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12-23-2014, 11:12 AM | #21 |
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I played a lot of Burby growing up. A school a wall, draw a strikezone and use tennis balls and you have baseball for 2 and 3.
https://localwiki.org/toronto/Burby Toronto Burby League Home Page
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The hockey game is from the early 1960's, perhaps Christmas of 1962 for me. Hard to narrow down a memory from over 50 years ago.
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12-23-2014, 12:15 PM | #24 |
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No worries. I dont think this one was sold outside of Canada. In fact until I searched I had never seen another one, which makes sense, as it's about what seventy years old now?
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12-23-2014, 04:03 PM | #26 |
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I used to play Baseball Stars all the time. Edit the players names to my friends and people in school. It was my first baseball sim.
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Christmas 1967 I got the more traditional table top hockey game with slots and replaceable metal players. The puck could go around the net and the wingers had little deflectors on the boards to direct the puck to the net. The kicker was, all credit to my Mum, she got me all 12 teams in uniform for the recently expanded NHL. We played that thing hours every day to catch up with the season schedule for 1967-68. That was my first set of league books filled in.
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12-23-2014, 10:31 PM | #32 |
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Great post and sorry for your loss.
Edit; management rarely agrees with garden destruction.
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Raspberries, Latvians and baseball
Thanks, Rich. Really appreciate that. I can still here Dad wailing almost in a high pitched voice, "My tomatoes! My raspberries!" Miss him too. Since both of my parents were born in Europe, they didn't understand baseball. Mom would say that it was a bunch of guys standing around in their pajamas. She couldn't understand why they didn't swing at all the pitches. Try explaining to a Latvian woman the concept of a ball and strike sometime.
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I missed association football when we emigrated to Canada so I saved up money to buy Subbuteo. We got a piece of hardboard? to put the felt on permanently, but after all that work I really didn't play it much. Resistance was futile I assimilated to North American sports by the late 1960's.
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growing up in the 90's I feel like I missed a lot of cool games. It was madden and world series baseball on the sega genesis for me.
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Did anyone have this? I wore mine out.
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12-25-2014, 03:14 PM | #39 |
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http://www.museumofplay.org/online-c...4/Z0047466.jpg
I also played the crap out of this: And then, of course, there was good old Hardball! on my Apple ][, as well as a million Appleworks spreadsheets I used to keep track of every game I played. I wish I still had those.
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There was also a video game, can't remember the name of it...it had a weird flaw, where if you pitched this one guy - I think his name was Waters, his team was Omaha - past around the 5th inning, every time you threw a pitch high and outside, the batter would swing and miss. EVERY TIME. So needless to say, Waters was my workhorse, and Omaha won several years straight. Edit: Found it! This is it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bases_L...8video_game%29
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