Introduce Yourself

[slic1149]

I am a 57 year old author and professional speaker. My field of expertise is Corporate Driving Safety and I work with professional drivers all over the country. If you're interested my website is www.happyendingsbyric.com I discovered PureSim about 3 years ago. Took advantage of the free program in 2005 and bought the new 2007 version the week it came out. I also play OOTP, Baseball Mogul, Diamond Mind and still enjoy APBA Baseball for Windows with the Baseball Encyclopedia. Really enjoy historical what if leagues my favorite time frame is late 40's to mid 80's. It's the ball I grew up with and it's like comfort food for baseball. My favorite team is the Royals and I really enjoyed watching George Brett throughout his career. I moved to Texas in 1990 and to Fort Worth in 1999 so have enjoyed following the Rangers for the last few years also. My favorite baseball memory is attending game 3 of the 1980 World Series. It was the first WS game played in Kansas City and they won 4 to 3 in 10 innings. Love all of the baseball sims that I play and enjoy the differences in how individual seasons and performances play out. Like most sim fans I am waiting for the perfect sim and am having a great time with the existing ones now. Thanks for the chance to let you know a little about me. This thread is a great idea
 

[puresimmer]

ORIGINAL: robpost3

I am a 39 year old business Manager in Logistics, living in Westfield MA. 

Hey robpost,

You wouldn't happen to know a guy named Steve Ensign, would ya?

[robpost3]

We did move Rita and Ruth Ensign....ask Steve if A to Z Moving & Storage, Inc., rings a bell? We are in West Springfield at the old Gilbarco industrial center.....

[robpost3]

wait a second....is this gentleman Stevie "Westfield" of the Pajama Slave Dancers!?!

[dneely]

Well I guess I am the Grandpa of this group as I just turned 59.....as my kids say I am older than dirt. My first sports game was one I made out of a spinner and used my baseball cards. John Roseboro (old Dodgers cat.) was my all time HR champ. From that I graduated to APBA and played the board game for years. My first real computer baseball game was the APBA game ported to the computer by Random House! Then to the computer versions of SOM, Pennent Fever, DMB, OOTP and now PureSim. If they were based on stats and not arcade style then I have owned it and played it. I still play in 2 DMB leagues and 2 OOTP leagues and hope we can finally get a historical PS league going. I have played a number of other games in football and basketball but I am only using the PC Action games now.

Living in Phoenix AZ I am a Suns and D-Back fan and try to root for the Cardinals but I am still a die-hard Redskins fan having grown up there. I was a commercial photographer for 28 years (boy could I tell some stories...) and I now work as a Photo Teacher in H.S. and do my photography as a Stock and Fine-Art photographer. www.dneelyphoto.com

I saw Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris (saw him hit #58 in 1961) Ted Williams, Stan Musial and a few more over the years. I don't go to many games any more (too expensive) but I watch a great deal of sports on TV but miss the days as a kid going to the ball park. My worst story is I dropped a shot into the bleachers by Yogi Berra during BP one day and that is the closest I have came to catching a ball in a MLB park. Obviously I blamed my crappy ball glove!!

I have to say my 2 favorite games right now are PureSim and DMB. It is a ton of fun managing against another person live online and DMB has the in-game experience nailed right now. I sure hope Shaun can add that in the next version.

David

[Amaroq]

I'm a 33-year-old game developer in San Mateo CA.

I feel like a heretic in this thread because I never played APBA: I got into Statis-Pro Baseball instead and never bought the other game. For a while, I was content just to play the board game by myself, then to draft and trade teams for it (sometimes alone, sometimes with my best friend).

Then we started writing our own, pen and paper style: some re-purposed Statis-Pro cards with other mathematical formulas behind it, and another used the Baseball Encyclopedia and "Win Shares" to generate totals.

The next step was BASIC on an Apple ][e - I think our first game was based on hockey cards, with a real simple algorithm: divide a guy's goals by (6 * 82), to generate a (low) percent of scoring on a "chance".. and then each period he took two die rolls against that chance (modified by the opposing goalie) to see if he scored. It was missing a lot of things - assists, defense, penalties, strategy! - but it generated relatively realistic hockey scores, and provided just enough suspense to make an outcome tense.

Over the next couple years, I wrote "draft and trade" computer games for just about every sport I enjoyed: football, baseball, hockey, auto racing, horse racing, ultimate frisbee, you name it.. .. it really spurred me into computer science as a discipline, and game development as a profession.

So here I am years later, and I don't work on sports games at all - though I still dream of setting out on my own. In the meantime, I do what I can through posts on forums to help bring the standard of the genre up. [:)]

[KG Erwin]

Since you brought up APBA, Amaroq, I have the board game (1984 season), and a collection of great teams of the past. In 1985, this did two things for me: (1) made me desire a computer game that featured a decent AI opponent and (2) first started getting me fascinated with baseball in the late 40s-early 50s.

My first baseball computer game was something called Pure-Stat, which I could play on my C64, and even use to create historical teams from scratch. Did any of you ever play that one? I don't rember too much about it now, but it had features like pitcher tiring factors and a degree of customability.

The path from there to here (and Pure Sim) was a natural progression. However, I didn't realize it would take nearly 20 years for me to find the game that fulfilled my wishes. This is why I approach Shaun's game with such boyish enthusiasm.

[robpost3]

Ok I just talked with my wife..the Ensigns: they lived by Little River Road..there was a whole litter of them and they used to play ball at the field near there house if its the same I think she said it was Rays field..si? If you are familiar with Wastefield my wife grew up on Pontoosic Road-Carmel/Bannish...Euckie Carmel motorcycle maven...Southwick etc..

[PadresFan104]

ORIGINAL: Amaroq

I feel like a heretic in this thread because I never played APBA: I got into Statis-Pro Baseball instead and never bought the other game. For a while, I was content just to play the board game by myself, then to draft and trade teams for it (sometimes alone, sometimes with my best friend).

I spent hours upon hours flipping those FAC cards in my room as a kid.... Great memories.

Al

[motnahp]

45 y/o 911 supervisor. My favorite sim was always Statis-Pro, first the board version, then the C-64 game. I tried about a dozen others, but never got the same satisfaction. Earl Weaver II probably came the closest.

Over three years ago, long after the C-64 was put deep into the closet, I stumbled upon C-64 emulators for the PC. I ended up playing Statis-Pro on the PC for over a year, tediously inputting litertally hundreds of teams. I did actual lineup replays on all the LCS games from 1969-2003.

One day, I guess I had a lot of free time, so I surfed the web for baseball sims. I don't remember what PS had that "hooked" me, but here I am and here I'll stay. I will admit that once I was into PS, I checked around again. I d-loaded the demo Of anOTher Program to check it out. Their demo wouldn't allow me to play a real season with real teams (or I couldn't figure out how).

One day, I might enjoy the fictional-player aspect, but my interest at this time is doing replays with real players. When Shaun allowed introduced multiplayer, and gave us the ability to run this solo with all teams under human control, my PS "world" was complete.

[Bustoff]

I may as well weigh in here...

56 years old, work as a Technical Services Specialist for a software company based in Connecticut. I telecommute from Columbia, Missouri. I have been a Cardinals fan since 1958, and I love baseball. I was lucky enough to see Stan the Man, the Say Hey Kid, Gibby, Hammerin' Hank, Mr. Cub, and a host of others live and in color at the old Sportsmans Park on Grand Avenue in St. Louis...if that won't make a fan out of you, nothing will. I was there at Sportsmans for the last game and at the new (now old) Busch Memorial Stadium for the first game.
My favorite moment was seeing Willie Mays hit a flamer deep into right...on his way from second to third, his cap flew off. He stopped, turned around, retrieved his cap, then took off again for third...and made it with a head-first slide.
I can't remember where I first heard about Pure Sim--back in late '03 or early '04, I think--but I do remember it took about 5 minutes for me to get hooked on it. It's the only computer game that has kept my interest for longer than a month.
I am a bit surprised at the age demographic on this thread...maybe the youngsters don't care for this type of entertainment--no fighting ogres, no explosions or fast cars, just simple quiet fun (Except when I yell at my players!). Probably sounds boring to them.
Keep up the good work, Shaun, this game is golden!

[Brasshammer]

Forty-Eight year old Police Detective and USAFR Flight Engineer. In my spare time I help coach Little League and High School baseball and play computer games, mostly strategy war games ( i.e War in the Pacific and and lately Forge of Freedom.) and baseball sims. I also like to play fantasy baseball and have won my league two out of the last four years..The only online leagues Ive been in were Strat leagues but would love to get into a pure-sim league. Favorite teams are the Padres and the Cardinals.

[PadresFan104]

All right, another San Diegan!!!!

Al

[jeremy7227]

Hi all,

33, married to wonderfully patient woman. Someday she will be canonized as the patron saint of baseball widows, I am convinced of that. We have one beautiful 2-yr old daughter and a son due in February. I grew up in Shrewsbury, MA and have been a Worcester County native all my life, we're in West Boylston now. I am an IT design consultant with a heavy emphasis on the business requirements; DR, security and the like. It's work, it beats the alternative and because my laptop is practically glued to my fingertips I can usually sim 4-5 seasons a week.

Red Sox fan. Former catcher/utility man on a handful of sandlot (NABA/MABL/CM30+) teams around New England, hung up the spikes when the little one came along. I grew up playing Statis-Pro on my C64. When APBA came out on IBM-PC that was my computer baseball game of choice for 15 years. However, I have been a Strat-o-Matic cards&dice addict since 1984. Can't beat that for head to head fun, I have all but 5 seasons, but the PC version leaves more than a bit to be desired.

My biggest want for PS2008 is a head-to-head online play option. I think that whoever started this thread struck the right tone for the board. This is a good community of gamers that loves (and lives) this game. It would be great to get to know guys through online leagues with a live play option for some of the games. That builds comradeship that will last far longer than the leagues themselves.

[looneyluden]

Hiya,

I'm 32, married, and live in Tucson, AZ. I've spent the past 12 years in active duty AirForce and Air National Guard as an avionics technician on F-15's, C-130's, and currently work F-16's. I met my wife in the AF, she also was avionics. No children yet, but we have a little pup, and he is a big computer baseball fan.

I play the heck out of puresim2007. I also play stuff like SimCity, Flight Simulator, and Civilization. I've always been a baseball fan, and my favorite team is the Phillies.

[Amaroq]

ORIGINAL: PadresFan104

All right, another San Diegan!!!!

Al

Notch up another one in two weeks: my wife and I are moving to S.D. on 12/22.

[kwik]

Circa 1980