One for the older folk on here. Anyone liked playing football manager games on the spectrum/C64 in the 80s?? Just found out that one of the classics from back then is available as an app for phones - Football manager which was one of the first management games ever.

I remember having it on the C64 and mates having it on the spectrum. Graphics are stick men and the gameplay is so simple its nothing like now. Might have to get a copy though and relive some memories. Available on apple and android phones. Costs a fiver.

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Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshipping.

Hubert Reeves

I prefer to player the old Champ Managers 93-94 great times.

Here is a link to them [Link]

These work on Win 10 (emu is included and pre setup)

Edited by grumpymort (30 Aug 2021 4.28pm)

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Football Director was brilliant spent a whole some getting Palace to the 1st division and Europe. Had to save the game at the end of the every season and every time you won more then two games on the trot it would automatically go up a difficulty level. In the days if seriously limited memory Barinski was the player who always scored against us in European matches.

One supporter of hacking argued that without it "you will do away with the courage and pluck of the game, and I will be bound to bring over a lot of Frenchmen who would beat you with a week's practice -Blackheath secretary at first meeting of the F.A

I bet Mr Parish used to play it.

Red and Blue Army!

I seem to remember our kit on the cover - the Sash. Could be wrong.
Emylin Hughes' Soccer was great on the C64.

Red and Blue Army!

I had a football management game for my Amiga 500. Can't remember the exact name of it but there were no real teams or player names. It was all Tom Smith, Harry Jones, Neville Brooks playing for London Rovers etc. Real generic and simple English names.

I much preferred the football 'sim' games - Sensible Soccer is the classic one. If you took the KO really quickly you could run in a straight line to the goal and score before the centre-backs could close the gap. Benfica were the best team in it from what I can remember.

I had another one on the Amiga called Goal, where the players were a bit bigger on the screen.

The major step up came when I got FIFA International for my birthday. It had commentary, and my mum and dad paid £100 to get an additional 100mb of RAM for our computer (from Allders in Croydon - they had a pretty cool computer department on the top floor where you could play some games) so that I could play it with commentary on. As that was the minimum RAM requirement the commentary still didn't play properly - it couldn't keep up with the game. I never told my parents that as I knew they'd spent a small fortune on the upgrade and didn't want them to feel bad.

I peaked at football games in FIFA '99, I made my own team, put myself in the game and played right-back - had Oliver Bierhoff, Michael Owen and George Weah up front and all other other best players in the game. That team is probably still sat on a PlayStation memory card in a landfill site somewhere in the world.

Edited by Frickin Saweet (01 Sep 2021 12.06pm)