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Originally Posted by glenmere14
I think the first game to have park effects was Sher-Co, which I believe was a late seventies game.
The first baseball sim I ever played was "Be a Manager" probably in the mid seventies.
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Wow! I don't think I've ever seen anyone else mention "Be a Manager." It was the first game I ever owned too. It was 1972, I think, and I had the '71 season. I was 11. My buddy had Strat, and I loved it, but for some reason the first game I bought was Be a Manager. I don't remember why, probably because it was cheaper.
I can't remember much about game play, only that it was more complicated and frustrating than Strat because you had to read the three dice off a chart then go to the player cards. I think you may have even had to roll twice, once for the pitcher and once for the batter, but I may be confusing it with Sports Illustrated.
One thing I do remember vividly, however, was Willie Stargell striking out in a key situation and being so pissed off (I was a Pirates fan) that I scrawled "dick" across his card in big dark letters with my scoresheet pencil, and always referred to him as "K-gell" from that point on.
Hard to believe I'm playing baseball games 35 years later....