FlexiSpot is having Fall sale now and save big on their chairs. Use code ''C750'' to get an extra $50 off on the C7 chair. Buy more save more. FlexiSpot C7 ergonomic chair : bit.ly/3UiI9WV - US bit.ly/48g5M8l - CANADA What was your favorite Sports Board Game? Would you like to see any of these games get a shot at the title of Worst of All Time? Let me know here and if you have any game groups you'd like to see covered!
Oh shit, Kam's gettin' sponsorships! Congrats! My favourite sports board game is three-penny hockey, which shouldn't really count but technically does.
As a numbers nerd and baseball fan, you'd think Strat-o-Matic would be right up my alley... and you'd be absolutely right. My dad built a box to hold all our Strat cards.
@@limegreenelevator My friends and I love playing Strat and APBA on game nights. We’ll replay historic World Series or playoff games. We did the 1973 NLCS once and it was a lot of fun because my friend is a Reds fan and I still managed to whoop him as the Mets
From what I saw this was just a regular trading card game with weird completely dispensible online addons. Like you could go online and view these weird supposedly interesting features, or register your ownership of them virtually. But none of this is necessary or affects gameplay. As Kam mentioned, you have the physical cards in meatspace, and you play with them on the tabletop. I do not like trading card games, at all, but if I did I wouldn't see any reason not to play this one and completely ignore the useless online features. i think the odd superfluity and disconnection with gameplay of the online features was a central point of Kam's review. They try to spice things up or modernize them or whatever by adding these supposedly appealing extra perks of card ownership. Who gives af.
hey im a 19 yo girl whose disabled so im stuck at home all day and ur videos always keep me entertained and interesting in the weird shit i like, just wanna say thank u for the amazing videos because otherwise id just be bored out of my mind trying to find something interesting on this god forsaken platform
Raceway Alley has, just like Oy Vey, become part of my "random boardgames that would be absolute killer with a drinking friend group" list of boardgames, like if you bring this over while chilling at someones place who got a version of Wii Sports thats gonna become the most competitive drunk bowling game you ever saw Also I dont know what your problem with 15 Love is, because it accurately managed to portray tennis...you watch a small yellow thing go back and forth and clap when someones misses because the game is getting closer to ending
Raceway Alley went from "neat game that I'll probably never play because I haven't gone bowling in years" to "I need to buy this for the next game night" when you mentioned Wii Bowling.
Blood-bowl baseball would be amazing. The elves would be ichiro-esque contact hitters with insane speed, the dwarves would all be power-hitting catchers, and the orcs would be incredible hitters, but terrible fielders. Imagine wizard pitchers who could throw magically enhanced breaking balls or halfling pinch runners who could steal like prime rickey henderson. So much potential.
Another favourite of mine to play with my bowling league friends is poker bowling; Very similar to 5 card draw, but you start without cards. Every spare grants you one card, strikes up to two. Once you have 5 cards, you must discard old ones to receive new cards. Best poker hand at the end of the game wins.
I'm not a sports guy, but I love that Kam is and that these sports-themed board games seem to be made specifically for him. Also, I'm with you on the Washington name change. My roommate in college had a bunch of Washington Football Team merch specifically because he thought it would be less common in the future. He also likes board games and Nascar, so I'm pretty sure he's also in the exact niche for those you mentioned.
My oldest boy loves basketball. I picked up when he was very young a VHS based basketball game. I ignored the VHS part of the game and changed the rules to roll 2 dice to use it to teach him math. He loved the game so much it worked very well.
As someone who earned the Game Design merit badge years ago, board game folks will absolutely make a board game for themselves and that’s why there are so many niche board games out there. Frankly I wholeheartedly endorse this sort of thing. Provides such a variety of board games with unique character that you’d find in 2007 RUclips.
honestly, as complex as Strat-o-Matic is, the fact the company keeps up with current sports stats AND made past stats makes me respect them so much. clearly a lot of love has gone into this game, and i’m sure it’s fans love the insane complexity of it!
15 Love is actually the most accurate sports game I've ever seen. If I closed my eyes and didn't know you were talking about this boardgame I thought some bloke is describing tennis to me
The choice of Indianapolis Colts for the NFL game, and using the video of JR Hildebrand hitting the wall in the 2011 Indy 500 gives me the impression that Kam is a fellow Hoosier. I’m not sure anybody else outside of Indiana would pick the Colts AND know about JR Hildebrand’s last lap 500 crash
@@soapsatelliteI didn’t even realize that. I’ve only ever seen his board game videos, and I haven’t scrolled back far enough on his channel to see them
I know you mentioned racing games will get their own video in the future, I really hope this includes Formula D! One of the most fun board games I've ever played, and every race I've ever played has ended with at least one spin in the final turn as players desperately push their cars (and their luck) over the limit to try and finish out a close game.
I played in a Strat-o-Matic baseball league on and off for about 5 years now, and yes, the Super Advanced rules are an absolute doozy to get around. My personal recommendation to anyone wanting to get into Strat that has a decent level of familiarity around baseball is to start with the Advanced ruleset, and slowly phase in Super Advanced rules as you grow more familiar with the game - we only got to a full Super Advanced ruleset at around our 5th season, or 3rd year, of play. I do have some other recommendations for people who want to check out the game, so I'm happy to reply to any questions!
Fun fact: Strat-O-Martic also has football, basketball, and hockey games, all of which also have computer versions (there's a computer exclusive college football version iirc). I've sent goodness knows how many hours playing Strat football
9:17 WOW! That game STILL gets roster updates to this day!?! Imagine if Sports video games yearly release was just a dollar DLC, with a new full game every 4-5 years?
My favorite sports board game is Pro Photo Football where you and your opponent pick cards or transparencies to lie on top of another in order to reveal the play. I feel that it captures how football plays pretty well without relying too much on dice rolls.
Strat-o-Matic is literally the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate of Baseball. Literally everyone is here, from the early years of professional baseball to the latest seasons of the NBL.
I would love to see a Top 15 Board Games from this guy. Not necessarily a recommendation but like that theoretical upload would make it stand up a lil.
My father taught me how to play Strat-o-matic baseball as a kid, this is even funnier when you know how to play the game. I will say it is as dry as it looks but the time spent with my dad was worth playing a game that brought him happiness as a kid.
All this time I never realized that Kam is doing a voiceover but also films himself talking but that's not where the audio comes from! Mad respect dude!
Omg thank you, I have acid reflux but I always wanted to be a competitive eater since I was 2. Now I can live out my dreams via a wack crap board game!
This genre is so fascinating that I kinda want a sequel to this video where the audience votes for what sports to cover, there has got to be like an endless stream of contents to be uncovered there
Oh dang; sticking with strictly professional sports licenses knocks it off the list, but I'd personally recommend Baseball Highlights 2045 if anybody wants what I think is the best baseball card game ever. Each player has their own baseball diamond and draws 7 cards off a 15 card deck. One player plays a card which, "threatens" a play(single, double, etc), then the next player plays a card. When it gets back to the first player anything they threatened and wasn't blocked by the others player card happens, putting on a runner on their personal diamond. If they make it all away around they score, and whoever has the most runs after all cards are played wins that game, and you play a best of seven series. For a game that involves humans, robots and androids it's surprisingly simple, and before each game starts you can buy new players from a shop to swap out with your current hand. Your deck is always 15 cards, so someone you buy in game one or two will make a repeat appearance later when you eventually run out and have to recycle your discards for a new deck. It's in my opinion the best card game that captures the essence of baseball without getting bogged down in tons of rules and stat tracking and the like(and if you want to try before you buy a physical version, it is available in digital forms as well). Seriously would recommend anybody who likes baseball and board games give it a look.
You could make a whole video on Dice Baseball alone. It is a family of homebrew games, handed down through the generations, using two dice, with hundreds of variations. One feature of Dice Baseball, is that it is often played alone, with one player playing both teams batting. The most comprehensive version of Dice Baseball is described in "The Second Fireside Book of Baseball" (1958, edited by Charles Einstein). What's unique with this version, is that you yourself decide what level of complexity and interactivity you want. As a baseball nerd, it was very fun trying it out and manually calculating all the stats for my fictional players (AVG, SLUG, OPS, OPS+, ERA, ERA+, WHIP, FIP and all that).
I didn't notice the track was shaped like a bowling pin until you said that Raceway Alley was a bowling game. It even has the stripe on the pin as a shortcut.
Not gonna lie, it'd be kinda neat to watch a bunch of baseball turbo-nerds simulate a statistically-accurate all-star season with their teams stacked full of the best and/or most famous players summoned from across time and space.
Trick Shot is easily the best sports game out there at this point. It translates the sport into board game form with the best design I've seen yet for any sports game. On top of that, it's easy to learn and teach, plays quickly and is just a ton of fun.
@ndb6ndk99 I've seen a couple of interesting games in that avenue myself, with some interesting mechanics, but have unfortunately never been able to play one.
2:05 Funny story: My mom had a Windows 3.1 monster of a computer way back in the day, eventually it became mine and was in my room for most of my life at home. There were tons of games on it (my mom had even bought and beaten Wolfenstein 3D, Blake Stone and Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, which I would go on to beat as well) - all of them DOS games, obviously. One of which was a simple hangman game and that's when I learned about the Los Angeles Rams. That's how old that computer was, they were still the LA Rams when the hangman program was created. Ironically, I was a fan of the St. Louis Rams around that time - even though we were living in California and wouldn't move to Missouri until I was well past liking the team lawl. What I find most amusing is the fact that old ass computer is *now* back in date.
I’m very glad that I now know that the table golf game exists. My dad loves golf, but he’s not retired yet and I think this’ll be a good game to give him a bit of that experience back. Thanks for sharing board games I’ve never heard of Kam!
It's so funny how all the other games have the goal of scoring points and winning the game the same way as the real sport but then the NBA one is about social drama and showboating with the actual game of basketball being secondary. It's, like, symbolic or something.
NFL Game Day is just “1916 Cumberland Simulator” lol Tbh I’d love to see it as a future Tabletop Simulator restoration project since it isn’t on the workshop at the time of this comment’s posting
Hey Kam, thanks so much for your content. I've had a really stressful day, so a video that can make me laugh is extremely appreciated. I don't remember how I even found this channel but I'm glad I did because I had no idea just how wonderfully ingenious yet completely batshit the world of tabletop gaming gets.
As a *big* fan of sports board games, I'd be remiss if I didn't throw out some of my favorite publishers/games! (In the hopes maybe Kam does a pt. 2 ;) ) Fair warning, these all are gonna skew towards more solitaire/simulation games vs. Multiplayer fun pieces on a board type of thing: Plaay Games Makers of all kinds of sim games, my favorites being Red White and Blue Racing (NASCAR), History Maker Golf (PGA), and Face to the Mat (Pro Wrestling) Deadball (W.M. Akers) It's baseball, with dice! Take all the statistics, percentages, and real life abilities that strat-o-matic baseball provides, with not even a *fraction* of the math or difficulty! You can literally rip the stats off of baseball cards, have a full game set up in 5-10 minutes, and STILL get all the delicious stats you crave! Cannot reccomend enough. The Squared Circle RPG Take the classic wrestlers of the territory days, literally stat out their moves over 1000s of matches to get the actual statistical distrubtion of the movesets, throw in some gimmicks the promotions are famous for (each book is a set amount of years in a given territory, so WWF 1980-85 for example) and you have the makings of the most "realistic" wrestling game on the market ;) I could go on, but no ones gonna read this anyways lol, I just happen to fit that cross section of sports board gamer, and wanted to throw some of my favs out there! (Pleaseeeee do a pt. 2!)
I love TGA. I got a beta review copy early on for both the original and an expansion. I wrote a review for it on a relatively major gaming outlet. It's a great game.
Put 15-love in the next bracket. Would love to see how it competes in a scenario where none of the competition can blaze through on blind controversy. I need to know what's mechanically worse than rolling the same dice for eternity.
Your next project is probably already on its way but two things i would like to see you cover is board game video games and coup's sequels, expansions, etc. Good video, also.
I'm looking forward to the racing games. I've played 3 of them before and they were both amazing in different ways. Can't wait to see if any of them make the Kam's list.
I really wish you were able to talk about NFL Rush Zone, It's very similar to Game Day, but instead of cards it uses dice. I want this game to be talked about PURELY to talk about the TV show, the show has a bunch of interesting history including having LOST MEDIA which is just insane
My tabletop baseball obsession in the '60s and '79s was Big League Manager baseball. That one was far more statistically oriented that Strat. And since I'd figured out all the formulae for the cards, I could make up my own leagues of all time players and favorites. Much much better than any of the Strat-O games.
So sad that Test Match didn't get added to this video. I know cricket isn't big but my god playing a dexterity cricket game was the goofiest fun I had as a kid. If you ever get a chance it's tiny minis that bowl and bat.
Strat baseball is amazing! Can easily rattle out a Basic game in 25 mins. Yeah, can get a bit bogged down with the Super Advanced rules, but there's no need to use any of that stuff if you don't want to. I love it!
Another great International Football boardgame is called Tipp-Kick, where you have players with a button at their head and a moveable foot activated by said button, with which you kick the ball around the court.
If you wamt to look at more foreign sports i recommend test match it is a cricket board game first version is more writing stuff on paper but the other versions are more physical
Honestly, one weird sports game turned tabletop was for me was the game jab which is a real time boxing card game. If you ever do a card game spin off of this episode, I recommend it!
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What was your favorite Sports Board Game? Would you like to see any of these games get a shot at the title of Worst of All Time? Let me know here and if you have any game groups you'd like to see covered!
Oh shit, Kam's gettin' sponsorships! Congrats!
My favourite sports board game is three-penny hockey, which shouldn't really count but technically does.
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HAAAAAANK DONT ABBREVIATE CONFIDENCE POINTS!!!
Don't abbreviate "cumulative" either
HAAAAAAAAAAANK!!!
@@ArendAlphaEagle combine the two to get cumulative points (oh no what have I done)
@@ArendAlphaEagle Canada USA Mexico alliance: CUM
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As a numbers nerd and baseball fan, you'd think Strat-o-Matic would be right up my alley... and you'd be absolutely right. My dad built a box to hold all our Strat cards.
My favorite part of doing research on it was seeing the fans that build their own custom stadiums for it. Some of them even had the lights.
I'm a baseball fan and I think I would actually enjoy it a lot
@@darkwingdaffy1991 It's a lot of fun and easy to get hooked into! The rules do take a while to get used to but once you've got 'em, you've got 'em.
@@limegreenelevator My friends and I love playing Strat and APBA on game nights. We’ll replay historic World Series or playoff games. We did the 1973 NLCS once and it was a lot of fun because my friend is a Reds fan and I still managed to whoop him as the Mets
we found him. the one customer
"We can't use the terms NFT or Blockchain, but that's what it actually is."
Aaaaand my enthusiasm for that game has gone right down the toilet.
They could at least have put in the effort to pretend like they weren't scamming people
From what I saw this was just a regular trading card game with weird completely dispensible online addons. Like you could go online and view these weird supposedly interesting features, or register your ownership of them virtually. But none of this is necessary or affects gameplay. As Kam mentioned, you have the physical cards in meatspace, and you play with them on the tabletop. I do not like trading card games, at all, but if I did I wouldn't see any reason not to play this one and completely ignore the useless online features. i think the odd superfluity and disconnection with gameplay of the online features was a central point of Kam's review. They try to spice things up or modernize them or whatever by adding these supposedly appealing extra perks of card ownership. Who gives af.
Yeah dude like 10 seconds into explaining Strat o Matic Baseball I was like "yeah this sounds like Campaign for North Africa baseball edition"
hey im a 19 yo girl whose disabled so im stuck at home all day and ur videos always keep me entertained and interesting in the weird shit i like, just wanna say thank u for the amazing videos because otherwise id just be bored out of my mind trying to find something interesting on this god forsaken platform
You should try knitting! It's what I do while listening to vids like this.
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Cracked up when I saw that.
as did I
You could probably play it using Wii Bowling.
Raceway Alley has, just like Oy Vey, become part of my "random boardgames that would be absolute killer with a drinking friend group" list of boardgames, like if you bring this over while chilling at someones place who got a version of Wii Sports thats gonna become the most competitive drunk bowling game you ever saw
Also I dont know what your problem with 15 Love is, because it accurately managed to portray tennis...you watch a small yellow thing go back and forth and clap when someones misses because the game is getting closer to ending
I think tennis is fun to play but not fun to watch… or simulate in miniature the way _15 Love_ did.
Raceway Alley went from "neat game that I'll probably never play because I haven't gone bowling in years" to "I need to buy this for the next game night" when you mentioned Wii Bowling.
My favorite Strat fact is that it inspired Richard Garfield and Trip Hawkins.
Also known as “the guys behind Magic and Madden, respectively.”
Falcons fans can't even escape 28-3 on a board game channel
The Stratomatic baseball game sounds like it would be much better if it was just baseball D&D
Now I want baseball D&D
I mean it is already basically baseball dnd
i think the closest thing would be Bloodbowl, which is WH40k football. it's really fun.
I was going to say, all the charts and cross-references gave me *massive* vibes of early era tabletop roleplaying.
@@citrusterps I came here to recommend Bloodbowl as well
Blood-bowl baseball would be amazing. The elves would be ichiro-esque contact hitters with insane speed, the dwarves would all be power-hitting catchers, and the orcs would be incredible hitters, but terrible fielders. Imagine wizard pitchers who could throw magically enhanced breaking balls or halfling pinch runners who could steal like prime rickey henderson. So much potential.
Another favourite of mine to play with my bowling league friends is poker bowling;
Very similar to 5 card draw, but you start without cards. Every spare grants you one card, strikes up to two.
Once you have 5 cards, you must discard old ones to receive new cards.
Best poker hand at the end of the game wins.
That sounds like it could be a blast or very frustrating. I should give it a try!
I'm not a sports guy, but I love that Kam is and that these sports-themed board games seem to be made specifically for him.
Also, I'm with you on the Washington name change. My roommate in college had a bunch of Washington Football Team merch specifically because he thought it would be less common in the future. He also likes board games and Nascar, so I'm pretty sure he's also in the exact niche for those you mentioned.
My oldest boy loves basketball. I picked up when he was very young a VHS based basketball game. I ignored the VHS part of the game and changed the rules to roll 2 dice to use it to teach him math. He loved the game so much it worked very well.
That sounds really cool! You must be a very good parent!
@@Words_Before_Dawn_1 Seeing as I had him doing multiplication and division before Kindergarten I would hope so.
@@edwardrhoads7283 well as long as he was having fun and wasn’t be force to do so it’s fine
@@Words_Before_Dawn_1 The reason it worked so well was because he was having fun with the game
Aww that’s really sweet
23:43 Huh, let's see what's on this chart-... Oh... Why did they pick *that* abbreviation for combined time?
Cumulative score, I'm guessing. Would TOT have been confused for another contest?
Wait that's what that means?
@@A__random__nerd Appearently.
Dang. Blood Bowl gets disqualified by the stipulations. I mean it's technically a spin-off of the NFL if you go by the in-universe lore.
You mean the Nuffle right, what is this "NFL"?
Blood Bowl got done dirty. It’s better than every other game here, lol.
Watching the whole ad was worth it just to see kam absolutely SMOOVING it down silly goober style.
I'm suprised they approved my moves
@@kamsandwich cha cha real smooth
i read this comment before i watched and it prevented me from skipping the sponsor
how did you reply one day ago if the video is 13 hours old?
@@BeholdDaPilgrim Member's first :3c
the computer support on the baseball game shows how just making a game functionally a computer game makes it so much better.
As someone who enjoys wargames i totally agree
Letting the cpu do all the hard work is soooo much faster, easier, BETTER
Yeah I had a game like Stratomatic when I was a kid called Replay. Same idea. But a computer can do 20 minutes of work in a tenth of a second.
Table Golf Assocication is legitimately one of the best-designed board games I've ever seen.
While I don't care for sports, this man is 100% correct about Washington Football team being the perfect name.
It tells you where it's from and what they play. What else do you need?
@@stefanowohsdioghasdhisdg4806 ...a mascot?
Washington Football Team: We Play Football
@@nessavaccaro9828 In Washington
As someone who earned the Game Design merit badge years ago, board game folks will absolutely make a board game for themselves and that’s why there are so many niche board games out there. Frankly I wholeheartedly endorse this sort of thing. Provides such a variety of board games with unique character that you’d find in 2007 RUclips.
honestly, as complex as Strat-o-Matic is, the fact the company keeps up with current sports stats AND made past stats makes me respect them so much. clearly a lot of love has gone into this game, and i’m sure it’s fans love the insane complexity of it!
The Baseball game being a spreadsheet simulator is very baseball.
We need Secret Base to get a hold of the Strat-o-Matic board game and rewrite the entirety of MLB's history with dice rolls
SB isnt doing so well... doubt they would do that
So THATs where Jon Bois went.
The Fumble Dimension
@@vitasnovait isn't? They just did a piece on the absurdity of NFL passer reading that got millions of views.
@@robertdascoli949 Yeah, but I heard most of the team _was_ fired
21:53 the combo of JR Hildebrad's final turn at Indy 2011 and a bowling racing game is diabolical
holy fuck you actually played it
15 Love is actually the most accurate sports game I've ever seen. If I closed my eyes and didn't know you were talking about this boardgame I thought some bloke is describing tennis to me
The choice of Indianapolis Colts for the NFL game, and using the video of JR Hildebrand hitting the wall in the 2011 Indy 500 gives me the impression that Kam is a fellow Hoosier. I’m not sure anybody else outside of Indiana would pick the Colts AND know about JR Hildebrand’s last lap 500 crash
As someone who's not from Indiana, I made the assumption off of the fact that he has a series of videos about Butler men's basketball on his channel
@@soapsatelliteI didn’t even realize that. I’ve only ever seen his board game videos, and I haven’t scrolled back far enough on his channel to see them
Strat o matic is considered pretty simple in the sports board game community 😂😂😂 just wait until you see box seat/under the hood baseball
I know you mentioned racing games will get their own video in the future, I really hope this includes Formula D! One of the most fun board games I've ever played, and every race I've ever played has ended with at least one spin in the final turn as players desperately push their cars (and their luck) over the limit to try and finish out a close game.
DownForce and Thunder Road should get involved as well.
Heat: Pedal to the Medal lfg
I played in a Strat-o-Matic baseball league on and off for about 5 years now, and yes, the Super Advanced rules are an absolute doozy to get around. My personal recommendation to anyone wanting to get into Strat that has a decent level of familiarity around baseball is to start with the Advanced ruleset, and slowly phase in Super Advanced rules as you grow more familiar with the game - we only got to a full Super Advanced ruleset at around our 5th season, or 3rd year, of play.
I do have some other recommendations for people who want to check out the game, so I'm happy to reply to any questions!
15:11 Can't wait to see this in _KamSandwich Clips but I ate the context Vol. 2._
My Dad and I played an entire baseball season of Strat-O-Matic baseball, and it was a fucking blast. I loved that game.
The nba flex guys saying “yeah when we licensed this they told us not to, but we just went ahead and did it anyway” is crazy
15 Love is such a fantastic game. It really captures all the excitement of watching a tennis match and puts it into a board game.
Fun fact: Strat-O-Martic also has football, basketball, and hockey games, all of which also have computer versions (there's a computer exclusive college football version iirc). I've sent goodness knows how many hours playing Strat football
9:17 WOW! That game STILL gets roster updates to this day!?! Imagine if Sports video games yearly release was just a dollar DLC, with a new full game every 4-5 years?
Watching this eating lunch and I almost fucking choked at the Flexagons.
I'm getting closer and closer to taking out a viewer with a joke.
Are you soft or ballin?
@@kamsandwichAs a fan of the likes of Jauwn, you had me rolling with the NFT receipt for something you ALREADY PHYSICALLY OWN.
Washington Football Team was a great name. It has a classic feel to me.
Stratomatic Baseball should have been a TTRPG ngl. I'd play that
When I saw charts and d20's, I immediately thought "is this just an early 1980's ttrpg with a board attached?" It definitely gives ttrpg vibes.
You're going to love Deadball, then.
My favorite sports board game is Pro Photo Football where you and your opponent pick cards or transparencies to lie on top of another in order to reveal the play. I feel that it captures how football plays pretty well without relying too much on dice rolls.
Strat-o-Matic is literally the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate of Baseball. Literally everyone is here, from the early years of professional baseball to the latest seasons of the NBL.
9:33 does this mean I can choose Waluigi? He’s technically a human being, and he does play professionally baseball in Mario Super Sluggers.
4:17 Bro quoted Matt Hasselbeck, his fate was sealed 💀
Just had this revelation: That bowling racing game-- on Wii Sports bowling.
I would love to see a Top 15 Board Games from this guy. Not necessarily a recommendation but like that theoretical upload would make it stand up a lil.
Gawr gura couldn't get me to watch baseball but kam's got a shot.
Damn it nft has entered the board game realm
23:43 nonononono you can’t just show a stat board with that word and walk by like nothing happened.
@7:44 absolute madlad kam drops Willie Horton reference right before the election
I don't know how this keeps happening
@@kamsandwichall I know is that I'm not voting for Dukakis
My father taught me how to play Strat-o-matic baseball as a kid, this is even funnier when you know how to play the game. I will say it is as dry as it looks but the time spent with my dad was worth playing a game that brought him happiness as a kid.
All this time I never realized that Kam is doing a voiceover but also films himself talking but that's not where the audio comes from! Mad respect dude!
He does?
You know, I do wonder how Kam would like Bloodbowl, which is basically Football with more violence and set in Warhammer Fantasy.
Also i think 40k needs something like that
I don't know, some hockey variant
@@GarkKahn I would think some kind of racing game would work better.
Omg thank you, I have acid reflux but I always wanted to be a competitive eater since I was 2. Now I can live out my dreams via a wack crap board game!
This genre is so fascinating that I kinda want a sequel to this video where the audience votes for what sports to cover, there has got to be like an endless stream of contents to be uncovered there
My office has over 200 Flexispot C7 chairs for our desks. They're the most horribly uncomfortable chairs I've ever sat in.
Now I wish to see the opposite, a board game adapted into a sport
“And Black’s 3rd pawn position blocks the queen!”
Ngl this is the first YT Ad I actually don't hate and even made me feel the shrimpness. 9/10. Might grab a chair later.
Oh dang; sticking with strictly professional sports licenses knocks it off the list, but I'd personally recommend Baseball Highlights 2045 if anybody wants what I think is the best baseball card game ever. Each player has their own baseball diamond and draws 7 cards off a 15 card deck. One player plays a card which, "threatens" a play(single, double, etc), then the next player plays a card. When it gets back to the first player anything they threatened and wasn't blocked by the others player card happens, putting on a runner on their personal diamond. If they make it all away around they score, and whoever has the most runs after all cards are played wins that game, and you play a best of seven series.
For a game that involves humans, robots and androids it's surprisingly simple, and before each game starts you can buy new players from a shop to swap out with your current hand. Your deck is always 15 cards, so someone you buy in game one or two will make a repeat appearance later when you eventually run out and have to recycle your discards for a new deck. It's in my opinion the best card game that captures the essence of baseball without getting bogged down in tons of rules and stat tracking and the like(and if you want to try before you buy a physical version, it is available in digital forms as well). Seriously would recommend anybody who likes baseball and board games give it a look.
I think chess is the greatest sport board game of all time
You could make a whole video on Dice Baseball alone. It is a family of homebrew games, handed down through the generations, using two dice, with hundreds of variations. One feature of Dice Baseball, is that it is often played alone, with one player playing both teams batting.
The most comprehensive version of Dice Baseball is described in "The Second Fireside Book of Baseball" (1958, edited by Charles Einstein). What's unique with this version, is that you yourself decide what level of complexity and interactivity you want. As a baseball nerd, it was very fun trying it out and manually calculating all the stats for my fictional players (AVG, SLUG, OPS, OPS+, ERA, ERA+, WHIP, FIP and all that).
I didn't notice the track was shaped like a bowling pin until you said that Raceway Alley was a bowling game. It even has the stripe on the pin as a shortcut.
Does that mean more Chicago Ls?
We should have an abundance of those coming soon
@@kamsandwich we could make a vid on that!
Not gonna lie, it'd be kinda neat to watch a bunch of baseball turbo-nerds simulate a statistically-accurate all-star season with their teams stacked full of the best and/or most famous players summoned from across time and space.
Trick Shot is easily the best sports game out there at this point. It translates the sport into board game form with the best design I've seen yet for any sports game. On top of that, it's easy to learn and teach, plays quickly and is just a ton of fun.
I really look forward to a possible racing board games video from you, that sounds entertaining.
Agree!
@ndb6ndk99 I've seen a couple of interesting games in that avenue myself, with some interesting mechanics, but have unfortunately never been able to play one.
17:05 that hurt you didn’t it
Like you wouldn't believe
Vomited in my mouth a little and had to take a break ngl
Wild how the main selling point of NBA Flex is something Kid Icarus Uprising already did on the 3ds
Hey, at least 71-65 is scorigami!
2:05 Funny story: My mom had a Windows 3.1 monster of a computer way back in the day, eventually it became mine and was in my room for most of my life at home. There were tons of games on it (my mom had even bought and beaten Wolfenstein 3D, Blake Stone and Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, which I would go on to beat as well) - all of them DOS games, obviously. One of which was a simple hangman game and that's when I learned about the Los Angeles Rams. That's how old that computer was, they were still the LA Rams when the hangman program was created. Ironically, I was a fan of the St. Louis Rams around that time - even though we were living in California and wouldn't move to Missouri until I was well past liking the team lawl. What I find most amusing is the fact that old ass computer is *now* back in date.
I can not wait for the dedicated racing board games video. There are lots of really interesting and goofy ones out there.
while not entirely Whack Crap, Rallyman is a weird favorite of mine due to its heavy "Push your Luck" elements
I’m very glad that I now know that the table golf game exists. My dad loves golf, but he’s not retired yet and I think this’ll be a good game to give him a bit of that experience back. Thanks for sharing board games I’ve never heard of Kam!
It's so funny how all the other games have the goal of scoring points and winning the game the same way as the real sport but then the NBA one is about social drama and showboating with the actual game of basketball being secondary. It's, like, symbolic or something.
I was really hoping that Flamme Rouge would be covered here. Definitely one of the first games that I think of when it comes to Sports Board Games.
I don't see the problem with Strat-O-Matic. It sounds like the perfect amount of complexity for baseball fans. Maybe even a little too simplified.
NFL Game Day is just “1916 Cumberland Simulator” lol
Tbh I’d love to see it as a future Tabletop Simulator restoration project since it isn’t on the workshop at the time of this comment’s posting
This entire video is littered with clips of famous sports chokes and I love it.
Hey Kam, thanks so much for your content. I've had a really stressful day, so a video that can make me laugh is extremely appreciated. I don't remember how I even found this channel but I'm glad I did because I had no idea just how wonderfully ingenious yet completely batshit the world of tabletop gaming gets.
I now want to get a group to actually play Gay Monopoly with and it's all thanks to you
Glad I could help out! Hope tomorrow runs a little better for ya!
As a *big* fan of sports board games, I'd be remiss if I didn't throw out some of my favorite publishers/games! (In the hopes maybe Kam does a pt. 2 ;) )
Fair warning, these all are gonna skew towards more solitaire/simulation games vs. Multiplayer fun pieces on a board type of thing:
Plaay Games
Makers of all kinds of sim games, my favorites being Red White and Blue Racing (NASCAR), History Maker Golf (PGA), and Face to the Mat (Pro Wrestling)
Deadball (W.M. Akers)
It's baseball, with dice! Take all the statistics, percentages, and real life abilities that strat-o-matic baseball provides, with not even a *fraction* of the math or difficulty! You can literally rip the stats off of baseball cards, have a full game set up in 5-10 minutes, and STILL get all the delicious stats you crave! Cannot reccomend enough.
The Squared Circle RPG
Take the classic wrestlers of the territory days, literally stat out their moves over 1000s of matches to get the actual statistical distrubtion of the movesets, throw in some gimmicks the promotions are famous for (each book is a set amount of years in a given territory, so WWF 1980-85 for example) and you have the makings of the most "realistic" wrestling game on the market ;)
I could go on, but no ones gonna read this anyways lol, I just happen to fit that cross section of sports board gamer, and wanted to throw some of my favs out there!
(Pleaseeeee do a pt. 2!)
I love TGA. I got a beta review copy early on for both the original and an expansion. I wrote a review for it on a relatively major gaming outlet. It's a great game.
Put 15-love in the next bracket. Would love to see how it competes in a scenario where none of the competition can blaze through on blind controversy. I need to know what's mechanically worse than rolling the same dice for eternity.
NFL Game Day sounds like a fantastic blend of frustration & fun, honestly now. Sadly, I'm from the UK :/
Your next project is probably already on its way but two things i would like to see you cover is board game video games and coup's sequels, expansions, etc. Good video, also.
I'm looking forward to the racing games. I've played 3 of them before and they were both amazing in different ways. Can't wait to see if any of them make the Kam's list.
I really wish you were able to talk about NFL Rush Zone, It's very similar to Game Day, but instead of cards it uses dice. I want this game to be talked about PURELY to talk about the TV show, the show has a bunch of interesting history including having LOST MEDIA which is just insane
NBA Bas-ket is a fun skill game. It uses a standard ping-pong ball and spring levers, and I still pull it out as a drinking game.
I appreciate having a picture of a sports choke for each game. I didn’t fully realize it til the pic of the 2011 Indy 500
Hoping to see Bible Baseball on here, genuinely a fun game if you’re into biblical trivia.
My tabletop baseball obsession in the '60s and '79s was Big League Manager baseball. That one was far more statistically oriented that Strat. And since I'd figured out all the formulae for the cards, I could make up my own leagues of all time players and favorites. Much much better than any of the Strat-O games.
so we just aint gonna mention that the scorecard has CUM written on it several times? 23:44
Put strat-o-matic baseball on table top simulator
My dad’s a strat-o-matic fanatic he’s been playing for 50+ years and Im sure the switch to digital was insane.
That baseball game kind of reminded me of the first few editions of DND. Roll a dice and then consult an absurd amount of charts lol
So sad that Test Match didn't get added to this video. I know cricket isn't big but my god playing a dexterity cricket game was the goofiest fun I had as a kid. If you ever get a chance it's tiny minis that bowl and bat.
Strat baseball is amazing! Can easily rattle out a Basic game in 25 mins. Yeah, can get a bit bogged down with the Super Advanced rules, but there's no need to use any of that stuff if you don't want to. I love it!
NFL football game is an accurate representation for being a fan of quite a few teams... Well played.
Another great International Football boardgame is called Tipp-Kick, where you have players with a button at their head and a moveable foot activated by said button, with which you kick the ball around the court.
Battleball is the future of football. It's between too complicated and simple enough to trick people into playing it with you
If you wamt to look at more foreign sports i recommend test match it is a cricket board game first version is more writing stuff on paper but the other versions are more physical
2:19 you put colts on there, I’m so touched
Honestly, one weird sports game turned tabletop was for me was the game jab which is a real time boxing card game. If you ever do a card game spin off of this episode, I recommend it!