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By LEE CLONTZ
Carolina! Editor
Baseball brings to mind a multi
tude of sensations: the smell of ho
dog$, the green of the grass, th<
crack of the bat.
Well, boil up your weenie;
because Strategic Simulation;
Inc.'s Tonv La Russa Baseball I
is here, and it is a doozy. From th<
play-by-play to the selection of sta
diuitts, it's a winner.
The game is a mix of strategy
and;action with a slight emphasi:
on the former. Heavy with statistic;
andl numbers, the game feature;
numerous playing modes.
Fbr statistics buffs, the compute;
can;play itself through an entire
162>game season in a matter ol
hours, giving you the ability tc
manage any team for any numbei
of games you choose.
The action game, however, i<
where Tony II shines. Taking joystick
in hand, you can take over i
team, play an entire season of an>
length you choose against the computer
and, if you're good enough
play in the World Series.
Sounds like a lot of basebal
games, but Tony II has a few additirxnol
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even better.
First is the play-by-play b)
sportscaster Ron Barr. Despite ?
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It offers the most compref
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5 few inaccuracies (sometimes the
* voice gets a little behind the action
J if things are moving fast), the
" ongoing commentary for the game
surprisingly does not get old. In
' fact, one wonders what computer
5 baseball was like without it
5 Second are the add-on disks.
5 The entire 1992 roster and 1993
team lineups are available in one
r package with full statistics and a
5 picture for each player. The two
f expansion teams are there, too.
> Another package includes every
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with scenery and wind effects. Yet
> another is a fantasy draft package,
which gives the player full control
t over player draft and the manageri'
al portion of the game.
The game's action is fast and
, exciting, with a closeup of the
pitcher and batter before switching
I to a panning view of the entire
field. Fly balls are ingeniously hant
died. A wide cursor indicates
where the ball will land and shrinks
' as the ball's altitude decreases.
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scored" section detailing the play
that led to scores. A statistical lead
ers section lets you compare stat
to see how your players ran]
against the computer's.
As good as it is, Tony II isn'
perfect. One annoying bug in th
original game resulted in "hig
choppers to the pitcher" severs
times a game, which were com
pletely unrealistic and arbitrarj
This and a few other bugs hav
been fixed in a patch availabl
from SSL
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Another bug occurs when the
ball rolls a certain way past the
shortstop and stops moving. For a
period of time, the player is
unable to control any of the
onscreen players, who stand still
while the computer runner circles
the bases unencumbered.
Another problem with the game
is the system requirements. You
must have VGA graphics, more
than one megabyte of memory and
a 386 processor to play the game.
Anything slower than 33 Mhz
results in jerky animation, and a
sound card and a joystick are
musts. The game, with enough
add-on disks, can take up more
than 20 megabytes of hard disk
space.
The statistical model seems
y sound, but my simulation of the
s 1993 league resulted in San
1- Francisco consistently coming in
s last in the National League West,
k which is in direct opposition to
reality.
t Still, if you like baseball and
e have ever had dreams of managing
h your own team, this is the game for
j you. If you close your eyes when
the bat cracks against the ball, you
mignt oe convincea tnat you re
really there.
A version of Tony II is also
e available for the Sega Genesis.
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Columbia's
less than spi
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Those of you who are trapped in (
residence halls and consider the 11
number 4 a telephone prefix should
learn that there is much more to ?
Columbia than the lovely campus ^
that stretches across 40 miles of the "
city. *
I know this because I am living
off campus, where I will most likely a
remain throughout my college years ?
unless the Board of Trustees makes t
an announcement such as, "We
want our dorms, oops, residence tl
halls to be really cool places."
Columbia is a miracle in city c
planning. It all started back in the -]
early 1800s when the Legislature b
wanted to move from Charleston ij
because Strom Thurmond was liv- t]
ing there at the time.
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nland and not just the first land the *
olonists ran their boats into. First,
>ur city fathers created Five Points, i|
vhich was originally called The
Center of Town, but the title didn't ?j
ound cool enough.
Columbia also includes an
iptown area where there are severi
large buildings, which were built
>y Greeks who wanted a place to ]
hrow formal parties. Most conspicious
is the AT&T building. It
nakes sense that the telephone j
ompany would have an office in /!
Columbia, which is the home to 'J
tiore than 700 prefixes.
I live in an apartment with two
;uys. I might be confused, but I
elieve my roommate Pat has a 256
lumber and my roommate Bob's is
*91 or something.
There are other items that are
bundant in Columbia. They are
;reen but more often red and are
ituated on every city block. I'm .
alking about traffic lights.
Well, what do you know, it just
urned green. I've gotta stop writng.
Anyway, to sum up, we have a
ivilized, important-looking city,
^here's a nice museum somewhere,
>ut from the outside, it looks just
ike Whalev's Mill. Don't mistake
tie two.
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