The White Shadow
Loved that show. May the white shadow RIP.
one of my favorite shows of all time
That show had multiple Marquette mentions. That was airing when we were a Blue Blood.
Quote from: keefe on March 24, 2016, 12:34:37 AM
That show had multiple Marquette mentions. That was airing when we were a Blue Blood.
So did the Dick Newhart show. 8-)
RIP
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on March 24, 2016, 01:02:19 AM
So did the Dick Newhart show. 8-)
Did you have to drink too many times playing the "Bob" game that you can't get the first name correct?
Quote from: Archies Bat on March 24, 2016, 08:37:17 AM
Did you have to drink too many times playing the "Bob" game that you can't get the first name correct?
LOL. I'm getting old. Yes, Bob Newhart.
Loved The White Shadow and was close enough to our Blue Blood days. Never missed the Shadow. If memory serves me it was on Thursday nights.
I had a White Shadow version of this game as a kid.
(http://spookyshobbyshop.com/TEMPLATE%20cadaco%20bas-ket%20parts%201966%20VG%20no%20ball.JPG)
I had that game. I don't remember if it was White Shadow branded, but I definitely had that game.
Quote from: The Sultan of Sunshine on March 24, 2016, 11:37:17 AM
I had a White Shadow version of this game as a kid.
(http://spookyshobbyshop.com/TEMPLATE%20cadaco%20bas-ket%20parts%201966%20VG%20no%20ball.JPG)
I remember playing that as a kid. A classic.
Other classics of the era:
(http://images.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/electricfootball2_6.jpg)
(http://img0.etsystatic.com/030/0/7213596/il_fullxfull.504213722_nm0y.jpg)
McCormick had an intense Strat-O-Matic Baseball League. I was the Orioles, of course.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tyjeySDi9hw/UunO3xGLjPI/AAAAAAAAWs8/dVQdHjRus2c/s1600/strat.png)
(http://spookyshobbyshop.com/TEMPLATE%20cadaco%20foto%20football%20box%201966%20EX-NM.JPG)
I had Strat-O-Matic baseball as a kid and maybe 10 years ago five 40 something buddies and I resurrected it as a boys night out every Wednesday. Go to each others house, drink beer, eat meatball subs or wings or some other no good for you stuff and play Strat-O-Matic. Played two full seasons (I think each season took about 27 Wednesdays over maybe 30 weeks and took winters off) before we got sick of it.
When my son was young, every Christmas I got him one toy I used to play as kids. He Liked stuff like Battling Tops and Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em Robots, but he hated electric football. He did not have the patience to set up every play, when you could do it with Madden in about 2 seconds. He played it once and never again.
Also, loved White Shadow. Coolidge was awesome. Go go Gomez!
I sent a picture of the basketball game to my brother, and he reminded me that at one point I insisted that we make the mid-court shots 3 pointers. We then played, and he won on a three point shot when he was down two. I go so pissed that I destroyed the game by bending the cardboard basket supports in half.
I have no recollection of this incident, but I have no doubts it is completely accurate.
My brother and I played the Tudor NFL Strategy football as kids where you had to pick your plays on offense and defense.
(http://spookyshobbyshop.com/TEMPLATE%20tudor%20nfl%20strategy%20box%201978%20EX%20sealed.JPG)
(http://spookyshobbyshop.com/TEMPLATE%20tudor%20nfl%20strategy%20parts%201978%20EX.JPG)
This is the football game that we had.
(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic692681_md.jpg)
Man yall are old. Though my dad had strat o matic that I played like twice. Favorite old time game that he had was shootout at the OK corral. Never played electronic football but I played the crap out of techmo bowl. Run 1 with Bo Jackson was unstoppable.
Mattell Talking Football for me.
Dick Enberg - "A leaping interception, he's going to go all the way...TOUCHDOWN!"
My first computer football game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq4CobNxgJM
Since I was hockey family we always had some version of this in the house. My brother and I kept wearing it out!
My first football game:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61fYUhY5c6L._SY355_.jpg)
Quote from: CTWarrior on March 24, 2016, 03:36:43 PM
Mattell Talking Football for me.
Dick Enberg - "A leaping interception, he's going to go all the way...TOUCHDOWN!"
I had the Mattel talking basketball. Enberg:
"...the rebound--blocked AGAIN by Alcindor, and Lew takes control of the ball! **LONG DISTORTED BUZZER SOUND**
Quote from: Pakuni on March 24, 2016, 04:23:21 PM
My first football game:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61fYUhY5c6L._SY355_.jpg)
+1
Quote from: Pakuni on March 24, 2016, 04:23:21 PM
My first football game:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61fYUhY5c6L._SY355_.jpg)
Now that, I played the hell out of. That's all I played on long car trips.
This was the basketball game we had:
(http://www.collecttoys.net/Games/images/bas-ket.jpg)
Football:
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NlpB4Oy297w/maxresdefault.jpg)
Baseball:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412TLzt26jL.jpg)
Quote from: Pakuni on March 24, 2016, 04:23:21 PM
My first football game:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61fYUhY5c6L._SY355_.jpg)
Glow still has one of these in his underwear drawer.
This was the billiards table at the Warriorchick childhood home:
(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQL0wX1bnosU8ttPNCZgZXSZWTMe96b3BrldG84jKVLk9lB_X1sZQ)
man, you guys are really old. had a friend who could basically build these with some copper wire and a couple of soup cans or something.
(https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRBPglMrBGghmW5BAcIJF93ToE_zZPJEMkUuUS7xqyEaJFw5-15)
Man, we had some crappy games back in the day, and I loved them.
Quote from: Jay Bee on March 27, 2016, 10:45:42 AM
Man, we had some crappy games back in the day, and I loved them.
Our generation was the transition from board games governed by dice and cards to electronic platforms managed by algorithms.
The board games were far more sophisticated than those early electronic platforms. But the world was never turning back.
Quote from: keefe on March 27, 2016, 01:47:29 PM
Our generation was the transition from board games governed by dice and cards to electronic platforms managed by algorithms.
The board games were far more sophisticated than those early electronic platforms. But the world was never turning back.
(For the record, I'm younger than a lot of you old folks on this board... although I do fall into Generation X...)
Strat-o-Matic was my early go-to (holy crap, just looked them up and they are still making CARD GAMES!!!)... but I moved to Pursue the Pennant at some point... recently tossed the game and a couple thousand hand-scored scorecards... as well as manually-calculated weekly and monthly summaries...
What a weird effin kid I was.
Quote from: Jay Bee on March 27, 2016, 03:39:09 PM
(For the record, I'm younger than a lot of you old folks on this board... although I do fall into Generation X...)
Strat-o-Matic was my early go-to (holy crap, just looked them up and they are still making CARD GAMES!!!)... but I moved to Pursue the Pennant at some point... recently tossed the game and a couple thousand hand-scored scorecards... as well as manually-calculated weekly and monthly summaries...
What a weird effin kid "adult" I was am.
My first exposure to Strat-O-Matic was in McCormick. We had a league that went both semesters. We kept score and posted standings and statistics since we allowed trades. I think about how much energy and brain power went into that and we could have cured cancer.
And yes, it was all done manually on graph paper and taped on the TV Lounge glass walls.
I remember waiting for the vator with a gal who needed to leave as we approached curfew and she was looking over all of those notes. When I explained what it was about she made some comment about guys being weird.
"I remember waiting for the vator with a gal who needed to leave as we approached curfew"
i'm sure just a little last minute crammin before the big calc exam-HEYHEYHEYN'a!!
Quote from: rocket surgeon on March 27, 2016, 06:03:57 PM
"I remember waiting for the vator with a gal who needed to leave as we approached curfew"
i'm sure just a little last minute crammin before the big calc exam-HEYHEYHEYN'a!!
Why, actually, yes. Why else would one invite a coed to one's room in an all-male freshmen dorm other than to review notes prior to a Physics test?
White Shadow on FS1
http://www.foxsports.com/presspass/latestnews/2016/03/29/fs1-s-white-shadow-marathon-
Quote from: bradley center bat on March 29, 2016, 03:04:41 PM
White Shadow on FS1
http://www.foxsports.com/presspass/latestnews/2016/03/29/fs1-s-white-shadow-marathon-
Man, reading those episode synopses reminded me why that was such a great show. Interesting subject matter in every episode....
Best baseball game on NES.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/R.B.I._Baseball_Cover.jpg)
Quote from: reinko on March 29, 2016, 06:24:51 PM
Best baseball game on NES.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/R.B.I._Baseball_Cover.jpg)
Intellivision, baby.
http://www.youtube.com/v/6L1sWZCeCgw
I love how a tribute to a man's passing has devolved into a catalog of games from a by-gone era!
Quote from: keefe on March 29, 2016, 08:43:49 PM
I love how a tribute to a man's passing has devolved into a catalog of games from a by-gone era!
I thought that was how ken wanted to be remembered...btw keefe, on my iPad, when I blow-up or expand on your uniform hanging there, you missed some spittle bout half way down the front, or is that Mac n cheese with a Guinness chaser
Quote from: rocket surgeon on March 29, 2016, 09:10:22 PM
I thought that was how ken wanted to be remembered...btw keefe, on my iPad, when I blow-up or expand on your uniform hanging there, you missed some spittle bout half way down the front, or is that Mac n cheese with a Guinness chaser
Quote from: keefe on March 30, 2016, 01:13:42 AM
Actually, that is from the posthumous Silver Star award ceremony for SrA Mark Forester who was killed in Afghanistan trying to save a bro.
The chair is symbolic of the Missing Man. I knew Forester. He was a damn good man.
+1,000,000
Silver Star: Awarded 15 June 2012 for actions on 29 September 2010
Bronze Star with Valor: 6 August 2010
Purple Heart: 29 September 2010
words will not describe my...what a man! his actions are all that is needed to know of what he was made of, what he stood for and the family/friends he left behind-God bless
Quote from: ChitownSpaceForRent on March 24, 2016, 07:44:53 PM
Now that, I played the hell out of. That's all I played on long car trips.
I've still got that game and the Baseball version too. My wife got them for me years ago. My kids don't "get it." And those things were expensive. I remember when Football 2 (the green one) came out (with passing!) it was like $45. And that was in the 70s.
Quote from: BrewCity83 on March 29, 2016, 04:18:36 PM
Man, reading those episode synopses reminded me why that was such a great show. Interesting subject matter in every episode....
We watched it all the time, and I remember being a huge fan, but most of my memories of it have faded to the point of vague recollection. The one episode that I most remember was the one that was based on the Rudy T/Kermit Washington punch.