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Hi Everyone, Just wondering if this has happened before or if there is a reason for it but when I have been looking through the Dolphins gamebooks there appears to have been a strange occurrence in one of their AFL games. It is the 1967 game against the Kansas City Chiefs on 8-Oct-1967 at KC. The Do...

Just out of interest what sort of info do they contain that you can't find online?

Thanks Oszuscik, I found that site a couple of years ago and have been steadily working through them. I'm trying to convert them in Modern Game Book versions and I'm currently working on 1981. Unfortunately though there are still a number of their website that are either difficult to read or impossi...

JeffreyMiller wrote:Since you brought up Rupert's herculean efforts, I propose that we name the site where the gamebooks are stored "The Rupert Patrick Gamebook Library"

I really like that idea.

Hi A couple of the forum members have been chatting about ensuring that Rupert Patrick’s work on the Game Books / Play-by-Plays doesn’t go to waste and that we try and keep tracking down all those that are either missing or unreadable. I know Rupert was in contact with a number of teams including th...

Being English and growing up here I didn't have any exposure to NFL football until 1982 when it started to appear on British TV with a weekly highlight programme on the following Sunday night after the weeks games I cant really remember it until the 1984 season when I started rooting for the Miami D...

oh my goodness. :cry: I feared this would be the news when I saw the subject of this thread. I had the pleasure of meeting Rupert at the 2018 Buffalo convention and sat across from him when a bunch of us went out to Cole's for wings on Saturday night. We talked a bit about his research on kickers a...

Hi Rupert, I got you PM but I can't reply for some reason (I've only just joined the forum). If you want to PM me your email address I'll let you have the details etc. But just to let you know there are a number up to about 1974 where either I have a either a better version or have amalgamated the o...

Hi Rupert, I'm a new member of the PFRA, but have been working on Dolphins gamebooks for a few years. I have a few updates to the ones you hold if you want to message me. Craig