They're looking for the ability to be distracted and engage with things that, first of all, connect them with sports because there aren't any sports right now, but also connect them with something that brings them some joy." "But it makes a lot of sense because people are obviously stuck at home looking for entertainment. "It's such a horrible time - for our country, for the world - and it's strange to be enjoying this surge for the company at this moment," Strat-O-Matic president Adam Richman said. They're also using it to bond with their kids, to occupy their unexpected free time, to get lost - to maintain sanity. Many, like Brogan, are using the games to help fill the void of real baseball. Strat-O-Matic and APBA, a comparable card-and-dice game in which baseball players are assigned probabilities based on their on-field performance from a given season, have experienced a significant rise in sales over the past few weeks. The outbreak has forced hundreds of millions of Americans to remain home for an indefinite amount of time, prompting a resurgence in popularity for two throwbacks of the gaming industry. economy, overwhelmed hospitals and infected more than 2 million people worldwide. "My 5-year-old can't read yet, so it's tough, but he's holding the cards and rolling the dice."īrogan resides in Brooklyn, New York, within the epicenter of a pandemic that has crippled the U.S. "My 8-year-old is all in and has become completely obsessed with it," Brogan, 45, said.
His two young boys would soon learn the wonder of Strat-O-Matic Baseball, whether they wanted to or not. He pulled up the company website, ordered the 2019 version of the board game, paid the extra fee for express delivery and received it on his doorstep three days later. Recently, though, Brogan found out the company was simulating a 2020 baseball season that remains on indefinite suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic, and then suddenly something clicked.
He played incessantly with friends, at one point staging an entire six-team season in two weeks, then got distracted by adolescence and mostly forgot about the game thereafter, a common path for the typical Strat-O-Matic user. He was 8 years old, it was the early 1980s, and sports simulation games were all the rage. John Brogan was introduced to Strat-O-Matic Baseball by his two older brothers. Strat-O-Matic, APBA provide old-school way to scratch your baseball itch You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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