Today is the anniversary of the Game Central website. It debuted on May 25, 2006 so this is the 20th anniversary. I can hardly believe two decades have passed since I started the site mainly as an archive for our old tabletop RPG campaigns. Over time, I added a lot of video game information as well. Game Central also linked to STBL-Web, the home of the Southern Tier Baseball League. The STBL was our computer baseball league, powered by various versions of Earl Weaver Baseball. My last major update to STBL-Web was in 2023. Prior to that, there was a sizable update in 2018. The STBL started in 1987 so next year will be its 40th anniversary. However, I wanted to do something special now and not wait another year.

I rebuilt the site, which comprised several hundred pages. I kept it simple and largely preserved the existing layout. Most of the stats came from text reports output from DOS games so there was no reason to get too fancy. One thing the site lacked was good navigation. You had to keep coming back to the home page. I created links between seasons and some of the other pages to streamline things. I found and corrected quite a few errors along the way. The biggest addition, however, is new pages for the preseason drafts. Earl Weaver baseball came with all-star teams of players from 1900 to 1975. They also released MLBPA stats disks with new seasons, starting with 1986. Just before the 1988 season, we instituted a four round draft with a MLB 1986 player pool. When we didn't have a new season available. we started drafting from the late 1970s. These drafts are now included on STBL-Web.

If you are interested in the STBL, check out the updated STBL-Web.

May 25 is the day I started Game Central 19 years ago. As always, I try to publish some new content on the anniversary date. To be honest, I sometimes feel like I am running out of material. On recent anniversaries, I created a new Board Games section, did a major update to the STBL-WEB baseball site, added a Handheld Electronic video games section, and made a page for old gaming Magazine Ads. This year, I decided to fill in a little bit of personal history with a page about OS/2 gaming. IBM's OS/2 was a big part of my computing life in the 1990s. It was great for productivity but I also used it for video gaming as well. Although I played a lot of DOS games and a few Windows game in OS/2, there were some native OS/2 games as well. That is the focus of the new OS/2 page in the Video Games category.

Today is the 18th anniversary of the Game Central website. Over the years, I've chronicled a lot of gaming memories. One area I hadn't touched on, however, is board games. They were an important part of my childhood, particularly before the widespread emergence of video games. Therefore, I created a new Board Games section. For the inaugural entry, I chose NFL Strategy. It was one of my absolute favorites. I still have the game along with a bunch of handwritten sheets of manually calculated game stats. I scanned the sheets so they now live on in digital form.

May 25 means another year has gone by for Game Central. Today marks the 17th anniversary of the site. Five years ago, I celebrated its anniversary with a massive update to STBL WEB, the home of the Southern Tier Baseball League. This year is the 25th anniversary of the last STBL season played. In honor of that quarter century mark, I completed another significant update to STBL WEB. The Earl Weaver Baseball series was ahead of its time. It kept an impressive amount of stats at the team and player level. Where other baseball video games might present a box score for a single game, Earl Weaver Baseball tracked stats for an entire season. Unfortunately, it didn't have a career mode so there was no record of lifetime stats. I wanted a complete picture of players' careers so I took on that task manually.

STBL WEB now has a section for All-Time Leaders. I combed through 17 seasons of data to create leaderboards in four categories: batting (single season), pitching (single season), batting (lifetime), and pitching (lifetime). Now, STBL fans have the information to answer a variety of trivia questions. Who played more STBL games than any other player? Consult the batting (lifetime) chart and find the answer (spoiler—it's Ted Kluszewski). The other big addition this year is the inclusion of The STBL Encyclopedia. It includes the all-time leaders but also has a complete record of every position player and pitcher who ever played in the STBL. I modeled it after The Baseball Encyclopedia from Macmillan, which was one of my favorite baseball books I owned.

Today marks the 15th anniversary of my Game Central web site. I launched it on May 25, 2006. Over the last 15 years, I have added a lot of content. Updates have slowed a bit in recent years, I must admit. However, I always post something new on the anniversary date. For the past four weeks, I have been playing Dragon Age: Origins. I will give that game a dedicated post in the future. It features a lot of content and won't be a quick one to finish. Thus far, it has been extremely satisfying. It may end up as my favorite computer game played this year.

Anniversaries are good times to reflect on the past. 2021 is not only Game Central's 15th anniversary. It also happens to be the 40th anniversary of the introduction of the IBM Personal Computer. Released on August 12, 1981, the IBM PC was a transformative piece of technology. It elevated a fledgling industry and took personal computing to another level. Although targeted at businesses, it also found success in home computing. In fact, the IBM PC "5150" was my family's first computer. Years before PCs reached ubiquity in the "Wintel" era, early IBM PC users were chugging along with 4.77 MHz 8088 CPUs running DOS. There wasn't much of a commercial PC game market at first, at least not compared to what was available for Apple and Atari computers. It grew rapidly, however, and became a dominant platform.

I wanted to pay homage to those great early years of IBM PC gaming. Back then, I subscribed to a lot of computer magazines. I read Byte and PC World and had a multi-year run of PC Magazine starting at issue #1. Unfortunately, my collection of those magazines was lost in the 2011 flood. My magazines that survived were issues of Softalk for the IBM Personal Computer and Softline. I recently read through all of those issues, which dated 1982 to 1984. Softline was a gaming magazine but even Softalk featured game ads. I decided to scan ads for any PC games I used to own or at least had played. In addition to software, I even found ads for the TG Products Joystick. That was the joystick I used on my IBM PC in the 1980s.

All of these gaming advertisement scans can be found on the new Magazine Ads page. It is a nice little time capsule preserving an earlier era of computer gaming.

Today is Memorial Day. It is also the 14th anniversary of Game Central. My annual tradition is to add some new content to celebrate another anniversary. Today, I am adding a couple of pages to the Dungeons & Dragons section. I decided to give the Character Graveyard its own dedicated page. Previously, I mentioned the Character Graveyard on Game Central's 7th anniversary. Since then, I discovered another trove of dead D&D character sheets. There were 80 additional characters, bringing the total to over 200. All of these characters are now listed on the new page. The second addition is a page for Cloudland, which was a D&D adventure from the early days of our gaming club.

May 25 marks another anniversary for Game Central. It has been 13 years since the site debuted. To mark the occasion, I added a new page to the Role-Playing Games section. RPG Record Holders recognizes the all-time greatest player characters. They were the strongest, smartest, most skilled, and most powerful characters ever to appear in our various RPG campaigns. In order to compile the lists, I had to review hundreds of RPG character sheets. For Dungeons & Dragons specifically, I decided to only include characters of some renown (that is, characters above level 1). For skills, talents, and powers, there were far too many to list them all. Therefore, I only included ones that were at very high proficiency levels.

I added another bonus for this year’s anniversary. As long as I was scrutinizing all of these RPG characters, I decided to scan in all of the Top Secret character sheets. There were 26 total characters from these espionage RPGs (13 Top Secret and 13 Top Secret/S.I.).

Today is the twelfth anniversary of Game Central. As with every other year, I have added new content to mark the occasion. It is also the 20th anniversary of the last season of the STBL (Southern Tier Baseball League). Therefore, I decided to do a massive STBL stats update. Previously, only 3 out of 17 seasons were represented on the site. I added data for the first 14 seasons and results for all 17 World Series. This was much more difficult than I anticipated. The last six seasons were played in Earl Weaver Baseball II, which had decent reporting capabilities. I was able to export reports to disk. The 1989 Spring season was an outlier, having been played in Earl Weaver Baseball 1.5. That is why that season’s presentation is a bit different. Unfortunately, ten out of the first eleven seasons were played in the original version of Earl Weaver Baseball. It did not support exporting stats to disk. Even using the screen reports didn’t help much. For example, the team batting reports were missing a lot of key stats; they only showed batting averages, home runs, and RBIs. That meant I had to review each season player by player and manually enter the data into my html pages. So much data! Typing in tens of thousands of stats by hand took over a week and was extremely fatiguing. I didn’t bother to make the presentation pretty. The pages look pretty much the way they did back in 1998. At least the league’s history is finally preserved. The most recent seasons, in particular, are well documented. They even contain box scores for the World Series.

Yet another year has flown by. Today marks the eleventh anniversary of the debut of Game Central. That means it is time for me to add some new content. Today’s update is for FASA’s Star Trek: The Role Playing Game. The Marauders weren’t the only Star Trek RPG merchants that our gaming club played. Years later, we started a similar campaign with hopes of a better outcome than the disappointing ending of the aforementioned crew. This new group of traders was the crew of the SS Profiteer.

Today marks the tenth anniversary of Game Central, which debuted on May 25, 2006. It’s hard to believe. For this milestone, I envisioned a major site update or even a site redesign. Alas, that didn’t happen. It will have to wait a bit. Still, I wanted to post something new. Something different. After a bit of contemplation, it came to me. Most of my gaming memories came from my personal time outside of school or outside of work. There was one fond in-school gaming memory, however, from my senior year of high school. It was the Book Football League (BFL). You remember paper football? Of course you do. Almost every American kid has played it at one time or another. Imagine substituting a small hardcover book for the little paper triangle. Now you have something! My friends and I played book football in our many study halls that year. A lot of those study halls were in the cafeteria. Playing on the large cafeteria tables, a small paper football didn’t cut it. Instead, my friend Jeff brought in a book, which worked quite well. Kickoffs and field goals were an adventure as the “football” went flying through the air, its pages fluttering. Jeff solved that with a liberal application of wood glue to seal the book into a solid rigid brick.

It took some digging but I finally found the original book football. It was a small hardcover of Low Man on Totem Poll by H. Allen Smith. Initially, we took some heat from one teacher who accused us of destroying a book. We explained it was personal property and didn’t belong to the school. A couple of teachers were hostile to the Book Football League and wouldn’t allow us to play. Most of the teachers were cool, however. In fact, the gym teacher at the time casually followed the BFL and would ask for the latest scores and standings.


The front cover of our book football, with its official BFL designation.


Originally published in 1941, I wonder if this was a first edition.


Here is a top view showing the glue that kept the book sealed through dozens of games.

May 25. That means another anniversary for Game Central. This year, I decided to add a new section to Role-Playing Games. Paranoia makes its debut on the site! I didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I bought the first Paranoia box set twenty years ago. I knew it was a humorous sci-fi RPG, which was very well-reviewed. Other than that, I wasn’t sure what to expect. What I discovered was a dark, satirical, extremely funny game intended to be entertaining to read. These weren’t dry, boring rule books. The material was fun and often hilarious, particularly from the gamemaster’s point of view.

Another year has gone by. Today marks the eighth anniversary of Game Central. To mark the occasion, I created a page for Night of the Vampire, a Dungeons & Dragons adventure we played in 1997.

In celebration of Game Central's seventh anniversary, I am once again returning to a pen and paper RPG. Over the years, my Dungeons & Dragons campaigns featured many characters. Almost all of them eventually met their demise. Afterwards, those characters retired to a hallowed place—the Character Graveyard. My players spoke of it frequently but rarely saw it. Now it shall be revealed for all to see!



The Character Graveyard is a large stack of deceased character sheets stored in a bulging, tattered 1981 TSR Hobbies Gateway to Adventure catalog. I recently extracted it from storage to examine the contents. Here were the characters I found. They were the brave and not so brave, the mighty and mostly not so mighty. I never realized how many half-elves there were. Dozens of characters died so quickly that they went unnamed. Here is a list of those worthy enough to have been given a name.

Aggathor - Level 1 Dwarf Cleric
Agnomic - Level 1 Human Monk
Aldamir - Level 3 Dwarf Fighter
Allanon - Level 1 Human Psionicist
Allanon Ellesidil - Level 1/1 Elf Magic User/Fighter
Arga - Level 1 Human Barbarian
Arie Ryner - Level 3 Human Cleric
Arkile the Archer - Level 2/2/2 Half-Elf Cleric/Fighter/Magic User
Artemor Dentimius
Arubos - Level 1 Human Fighter
Astanon - Level 1 Gnome Fighter/Thief
Athenia - Level 1 Dwarf Fighter
Azrael the Skull Drudgeror - Level 1 Human Fighter
Barney - Level 1/1 Elf Fighter/Thief
Burnock - Level 4 Human Cleric
Caderon - Level 1/1 Elf Magic User/Thief
Carena - Level 1 Elf Fighter
Celthian Linfield - Level 2/2 Elf Fighter/Thief
Centron - Level 1 Human Fighter
Charasé - Level 1 Half-Elf Magic User
Christov BlackBow - Level 1 Human Fighter
Corvin - Level 4 Halfling Thief
Corwin - Level 1 Human Fighter
Crispen Ellesid - Level 1/1 Elf Fighter/Thief
Daervan Windwalker - Level 1 Gnome Fighter/Illusionist
Dagon - Level 2/2 Half-Elf Cleric/Fighter
Darsellus - Level 1 Human Ranger
Delmore Strongheart - Level 1 Dwarf Fighter
Delton the Invincible - Level 1 Dwarf Fighter
Derockma - Level 4 Dwarf Fighter
Dolex - Level 1/1 Half-Elf Cleric/Ranger
Dorian - Level 2/3 Halfling Fighter/Thief
Doyle - Level 1 Human Fighter
Draull-Mar - Level 1/1 Half-Orc Fighter/Thief
Dregnor - Level 1 Dwarf Fighter
Drelk - Level 3/3 Half-Elf Magic User/Fighter
Dvalin - Level 1 Dwarf Fighter
Eldar - Level 3 Elf Ranger
Endrum - Level 1/1 Half-Elf Fighter/Magic User
Exor - Level 1 Human Fighter
Fenrik - Level 3 Human Fighter
Fervin Skywatcher - Level 2 Gnome Illusionist
Fred - Level 2 Elf Thief
Frethlon - Level 1 Elf Magic User
Galdor - Level 1/1 Half-Elf Cleric/Ranger
Galgon - Level 1/1 Half-Elf Fighter/Magic User
Genesist (The Life Ender) - Level 1/1 Half-Elf Fighter/Magic User
Gonzo - Level 1/2 Fighter/Thief
Gregory of Ahmsford - Level 0 Cavalier
Hamör - Level 1 Dwarf Cleric
Janek Lothenhart - Level 1 Human Fighter
Jaryd - Level 1 Human Magic User
Jonathan Silverblade - Level 2 Human Cavalier
Jorak - Level 1 Half-Elf Fighter/Magic User
Kelak - Level 1/1 Half-Elf Fighter/Magic User
Kelson Corwinsen - Level 1 Human Fighter
Kheldar - Level 1 Human Thief
Khendon - Level 3 Human Cleric
Kilvan DeMargor - Level 1/1 Elf Magic User/Thief
Kinter Pernelion - Level 1 Halfling Thief
Koron - Level 5 Dwarf Fighter
Krelin - Level 1/2 Dwarf Fighter/Thief
Krygar - Level 1 Human Fighter
Landric - Level 4 Human Ranger
Levathon Krellia - Level 1/1 Half-Elf Fighter/Magic User
Leyden - Level 3 Human Paladin
Lirtare Finn - Level 2 Elf Ranger
Lirtare Torian - Level 1 Elf Ranger
Lucas Mortis - Level 1 Human Fighter
Luven Lightfinger - Level 2/3 Half-Elf Magic User/Thief
LyRex - Level 1 Human Fighter
Malidox - Level 2/2 Half-Elf Cleric/Magic User
Malok - Level 1/1 Gnome Fighter/Thief
Marcellus - Level 2 Elf Thief
Marcore - Level 1/1 Half-Elf Fighter/Magic User
Mathew Trumoor - Level 1 Human Cleric
Melrox - Level 1 Human Ranger
Mercer of Blackmoor - Level 3 Human Fighter
Merkator Rümker - Level 1 Human Ranger
Mogara Choshama of the Salaqi - Level 1 Human Fighter
Morgan - Level 3 Human Cleric
Moroso - Level 1 Dwarf Fighter
Mortozious - Level 1 Human Fighter
Mylar - Level 1/1 Elf Magic User/Thief
Norok - Level 1 Dwarf Cleric
Phaelen - Level 4 Human Fighter
Phylo - Level 1 Half-Elf Bard
Preston - Level 1 Human Magic User
Procelleron - Level 1 Human Paladin
Ransador - Level 1 Dwarf Fighter
Raptor the Reaper - Level 1 Human Fighter
Rensalia - Level 1 Half-Elf Fighter
Rogan (Deathmaker) - Level 3/3 Half-Elf Cleric/Ranger
Roland - Level 2 Human Monk
Rolandor - Level 1 Dwarf Fighter
Rystor Sylvan - Level 3 Elf Fighter
Salekien Skywatcher - Level 3/3 Gnome Fighter/Thief
Sednor the Holy - Level 5 Human Cleric
Selrin - Level 4 Human Magic User
Shiela - Level 1/1 Half-Elf Cleric/Magic User
Sheldon - Level 4/4 Half-Elf Cleric/Fighter
Shylar - Level 1/1 Half-Elf Cleric/Magic User
Sindar StrongBow - Level 1/1 Elf Fighter/Magic User
Skree - Level 1/1 Gnome Illusionist/Thief
Slade - Level 1 Human Paladin
Slair Darkblade - Level 1 Human Fighter
Snerf - Level 1 Elf Thief
Syndor Kiri - Level 1 Half-Elf Cleric/Fighter
Tai - Level 1 Elf Ranger
Talon - Level 3 Human Fighter
Tergon - Level 1/1 Half-Elf Cleric/Fighter
Thalrin - Level 1/1 Halfling Fighter/Thief
Thayer - Level 1 Elf Thief
Thelvor - Level 1/1 Elf Magic User/Thief
Themsulac Trillium - Level 1/1 Elf Cleric/Fighter
Thongor - Level 1 Elf Magic User
Thorin - Level 1 Dwarf Fighter
Thurtan - Level 0 Human Cavalier
Torak - Level 4 Human Fighter
Ugly - Level 1 Elf Thief
Ugly II - Level 1 Human Fighter
Urg - Level 1 Human Fighter
Vanalge - Level 1/1 Elf Fighter/Magic User
Velgor - Level 1/1 Half-Elf Fighter/Magic User
William - Level 1 Human Cleric
Zanzibar - Level 1/1 Half-Elf Cleric/Fighter
Zaterian Marellion - Level 1/1 Gnome Fighter/Illusionist

On May 25, 2006, Game Central made its debut. That means today is the sixth anniversary of the site. I thought about my most meaningful gaming related moment of the past twelve months. Only one stood out. The devastating flood of September 2011 damaged a lot of property, including my role-playing collection. Much of what I accumulated over many years was wiped out in a single day. I finally took an inventory of the RPG material damaged in the flood. Below is a list of items I know were lost in the flood; there are no doubt others which I’ve forgotten. Of course, this doesn’t include many other goods, including boxes of vintage comic books, Star Trek collectables, baseball memorabilia, and more.

AD&D, 1st Edition

• Deities & Demigods
• U2: Danger at Dunwater

AD&D, 2nd Edition Accessories

• Arms and Equipment Guide
• Bastion of Faith
• The Complete Book of Dwarves
• The Complete Book of Elves
• The Complete Fighter's Handbook
• The Complete Paladin's Handbook
• The Complete Priest's Handbook
• The Complete Thief's Handbook
• The Complete Wizard's Handbook
• Guide to Hell
• Menzoberranzan (Boxed Set)

AD&D, 2nd Edition Adventure Modules

• The Accursed Tower
• Against the Giants: The Liberation of Geoff
• A Paladin in Hell
• The Return of Randal Morn
• Return to the Keep on the Borderlands
• The Ruins of Undermountain (Boxed Set)
• The Secret of Spiderhaunt
• The Shattered Circle
• TSR JAM 1999

AD&D, 2nd Edition Core Rules

• Dark Sun Campaign Setting (Boxed Set)
• Dungeon Master's Guide
• Player's Handbook

AD&D, 3rd Edition

• Dungeon Master's Guide
• Forgotten Realms (Campaign Setting Hardcover)
• Monster Manual
• Player's Handbook

Birthright (AD&D 2nd Edition) Accessories

• Blood Enemies: Abominations of Cerilia
• Blood Spawn: Creatures of Light and Shadow
• Player's Secrets of Ariya
• Player's Secrets of Baruk-Azhik
• Player's Secrets of Binsada
• Player's Secrets of Endier
• Player's Secrets of Halskapa
• Player's Secrets of Hogunmark
• Player's Secrets of Ilien
• Player's Secrets of Khourane
• Player's Secrets of Medoere
• Player's Secrets of Roesone
• Player's Secrets of Stordvik
• Player's Secrets of Talinie
• Player's Secrets of Tuarievel
• Player's Secrets of Tuornen
• The Book of Magecraft
• The Book of Priestcraft
• Tribes of the Heartless Wastes

Birthright (AD&D 2nd Edition) Adventures

• King of the Giantdowns
• Legends of the Hero-Kings
• Sword and Crown
• The Sword of Roele
• Warlock of the Stonecrowns

Birthright (AD&D 2nd Edition) Boxed Sets

• Birthright Campaign Setting
• Cities of the Sun
• Havens of the Great Bay
• Naval Battle Rules: The Seas of Cerilia
• The Rjurik Highlands

Birthright Novels

• Greatheart
• The Hag's Contract
• The Iron Throne
• The Spider's Test
• War

Call of Cthulhu

• At Your Door
• Call of Cthulhu (3rd Edition Hardcover)
• Call of Cthulhu (5th Edition)
• Cthulhu Now
• Spawn of Azathoth

Champions

• Champions (4th Edition Hardcover)
• Dark Champions: Heroes of Vengeance
• Hudson City Blues
• Justice, Not Law
• Murderer's Row
• Underworld Enemies

Dungeons & Dragons

• Dungeons & Dragons: Fast-Play Game
• Eye of the Wyvern (Fast-Play Game)
• O1: The Gem and the Staff (Expert Set Adventure Module)
• Wrath of the Minotaur (Fast-Play Game)

Marvel Super Heroes

• Marvel Super Heroes Advanced Set
• Marvel Super Heroes Basic Set
• MU1: Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Abomination through
• Dreadnought)
• MU2: Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Eel through Mad Dog)
• MU3: Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Mad Thinker through
• Sentry)
• MU4: Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Serpent Society
• through Zzzax)
• MU7: Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe (1991 Character
• Updates)
• The Ultimate Powers Book

Mutants & Masterminds

• Mutants & Masterminds: Crooks!
• Mutants & Masterminds: Freedom City
• Mutants & Masterminds: Noir
• Mutants & Masterminds: RPG

Silver Age Sentinels

• Criminal Intent
• From the Files of Matthews Gentech
• Omlevex
• Roll Call
• Roll Call 2: The Sidekick Club
• Roll Call 3: Country Matters
• Shields of Justice
• Silver Age Sentinels (Deluxe Limited Edition Hardcover)

Star Trek (Last Unicorn Games)

• A Fragile Peace: The Neutral Zone Campaign Volume 1
• All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Sourcebook
• Among the Clans: The Andorians
• The First Line: Starfleet Intelligence Handbook
• Holodeck Adventures
• Planetary Adventures Volume 1: Federation Space
• Planets of the UFP: A Guide to Federation Worlds
• The Price of Freedom: The United Federation of Planets Sourcebook
• Star Trek Roleplaying Game
• Star Trek Roleplaying Game Narrator's Toolkit
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Roleplaying Game
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Roleplaying Game Narrator's Toolkit
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Role Playing Game
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Role Playing Game Narrator's
• Toolkit
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Role Playing Game Players' Guide
• Starfleet Academy (Boxed Set)
• The Way of D'era: The Romulan Star Empire (Boxed Set)
• The Way of Kolinahr: The Vulcans

On Wednesday, September 7, 2011, we were struck hard by Tropical Storm Lee. It rained hard all day and into the morning. Our basement took on four feet of water. There wasn’t enough time to save much down there and many items were lost. I lost the majority of my comic books, which numbered in the thousands. Also destroyed were quite a few Star Trek collectables, including books and personalized autographed photos from Star Trek conventions. Many of my prized role-playing games and accessories were down there as well. All of my Dungeons & Dragons Birthright books were lost. Other first and second edition D&D books were destroyed in the flood. A lot of TSR Marvel RPG material, including sheets for the Protectors and Retribution, were ruined. I lost a complete set of Star Trek RPG items from Last Unicorn Games. There were other RPG losses as well, including Call of Cthulu material.

May 25, 2006. That was the day I launched Game Central, the web site dedicated to my personal gaming experiences. Therefore, today marks the fifth anniversary of the site. Over the past five years, I expanded Game Central quite a bit. I added to the role-playing section, home to some of my most cherished gaming memories, with lots of new content. I played another five seasons of North American League Baseball, and published extensive season stats. I played dozens of computer games, updated my game library, and identified new all-time favorites.

Today, I am adding Coin-Op games to the Computer Games section. Although not computer games as we think of them today, arcade coin-op games were my first love when it came to video games. I decided that it was time I devoted a page to my favorite coin-op classics.

Finally, after five years, I thought it was time to revamp Game Central’s design. Part of me hated to do it because I was very pleased with the original look. I spent many hours tweaking everything to get the details just right. Time marches on, however. I think this is a new, satisfying design that should serve the future of the site quite well. Here is Game Central 2.0.

It’s May 25 and that means it is the anniversary of Game Central’s debut, four years ago. Another year has flown by. For 2010, I wanted to continue the work on the super-hero character summaries I started two years ago. I am quite pleased with the results so it is a fitting tribute for the site’s anniversary.

I updated all of the character summaries for our two Marvel super-hero groups, the Protectors and Retribution. Two years ago, I added histories for all of the characters. Now, the character summaries are that much more complete with the inclusion of character artwork. I think the character portraits really help bring these super-heroes to life.

Today is Memorial Day. It also happens to be the third anniversary of the Game Central web site. Every year on May 25, I try to add some special content for the site’s anniversary. As I have mentioned on this site many times before, role-playing games have provided many of my best gaming memories. These great gaming experiences took place with “The Club,” our RPG gaming group. For today’s special content, I added some vintage photos from our gaming sessions back in 1988.

Gaming Club Photos 1988

Happy Birthday, Game Central!

Today marks two years since the site's debut on May 25, 2006. I remember how much work I put into the creation of the site. It took many months to prepare the material for the original publishing date. Over the last two years, I kept the site active with updates on my personal gaming activities. Most of my gaming nowadays is with computer games. However, I wanted to publish something a little special for today, Game Central's two-year anniversary.

I undertook a major project, the completion of the super-hero character summaries for the Protectors and Retribution. Much of that material hadn't been updated in 15 to 20 years. It involved a lot of work but I'm happy with the results. That section of the web site is now much more useful as a reference for the longest running campaign in our club's history.

For the site's two-year anniversary, I wanted to include some additional D&D material as well. I decided to devote a new page to the Eveningstar campaign. That was a fun campaign that renewed our active interest in role-playing again.

Enjoy the new material. Here's to another year of great gaming memories.

- Kevin

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the debut of Game Central. Back on May 25, 2006, I published this site with a variety of personal gaming information: baseball leagues, computer games, and role-playing memories. Since then, I completed another season of the NALB and played numerous computer games. Unfortunately, I haven't played any pen and paper role-playing games in several years. However, I always intended to devote a large portion of this site's content to role-playing games. In particular, I wanted to chronicle and preserve some of the history of my old gaming group, "The Club."

With the site's original intent in mind, I knew what had to be done. I had to add some new RPG content to Game Central for its one-year anniversary. I decided to revisit the game that got our group started, Dungeons & Dragons. Out of dozens of D&D campaigns, one clearly stood out as deserving of the anniversary honor—The Temple of Elemental Evil. That campaign was played during one of our group's most creative periods. It featured some of our most memorable characters and many unforgettable moments.

Game Central can still be reached via the portal at http://kfields.net. Now, you can also access it directly at http://gamecentral.kfields.net.

I look forward to more great gaming for Game Central year two.

It has taken several months but Game Central is finally ready for its debut. Actually, the web site took months to create but the gaming history has been over 20 years in the making. There is certainly more that I hope to add to the site down the road. However, I think it is off to a decent start. For now, there is a heavy focus on role-playing material from my old gaming club (aka "The Club"). Visitors from "The Club" should find material that evokes some fond memories. For anyone else, I hope you may still find something of interest.