Though it would take another 15 years, Nostalgia Sim Baseball is the outcome of my twin fascination with baseball and code-writing.īut what should one expect in the best PC baseball simulation game? While I cannot answer that question objectively, I'd like to share four basic convictions.įirst, a sim should aspire for accuracy.
It seemed natural to take some of what I learned from cards and dice and move it into the universe of bits and bytes. There were a few catastrophes as I wrote code (like corrupt disks and forgetting to save my work), but I always came back for more. During that time I taught myself how to code in BASIC language on a DOS system with no hard disk, just two 'floppy drives' as we called them. The advent of the personal computer in the 80s (I was one of the first to buy one at an outrageous price!) opened up new possibilities for baseball simulation. Over time, I created my own baseball sim game with dice, trying to emulate what I had learned. We were both introverts, so this seemed like an ideal after school ritual.
To play we used packs of baseball player cards and rolls of the dice. Baseball board games like Strat-O-Matic, APBA and Pursue the Pennant were popular when I was growing up in the 70s.