Kids Nowadays - Don't know yer born

When I were a lad this is what we had. 1982, my first Football Manager game. Been playing the genre ever since, but next time you think you'll have a mope and a moan about what you've got today you'd do well to remember what the kids of the 80s had to play with

Check out the 3-D animation. Have a look at the Youtube link below just to see how lucky you are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A13M4_If_4I

ha ha mate that is bloody classic, quality

Haha, now that is retro.

You make a good point and I agree. We're spoiled these days yet we still bloody moan about what we have

In the 80's I didn't expect 3D game play to be that good. But now in 2008 I do expect it to be decent.

Oh Deltaroad, deary deary me, you're sooooo hard done by

:D:D

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omg!!! memorys i used to have football manager 2 for my amstrad cpc 464!! and i loved it, infact when i first tried the fm demo and 3d match it made me laugh coz memeorys of football manager 2 came flooding back.

Before this you know how me and my mates played football sims?

We wrote team names on a piece of paper - usually started with 32 Cup Ties - and used a dice to simulate the scores. The 6 was a "Nil". We played a knock-out competition to find a winner. Then started all over again. If you were feeling adventurous you'd make a Champions League type affair.

Pen, paper, dice. Marvellous times.

Before this you know how me and my mates played football sims?

We wrote team names on a piece of paper - usually started with 32 Cup Ties - and used a dice to simulate the scores. The 6 was a "Nil". We played a knock-out competition to find a winner. Then started all over again. If you were feeling adventurous you'd make a Champions League type affair.

Pen, paper, dice. Marvellous times.

I've also done something similiar to this.

You could do cricket too!

Write out the line-ups, the 5 was "Out", the rest of the numbers were "Runs". Used to have some brilliant competitions with my trusty dice.

Then the ZX Spectrum came along and we all went space-age.

And do you still give a piece of coal and an orange for Christmas?

i do appreciate that we expect alot these days but its called progress. at the time you player the game in basic that would have been revolutionary and you would have enjoyed it that way. its only looking back that it looks rubbish. when FM2100 comes out and its all virtual etc then people may look back to now and say its rubbish. its not about expecting or deserving anything its about what is possible. if players know that 3D is possible then why cant we expect it to meet our expectations (seeing as our expectations come from what we have seen elsewhere, so therefore are possible.

im not having a moan honest i enjoy Fm and buy it every year, and after a patch or two it is easily the best game available on any platform.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A13M4_If_4I

I see they fixed the bug where "GOAL!!!!" flashes before the ball crosses the line....

Before this you know how me and my mates played football sims?

We wrote team names on a piece of paper - usually started with 32 Cup Ties - and used a dice to simulate the scores. The 6 was a "Nil". We played a knock-out competition to find a winner. Then started all over again. If you were feeling adventurous you'd make a Champions League type affair.

Pen, paper, dice. Marvellous times.

Yeah we used to do stuff like that at school when we were bored.

What we would do, is right out the line-ups of 2 teams, in that time it was usually Real Madrid and Man Utd, and then the performance of every player was decided by a dice. Then we would compare the results of the performances of players that play against each other. For example the left back against the right winger (R Carlos vs Beckham) or the striker against the GK (Raul vs Smeichel), the team that won the most duels won the match.

Then again WE already had CM in those times, but you can't play that at school during a history lesson now can you.

thats classic great point

omg cadijk bring back so many memories,we also played the footie dice game.Remember once we couldn't find a dice..shock horror..so we used a 2 pence piece and home teams where heads away teams tails...lol..

Man, I had that on C64... the graphics were slighly better(the stick players had proper(red and blue) shirt colours, white shorts, and skin colour, with a black blob of hair on top 'is head) and the screen was black with grey text.

Does anyone remember these adventure books that came with a dice and some other stuff, and you went to different pages depending on how your team 'performed'. I had some football one and a Famous Five one but i think they're long gone now:(

Actually that looks ok. The thing is, and it's a problem with all modern games, the more real it looks the more the flaws stand out.

Our mind used to fill in the blanks. Whereas now it's on display.

I guarantee if you switch from the 3D engine to the text only, half the problems with the match engine disappear. Because what was a guilt edge chance or a terrible bit of decision making, or a huge dwell on the ball, instantly vanish when your mind is inventing it.

Phong-shaded normal-mapped bloomed realism isn't a patch on the realism in Chuckie Egg.

Before this you know how me and my mates played football sims?

We wrote team names on a piece of paper - usually started with 32 Cup Ties - and used a dice to simulate the scores. The 6 was a "Nil". We played a knock-out competition to find a winner. Then started all over again. If you were feeling adventurous you'd make a Champions League type affair.

Pen, paper, dice. Marvellous times.

I used to do this with those 'league ladders' you'd get for free in Shoot Magazine hehe

I used to do those play by mail games you'd find in the back of match, £2 a fortnight or whatever it was! Then they'd send you a printout on how your team did etc.

ridiculous logic, times have change and with it so have standards, if your attitude was normal there would be no such thing as progress.

ridiculous thread.

I had that game, it was awesome, way ahead of its time.

I think that looks awesome, well except for that horrific green colour!

I used to do this with those 'league ladders' you'd get for free in Shoot Magazine hehe

They were great he he

ridiculous logic, times have change and with it so have standards, if your attitude was normal there would be no such thing as progress.

ridiculous thread.

You may not have noticed but you're the odd man out, the thread is light hearted and very amusing, I'm confident the OP had tongue firmly in cheek, which makes you look like one very miserable person:)

LOL that is classic. To bad the kids expectations now aren't what your was then

Whats the difference between an Expert, a Super Expert and a Genius?

Written all in basic, too.

ridiculous logic, times have change and with it so have standards, if your attitude was normal there would be no such thing as progress.

ridiculous thread.

And the winner of the grumpiest old man award goes to...

Beep. Beep. Beep.

FART.

I'm paying £30 of my hard-earned money - I expect it to be sufficient enough, and I think you'll find you might be patronising people on here by calling them "kids"? Do one. Muppet :/

And the winner of the grumpiest old man award goes to...

Oi!, I'm more than twice as old as him, he doesn't even qualify:D

Yes we're lucky doesn't mean we can't be luckier I won't lower my expectations in 21st cnt.

I'm paying £30 of my hard-earned money - I expect it to be sufficient enough, and I think you'll find you might be patronising people on here by calling them kids? Do one. Muppet :/

Don't young people do jokes anymore:confused: you seriously need to get a life son:D

Don't young people do jokes anymore:confused: you seriously need to get a life son:D

I have one that i'm happy with. Can you say the same? Clearly not if that's the best you can come up with.

Before this you know how me and my mates played football sims?

We wrote team names on a piece of paper - usually started with 32 Cup Ties - and used a dice to simulate the scores. The 6 was a "Nil". We played a knock-out competition to find a winner. Then started all over again. If you were feeling adventurous you'd make a Champions League type affair.

Pen, paper, dice. Marvellous times.

Have done this before. Used to have great fun

grandpa alert!

haha awesome...we are spoilt...But imagine in another 20 years...The mind boggles...

I have one that i'm happy with. Can you say the same? Clearly not if that's the best you can come up with.

Certainly I can and I've been using it a lot longer than you, that's probably why I recognise a tongue in cheek thread when I see one.

Anybody taking the OP seriously needs a reality check.

good point mate but like you say that was 20 years ago if we have't moved on much since then sumots up

lol not too much change then

damn funny thread. made even funnier by people like rpashfc.

In the 80's I didn't expect 3D game play to be that good. But now in 2008 I do expect it to be decent.

Which '09 is by any standard. The game is never gonna be about 3D graphics, we're a long way from that.

damn funny thread. made even funnier by people like rpashfc.

Take a bow son

Looks like they had a major closing down problem back then. They just tried to form a wall

When I were a lad this is what we had. 1982, my first Football Manager game. Been playing the genre ever since, but next time you think you'll have a mope and a moan about what you've got today you'd do well to remember what the kids of the 80s had to play with

Check out the 3-D animation. Have a look at the Youtube link below just to see how lucky you are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A13M4_If_4I

Haha, check out the dude doing his teapot impression on the goal line! Is that Fashanu? (can i say that?!!?)

This is pathetic I can't see how anyone put up with that, I wouldn't even bother if I lived back then. Would probably end up with my current two hours spent on the computer playing actual football instead of sitting in the chair. Probably be a much better footballer too.

Great thread.

This wasn't a management game but i remember playing it on my mate's Vectrex. Vectrex

I had an Atari and used to play this, it was an original Atari as well not the 2600.

I showed these to my 7 year old son and he looked at me like I was from another planet, then laughed as though I was joking. Kids of today don't know how good they have it.

This is pathetic I can't see how anyone put up with that, I wouldn't even bother if I lived back then. Would probably end up with my current two hours spent on the computer playing actual football instead of sitting in the chair. Probably be a much better footballer too.

You should really check it out - it's still one of the more enjoyable football management games.