Strat-O-Matic College Football (Computer Version)

[Dave66]

Anyone here order this game?

It ships out today!

Just wondering.

Here is the description from the web site:

Our newest release College Football game containing rosters representing all 237 1-A and 1-AA teams from 2004. You can create schedules, run tournaments, replay league seasons. Run a replay of the BCS or even implement your own playoff system to determine a National Champion. Requires IBM Pentium level or higher, 800x600 minimum screen resolution and an internet connection.

hxxp://www.strat-o-matic.com/

[PilotMan]

I love Strat. It was my best friend growing up, however, the cost has kept me from keeping up to date with it. Especially, with the quality of management sims that are out there.

Pretty cool that they are going to do college again. I have the old board game with all 3 seasons of college football teams that they did in the 80's. I know that my collection is worth some dough. Like everything else, I wish that I had the time to really play it and get into it like I used to.

Ahh...{reminicing}

[Riggins44]

They do such a horrible job of marketing the computer versions of their games. It's a wonder anyone shells out $50 for something you can't try out. Heck, they don't even have screenshots on their website!

[cody8200]

Originally Posted by Riggins44

They do such a horrible job of marketing the computer versions of their games. It's a wonder anyone shells out $50 for something you can't try out. Heck, they don't even have screenshots on their website!

You said it! Their website looks like the first one I ever made (really bad). It's amazing people are able to order anything. The college game with the card imager is 65 bucks...Jeez-louise. I have no idea what the game is even like except that you can only play 1 season.

[Dave66]

Screen shots would be nice!

[dawgfan]

Originally Posted by PilotMan

I love Strat. It was my best friend growing up, however, the cost has kept me from keeping up to date with it. Especially, with the quality of management sims that are out there.

Pretty cool that they are going to do college again. I have the old board game with all 3 seasons of college football teams that they did in the 80's. I know that my collection is worth some dough. Like everything else, I wish that I had the time to really play it and get into it like I used to.

Ahh...{reminicing}

3 seasons? As far as I know, they did '86 and then '88. Was there another season they did?

I loved those games by the way, even though I don't think their football games were as sophisticated and realistic as their baseball and basketball games. I played the hell out of both the '86 and '88 season sets.

I love college football enough that I'll have to take a look at this release and possibly buy it...

[dawgfan]

Dola - dear God, what a horrible website. They really need to bite the bullet and spend a little bit of money for a professional to redesign that site. Not only is it ugly, it does a horrible job of presenting inforamation about their products.

[waltwal]

i ordered it - because i order games to encourage developers. i have just about every sim game in football and baseball. i enjoy ootp online the most. i have a feeling that som college football might be a good game.

[JeffR]

I'm tempted to order their book, just based on the corrections they published:

Please note these corrections concerning Rhett Richman in Strat-O-Matic Fanatics:
* One, Rhett was married for 17 years, not “briefly” as the book says.
* Second, the father of Rhett Richman’s husband was not a friend of Hermann Wilhelm Goering, but a low ranking Nazi SS man.

(hxxp://www.strat-o-matic.com/sphere/fancorr.htm)

[timmynausea]

Originally Posted by JeffR

I'm tempted to order their book, just based on the corrections they published:

(hxxp://www.strat-o-matic.com/sphere/fancorr.htm)

Those really are hilarious.

[Axxon]

This is not about the computer game but it's a cool story about strat baseball.

I had a friend once who had two sons both very young. He had figured out the mathematical formula for creating strat baseball cards, basic not advanced and was in the process of creating index cards of every player to ever play the game since 1900.

He didn't have the proper reference tools though for all the fringe players and as I still loved baseball at the time ( and I still love baseball before the 90's ) I did have the correct references so I let him use them. He workerd on that project forever and it seemed like every time I visited he was working on the cards. It became somewhat of a joke for everyone to comment on his crazy but cool hobby.

He had made it to about 1956 or so when I left town.

I went back to visit several years later. By now, his kids were grown and I didn't recognize his oldest who was at the house visiting his dad. They were playing the old strat game he had spent years working on.

It seems both his sons came over for regular game nights with the old man and he had a league going on with both of them. I told him how cool I thought this was and he just smiled and said "you see, I wasn't so crazy after all. There was a method to my madness."

That, my friends, is fatherly love.

[WSUCougar]

I was more of an APBA man myself.

[PilotMan]

Originally Posted by dawgfan

3 seasons? As far as I know, they did '86 and then '88. Was there another season they did?

They did '87 as well, so it is '86-'88. I really lamented that they didn't do '89. I wanted to see Andre Ware's passing card.

[MikeVick7]

Originally Posted by WSUCougar

I was more of an APBA man myself.

I heard that.

[dawgfan]

Originally Posted by PilotMan

They did '87 as well, so it is '86-'88. I really lamented that they didn't do '89. I wanted to see Andre Ware's passing card.

Huh - I missed that somehow. I may have to look around and see if anyone is selling their '87 card set...

[G-Man]

Originally Posted by WSUCougar

I was more of an APBA man myself.

I loved playing APBA baseball and football in the 70's.