retired_alie.freund

Was thinking about an old Champioship Manager game (CM Italia back in the early nineties on the Amiga).

Then I thought wouldnt it be cool if that game was half as intricate as the current crop of Football Manager games. So why not?

Why not release a Football Manager Retro? same game engine as FM2008 but it starts in season 1990?

A chance to change history, manager players such as Baggio, Van Basten, Gullit...

So how many people would buy such a game if one existed?

I would

angelina16

Fans have come up with such ideas already, they even implemented them. There a few ive read about were they basically add all these players to a database and release it on fansites, I think one was named something like golden league. You should try sortitoutsi.net or is it .com cant remember.
But im sure they have some there.

retired_dttyr12

I had thought of an idea similar to this about 13 years ago when playing an early version.

The game would start in the 60's or 70's and the new youth players into your squad would be real life players.

For example, in the 80's Leicester would have a Gary Linekar youth player or Chester would unearth Ian Rush.

Cwcox01

It's a very intesting idea, but it would take an immense amount of extra research to recreate the football world of 10, 20, 30 years ago. The bigger names would be easy, but there'd be thousands upon thousands of forgotten players that need to be looked up. It would be very hard, but very nice indeed.

retired_maverick8

You can already download such data bases!

retired_alie.freund

Can you give a link?

And really I imagine the database would be easier to make for a retro game than it is for the current games they release. You say they would have to look at all the players who werent big names, but they have to do the same now. Atleast doing it retoactively they can see how good a player was where as now they make a judgement.

(Drunk so hard to explain)

In short, it would be easier to research the past than it is to research the present and the future (the unknown).

roxanne

I'm not sure it would be so easy, what do we know about that nobody left back who played for Brighton for one season in 1992 and then went off into semi-professional obscurity?

(I'm not suggesting such a person existed at Brighton by the way! Just a hypothetical example)

retired_euluis

Huh, imagine that! I just bought a 16 year old Ian Rush for 25k, wonder if he'll get me some goals for the next couple dozen years?

What's this you say, a young lad from Brazil called Romario? Huh, can't be bad giving the lad a chance in Spain, wonder if he'll be worth the 50k we are offering them...?

Sorry, for me this is (and has always been) a truly horrid idea, pointless to the extreme.