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PLAYMAKER!

Holy Cow! I did a Google search for Playmaker only as a reference for the previous post, figuring the Internet would be have some small contingent of former fans of a defunct game. Instead … Playmaker for OSX!

I have only played two computer games passionately — Playmaker and Hardball — and I stopped obsessing over both when games like these seemed to die out with a Jobs-less Mac business strategy. I’m elated that I’m going to get to play this game again. (Of course, another reason I didn’t jump on the Madden NFL bandwagon way back when was a fear of it becoming an all-consuming hobby. But then, maybe there is a paying summer project out of this find …)

By Kevin Makice

A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.

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Well, after further review … not so much. I need to Google for why when I play as a human (computer-computer simulation is fine, but dull) I constantly get called for delay of game. I can’t get a play off. This happened, as I recall, when I got a version for my old Quadra. The slightly faster processing seemed to make everything go too fast. As I recall, that’s why I stopped playing …

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