Sporting Games - The Brooklyn Strategist - Game Center, Cafe, Social Club - New York

You don’t have to be a sports fanatic to enjoy these games. The first pair in the module are racing games. They are simple to learn but require a clever mind to outmaneuver your opponents. We finish with some of the most exciting sport board games ever created: Strat-O-Matic Baseball and Football. You are the manager and have every player at your disposal (2009, 2008, 2007 seasons plus, for baseball, we have the collector’s editions of HOF players and NeL players). Can you out-manage your opponent given your team’s strengths and weaknesses? Or, create a dream team of superstars and see if you can top your opponents dream team of superstars.

Formula D

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Get ready to push your engine to its limit, to hug the curves in the tight corners, but also to keep up with your opponents to take advantage of the air flow and pass them to win... Taking risks and planning ahead are two qualities you'll need as a pilot if you want to stand on the highest step of the podium! Formula D is provides the excitement of illegal racing in the streets of big cities - anything goes: custom cars, nitro acceleration, drifting in the curves, dirty tricks... You will also discover, in this new edition of Formula D, elements unseen up to now, such as painted race cars, dashboards, driver profiles and more.

Yacht Race

A simple, fast-moving and extremely entertaining sailing race game, Yacht Race is notable for its extraordinary components: a beautiful oversized board representing a fictitious nautical chart, thick and elegant cards, and a set of weighted, felt-based brass sailboats designed to be picked up and moved about by their tall plastic sails. Outmaneuver your opponents by skillfully sailing your boat around the obstacle course and hope the winds of fortune are behind you.

Detroit-Cleveland Grand Prix

In this exciting game of skill and clever calculation, players are dealt a hand of cards which have movement numbers for one or more of the cars. A bidding competition then ensues for the best car to match your playing hand. When a card is played, the race cars are advanced the number of spaces indicated in order from top to bottom. However, if the track is blocked, then that movement is lost, so the idea is to use the cards that help your opponents (which you'll likely have to play eventually) only when they won't be able to take advantage of the movement. But watch out for “switch cards” that throw the best laid plans to waste.

Strat-O-Matic Baseball

An iconic major league baseball game that is so well known that it is exhibited in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The game is conducted with pitcher and batter cards constructed with statistical probabilities so they realistically reproduce the real-life performance of each player for the season represented. The gamer is placed in the role of the manager and/or general manager of a team and controls the batting order, the choice of a starting pitcher, game strategies (hit and run, steals, intentional walks, bunting, positioning of infielders, pinch hitters, defensive substitutions, pitching changes, etc.). If a full season is played, the game produces amazingly realistic statistics at the player, team, and league levels.

Strat-O-Matic Football

The game consists of player cards and team defensive cards that accurately reproduce play outcomes and player, team, and league statistics of the National Football League for the season on which the cards are based. Play progresses with the gamer on offense calling his play (run or pass, where the play is directed, the ball carrier or primary receiver, etc.) and the gamer on defense setting a defensive configuration (blitzes, double coverage of receivers, stacking the line, etc.). Play takes place on a game board that resembles a football field, and the gamers keep track of the ball position, the down, and the time remaining in the quarter being played. Penalties and injuries are part of the game. Gamers play from the perspective of a head coach and/or general manager