Where did you all get started (first Basball Sim)

[SittingDuck]

I gotta admit, the best part about Earl Weaver Baseball was when the manager would run out to the plate and start cussing out the umpire.

Classic!  Gee, I wonder who inspired that?

[rwd59]

Strat-o-matic cards & dice 1970.
Computer baseball by SSI, yep thats the name of it. For an Apple IIc

[Marsh511]

First sim game: APBA (1968)...followed by my best friend getting Strat...and so the feud began!
First PC game: Statis Pro (1981) -- I was in nirvana with my Apple IIE or whatever...and that game! And then came APBA, Strat, and PTP with their PC games in the mid-80's.

And now I still play them all!

[Claymore Cut]

ORIGINAL: Cantankerous

And here I thought I was the only person to have played Earl Weaver's Baseball on a Commodore Amiga. [:)]

Best Computer Baseball game ever!

[torque561]

I first started with All-Star baseball. I switched to SOM and Negamco, I played many board games over the years. My last board game was Pursue the Pennant. My first computer game was Miller which was actually APBA.

[matt0177]

Old Avalon Hill boardgame in the late 80's early 90's, only game with 2 fake teams, so I would make my cards with 3 X 5 index cards and stats from my 1988 sporting news basbeball guide. To this day, I remain an expert on 1987 baseball.

My first computer sim was Persue The Pennant, was actully looking for a copy of that when I stumbled across puresim, what a huge improvement.

[jtfesta]

Started with all the board games - SOM, APBA, Pursue the Pennant, Extra Innings, Pennant Fever, Long Ball - Them moved to LaRussa, Earl Weaver, Micro League, APBA for Windows, SOM, High Heat and OOTP.  I really like the "feel" of Pure Sim.

[NOCAHOMA]

This is my first post on the boards, being a newbie and former OOTP enthusiast...so be gentle [:)]

My first baseball gaming experience was in the late '60's with a game I think someone referred to earlier where you initiated action with a wheel-type pitch and response, then rolled dice and looked on the player cards for the results. The pictures were black & white, the logos were air-brushed off. I remember Hank Aaron and Willie Mays doing the bulk of the damage, but Frank Howard was pretty awesome too! I later moved to Strat-O-Matic in the early 70's. But there was one game that I remember vividly...it was called "Talking Baseball". There were little red and blue discs that looked like mini-albums, and you popped it into a player, chose your pitch and off it went. I spent hours playing that game...it was so cool!!!

[Phatguy]

started with the 1985 version of stratomatic. 10 of us got together and made our own league,drafting players . The most memorable thing I remember was having Kirk Gibson hit homers in the first 12 games for me... ahhh, the memories.

[Captainfirst]

Wow, I really am a rookie compared to all of you. First game was APBA board game, started in 2000. Bought Action! last year in a buy one, get another half-off deal. Really wanted the football sim and figured what the hey, let's toss baseball in there.
 
Have to say that as much as I love Dave K's football game, the baseball never seemed quite right. Was going to buy the APBA computer version of baseball next month but when I googled "baseball simulation", Puresim came up on the first page of results. Bought it yesterday.

[hano13]

I started on Micro-League baseball on the Apple ][e .  Oh my goodness I was in heaven when they came out with the general manager/stat-tracker disk so I could create my own teams and didn't have to update all my stats by hand with pencil and paper after every game!  Eventually went to MicroLeague II after making the jump to the Microsoft/Intel world and ran several leagues with my buddies in college with it.  Loved the realistic stats combined with the in-game animation in that game.  It was simple, yet suspenseful.  Puresim's animated ball flight is the closest I've seen to it since.

[Claymore Cut]

ORIGINAL: SittingDuck

I gotta admit, the best part about Earl Weaver Baseball was when the manager would run out to the plate and start cussing out the umpire.

Classic! Gee, I wonder who inspired that?

Lol, there were actually 2 animations, one where he would go out and argue, the other where he would go out and kick dirt. As a house league rule, we had it that should your manager go out a kick dirt, he was ejected and your team was turned over to the CPU.

Just a great game...

[RedArgo]

Started with a dice game a friend created, then moved to AH Statis Pro Baseball for the Apple IIe. We played SSI Computer Baseball, Lance Haffner baseball, Micro League Baseball, Earl Weaver, Pursue the Pennant, Stratomatic (computer version), Front Page, and now I play PureSim. I wish I had the time like we used too. One of my friends spent a whole summer playing both sides of every single game for every team on PTP. He had too much time.

[SittingDuck]

ORIGINAL: Claymore Cut

Lol, there were actually 2 animations, one where he would go out and argue, the other where he would go out and kick dirt. As a house league rule, we had it that should your manager go out a kick dirt, he was ejected and your team was turned over to the CPU.

Just a great game...

True enough. I d/l it some time ago from some oldware site. Can't recall the name, but it was one of the biggies. If anyone remembers those kinda site names, lemme know.

Anyhow, I think there was one where he also went out to the mound, right? "C'mere, Palmer -lemme tell you a thing or two!!!" Hilarious....

[Claymore Cut]

ORIGINAL: SittingDuck



Anyhow, I think there was one where he also went out to the mound, right? "C'mere, Palmer -lemme tell you a thing or two!!!" Hilarious....

You could go to the mound to speak to the pitcher. Both he and the catcher gave opinions as to the state of the Pitchers arm (pircher would say one thing, the catcher would say another). Great fun going out there and trying to make up your mind what to do. Something I would like to see added to puresim as well, adds great fun to bullpen management.