Strat-O-Matic’s Big Summer

 

Gamers Can Relive a Dozen Seasons with Four Games

 

 

By Glenn Guzzo

 

            Strat-O-Matic’s lineup of new and historic seasons is among its most extensive summer offerings yet, with a dozen seasons for its four football, hockey and basketball games.

 

Pro Football

           

Version 7 of the pro-football computer game comes with the 2006 National Football League season.

 

            Keeping with recent tradition, SOM again is offering three historic seasons:

n      1969 NFL and AFL

n      1978 NFL

n      1992 NFL

 

In card format, SOM again offers six teams for each historic season.

 

1969: Super Bowl champion Kansas City (11-3) and Oakland (12-1-1) from the AFL; Super-Bowl runner-up Minnesota (12-2), plus Cleveland (10-3-1), Dallas (11-2-1) and Los Angeles (11-3) from the NFL.

 

1978: Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh (14-2) and Super Bowl runner-up Dallas (12-4), plus Denver (10-6), Los Angeles (12-4), Miami (11-5) and New England (11-5).

 

1992: Super Bowl champion Dallas (13-3) and runner-up Buffalo (11-5), plus San Francisco (14-2), New Orleans (12-4), Philadelphia (11-5) and Pittsburgh (11-5).

 

            The computer game will have all teams from each season.

 

 

College Football

           

Version 3 of the college-football computer game comes with the 2006 NCAA season.

 

 

Hockey

 

            Version 7 of the hockey computer game comes with the 2006-07 NHL season.

 

            SOM once again reproduces three historic seasons:

n      1956-57 NHL

n      1965-66 NHL

n      1979-80 NHL

 

The “six pack” of carded teams for each season includes the entire NHL for the two Original Six seasons, 1956-57 and 1965-66.

 

For 1979-80, the carded teams are the Stanley Cup champion New York Islanders (91 points) and runner-up Philadelphia (116 points), plus Boston (105 points), Buffalo (110 points), Chicago (87 points) and Montreal (107 points).

 

Historic hockey card sets come with a print utility that contains un-carded teams and extra players for all teams.

 

 

Basketball

 

            Version 5 of the basketball computer game comes with the 2006-07 NBA season.

 

            Two historic seasons will be available for the computer game only:

n      1981-82 NBA

n      1987-88 NBA

 

With these two seasons, gamers now can play on the computer with every season in Strat-O-Matic’s modern basketball format, which debuted with the 1980-81 season.