retired_jess29

I remember spending hours on the original 8-bit Football Manager 1 & 2....

... eventually you'd invariably end up with a team consisting entirely of British internationals - Fenwick, Francis, Waddle, Hoddle....

I remember another 8-bit game, called 'European Superleague' or something, where the central screen was a view of the manager's office from behind a desk. There was a bottle on the desk you'd click on when you wanted to advance time

The cream of the 8-bit games for me was Tracksuit Manager. You took over an international side who had been underachieving (sounds familiar), and would have a full international pool of real players to choose from .. decent match engine too, text-based and a worthy precursor to CM for me.

On the 16-bits, I remember being lukewarm about Premier Manager - the irony being that, despite it's name, you were forced to start with a conference side

BarryLFC

British Super League and World Soccer League on the Spectrum took up much of my weekend time as a kid.

retired_randman

I remember spending months on an Amiga coverdisk demo of Sensible World Of Soccer, actually getting the full game a year after in 1995. There was also a brief flirtation with a coverdisk demo of Tactical Manager Italia, that was my first taste of managing without seeing a pitch and reading commentary.

Then in 1996, I got Player Manager 2 for the Amiga, and I loved it. I do remember how the first night I played it how I was SO frustrated at how many things I had to manage, I almost gave it up. I wasn't used to that level of detail - wages, contracts, things like that.

But I stuck with that until 2000 (trying Premier Manager 3 on the Playstation and Player Manager 2000 on the PC along the way), when I bought CM00/01 (I've still got it, along with the free car sticker in the case) and haven't looked back. Since then I've got every edition since, and also some budget versions of the older CM editions - haven't got 'round to playing them yet though. FM's keeping me from them.

retired_tammysteward

Premier Manager 99 on ps1...i remember cheating to have 4 teams all with 500mil each to spend. oh joy.

Kutusov

i played 'classic' games on the spectrum such as The Double, Tracksuit Manager, Striker, Football Director, Football Manager (original)footballer of the year 1 + 2, Player Manager on Amiga, Sensible World of Soccer, Football Masters, then championship manager until they changed to Football Manager

retired_secretdiet

Ultimate Soccer Manager where you could offer bungs to other tema and build your own stadium it was :cool:

retired_schuylerxwarner

Student Boy, a man after my own heart, i played all of those as well! the cream of the crop was Football Director II, played for hours, in the end though you just ended up with all 9i players and battered everyone

retired_omid

I used to play a game on the Amiga. It was a football management sim, and the game itself just had text commentary, but when you scored sound played and it sounded like 'Goal, Lee Chapman'.

For the love of god I can't remember what the game was called. It would have been about 1992 ish.

zoddy11

Footballer Of The Year and Footballer Of The Year 2 on the Commodore 64 was sheer class!

Original Football Manager was great too, I won the FA Cup with 4th Division Wrexham!

retired_LAWLESS

first footy sim i played was in about 1983 and it was on the dragon 32 and was called champions.