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Old 03-20-2017, 02:01 PM   #66
Len1950
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 70
I resisted OOTP for many years because I was afraid it would swallow up my time. Finally got OOTP 15, and it did.

I started with APBA in 1965, but the best dice and paper game I ever played was a little bare bones affair called Extra Innings baseball in the seventies — they gave you the formula to create your own players from official stats in that one.

In the eighties, I learned the basics of programming in Pascal by trying to create my own game. It only had two teams, the '61 Yankees and an early Mariners team, but it worked. I had many plans to expand it, but I had to give up when APBA came out with its computer game and it was so much better than mine. A few years later, though, I created another game in Excel, which also only had two teams. (I did that one at work.)

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