retired_merissa16

one-nil was the first football sim i ever played and got me hooked on these games eventually. my first team was plymouth and i recall taking them pretty far thanks to some favorable draws in the cup competition.

i did play two-nil as well, somehow didnt seem as good as the first one. i managed to find one-nil out there somewhere as abandonware, just for some nostalgia

retired_mugdozer

That was my first management sim as well, and despite knowing absolutelynothing about football, I played the heck out of that game for many years.

I still have the original 5 1/4 disks somewhere here and have burned the program to a CD a few years back.

retired_suntankw

I don't remember that although I remember playing some old skool ones on the Amiga back in the day.

I think the first football simulator that seriously got me hooked was when Championship Manager 2 got released. Still have the english & italian league disks somewhere. lol.

Been playing every release since that.

retired_11xgirl

Somehow I think i missed these. Football director was my favourite back in the C64 days even though I had another one aswell and probably had 3 or 4 different football sims for the amiga500. Think some version of CM was the first one for PC.

Richrix

First football maanagement game I played was Ultimate Soccer Manager. I miss some of the stuff that was in that game that isn't in FM, even if its not realistic for a manager to choose the price of burgers, ticket prices or how to expand the stadium...

retired_christyh28

That was a funny old game I spent USD 30 on. Players regenerator sucked though, basically the teams who finished top of the superleague get the cream of the crop, then decreased down the ladder.

I beat everybody playing ultra-offensive 3-1-1-2-3 (CCC-D-G-WW-$c$). Whoever played that game should know what I talk about. Funny the AI never exploited my exposed flanks both in the back and in midfield.

Also, you can manipulate the game by pressing Enter (Pause/Unpause) -- it made a difference between losing the ball and scoring a wonder goal.

I personally blame that game for my bad grades :-/

alidog

Have you seen the screenshots for it here?

Looks frighteningly like a DOS-based FM - It even seems to have a 2D match engine!

retired_intelsleuth

after seeing the screenies, i now remember this game with fond affection. i played it to bits, i even remember the sfx, which were ace. this game was so good, that was until i found cm. ahhh, they were the days, i was young, innocent and knew nothing of patches and the human race's taste for them. thanks Italy World Champs for bringing back these memories

retired_cat4x42002

Anyone played England Soccer Manager? If memory serves, it was a shareware game (for dos) made by some South African guy. I loved that game!

I've tried google, but no luck...

retired_Cliffc

Graeme Souness Soccer Manager was my first one.

It was awesome, although not very detailed.

Best thing about it was the isometric 3d highlights engine.

Every shot had 2 videos, one with the shot going in, and the other exactly the same, but a miss. So when the highlight started, you had no idea if it was going in or not.

Back in the days when it didn't matter that whatever team you were, they would always be playing in red, and the opposition would always be in blue.

It was published by Zeppelin Games and (bafflingly) also seems to have been released under the title Peter Schmeichel Soccer Manager !?!

Man I loved that game.