Help needed: Trying to find an old game

Sports Illustrated baseball was our low-tech dice game of choice:



One Christmas I got the SI game where you played the Decathlon and you could be Rafer Johnson, Jim Thorpe or a bunch of guys you never heard of.

 

Was a Negamco baseball guy, myself.

Strat-O-Matic was OK, and ol' ABPA certainly had its merits.

 

Strat-o-Matic was some of the most fun I ever had with my clothes on.

 

LOVED that game.

Traded my neighbor something -- I can't remember what -- for it.

 

A caveman just called me. He wants his game back.

 

Pursue the Pennant was another in the line of baseball strategy games.

Real big in the mid- to late 1980s.

 

I still have NFL Strategy stashed away in a box somewhere. How much will you give me for it, AA?

 

Spent hours playing this game, and once played the entire 1967-68 Oakland Oaks season.

 

the version we had of it was called FOTO-ELECTRIC FOOTBALL.

 

Ah, bringing me back to my low-tech childhood.

I had both NFL Strategy and Bas-Ket as a kid, but my favorite one was this game called NFL Quarterback. I got Strategy a couple of years after Quarterback thinking it was an upgrade, but then went back to playing Quarterback.

Quarterback had long horizontal cards, about 10-12 each for offense and defense. Offensive cards (red for running plays, blue for passing plays) had color bars with all sorts of yardage results listed, and the defense cards had holes punched out on one end. You would place the offensive play in the designated slot and put the defensive card over it so it would show a result for each color. Then you would hit the spinner with a small football and whatever color it landed on would determine the result of the play, to be marked off on the small football field above the cards/spinner.

It was very low tech, but I loved it. I had an imaginary football league and I would play out whole seasons on it.

 

I did the same thing, except with my Mattel Football II game. I can't summon up the words to describe how giddy I was when that was re-released a few years ago.

And speaking of low-tech, it gets no more organic--nor better--than this:

 

In my living room right now I have a PS2 and a Wii. Yet whenever any of my friends come over, they're immediately drawn to the Mattel Electronic Football AND Baseball games I have on my coffee table. And they wind up playing them almost the whole time they're over.