Many, many years ago there was a videogame series from
Cinemaware called
TV Sports. They had pretty much the absolute best Football, Hockey and Basketball games of the late Eighties/early Nineties. One of my favorite games among them was
TV Sports Basketball. It consisted of several teams in a fictitious league. Two of the best players were named after programmers, designers or testers for the game.
Larry Garner, Jerry Albright, "All Night" Long and
Bernie "Burning" Whang were among the best.
I just created a version of the
Los Angeles Avengers (AFL) called the
Los Angeles Sentinels (based upon Gladiators logo). I put them in the
Miller Gold Stadium, since it is so obviously based upon the
Los Angeles Coliseum. I was just playing a game and noticed a generic DE named
Doug Garner got a sack, pretty much unmolested. Shortly after, a generic WR named
Antwaan Albright caught a cool reception for a first down. I was astounded when I saw
Garner's name on the jersey... I was outright
FLOORED when I saw
Albright's name. So I stopped the game and checked my roster to see if any of the other names I remembered appeared on my team.
Sadly, there don't appear to be any others. I have always felt that part of the reason why I enjoyed
Visual Concepts work has been that it reminded me so much of the
TV Sports series, only more advanced. I suspect that someone among the staff at
VC remembers those old games, and may have decided to pay homage to those titles of lore.
I now need to find some type of memory card so that I can save my Roster file immediately... I've already lost it once due to a glitch and don't want to deal with that again. I don't think I'll be editing this team again. Has anyone else here come across players in
APF2K8 whose names you remember from old
Cinemaware TV Sports games?
Red Ronin