Introducing – Hardball Retro’s Compendium of Baseball Tabletop Simulations available now at Amazon for $44.99 (paperback) and $19.99 (Kindle) Features 589 full-color pages with 150+ baseball tabletop sims and 16 interviews with game designers! This compendium celebrates 100 years of baseball tabletop simulation games. Our goal with this book is to memorialize as many of … Read more
I created a Facebook group, “Old Computer Baseball Simulations”, as a place to gather people who enjoy our National Pastime from a managerial and front office perspective – primarily games that are no longer actively supported by the publisher, designer or programmer. I would like to encourage the sharing of user-created season disks. In order … Read more
I created a survey for my latest book project – a history of baseball tabletop games! This is a collaboration with several co-authors who are subject matter experts. The book will focus on the baseball tabletop simulations published over the last century and include reviews, interviews, images and ratings from various sources. https://forms.gle/cFFJqoFngnnNxyue8 Please consider … Read more
I created a Facebook group, “Old Computer Baseball Simulations”, as a place to gather people who enjoy our National Pastime from a managerial and front office perspective – primarily games that are no longer actively supported by the publisher, designer or programmer. I would like to encourage the sharing of user-created season disks. In order … Read more
I created a Facebook group, “Old Computer Baseball Simulations”, as a place to gather people who enjoy our National Pastime from a managerial and front office perspective – primarily games that are no longer actively supported by the publisher, designer or programmer. I would like to encourage the sharing of user-created season disks. In order … Read more
I created a tutorial to discuss how to conduct a solo draft in APBA Baseball for Windows. You can also execute drafts with multiple human participants using these methods – I elected the solo option with the computer general manager configured to draft the remaining teams for the sake of simplicity. Here’s a rundown of … Read more
I created a quick tutorial to discuss how to create and edit teams in APBA Baseball for Windows. Here’s a rundown of the requirements: APBA Baseball for Windows was developed and published by Miller Associates for the IBM PC personal computer. Several iterations were released for Windows 3.1 and subsequent editions were built to run … Read more
I created a quick tutorial to discuss how to create and edit teams in APBA Major League Players Baseball. Here’s a rundown of the requirements: APBA Major League Players Baseball was developed by Miller Associates and published by Random House in 1985 for the IBM PC personal computer and 1986 for the Apple ][. I’m … Read more
Introducing – Hardball Retro’s Compendium of Baseball Video Games & Electronic Handhelds available now at Amazon for $29.99 (paperback) and $9.99 (Kindle) Celebrating 50 years of our pixelated National Pastime, this compendium documents the pertinent details for baseball video games and electronic handheld games released in the last half-century and follows the evolution of the … Read more
The following page includes material such as podcasts, interviews and other content related to my ongoing Retro Computer Baseball Game Review series along with my article Play Retro Baseball Video Games In Your Browser. Podcasts, Interviews and Videos Box Scores From The Basement – Steve Etzel and I discuss our book, “Hardball Retro’s Compendium of … Read more
