Football Manager
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The football management game style has been one of the most enduring since Kevin Toms pioneered it in 1982. You start in the 4th division with the team of your choice, and can play on indefinitely in the hope of reaching the top division and dominating it, as well as winning the cups. Players can be bought or sold, with their transfer values varying according to the size of any bid. Their skills and morale vary as the season goes on, with resting key players in easy matches often a key move. You can take out a loan, limited depending on your division, while day-to-day bills must be covered. Matches feature short animated highlights sequences of key moments (Text only for C16).
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| Copyright 1982 |
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Average score: 76% (based on 16 ratings)
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Trivia
Speech
The Amiga version used the inbuilt speech system to read out the division's results, similarly to the BBC's Final Score rundown. No effort was seemingly made to pronounce the names correctly, and the robotic American-sounding inbuilt voice was used, making for some laughably inaccurate pronounciations - Torquay becomes 'Tour-quaye' rather than 'Tour-kee' for example.
Awards
- Retro Gamer
- September 2004 (Issue #8) – #59 Best Game Of All Time (Readers' Vote)* Zzap!
- May 1985 (Issue 1) - #28 'It's the Zzap! 64 Top 64!'
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Football Manager PC Remake
Freeware fan made remake for Windows 95-2000. -
Wikipedia - Football Manager Series
free Encyclopedia entry -
World of Spectrum
downloadable releases (ZX Spectrum); additional material; remakes links; player reviews; magazine references; magazine adverts
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- MobyGames ID: 18587
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Game added by Martin Smith.
Oric, ZX81, Commodore 16, Plus/4, BBC Micro, ZX80, VIC-20, Dragon 32/64, Atari 8-bit, TRS-80, Electron added by Kabushi. MSX added by koffiepad.
Additional contributors: Kabushi, Patrick Bregger, FatherJack, ZeTomes.
Game added August 2nd, 2005. Last modified October 9th, 2023.