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CONTACT If you have any comments, feedback or queries please feel free to contact me by clicking on the appropriate link and sending me an e-mail. I look forward to hearing from some of you. John Gardiner
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ABOUT ME For those who wonder - my name is John Gardiner, I was born in 1952 and live in Surrey in the South of the United Kingdom with my Ukrainian wife and step daughter and am very happy with my family life. My Professional life is as an Accountant and have held Finance, Management and Director roles over the years, being a Fellow of the Institute of Financial Accountants, The International Association of Book-Keepers, and The Institute of Commercial Management. I have also been a part-time Semi-Professional Freelance Photographer for a while. I have quite a few leisure interest which over the years have taken my time but I keep returning to Sports Simulation Replay games, and for the last 15 to 20 years almost entirely computer based gaming due to time pressure precluding the dice rolling variety. Also the computer simulations now keep the statistics which is half or more of the fun of sports replay simulations - studying then after a replay ! My wife will tell you that if a new stats based sports simulation appears I have to try it !! And over the years think I have tried most if not all - and this includes many of the Arcade style sports games but these do not appeal to me other then to learn what they do. My interest is in the Statistics based sports simulations rather than " joystick games". My interest in the hobby started back a long way with a board game called "Wembley" which was a dice based Soccer game and the results weighted dice were used in the game to get the scores of the games. I used those dice to run my own leagues and cup tournaments more than there use as part of the original game !! This started off my life long interest and it was really kicked in to action with the discovery of LAMBOURNE GAMES in the UK who produced dice and chart stats based sports games and, and over the years think I bought all that they produced, and added many of the others I found in the UK from America at that time. I also got involved in Postal Leagues and running some too, before computer online play was around. With the arrival of computers for the stats based games I used the ZX Spectrum, Atari, and then moved to the PC of course. I even converted a couple or more games as a part time hobby programmer for the ZX Spectrum which was fun and rewarding and gave a greater insight in to what computers can do for the hobby. When Gridiron Football arrived in the UK in the 80's I took more of an interest in replaying that, and have always had an interest in Baseball and when TV coverage of this arrived in the UK in the 90's. I nurtured a greater interest and was lucky enough to see my first live Baseball game in Boston in 1999 and have been more than hooked ever since, having travelled to USA and seen more live games since, also visiting the SABR Convention in Boston. I don't get time for Internet online play - but prefer solitaire replay gaming and taking my own replaying managers decisions anyway ! The style of simulations I like are I know minority interests - but also I know there is a large minority out there like me :-) ================================= |
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