Zx Spectrum Football Management
Hi,
Has anyone played any football manager games from World Of Spectrum?
What ones have you played and what do you think of them?
I'm still playing Footmall Manager - nothing better than a simple non over inflated management game :)
Has anyone played any football manager games from World Of Spectrum?
What ones have you played and what do you think of them?
I'm still playing Footmall Manager - nothing better than a simple non over inflated management game :)
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I'm down with that. I'd also recommend Kenny Daglish as it also has highlights.
Does anyone know of any other games which feature highlights.
Tracksuit Manager was good if you like verbose descriptions of the action - but personally I preferred the action shots of Football Manager!
Virgin's FA Cup and Brian Clough's Football fortunes were good fun for multiplayer.
I keep trying other footy manager games , but always come back to the boss .
If you want an almost impossible task, try
league Challenge by Atlantis (it has highlights)
Its difficult.
Football manager world cup was crud and FM3? Well. How do you go
So far down hill from FM2
Anyone getting K.Toms new one?
Match of the Day had hilights. It also had Jimmy Hill.
Football Manager
Tracksuit Manager
The Double
Football Director
Football Director II
On the Bench
Football Champions
Yep i agree, i don't think i ever won a match in that one!
The ones i like are Soccer Boss, On The Bench, Kenny Dalglish and Tracksuit Manager.
Dundee's European Challenge does, the game itself is a bit thin on the ground tho
I preferred the more sedate, text heavy ones...I found the more fancy the game tried to be the less engaging it was.
Started with The Boss which I believe was originally a 1984 release, I personally played Soccer Boss which was a re-release and had extra features.
Then went on to On The Bench by Cult Games who specialised in these kind of games. It had better gaming mechanics but did lack the charm of Soccer Boss which had a weekly update that was, albeit pre-determined, more of a random challenge as the weeks went by.
People will ALWAYS remember no7 breaking a leg after the first game SCOOBY BREAKS A LEG! so I would put an inferior player in his palce for the first game.
I have always wondered exactly how much of the input players put in made a difference on results and how much was randomised.
thing is 8 bit wise, that was "end of days" for 8 bit. A friend at the time did the c64 version, was dragged away from system 3 (he was doing fuzzball) to do it , or prism were gonna sue for breach of contract. so prism were trying to make some money from the license they bought off Kevin I guess.
the guy who did make the c64 one, can't see his heart was in it as it wasn't even an action game.. just paid the bills.
2 of my friends who played these sims a lot also stated tracksuit manager / double were the best of em.
but there were loads of budget ones by cult etc ? so there must have been a market for the games, that simple :)
That's the part of Soccer Boss i hated, you would end up with your star striker being sold and your performance would sometimes suffer as a result. Still, it was a pretty good football management game.
One of the features of Football Director was "Gate Receipts"!
League Challenge was always one of my favourites, but as you say, it was very hard. I managed to get promotions with a lot of effort but never managed to get to the top flight.
can't remember which one it was but:
"injuries!"
yep, can't wait...
I don't think i ever managed to win a single match, i might have got a draw but that was it!
It's too hard to get anywhere.
The funny thing is, most of these games were written by the same people!
Tea profit: ?74
:lol:
Just bought them today for ?7.
Doesn't sound very good. It doesn't have the words Advanced or Professional in the title!