Revisiting the Basic Game

After wrapping up my latest tournament, I was starting to feel a little burned out on Strat-O-Matic Basketball. I'd been playing nothing but modified super-advanced for quite some time now and it just seemed like I was getting into a rut recently. What to do? 🤔

Ah ha!  I decided that I would go back to where it all began and play a game of basic Strat-O-Matic basketball. Now, I can't remember when the last time was that I had played the basic game, but it must have been long, long, ago.

The first thing I had to do was go to my parts game box and find my basic action deck. Then, I hate to admit this, but I had to grab my rules booklet and do a quick once over of the basic game rules. 😳 Though, as it turned out, the only thing that I would not have remembered is that there is a double-team rule in the basic game, and how it works. So, after 15 minutes of prep time, I was ready to roll (literally and figuratively).

I chose the current 2023 season and selected the Philadelphia 76ers to face off against my Boston Celtics and man did I have a blast! The basic game was not only fun to play, but the statistics for my game were quite reasonable as well. Boston ended up winning 115-103.

Playing the basic game was so much fun, and such a refreshing break from my modified super-advanced game play, that I think going forward I will be playing the basic game on a regular basis, in addition to my regular game play.

If you're currently an advanced or super-advanced player only, who hasn't played the basic game since you were first introduced to the Strat-O-Matic basketball game, I highly recommend that you revisit the basic game. I'm sure glad that I did!