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Originally Posted by stevebydac
You explain perfectly why the closing of Yankee Stadium last week was such a sin. Perhaps the most iconic stadium in North America, home to the world's most famous baseball team. They are building a $1.3 billion park next door that will be priced out of most fans' range, stuffed with corporate boxes full of leather couches and TV sets so that the ticketholders won't have to be bothered with cheering for or even watching the game...
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I love the Miller High Life TV commercial where the guy and his crew go into the baseball stadium luxury box, and he asks the assembled power-lunching yuppies:
"Can anybody tell me what inning it is?"
And of course they don't know...
But getting back to Danny's post, great words, Danny. Thank you for them.
I was born in 1957 and therefore grew up during the Ali era. When I was a child we used to go up to Buffalo, NY, for Thanksgiving and other holidays. After dinner the men would go to the living room and there was much good conversation about football, baseball and...the fights. My great-grandfather and great uncle in particular were great tellers of stories, and they had fond memories of the greats: Johnson, Dempsey, Louis, Marciano, etc etc.
I agree that perhaps a text-based game will not appeal to many people of the younger generation. Times change and society's perception of entertainment changes. That's unfortunate.
For me, perhaps because of the time I grew up in, it is natural to use my imagination to fill in the gaps. That is how we played when we were kids. A stick could become a sword, or a rifle. A towel could become a cape. An empty lot could become Cannae, or a beach could become North Africa and you could become Erwin Rommel.
No amount of graphics can give me what my imagination can and does, which is why I love text-based games.
I "watch" my TBCB fighters enter the ring, I see the ref stepping in to stop a fight when one guy is taking a beating. When I look at a fight history for one of my favorite fighters I can even "remember" certain fights. Sometimes, punch count numbers in the game actually make me wince. "This guy should maybe find another way to make a living."
The way I see it, TBCB doesn't really need *major* graphics changes. I don't want it to have an arcade look. I consider it to be a thinking man's boxing sim and I hope it will remain so.