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Originally Posted by Sweed
Did you play it in the mid '80s? Once they went to action cards, and nerfed FGA for players that didn't shoot much IRL, keyed rebounding to (I think) rebounds to minutes played, among other changes I can't recall off the top of my head I thought it became a great game.
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Nope. My college roommate bought Strat-O basketball in the mid-1970s and we played one game. We hated it. I think we finished the one game because we were amused by how bad it was.
The closest thing to a good basketball game I ever played was one Research Games Inc. put out almost 50 years ago. It was called Oscar Robertson's Pro Basketball Strategy.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/...tball-strategy It was playable but not realistic -- the scores were too high and if you wanted substitutions for any reason other than foul trouble, you had to invent house rules.
RGI also made Gil Hodges' Pennant Fever, a football game that at different times was named after Vince Lombardi and Fran Tarkenton, and the wonderfully named Rod Gilbert's Violent World of Pro Hockey. They were not bad for the late 1960s, and a lot cheaper than Strat-O. (They used rating systems rather than individual cards for players, and you could pretty much figure out a way to update the game yourself by doing the ratings yourself.)
The best thing about Pennant Fever was the park effects. If a long drive was hit, unless it was a no-doubt 480-foot job, you rolled again on a separate set of charts that was specific to the stadium. It worked really well.