What is the best Manager Game of All Time?

OK all

For the most ultimate poll ever

Not sure if this should be in GD.

Oh, and USM98/99.

Not sure if this should be in GD.

Oh, and USM98/99.

lol, USM my first management game. I remember thinking, "do managers really place hot dog stands around the stadium?"

btw, why have you left some out?

lol, USM my first management game. I remember thinking, "do managers really place hot dog stands around the stadium?"

I just remember that Jay Jay Okocha was the best midfielder on the game.

lol, USM my first management game. I remember thinking, "do managers really place hot dog stands around the stadium?"

btw, why have you left some out?

because there were only 10 options avaidable max

FM09, it has been a dissapointment for some people, maybe hasn't met expectations, caused loads of problems but is the best football game in the world by far

Did you ever play it long enough for the re-gens to become better? they were always terrible iirc

Did you ever play it long enough for the re-gens to become better? they were always terrible iirc

On USM? Some of them were amazing. It was so easy to sign unattached regenerated players to lower league teams, train them up hugely, and power your way through the leagues.

My favourite was LMA manager 06 because I would count FM09 but don't have the game

LMA stuck in on country for ever and ever

07 no doubt.

19 votes in and FM09 IS WINNING BY 3!!

CM03/04 was awesome, FM2006 too, FM2007 as well - for me it's a tie here, but voted the last one. FM09 for me is only okay, I also liked CM4 which was my first game from the series - believe it or not I played without any patches.

Multi player soccer manager on the commodore 64 was the 1 i enjoyed the most in my youth. But realisticly i would go with fm 07 as the best due to some great online games with my friend every friday dawn till dusk.

Other, FIFA Manager 2008

Kidding, I've gone 09 because it's the only one I've ever bought

We need some old timers in here to get the CM 01/02 votes up

We need some old timers in here to get the CM 01/02 votes up

old timers? feel old for picking 01/02 now

Only negatives of 09 is unrealistic AI transfers and bugs in the matchday, like goalkeeper allowing strikers to tackle them

Transfers are much more realistic on FM 09 than past iterations.

Paul - I meant people that have been playing it for a while, wasn't going by age

95/96. One person in class would run the league, and print off our team sheets and fixtures/results every day. We'd spend each break time sorting out our teams. Muchos fun. Also, the foreign league versions were stupendously easy. I had Stefan Effenberg get the highest rating I've ever seen from a player: 9.73 over 40 games. He was amazing!

For me FM 09 with the 3d has taken it to the next level.

Where is FM05 though. That was the next best imo and it's not there!

I voted CM 0102, and i've only recently downloaded it. I'm not very good at it though...

07. Nice, fast, easy to use and great

They went downhill from there, in my opinion.

Polls like this often make me wonder if one Mod/SI programmer txts his mates to all vote for the latest FM. Its just not that good.

Personally i havnt played this game in over 2 months, NEITHER have almost all my friends. I say almost because the few that do play this game do so until 'another' football manager game is released.

I was expecting to see some classic football management games included in the poll to be honest, as you could pretty much roll all the one's listed into the same group.

Although I voted for FM09, some pre-CM/FM greats would for me be:

Football Manager (Spectrum original by Kevin Toms) The one that really started it all for me.

The Double - (C64) Took ages to play and process the results, but great if you had the patience.

Multi-Player Soccer Manager (Amiga) Simply because my mate would always get upset when players joined my team instead of his.

Football Director (Amstrad) Had this on a CPC464 and spent all Christmas looking for 9 out of 10 players to sign. Those of you who complain about injuries with FM09, think about the fact that you simply couldn't continue if you couldn't pick a 1st 11 in this game!!

There's lot's more that I've played over the years that I could add, but when the CM series first started and became the FM series after the split, nothing else was comparable for me.

Polls like this often make me wonder if one Mod/SI programmer txts his mates to all vote for the latest FM. Its just not that good.

Personally i havnt played this game in over 2 months, NEITHER have almost all my friends. I say almost because the few that do play this game do so until 'another' football manager game is released.

Or most of the people voting have only played FM09....

I'd vote for CM4, but as there is no option, then FM09

Could have grouped the first few into CM3 imo, make a few spaces

Polls like this often make me wonder if one Mod/SI programmer txts his mates to all vote for the latest FM. Its just not that good.

Personally i havnt played this game in over 2 months, NEITHER have almost all my friends. I say almost because the few that do play this game do so until 'another' football manager game is released.

Or maybe it's just that other people have different views to your own?

CM01/02 hands down

SWOS (95/96) and another Amiga one where you had to start off in the Conference cannot remember the name but it was by Gremlin* (still remember struggling with the code wheel on a black and white TV ) were simple but fun Managment games, the first LMA game on the original Playstation was good aswell, the second one not so (anyone complaining about the FM bugs should try playing that).

From the list CM01/02 due to the epic game I had lasting over 50 years with Celtic/Nottm Forest only ended by my computer dying

EDIT: *Premier Manager 2 was what it was called.

cm 97/98.

Alfonso was the best player ever.

SWOS (95/96) and another Amiga one where you had to start off in the Conference cannot remember the name but it was by Gremlin (still remember struggling with the code wheel on a black and white TV ) were simple but fun Managment games, the first LMA game on the original Playstation was good aswell, the second one not so (anyone complaining about the FM bugs should try playing that).

From the list CM01/02 due to the epic game I had lasting over 50 years with Celtic/Nottm Forest only ended by my computer dying

Damn, you just reminded me of SWOS!!

The "other" Gremlin game was Premier Manager (1 or 2). I enjoyed those too in their day, until my dog decided to eat the copy protection wheel

But SWOS... ahh that was a great game. You could sign the naffest players but still whoop everyone because you could CONTROL the players in the matches.

Also, just thought of Football Masters & Professional Football Masters. Probably the nearest thing to CM/FM that came beforehand.

I was useless at controlling the players in the match, though the tactics were great - move the player around until the game gave you a tick could never get 11 ticks though.

FM 05 - Had a game with Liverpool using the next seasons data, and Sissoko scored 28 goals in his first season. How innacurate that turned out to be.

Absolutely 01/02,it isn't perfect,to be honest many features are missing in this game,but it's the closest they ever came to perfection.FM was very good game,but 09 has completely destroyed it.I would love to see a game with CM3 interface and many features from FM(without 3d match engine,repetitive and boring press conferences).Oh how would i like to see a game like that.I hope someday someone from SI will make a game like this because in past they were making brilliant games!

But SWOS... ahh that was a great game. You could sign the naffest players but still whoop everyone because you could CONTROL the players in the matches.

You've just reminded me of 'Director of Football'. Pretty crap, but with even more non-manager stuff than USM. Despite the name, you were still just the manager.

http://www.deafgamers.com/directoroffootball.htm

CM 03/03 for me, I played earlier ones but this one really got me into the game with its database, gui, speed among other characteristics.

Any particular reason for leaving FM2005 out ?

I was expecting to see some classic football management games included in the poll to be honest, as you could pretty much roll all the one's listed into the same group.

Although I voted for FM09, some pre-CM/FM greats would for me be:

Football Manager (Spectrum original by Kevin Toms) The one that really started it all for me.

The Double - (C64) Took ages to play and process the results, but great if you had the patience.

Multi-Player Soccer Manager (Amiga) Simply because my mate would always get upset when players joined my team instead of his.

Football Director (Amstrad) Had this on a CPC464 and spent all Christmas looking for 9 out of 10 players to sign. Those of you who complain about injuries with FM09, think about the fact that you simply couldn't continue if you couldn't pick a 1st 11 in this game!!

There's lot's more that I've played over the years that I could add, but when the CM series first started and became the FM series after the split, nothing else was comparable for me.

Huh I had forgotten about some of these.

Original FM is the ultimate classic (guess there are only a few of us that remember that)

Multi PLayer Soccer Manager, now did enjoy that game until i lost the little dongle thing came with it so game wouldnt work.

Football Director - again a good game for the C64 but became boring after me and a mate accidently discovered the way to cheat while saving the game. Ever sell 1,000,000,000 shares and get a bank full of cash and then getting fired for selling too many.

Now these were hard games as if i remember rightly most of them you could only start in the 4th Division and work your way up.

Cheers for naming them mate, so bloody old now had forgot about them

Not ultimate at all without Sensible World of Soccer - ah the nostalgia ......

until I discovered CM. Of the options, FM09. SWOS ... sigh ....

The best for me was Champ Manager 96/97

I don't care about speed, so FM07. If I did, then I'd go for 01/02, probably.

This one, IMO. Took Cambridge United all the way up on this one...

01/02 Was my first game in the series and got me hooked. Was only 9 or 10 at the time. Remember playing on this old laptop. Good times.

If the simplicity yet realism of CM01/02 could be added to FM (ie. no press conferences or repetitive boring media interaction in general) aswel as adding the awards system from 01/02 then I would have voted for FM09.

Theres no doubt that there have been many great improvements from the CM series but the game is currently flirting with becoming a gimicky mess

17 people agree with me

Treble Champions for the Amiga anyone?

CM4

It was buggy but it was defining!

Also CM 00-01 as Bradford were in Europe

Not ultimate at all without Sensible World of Soccer - ah the nostalgia ......

Gotta agree with that, other than SWOS FM09 is the best ever I think.

CM4

It was buggy but it was defining!

Also CM 00-01 as Bradford were in Europe

what he said

Not ultimate at all without Sensible World of Soccer - ah the nostalgia ......

until I discovered CM. Of the options, FM09. SWOS ... sigh ....

I've got SWOS on my laptop.

Ah, that is one awesome game, for sure!

I still load it up and play sometimes!

C.