Do I Milk Carton This?
Everone has hobbies of some sort, right? Well, you should.
But you should take very good care of your hobby, whatever that may be. Because if something occurred to your hobby, you will feel a big sense of loss.
As I do right now.
Here is my story:
My cousin had turned me on to a game called Micro League Baseball back in the Commodore 64 days (for you young readers, it was the personal computer of choice in the Eighties). I bought it and played it quite a bit, pitting the 1978 Yankees against the 1955 Dodgers, or the '27 Bombers against the '73 A's. It was fun.
Then I went off to college and my R.A. was also a Micro League fan. He, though, had some additional floppies for it that allowed him to create teams using fictitious names. He developed a Hilliard Hall team. I was the secondbaseman. I was also hooked for life on computer baseball.
In 1991 I started my own team in Micro League Baseball, using my friends' names from home. I created a team -- the White Plains Patriots. I was off and running. I kept the stats from year to year. I traded people -- all the fun things you do with a computer baseball game.
Over the years, I obviously upgraded. I went to Hardball 3. Then Hardball 4. Then Hardball 5 and 6. The latest addition was High Heat 2003 -- my best game yet. By this time, friends were retired in the game, I had friends playing for several different teams. Some had all-star years. I also picked up a cheat code where I could add all the old stats into the game so historical records could be kept.
In 2006 I began the season with my character playing thirdbase (I moved myself in 1999) for the Tamp Bay Devil Rays. We started strong and were just two games in back of the Yankees for first place in the AL East. We had just began a tough series with the Angels -- a team that owned us -- and lost the first game.
Last night I went on to play the game and...
I couldn't find my league. It was gone. Disappeared.
I searched everywhere. It was nowhere to be found. 16 years of a hobby down the tubes.
Needless to say, I've been better.
But you should take very good care of your hobby, whatever that may be. Because if something occurred to your hobby, you will feel a big sense of loss.
As I do right now.
Here is my story:
My cousin had turned me on to a game called Micro League Baseball back in the Commodore 64 days (for you young readers, it was the personal computer of choice in the Eighties). I bought it and played it quite a bit, pitting the 1978 Yankees against the 1955 Dodgers, or the '27 Bombers against the '73 A's. It was fun.
Then I went off to college and my R.A. was also a Micro League fan. He, though, had some additional floppies for it that allowed him to create teams using fictitious names. He developed a Hilliard Hall team. I was the secondbaseman. I was also hooked for life on computer baseball.
In 1991 I started my own team in Micro League Baseball, using my friends' names from home. I created a team -- the White Plains Patriots. I was off and running. I kept the stats from year to year. I traded people -- all the fun things you do with a computer baseball game.
Over the years, I obviously upgraded. I went to Hardball 3. Then Hardball 4. Then Hardball 5 and 6. The latest addition was High Heat 2003 -- my best game yet. By this time, friends were retired in the game, I had friends playing for several different teams. Some had all-star years. I also picked up a cheat code where I could add all the old stats into the game so historical records could be kept.
In 2006 I began the season with my character playing thirdbase (I moved myself in 1999) for the Tamp Bay Devil Rays. We started strong and were just two games in back of the Yankees for first place in the AL East. We had just began a tough series with the Angels -- a team that owned us -- and lost the first game.
Last night I went on to play the game and...
I couldn't find my league. It was gone. Disappeared.
I searched everywhere. It was nowhere to be found. 16 years of a hobby down the tubes.
Needless to say, I've been better.
posted by E-Luv at 9:03 AM
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