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Permalink Reply by Mike on January 4, 2008 at 4:51am

bring back the gator!
lots of rock n roller gator fans of here;
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rocknrollergames

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Permalink Reply by Jersey Joe on January 26, 2008 at 11:08am

Please bring back GREAT skating with lots of new faces, like you did in Rock N Roller Games.
Do NOT bring in the gimmicks like people in the infield wearing chicken or bird suits, midgets or any animals - gators or anything else.

Bring in a high tech track. A see-thru track would be cool with cameras mounted strategically underneath. Take the best rules of Roller Games (NSD) and Roller Derby (IRDL) and implement them into the new version of Roller Games.

Even out the talent in each team. Don't let there be one team that's so dominant that it's obvious they'll win championship after championship.

Great uniforms -- very modern but not campy. Take a hint from pro sports and copy some of their styling. Make it look like a BIG TIME pro sport and people won't be insulted and turn away.

Don't copy WWE and pro wrestling. It's one thing to see a skater illegally bulldog another skater, but keep the piledrivers and other ridiculous wrestling moves out of Roller Games.

The key should be SPEED, POWER and FLASH. The skaters should have BIG personalities. Look at Mizz Georgia Hase, a Monster Man Bernie Jackson and Mr. Mean Harold Jackson for good examples. They can carry a game.

Most of all -- GOOD LUCK!

Jersey Joe

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Permalink Reply by Jokey on February 2, 2008 at 8:24pm

Joe has a point, the SKATERS should be the star of the show, period. That said, I want to see a new generation carry the ball. Having said THAT, I want to see skaters with TALENT. (Something I didn't see when I watched Hot Flash or on the majority of the Rockers squads.) The Van Galder Twins just didn't have the personality or talent to make me want to care about them yet they were shoved down the fans' throats week in and week out. Yes they were pretty but so was Shelly Jamison and I don't recall having to watch her skate or have storylines built around her.

Which brings me to the Van Galder "T-Bird" Twins storyline fiasco. A. This went on WAAAAAY too long and B. none of this made sense and C. it was never properly explained until AFTER the final decision from Griffiths was made.

1. How were the T-Birds allowed to draft two skaters at the same time in the first place without trading for back to back pick?

2. How did the Maniacs and Violators get to draft them afterwards? Are we to believe that they were BOTH drafted TWICE?

3. Why was it so dastardly for the Twins to be on teams not named T-Birds just because? (Yet I don't recall anyone bitching about the fact that Dar and Flanigam jumped to the Rockers directly from the T-Birds before the season.)

Again, they did a poor job of mixing sport with storyline, (which they didn't really need when the very innovative gameplay was so much more exciting to watch.)

The Ralphie HOF storyline cannot be repeated with another skater because it was a total mess that didn't make any sense. (Why should we be made to feel sorry for someone who everyone and their dog knew was getting into the HOF the nanosecond he retires anyway?) Another thing I was irked by was just how much he was pushed as THE star of Rollergames, this despite the fact that he was CLEARLY decades past his prime and hadn't been a top skater in about 15 years. You may as well have brought back Danny Riley, Charlie O' Connell and Honey Sanchez back in skates and done the same with them. (Considering the fact that Harold Jackson was by FAR the best skater in the entire company, this looked more than a little silly.) I just didn't feel like pulling for Ralphie because he didn't have to be inducted RIGHT NOW at the time. They should have built the T-Birds around Randi and Stars & Stripes and left Ralphie and the Twins as secondary players ala Icebox and been done with it.

Basically, keep the storylines to a minimum and let the GAMES and SKATERS rule the track and I'll watch again.

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Permalink Reply by Mike on February 3, 2008 at 5:06am

The girls teams were weak >>> but Bad Attitude did have Patsy Delgado Lyle Morse, BMX champ Margaret Christopher >>> and Ms Georgia Hase to liven things up a bit

Mike

head of the Punky Bruiser fan club
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Permalink Reply by Ron Flesher on June 17, 2008 at 8:40pm

Jokey, I could not have it better myself.

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Permalink Reply by Father James on June 18, 2008 at 11:33am

All in all I know we can make a better product. There's alot of great ideas out there. But do we seriously need to talk trash about Ralphie? It's not his fault that the people who ran RNR RollerGames made him a star. He was already a star in my book. But lets get past that. We have a way to go. Getting the talent together. Waiting for the green light from David. The team names. The uniforms. The track design. I know which track design I would choose. What the half time show or competition will be. Like maybe a 1 period little league derby bout. But anyways that's just my opinion.

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