OOTP Lifers

[Rizon]

Originally posted by BlitzburghBucco
OOTP5 for me. The guys over at BBSC convinced me to buy it...which I'm glad.

Does Twins34 / GopherFan / whatever his name is now play it?

[Eric Vanheusel]

I only started playing OOTP pretty recently. I actually started with ITP, but then I got OOTP and that blew ITP away!

[Gastric ReFlux]

Originally posted by Eric Vanheusel
I only started playing OOTP pretty recently. I actually started with ITP, but then I got OOTP and that blew ITP away!

Yes, yes it does. OOTP to ITP is like lunch is to dinner, isn't it?

[IatricSB]

Originally posted by Gastric ReFlux
Yes, yes it does. OOTP to ITP is like lunch is to dinner, isn't it?

So this means you like lunch better than dinner or that you like ITP better than OOTP? I'm misconfused.

Originally posted by JPWagner
Geez av chill....But you know, if you told your friends to go to EB and buy this great game OOTP 4, you would have them running around like a blind cat at the Fulton Fish Market!...

I guess my one typo is better than being totally oblivious to the obvious.

Especially since two sentences before I said that, I spelled out clearly the following.

" The first one I bought was Season Ticket Baseball [OOTP 3] "

Now... where's this ignore buton.

Jase

[Crapshoot]

Originally posted by jened
an innocent discussion on catchers' leadership skills could scare someone off for good

Well, teaching them something new is a good thing..

[IatricSB]

Originally posted by avwjase
I guess my one typo is better than being totally oblivious to the obvious.

TYPO: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
Pronunciation: 'tIpow

Definition: [n] a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind.

I'd buy a new keyboard if you typed Season Ticket and a mechanical failure caused it to come out OOTP

Smiles everyone, smiles.....

[Gastric ReFlux]

Originally posted by IatricSB
So this means you like lunch better than dinner or that you like ITP better than OOTP? I'm misconfused.

Lunch is the far superior meal as has been documented extensively in this thread.

[IatricSB]

Maybe I'll start a dinner thread. I prefer dinner to lunch since 5 out of 7 lunches means I'm working.

[Rubilario]

Earl Weaver Baseball was awesome! I got the deluxe version with the book that Earl Weaver talked about his strategy about managing. I still use some of his strategy.

After Earl Weaver went to FPS 94-98, which is when I started my first online league, FDBL (Field of Dreams Baseball League). Then after finding out they weren't going to make anymore FPS Baseball games, I went to OOTP, I believe it was the original one, then converted FDBL to that.

Still have some of my original FDBL members with me. That goes way back!

[ZouDave]

write-in vote:

My first was Season Ticket Baseball 2003, which I know was identical to OOTP4 other than the splash screen basically. Still, if we want to be accurate ;-)

[HolyCow98]

First I owned myself was OOTP3...although I did play OOTP2....

My history...lets see....

Atari 2600: Baseball (a batter..a pitcher...and an outfielder...lol)
C64: Computer Baseball..hardly any graphics...but you could input your own stats
C64: Micro League Baseball...very time consuming...but addictive if you had some of the add-ons
C64: Pure-Stat Baseball....great game for its time...only beef was you couldnt edit your stats to make your own season disks.
C Amiga 500: Earl Weaver Baseball....oh the years I spent playing this game....
WIN 95: FPS Baseball Pro 96...simply a classic...
WIN 95: FPS Baseball Pro 98...improved version of a classic.
WIN 98: High Heat Baseball...a solid first release...
WIN 98 High Heat Baseball 2000...even better....
WIN 98 SS High Heat Baseball 2001...the last solid game from a dead series.
WIN 98 OOTP 3....the end of anything resembling free time has begun...
WIN 98 OOTP 4...2 mouse and 3 keyboards later...lol
WIN98/XP Pro...OOTP5....finally broke down and joined the online league community...my life is truly over.....
XP Pro: OOTP 6...where is my support group?

[ctorg]

I haven't noticed anyone mention Strat-O-Matic in here. Surely some of you played Strat. Concurrent to my playing all the other games, I played Strat-O-Matic from about 1987 to 1998 or so.

[Conmack]

I started playing OOTP last year and I was hooked. I used to play Baseball Mogul, but the whole credit card issue steered me away. I am EXTREMELY happy I found this game and dumped Mogul.

[HolyCow98]

Well...I was always attracted to Strat...but never took the dive...it seemed like it would have gotten expensive. Same reason I never purchased Pursue the Pennant/ Diamondmind Baseball.

There were a few other games I didn't put in my list for the fact unless I played it consistently for 6 months it didn't make the list. Games like Mogul 99 (I think that was the first version) and Mogul 2001 (may have been 2002). I did enjoy those games...really like the new reporting...but in Mogul 99...I got turned off when there was a limit of how many HoFers you could have and it started deleting them...and with the newer version, it was the first one that they had MLPA license for, I just felt the license ruined the game...hated it...the points system....just a huge step back IMO.

I dabbled with a few games on the Nintendo and Super Nintendo, as well as being suckered into trying games like Triple Play and Microsoft Baseball (YIKES!!!) on the PC...lol....always had more interest in the text based games I think when it came to sports....although Earl Weaver, Baseball Pro, and High Heat were fun to play games with a controller for me as well.

And there were a few board games/card games that I just couldn't rememeber what they were about due to being so long ago....losing my memory already at 30 years old...lol

[Bishop]

I think I bought Harball 3, then got Tony Larussa Ultimate Baseball 2 or whichever one came out at the same time as HB3 anyways. I helped test the FPS: Baseball games so I had a natural bias towards those games, and played the latest incarnation of that up until Windows XP wouldn't let me anymore. I tried the Miller Associates Baseball game, which was my first text based game, and loved some of the things that I could do with it, but wished I could do "career" modes or fictional modes ala the FPS series. I tried the High Heat Series, then the Microsoft Baseball. Doing a web search I came across a thread where someone was working on a "league converter" from FPS to OOTP4, so I bought it. The converter never arrived obviously, but so much time had passed since I'd been able to play my FPS league, I'd just start over. I was very pleased with 4, I enjoyed the changes in 5, and am really looking forward to 6.

[ctorg]

Originally posted by HolyCow98
Well...I was always attracted to Strat...but never took the dive...it seemed like it would have gotten expensive. Same reason I never purchased Pursue the Pennant/ Diamondmind Baseball.

There were a few other games I didn't put in my list for the fact unless I played it consistently for 6 months it didn't make the list. Games like Mogul 99 (I think that was the first version) and Mogul 2001 (may have been 2002). I did enjoy those games...really like the new reporting...but in Mogul 99...I got turned off when there was a limit of how many HoFers you could have and it started deleting them...and with the newer version, it was the first one that they had MLPA license for, I just felt the license ruined the game...hated it...the points system....just a huge step back IMO.

I dabbled with a few games on the Nintendo and Super Nintendo, as well as being suckered into trying games like Triple Play and Microsoft Baseball (YIKES!!!) on the PC...lol....always had more interest in the text based games I think when it came to sports....although Earl Weaver, Baseball Pro, and High Heat were fun to play games with a controller for me as well.

And there were a few board games/card games that I just couldn't rememeber what they were about due to being so long ago....losing my memory already at 30 years old...lol

Yeah, I'm hitting 30 in a few months and I can't believe I've actually forgotten some of the things I have!

My experience with Triple Play was difficult. My birthday was coming up and my girlfriend didn't know what to get me. She was in a computer game store (figuring she'd find something there) with our mutual friend Scott. She was going to buy me something else - I can't remember what now, but it was something I would have liked - but Scott said "Hey, doesn't he like baseball? Why don't you get him this?" He showed her Triple Play 2001 (might have been 2002 or something - don't remember). She said "yeah" and gave it to me as the first gift she'd ever given me. She didn't know yet at that time that I wasn't into flashy graphics games.

Anyway, when she gave it to me, I was happy enough. I'd never played TP and figured I might as well give it a try. I was apalled at the lack of any sense of reality. I mean, it looked good, but there was nothing behind the pretty facade. Eventually she noticed that I wasn't playing it much. She felt bad about getting it for me and told me about the other game she almost got. I told her that no, I liked it, and started playing a little more when she was around.

Anyway, I ended up having to come clean about it to her because I just wasn't having much fun with it.

[Teddyballgame]

I started with OOTP3. I had the original Baseball Mogul and then got sick of it, I saw so much more potential. That's when I discovered OOTP and the rest was history.

[Johnny Slick]

Back when I was a little boy, I played Statis-Pro and Strat-O-Matic, then upgraded to Microleague, FPS 94, 96, and 98, went back to the SOM game for a little while, then went to Diamond Mind and High Heat, and around that time found OOTP2. I actually didn't buy 3, but did get 4, and boy oh boy was it an improvement! Now I can hardly wait for 6...

[slave2isis]

The first i heard of the game was back during HH2001.....i thought that game was the best but i had heard of people liking this text baseball game so i went and dled the demo and i fell inlove with the game.In both versions i have owned I have simmed a dynasty starting from 1905-present day...sometimes with the draft but these days i have them assigned to there respective teams.Its actually alot of fun simming all the data looking back and seeing how histry went.Anyway i wish there was a game with all the ootp features with the fun of Hardball 5-6.