Before computer games there were of course board games. They ranged from the very simple to rich, complex and statistical. By the time computers arrived that were affordable to the masses, sports board games were a unique niche of the […]
The latest Annual Player Cards for Minden Playing Card Cricket – 5th Edition are here. As usual these ship as a downloadable PDF for purchasers of the game, and are available free on mindencricket.com until the next annual update (April […]
Recently I saw a Facebook Group which had a photo of all of the original Sports Illustrated games from circa. 1971 and thought, I would quite like to own those. So, a long campaign of waiting has begun and has […]
To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of Statis Pro Baseball’s death have always been greatly exaggerated. Indeed, for a game that was last commercially published by Avalon Hill in 1993, Statis Pro Baseball is alive and well. The game is […]
For those of us who chose the hobby of sports replay gaming there are decisions to be made. Which sport? Which system? How many sets do I buy? Do I need to talk to someone about this problem I have? […]
The latest update to the popular cricket board game, Minden Playing Card Cricket – 5th Edition – has arrived and is now available for free from the mindencricket.com web site. The update contains 200 Players who have played in at […]
Back in 1987 Jim Barnes, the creator of the Statis Pro line of board games, spent about a week creating a new version of Statis Pro Baseball. He called this one Statis Pro Baseball Classic and it lasted a single […]
After a lot of time searching, thanks to Sports Board Gamer reader, Cameron Waters, I have at last seen a full version of the Tarax Cricket Game. This is the sister game to the much better known Aussie Rules football […]
Recently I picked up a small collection of Avalon Hill’s excellent All-Star Replay magazine. This was published for several years to support the company’s line of Sports Illustrated games and is a treasure trove of experimental rules, and add-ons, many […]
Here’s a classic game that many of this blog’s older readers will know well – Cricket by the Fireside. Known to some as “Book Cricket”, it’s a simple system that was written up in the Eagle Annual No. 5. It […]