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Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

Lutha Mahtin posted:

he was very involved in the development of early madden games. he refused to put his name on a football game that wasn't "real" football, with 11 players, accurate rules, the ability to call realistic plays, and so on.

Yeah, he could play the early PC ones, and even the Genesis era. Then the PlayStation / N64 era came around and he stopped, because the controls had become too complicated.

This is a man who had to be helped by Troy Aikman, of all people, to get to understand how to use his cell phone and send text messages.

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Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

Darth Brooks posted:

The article reminds me of how little MLB is on regular TV. During the season you can watch an NFL game three days a week and you have a pretty shot at watching your team. MLB? If was ever a game was on a regular network I don't remember seeing it.

Pretty much everything except the Fox national baseball games is now locked to the teams' own individual sports networks. Those dominoes started falling when the Yankees started the YES Network literally 20 years ago. Hell, even most of the playoffs are locked to cable, with a few exceptions that wind up on Fox or ABC and the World Series being on Fox.

It amazes me how incredibly adept MLB is at complaining that they aren't getting enough traction in the average sports consumer's mind, and then they do poo poo like going all-in on the RSNs. It's the equivalent of pounding a nail into your foot with a hammer and screaming for all to see that you're being assaulted.

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