I was ~8, it was ~1984, and he had the first computer I'd ever seen. He had a Summer Olympic Games game that he'd let me play while I was there. I can only imaging the graphics look like a child's scribbles nowadays but it was amazing to me.
Then ~1987 my buddy's family got a C64 and I remember endless hours one summer playing a game called California Games (I think) that had skating, surfing, hacky sack, bmx, etc. It was awesome.
Man I miss being so easily astonished and entertained...
Hacky sack was my jam on Cali games
Ha, nice. The lady who used to watch me after school as a kid had a husband who was somewhat of a "techie". I was ~8, it was ~1984, and he had the first computer I'd ever seen. He had a Summer Olympic Games game that he'd let me play while I was there. I can only imaging the graphics look like a child's scribbles nowadays but it was amazing to me.
Then ~1987 my buddy's family got a C64 and I remember endless hours one summer playing a game called California Games (I think) that had skating, surfing, hacky sack, bmx, etc. It was awesome.
Man I miss being so easily astonished and entertained...
Hacky sack was my jam on Cali games
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