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Just an inquiry to gauge interest on other sports in the genre. Baseball will always be my first love, so none of this precludes PureSim!

Oh and I hate Basketball, so I couldn't get inspired enough to write that one, hence the reason it is missing from the poll

One that I would be interested in ( and almost wrote myself ) would be a GREYHOUND racing game.  The game could be some based on a horse racing engine for the races and betting but an interface for kennels and training would need to be designed....  I think that it would be fun but I am not sure of the number of people interested in the sport.  All the stats for racing can be found at ROSENET2000.net.  Just an Idea...

What? No soccer? No lacrosse? No curling?

Oh wait. Lacrosse and curling are for the MaxFB forum.[:D]

Football's been done... I voted for golf!

Football's never been done well though. 

How would you do an auto racing text sim?  I am making the assumption this is a text sim question, though.

Pro or college football was my choice, BUT, many many years ago, a buddy of mine had a cool horse racing board game (was it an Avalon Hill game? I don't remember) that we had some fun with. It wasn't about breeding a winner, per se, it was more concerned with betting and handicapping, but you somehow controlled the horses you bet on.

That being said -- I'd be interested in a horse racing sim, also. "Triple-Crown Horse Racing" or something like that. The more I think about it, the more interesting it becomes. Hmm...

One more for Golf!

GOTTA be NCAA and pro football.

I am wondering if you are thinking of WIN, PLACE or SHOW. An Avalon Hill game in the early 70's that had a track, some pawns that went around and you placed bets. A chart would tell you how many clicks your horse went based on his ratings...... was fun but not a whole lot of options...... I truly loved the old AH games....

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I am wondering if you are thinking of WIN, PLACE or SHOW. An Avalon Hill game in the early 70's that had a track, some pawns that went around and you placed bets. A chart would tell you how many clicks your horse went based on his ratings...... was fun but not a whole lot of options...... I truly loved the old AH games....

Yes, that 's it. It kept a couple of pre-teen boys interested way back when. Thanks for reminding me. [:)]

I voted for fishing, only because there is a golf simulation coming out later this summer that looks promising, and, apparently unlike others on this board, I already found a really good football (American) management sim in Front Office Football 2004.

Things look about like I expected so far. Of all the above Horse Racing (especially the breeding aspect) is where I would have to do the most research.

As for my own personal interest, believe it or not a fresh water fishing sim, where you could create your own lakes, free fish, participate in online tournaments etc, would be sort of fun. I was fishing crazy as a kid -- I'd ride my bike to local lakes and spend all morning every day in the Summer fishing.

Football would be my second choice and it seems like it would be the best move commercially. I'd love to do a full play designer (like FPS:Football) and at least have an animated X's and O's rendering of the play.

All that said, I'm dreaming unless I find a way to do this full time. Oh well I had the dream with PureSim too and that only took 4 years to become reality [8D]

Since Rugby wasn't an option I voted for Horse Racing but a nice fishing sim would work. Any of the above done to PureSim standards would be a buy for me.

Well next year I guess I'll have to dust off my old copy of FPS:Football and see if I can clone it

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Well next year I guess I'll have to dust off my old copy of FPS:Football and see if I can clone it

If you did I think you could finally quit your real job & be a full time sport sim programmer!

Shaun,
 
If you did that, made some strides with it, you would be set.  That game was fantastic at the time and probably has the most potential out of everything except Front Office Football. 

No kidding. I was crazy about that game! I must have spent 100 hours reverse-engineering the encryption to do my FPS utilities

They should sell that source code and take a royalty. I am convinced there are 50,000+ folks who would buy a solid, updated FPS:Football on the spot.

I recently even started looking on ebay for copies, debating picking one up but decided it would be very outdated unfortunately. 

I know I would buy an updated v FPS Football. Actually, it was that game (not baseball) where I first used your utilities. Even though baseball is my first love as a sport, when it came to FPS, I got hooked on the football.
 
My only question is, would Matrix be concerned about offering competing football sims???
 
Steve