Chris

Welcome, that would be me. Great to see you here

Welcome, I look forward to reading your dynasty more! Nothing more fun than sharing the highs and lows of how your game is going with the community.

Awesome Nick. EHM 07 is an all-time classic. We have a great EHM 2005 online league here too -> http://ehmhockey.com I look forward to following!

Easily the best Baseball Mogul league. The site VERY VERY good.

Noticed that too. I'll try to reach out to them and ask.

Awesome Scott, I love your use of screenshots and graphics. I'll be following your throwback Reds!

Welcome glenn! I look forward to seeing where this is headed!

Hey Wayne, welcome back. I'm happy you found your way back to your threads without my follow-up e-mail. Welcome back and looking forward to the continued stories!

love the graphics

Update from Sebastian, lead developer of Franchise Hockey Manager 2014 .. Online Mode in the works See Here

Awesome. I am looking forward to following.

Thanks Brandon -- great read!

The Pesky Pole (http://www.thepeskypole.net) has put out some great articles about OOTP, Interviews with Markus and a review of the upcoming OOTP15 version. Keep an eye on it!

One of the more experienced sim users out there named 'Antonin' had these suggestions to share with me about PCF and looking forward to these being implemented. Overall PCF is still pretty good! Suggestion #1 - A "can't get fired" mode. I don't see why the player can't just manage the team he wants to manage, if that's the way he wants to play. I have enough stress in real life trying to stay employed to have the same situation in a game. (lol) Suggestion #2 - The screen on laptop is just too small for my middle-aged eyes, you have to change the way your computer displays dates, otherwise you get exception errors. Working on the exception errors going forward.

Let me start.. I thought this would be an interesting thread to start here at GM Games. I am really curious to know about how you found out about playing these types of games. We've had several blog entries from our feature contributors telling us their story about how they got started playing sim sports. History: I don't consider myself someone with a great memory lol but here is how I think it all got started and how it evolved. For a long time I have always been fascinated with the statistics in sports. Being a fan, playing sports my whole life, I was always interested in box scores. My grandparents would always have a daily paper and I would grab the sports section and be really interested in reading the box scores that tell a little bit of a story of how the game went. From then on I knew stats and sports, athlete performance had a lasting effect on me. But it evolved further to wondering why teams won, why teams lost, and understand the aspects of a manager or franchise. I think it all started on NES. I owned a copy of Baseball Simulator and my friends in the neighbourhood and I just played the crap out of Baseball Stars. I think my mom at one point had a 40 dollar late charge with Blockbuster on a copy of Baseball Stars being a few weeks late. Man did I ever love that game from the team building perspective, money, salary caps etc. Later on Baseball Simulator was pretty fun, but I think I ended up playing Baseball Simulator 1.000 on SNES more, minus the dumbass magic part of that game lol. Baseball was my sport growing up but I loved all sports and my background being Lithuanian, I have been bred to love Basketball. Along the journey at blockbuster I rented my first copy of Tecmo Super Bowl. I would play out full seasons with my friend during sleepovers and we would almost get a whole season done from early afternoon till about 3-4 am. Losing in the playoffs with eyes barely open was an empty feeling when it was all over, lol! But was simulating it ever fun as well. Stats were realistic, player personnel moves had significance etc. Loved this game. I found some joy in basketball from copies of NCAA Basketball (which didn't simulate well but played well), and played a lot of Tecmo Super NBA Basketball. Tons of fun and loved my mid-range jumpers from the elbows (which normally was a low percentage shot) but loved seeing Michael Jordan hitting those while growing up. From a hockey perspective my first simulation game was Wayne Gretzky Hockey, which I believe was way ahead of its time. As time progressed Baseball Mogul showed up on the scene. It instantly was a hit to me, it took what I wanted these games to become to the level where it made me feel wrapped up in this world. I helped run a league named BMIL that lasted for years until we switched to OOTP .. I have been a user on the OOTP forums since 2002 and I have an interesting private message with Markus from 2002 that makes me smile to this day. As the modern games came out I pretty much played about everything. Countless hours of Championship Manager (CM) even though I wasn't a huge European Football / Soccer fan but the game was just THAT good. Eastside Hockey Manager was developing and the games got more sophisticated. I still firmly believe this genre made some of the most addictive games ever made. If you really believe and are intrigued with a great simulator algorithm and AI world, these games will keep you playing through all hours of the night. "Just sim one more day".. Hey, share with us your story. I would love to hear it personally. I helped create this site so these games, the developers get the attention they deserve, but also, we get a chance to mold the games with the dev's in our desired fantasy world's. What's your story??

Good luck with the Beavers. Hopefully you do better than Obama's brother

Thanks Lee, someone brought this to my attention earlier. I'll be in touch with their developer asap. Cheers

Can't wait to follow even more. Indiana State deserves to have back the Larry Bird glory days

Awesome WarEagle! Welcome to GM Games. Let's go Liberty

Talk about a build up and I'm liking the fact you are starting from a small program. Hopefully you can attract some interesting recruits ..with a background story like that, who wouldn't want to come play for you.

Here you go Darryl, with credit provided to you: http://gmgames.org/2014/03/26/newly-released-hoops-manager-2014-for-ipad/

Lol it turns out the day you first posted about this game, was the day it was released. Darryl you are on the ball, ha

Darryl we just got in touch with the lead developer of Hoops Manager from rivisoft. He sent over a great e-mail, sent some screenprints and we'll be looking to boost coverage on this game.

Wow thanks for sharing this project. I do like that they are inspired by OOTP and Front Page Sports. I haven't tried it myself but that doesn't mean others following here have not.. I am intrigued! We just put up a profile on our front-end of Basketball Dynasty Manager and shared this story, http://gmgames.org/2014/03/23/release-basketball-dynasty-manager-dm14-version-2-android-ios/