SlayerX Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Isn't Paul a Everton fan? I think two of them are. And apparently they dislike Alex Ferguson, as fergie gets sacked early on in every incarnation of CM/FM thus far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Thanks for releasing Championship Manager Norway back in the day! Didn't know until later that not every country got their own CM game (I believe it was only English, Italian and Norway on floppys!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montrosefc Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 You'll be able to see an interview with the 3 of us (rather than just me) in Shortlist magazine and online in a few weeks time.The 3 of us also did the press conference together when we announced FML. To answer other questions, no, I'm no relation to Stelios and the guy who did the original editor (Boah) is very much at SI (his real name is Svein). I used to use that editor myself to do the first data updates for the game back in 1995... I remember downloading 'miles files' many moons ago. Were they your creation? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael F Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Paul Collyer Ov Collyer Miles Jacobson Amazing what you can find by typing their names into google haha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suge Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 ^Really? I typed his name in google and I got this. I think google is playing up. (Sorry Miles) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackter Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 http://img139.imageshack.us/my.php?image=garethgatesmilesjacobsofj8.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
digsy11 Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 http://img139.imageshack.us/my.php?image=garethgatesmilesjacobsofj8.jpg Lmfao off off Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
digsy11 Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Paul Collyer Ov Collyer Miles Jacobson Amazing what you can find by typing their names into google haha Who is the prettiest though? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
beldar Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 What about Marc Vaughan, is he still leading the programming teams? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Staff Ov Collyer Posted October 23, 2008 SI Staff Share Posted October 23, 2008 What about Marc Vaughan, is he still leading the programming teams? We're certainly not going to win any beauty contests, though Ive managed to fool my wife well enough. Here's to a real-life FaceGen system! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roseboy64 Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Think I read somewhere that he's involved still. Not sure if it was the blogs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
port-ton Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 I didn't realise both of you were still involved. infact i was sure that you broke up the Partnership and one of you kept Championship Manager and the other went on to make Football Manager. Did i just completely imagine this? if so then who is responsible for CM and how did they get the rights to it if you're both working on FM? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Staff Ov Collyer Posted October 23, 2008 SI Staff Share Posted October 23, 2008 I didn't realise both of you were still involved. infact i was sure that you broke up the Partnership and one of you kept Championship Manager and the other went on to make Football Manager. Did i just completely imagine this?if so then who is responsible for CM and how did they get the rights to it if you're both working on FM? Yes, you must have imagined that, we have had nothing to do with CM since SI left Eidos. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Staff Ov Collyer Posted October 23, 2008 SI Staff Share Posted October 23, 2008 Ahh, on the ball... Back in mid '90 i was crazy about CM and On the ball, and i was always thinking those Collyer brothers will see OTB once and they'll implement OTB graphics in CM, but it never happend. 15 years later, i still think it would be great to have a background pictures of dressing room, training ground, and all other club screens in FM. We always found graphics "for the sake of it" a bit unnecessary to be honest. A lot of games around then (and now in fact) do this window-dressing. That said, I think FM has really come on in terms of presentation over the years. Probably around the time Paul and I realized we couldn't create graphics to save our lives and we really ought to get some help - now you have people like Ter who actually know what they are doing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
port-ton Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Yes, you must have imagined that, we have had nothing to do with CM since SI left Eidos. ah well, im glad you're both on board with FM anyway. I've spent years gutted at the apparent break up of the best partnership since sliced bread. I take it Eidos owned the rights to CM then? if so does that mean there is a danger of having to change name again if you ever leave Sega, or is it a different kind of deal with more power now you're responsible for some of the biggest selling PC games of all time? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bRAzIL Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 While you're all here, is there any chance I can have a job as a scout? Preferably somewhere hot and sunny Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geronimo Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 can i just say thank you many an enjoyable hour i have played on footie manager and plus you have probably saved my relationship in a round a bout way, after having children you gave me a bearable excuse to stay in and not go out with the lads, thus saving me no end of earache thank you Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
munich 1860 Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 How old are the Collyer's brothers now? :O Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmontheloknow Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 What about Marc Vaughan, is he still leading the programming teams? Apparently he's doing FM Handheld. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Aja Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 http://img139.imageshack.us/my.php?image=garethgatesmilesjacobsofj8.jpg Is Gareth Gates standing on a box there, or is M.J just really small?... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daley Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 ah well, im glad you're both on board with FM anyway. I've spent years gutted at the apparent break up of the best partnership since sliced bread.I take it Eidos owned the rights to CM then? if so does that mean there is a danger of having to change name again if you ever leave Sega, or is it a different kind of deal with more power now you're responsible for some of the biggest selling PC games of all time? I believe that eidos owned the rights to the name CM and SI the rights to the actual game code! That's why SI started the FM series (well bought the rights to the name as it had already been used and shelved). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Staff Ov Collyer Posted October 23, 2008 SI Staff Share Posted October 23, 2008 can i just say thank youmany an enjoyable hour i have played on footie manager and plus you have probably saved my relationship in a round a bout way, after having children you gave me a bearable excuse to stay in and not go out with the lads, thus saving me no end of earache thank you That makes a change - normally FM gets blamed for causing relationship problems, not solving them! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnlikelyStory Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 That makes a change - normally FM gets blamed for causing relationship problems, not solving them! A few years ago, FM ruined uni and relationships. Now I've graduated and working full time and in a good relationship and FM does keep me in, on my laptop, downstairs on the sofa with my fiancee as she watches telly. She even asks me how its going on the game too. AND when it comes to games on the 360 or PS3, she actually LIKES to WATCH me play them haha. I found a keeper! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chao Yang Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Chain her down mate, the sooner the better. Better yet, get HER addicted to it too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Staff Ov Collyer Posted October 23, 2008 SI Staff Share Posted October 23, 2008 A few years ago, FM ruined uni and relationships. Now I've graduated and working full time and in a good relationship and FM does keep me in, on my laptop, downstairs on the sofa with my fiancee as she watches telly. She even asks me how its going on the game too. AND when it comes to games on the 360 or PS3, she actually LIKES to WATCH me play them haha. I found a keeper! Excellent - so it's kind of evolved over time according to your circumstances. I like it. I hope it doesn't go full circle though and you forget your tenth anniversary because you have an important Cup Final Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LewisQ Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 A better question would be , when they first started cm, who was top of the charts , oh yeah and were flares in then? Excellent - so it's kind of evolved over time according to your circumstances. I like it.I hope it doesn't go full circle though and you forget your tenth anniversary because you have an important Cup Final To paraphrase Alan Partridge - "Which are the unimportant cup finals in FM? I've got to hear this..." Admittedly, destroying a ten-year relationship for the sake of a Hong Kong FA Cup final might be somewhat unfortunate. If you lose, anyway... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Staff Ov Collyer Posted October 23, 2008 SI Staff Share Posted October 23, 2008 In answer to dragosani's question about whether flares were "in" then. No, they weren't. We're talking the mid/late eighties when we first started this - so unfortunately, it would more likely be drainpipe jeans and dodgy perms back then. But hey, enough about my brother... (Just picture for a moment a youthful looking Paul Collyer, with a floppy fringe and a bass guitar, hunched over a computer in a darkened room muttering "We'll get these people addicted bruv - it might take 20 years, but we'll get there in the end, and then just to really mess with their heads, in 2008 we'll remove the tactical arrows" followed by evil cackling and the sound of the howling Shropshire wind) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMLS Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 How does Istanbul compare to God's county Ov? Which bit of it are you from? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamenaglar Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 In answer to dragosani's question about whether flares were "in" then.No, they weren't. We're talking the mid/late eighties when we first started this - so unfortunately, it would more likely be drainpipe jeans and dodgy perms back then. But hey, enough about my brother... (Just picture for a moment a youthful looking Paul Collyer, with a floppy fringe and a bass guitar, hunched over a computer in a darkened room muttering "We'll get these people addicted bruv - it might take 20 years, but we'll get there in the end, and then just to really mess with their heads, in 2008 we'll remove the tactical arrows" followed by evil cackling and the sound of the howling Shropshire wind) You guys are really evil! I wonder what will you do with fm2010. Ooooh, I'm so scared, I don't want even to imagine it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm1979 Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 What a brilliant thread to have the 2/3 main guys behind the whole series in here responding! I hav eplayed CM/FM ever since CM1 with fake players and remember thinking "this would be amazing with real players" The Collyers duly obliged and i've been addicted ever since. I will always remember one normally forgetful summer due to solid rain we couldn't go out to play footy, so we spent a whole 6 week school hol playing season after season of CM. I will never forget wasting £1m (a ton of money back then) on a "foreigner abroad" regen called Torben Schmeichel. I was a laughing stock with my mate when he pipped me to the title on the last game of the season, when i'd been top every single game until the very last :-( So thank you Paul, Ov and Miles (not forgetting the rest of the amazing team) you have given me many happy years and thousands of wasted hours playing a silly computer game thats completely amazing when things DO go right on the rare occasions I actually string together back-to-back wins (any chance of making the game just 1 notch easier back to FM05 days? - Worth asking I suppose lol) Cheers again guys - KUTGW! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingKenny Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 can i just say thank youmany an enjoyable hour i have played on footie manager and plus you have probably saved my relationship in a round a bout way, after having children you gave me a bearable excuse to stay in and not go out with the lads, thus saving me no end of earache thank you I use a few little tricks with my fiance that makes her feel involved, and leads to her asking me how the game is going. I once started a game as Coventry (her local club) and said I'll add her into the game with any job she wanted -she chose physio (I try not to think too hard about why she wanted that job) If we come back from somewhere we really like on holiday I'll start a game with the local club (e.g. Rimini). And she has banned me from ever selling Xabi Alonso because he "looks like such a nice boy"! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gersboy Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 I used to have a letter from Ov explaining how not to ruin my copy of Cm on the Amiga , as i kept forgetting to save my game and if you didn't you screwed up the disk, I think he felt sorry for my clear lack of any intelligence, and was rather kind to me sending me a replacment disk , after my rather shaky start with CM back in the day i have never missed a release, so you may say you are not so good at Pr Ov I however beg to differ . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Staff Miles Jacobson Posted October 23, 2008 SI Staff Share Posted October 23, 2008 I remember downloading 'miles files' many moons ago. Were they your creation? Yes - although they were only called that when Marc Duffy took over putting them live on his fan site for the games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FM BEAR Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 they also put themselves in cm93/94 to as players at Cambridge I remember Where did the names Ferrah Orosco and Mark Collis come from? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Staff Ter Posted October 23, 2008 SI Staff Share Posted October 23, 2008 Where did the names Ferrah Orosco and Mark Collis come from? They only appeared in the cracked version I believe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Johnston Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Nope, I remember them and I never had a cracked version. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Staff Ter Posted October 23, 2008 SI Staff Share Posted October 23, 2008 My apologies, that's what someone told me! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Johnston Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 It was a long time ago, but I definitely remember having arguments when playing the game about who got to sign them. If I remember correctly Ferrah Orosco was a right back, but I can't remember Mark Collis. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Johnston Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Just found this after a google search: Championship Manager '94: End of Season Edition is the sequel/expansion to CM 93/94. A popular "cracked" version of the game was available for the Amiga, that featured 2 fictional super-players called Mark Collis and Ferrah Orosco. But I definitely don't agree with it because as I said I never had a cracked version. I wouldn't even have known what cracked meant back then, so unless the cracked version was sold in a box at the shops (and I don't mean down the local car-boot sale) the players were also in the legitimate game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPompey Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Lmfao off off LOL Gatesy is bigger than Miles. Does Miles have a different smile? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Ritchie Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 I also had the End of Season Edition and it most definitely was not cracked. I remember downloading Miles' data updates from about 1996(?). Had no idea I'd find him thanking me for working all night on the game 12 years later Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
playmaker Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Just picture for a moment a youthful looking Paul Collyer, with a floppy fringe and a bass guitar, hunched over a computer in a darkened room muttering "We'll get these people addicted bruv - it might take 20 years, but we'll get there in the end, and then just to really mess with their heads, in 2008 we'll remove the tactical arrows" Well that's the intro to the next issue of The Bootroom written!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daley Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 In answer to dragosani's question about whether flares were "in" then.No, they weren't. We're talking the mid/late eighties when we first started this - so unfortunately, it would more likely be drainpipe jeans and dodgy perms back then. But hey, enough about my brother... (Just picture for a moment a youthful looking Paul Collyer, with a floppy fringe and a bass guitar, hunched over a computer in a darkened room muttering "We'll get these people addicted bruv - it might take 20 years, but we'll get there in the end, and then just to really mess with their heads, in 2008 we'll remove the tactical arrows" followed by evil cackling and the sound of the howling Shropshire wind) LOL! The comment about the arrows was brilliant, the debate going on in the 'An open and Honest letter to SI....' is very interesting and well worth a read. Good to see the guys that invented the game we all spend so much time on are still involved. By the way am I right in thinking that Sega actually bought SI (can't remember if I read that somewhere or not)? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eles Gergo Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Well that's the intro to the next issue of The Bootroom written!!! yeah can't wait for that also by the way it's so cool (man i never ever said or written this phrase down) that the original guys are still here Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markmilan Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Nice to hear from the starters of the series and good to know you are still working on FM. I got hooked on the Champ Man Italia version, great game........Van Basten was awesome on it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigy18181 Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Nice to hear from the starters of the series and good to know you are still working on FM.I got hooked on the Champ Man Italia version, great game........Van Basten was awesome on it. that was a cracking version, lentini was awesome also when he finally came back from his mega injury layoff lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Staff Ter Posted October 23, 2008 SI Staff Share Posted October 23, 2008 Cantona was a monster in CM Italia. I got him to score more than 100 goals in a season for my Milan side Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigy18181 Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Cantona was a monster in CM Italia. I got him to score more than 100 goals in a season for my Milan side that is impressive, I mentioned a few weeks ago about this version I had Brian Laudrup get about 130-150 assist's a season for milan. They were awesome back then. Brings back memories Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompeyboyz Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Ah CM Italia was the first one that really had a cheat tactic if I remember rightly. a 1-4-5 that meant you won each game about 9-0 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm1979 Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Lol "Lentini has multiple injuries". Seem to remember he'd been in a car crash not long after his world record transfer from Torino(?) to Milan IIRC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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