Mark Heath Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Mine started in 1984 with Football Manager on the BBC Micro:[video=youtube;5nHCx2CimoY] That was my first experience too, also on BBC, although we didn't have colour - just a green on black screen. You could always tell how likely your player was to score by which one it was. The player closest to the bottom of the screen was most likely to get it on target, the one in the middle occasionally scored, and the one at the top only once in a blue moon. I bought just about every football management game going for the BBC (including one called soccer boss which I found impossibly hard), but the first truly great manager game I played was tracksuit manager. [video=youtube;k2Gur2TnMds] When I moved to the PC I stuck with the dreadful Premier Manager series setting burger prices and picking advertising hoardings for far too long before I saw the light and moved over to Championship Manager (having resisted because the early editions didn't feature stadium expansions) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bootador Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Championship Manager 93 in terms of this series In terms football management games, it would have been World Soccer League on the C64 (1989 perhaps?) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 The Manager (Amiga 500) CM1 (Amiga 500) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackter Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 'Please wait while the league table is calculated'? Jeez I could have done it quicker myself. And why do I have Kevin Keegan and Cyrille Regis as Arsenal? IIRC there's only 25 players in the database Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Perfect-Fm'er! Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 1998. But then regularly from 2003 onwards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nellie Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 I started on the BBC micro too with one of those programs that you typed out from a magazine! Took me days to type it all in and about another week to work out the bugs and I tinkered with it behind the scenes once i got it working. Can't remember exactly which version of CM I started with, but I certainly remember Michael Owen as a hot prospect 16 year old and John Barnes being a good few years off retiring in the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cynet Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 1986 Kevin Tom's Football Manager Commodore 64, great game Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcturus15 Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Think I got CM3 a few years later, then followed by CM4. Then had CM 2006 and FM 2005 before sticking with the Football Manager series. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBKalle Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 The Manager (Amiga 500) The Manager was awesome! I remember playing it for hours at a friend's place... I still have the PC version somewhere, but I have never had a successful career with it... It was insanely hard; always getting my ass kicked in the second season after getting promoted easily in the first one... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike7077 Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 I too had the 1984 version! This thread brings back some memories. I was a tiny little boy when I played that. We had a BBC Micro, but it was about 1989/90. I loved that game. Even my mum played it. She could never play the modern FM! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonno11 Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 a mate leant me a copy of cm 3 and showed me how to play it and then i went and bought cm 99/00 and havent looked back since, i think i will have a copy of fm with me when i die Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affo Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Started with the original Football Manager back in 1984, then moved onto the Double, Football Director and Tracksuit Manager before eventually starting with the first CM on the Amiga and every one ever since. Are you my double? That's pretty much my story,though I dabbled with Premier Manager early doors, but CM/FM always conquered. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel16 Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 ps2 CM 2005 (i had no idea what i was doing) PC FM08. had no idea CM went so far back lol. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Staff Ter Posted September 2, 2011 SI Staff Share Posted September 2, 2011 One of the first ones I remember playing was Soccer Boss on my Spectrum. I played loads of different ones though. Most of which I can't remember their names. Then it was Premier Manager on the Amiga until I discovered Championship Manager 93/94. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S2008 Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 FM 2008 :o Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nellie Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 better late than never Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaberdeenn Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 I played most of the versions from CM2 through to CM4 casually until I eventually bought FM07. Had every version since then though and put plenty of hours into every one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcmac Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 I think it was Premier Manager 3 (still have great memories of the Shaymen, Halifax Town) on the PC when I was 11 or 12, then maybe On The Ball and Ultimate Soccer Manager before finding CM2, surviving CM3 and onto the Football Manager series. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Welsh Lad Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Mine start CM in 94 only spanish, dutch and italy league I think the wonder years I called it R. Madrid, Hierro, Redondo, Zamorano, Laudrup but the best for me by miles was a youngster at the R. Madrid B team (back in the times where you could manage a B team) was Carlos Alejandro Sierra Fumero aka Sandro. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdaem0n Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 I started with FIFA Manager 2008, but once FM went 3D (I just couldn't trully enjoy the game with those floating circles) I switched to it and became an instant fan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FootballSuperFan Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 About 8 months ago, I was bored out of my mind, and decided to download the game because of the review on bit-tech, just to entertain myself for a week while I was going to be offline. Ended up playing it all the time, and barely play anything else anymore. Oh and never watched a single game irl before either, so hurray newbiness. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee50_11 Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 FM 2005 on the PC but before that there was one on the original XBOX where you could play background music while playing can't remember what one that was though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
man_utd_fan Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 CM 01/02 on the Xbox. After that i started playing Football Manager 2007. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadijk van Kaarhandel Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 ZX Spectrum: Football Manager, The Boss, Football Director, Twevah Bwooking's Something or Other, Tracksuit Manager Amiga: Premier Manager PC: Ultimate Soccer Manager, Championship Manager, Football Manager EDIT: Oh, how could i forget - "THE DOUBLE" on the Speccy - that was great that was. And before all these, played a game with paper, pen and a dice where you drew out a cup competition and rolled the dice - a six was a 'nil' and the rest were just what they were. You could also play cricket with the batsmen getting runs to whatever was rolled with five being Out. You kids don't know yer born. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorgen Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 I think it was Championship manager 2: 97/98, where my brother and I played several seasons as Barcelona and Real Madrid. Ultimate fun! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadijk van Kaarhandel Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Anybody have Brian Clough's Football Fortunes? Was a PC/Board Game hybrid. You built up your team through monopoly-style events then fed in your GK,Def,Mid and Att totals and let yer Speccy figure out the scores. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Staff Ter Posted September 3, 2011 SI Staff Share Posted September 3, 2011 I think it was Premier Manager 3 (still have great memories of the Shaymen, Halifax Town) on the PC when I was 11 or 12, then maybe On The Ball and Ultimate Soccer Manager before finding CM2, surviving CM3 and onto the Football Manager series. Yeah, special mentions to Ultimate Soccer Manager and On The Ball. I think I particularly enjoyed OTB World Cup Edition. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dking Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Champ manager was around 1990 for me on my mates computer but I started getting into management games way before then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bootador Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 What's quite depressing about this thread is that back in the day there used to be loads of the football management games (too many to name for sure), and now there's practically nothing other than FM. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladbroke Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 I remember playing a game where you literally could manage anywhere around the world. I can not remember the title of it. I think this was about 10-15 years ago. I think my first game was Premier Manager on the Mega Drive, and exploiting a cheat I (and probably many others) found. I remember using the telephone icon and going to the scout person and buying players for like £100,000 and then immediately selling them for £500,000. If you had about 4-5 players in their at a time, buy them all and sell them for a very good profit. Sometimes you can lose money or not make anything, but was rare. In Division 3 (League 2 these days) I remember having a 80,000 all seater top of the range stadium with decent players at my team cause of it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumchin Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 i started doing it by mail,cant remember the name of the company but it were based in kilmarnock.won loads with st etienne(early 90s).then upgraded to champs......aint looked back since Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweep17 Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Probably Soccer Boss on the Amstrad, also Tracksuit Manager and a few others that I can't remember the names of now. I've only played Championship Manager/Football Manager since the perfection that was Championship Manager 3 arrived though:D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raware Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekplay.cgi?title=Football+Manager&pub=Addictive+Games+Ltd&year=1982&id=0001823&game=/games/f/FootballManager.tzx.zip&emu=3&aspect=3T hat's where I started. This is where I started too except I started when I was around 6/7 years old so around 1986/87. My older brother had a Spectrum but left home in '86 to go in to the RAF so I had his Spectrum and with that came Football Manager. From then on I've always looked for Football games from Kick-off to Sensible Soccer or SWOS. As for FM/CM, I've been playing since it first came out, around '92/'93 I think. CM Italia is still probably one of my favourite versions of the game. Ravanelli, Baggio and Del Piero up front for Juventus...what a strike force! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 This on the Amiga in 1992... [video=youtube;2m7jZj7Lq-Q] Managing Wycombe Wanderers. You had a kit wheel for copy protection, something I think is missing from FM11! Then I quickly moved onto Championship Manager and played SI's games from that point on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 That kit wheel brings back great memories Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 I reckon I still might have mine in the attic somewhere. As a kid I thought it was quite cool, although it is probably the least effective copy protection you could have! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Rowell Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 The original Football Manager on the ZX Spectrum, about 1983. Also played Champions but that was a pale imitation. Abandoned my Speccy in about 1989 and had a "career respite" until about 1996, when I discovered Championship Manager and have played ever since. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_G_32201 Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 i dont remember the name of it was a blue disk, maybe in 98. Had things like stadium editor, hot dog and merchandise stands, boardrooms and training categorys like 5-a-side, weights ect... Anyone know the name of this one? EDIT: found it, ultimate soccer manager 98 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heathxxx Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Football Manager on the Spectrum and Commodore (I had both for some strange reason). Then I had Soccer Boss and Football Director on the Amstrad (which I also owned for even stranger reasons). The Double was one I always liked, though it took an eternity to play, because of loading times between matches. Ones that stick in my mind though, in no particular order, up until (and including) the "discovery" of Championship Manager... Premier Manager 1 & 2 On The Ball (League & WC editions) Multiplayer Soccer Manager Football Masters & Professional Football Masters Tracksuit Manager Ultimate Soccer Manager Sensible World of Soccer Up until the SI/Eidos split, I probably played every football management game there was. After that and SI's Football Manager, I've not felt the inclination to try anything else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackter Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 People who forget USM98 should be banned imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_G_32201 Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 People who forget USM98 should be banned imo. Agreed, Love that game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
onecockygeezer Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 kevin keegans player manager on the snes! loved that game! moved onto cm series in 97/98. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Shanahan Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Anybody have Brian Clough's Football Fortunes? Was a PC/Board Game hybrid. You built up your team through monopoly-style events then fed in your GK,Def,Mid and Att totals and let yer Speccy figure out the scores. That looks interesting actually, maybe SI could do a remake. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Abbondando Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 LMA Manager for PS2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Themer Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Ultimate Soccer Manager 98. Use to always play as a lowly Scottish third division side (so I couldn't get relegated), get rid of nearly all the players and bring in the best youths (who were in fact alot worse than those I'd just got rid off). Continously play with them for a few years and within 5 or 6 years you could have the one of the best sides in the world. Awesome game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimHardy Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Shortly after its release, CM01/02 came free with a new computer my family had purchased. I was about six at the time. It was just a loose disk, no instructions nor a box (very odd looking back!). Thus, I had little-to-no idea what I was doing when I first played on that now legendary game. My over-riding memory is the fact it took me two weeks of playtime to work out how to attempt to purchase players! I played the game for years, though. I believe I played it solidly right through to FM05, which is incredible looking back. Miss the early days of my football management career very much! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
I<3AFC Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Cm06 on PSP then all the Fm's since on PC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMtillidie Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 CM00/01 LMA2001 on ps2 i bought around the same time Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 The Manager was awesome! I remember playing it for hours at a friend's place... I still have the PC version somewhere, but I have never had a successful career with it... It was insanely hard; always getting my ass kicked in the second season after getting promoted easily in the first one... I still have the original Amiga game with box and manual! oh memories Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBKalle Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 I still have the original Amiga game with box and manual! oh memories Was there a Norwegian version or what? I played the Italian one (an extremely rough port I might add, filled with typos and awkwardly translated bits) but the original was German, and I'm pretty sure there was the English version too... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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