smileylad Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Ha ha! I remember this game! (Yes, I'm that old) You could sign Keegan and Shilton in division 3, get promoted and win the FA cup!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadijk van Kaarhandel Posted November 7, 2008 Author Share Posted November 7, 2008 Ha ha! I remember this game! (Yes, I'm that old) You could sign Keegan and Shilton in division 3, get promoted and win the FA cup!! Division 4 it was! No matter which team you chose to be you always started in Division 4, and you always started with the England squad. Mick Mills, Kevin Keegan, Russell Osman, Gordon Cowans, Trevor Morley, Glenn Hoddle, etc etc etc. And the player rating systems was simply 1 to 5. That was as in-depth as it got. A “1 star” player was valued at £5k, a “5 star” at £25k. None of these fancy-dan ratings. Consistency? Pah! Determination? Pffffft! Footedness Bugs? Pharumph! A simple game for simple people. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotku Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 That takes me back. I lost hours of my youth on that game. Classic!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceFujitsu Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Man, I had that on C64... the graphics were slighly better(the stick players had proper(red and blue) shirt colours, white shorts, and skin colour, with a black blob of hair on top 'is head) and the screen was black with grey text. Man i had this version as well. Was actually a really good game back in the day the only down side being that it took 30 mins to actually load it up and half the time it would just freeze on you half way through. Damn tapes... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tottenham2k7 Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Ha great thread and yeah when you see things like that you do just realise how lucky we are! Let others take note from the tonnes of threads on the main page! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
homerjnick Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Me as a spotty teenager playing Footballer of the Year or Football Manager on my C64 were the best days ever.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zyonig Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Yes, I used to play a footie management game back in the 80's on my Spectrum Zx. One league of ten teams. no player names, you entered your own if you wanted, no colour just black and white. I thought it was brilliant. Can't remember the name though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopper99 Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Take a bow son Why? Are you challenging him to a Robin Hood type duel? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatwal Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 you can get a history of all football management games here:- http://www.cmfrenzy.com/football_manager_2007/fm_2007_guides/25_years_of_football_management_games_part_1.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriss Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 you can get a history of all football management games here:-http://www.cmfrenzy.com/football_manager_2007/fm_2007_guides/25_years_of_football_management_games_part_1.html Go to a site called Abandonia and you can d/l most of them for free, they also have the Dosbox so you can play them on a modern PC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
YesYesOhYay Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 old skool! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highor Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Without moaning you wouldn't get a great game as FM09, criticism is good!, if the criticism is right ofc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatwal Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 agree there is always room for improvement I remember cm9798 i would if that is available for download if so then cm01/02 will be in just 4 years time Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Fairbairn Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Man i had this version as well. Was actually a really good game back in the day the only down side being that it took 30 mins to actually load it up and half the time it would just freeze on you half way through.Damn tapes... That's just 'cause you never adjusted your tape reading heads enough. There was a little hole on the top of the datasette that you had to use one of 'em little thin screwdrivers to turn this little screw with. If you never did that, as well as clean the deck, every couple of months I don't see how you got anything to load, man. You'd be royally screwed on something like Double Dragon or Turtles that had MULTI-LOAD ACTION! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GillsMan Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 The OP needs Hall of Fame immediately!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegr8anand Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Wow. You gotta be kidding me. This is just awesome. Never thought it would be this old. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandon Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A13M4_If_4I is it me or does this graphic look suspisciously like the NEW 3D match engine?!! which begs the question, if they could do a reasonable job of one in 1982, why are they struggling in 2008? lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sad Git Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 At least I can always go back and play this if the new 3d engine doesn't work on my graphics card. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevereay Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 1982 WTF!!!! Was it really 1982? I feel so old now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPlanet Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Had it too The transfers were the best, each week you get a message saying "would you like to buy <name>?" and if you did you had to swap out one of your existing players. I'm sure I remember it having cheering in the background that went higher pitched if you scored. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordy Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Doesn't look that different to FM09's 3D, good find Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
reforse Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 I got as much enjoyment out of the original FM as I have out of any of the others. The computer is just an interface between the data processing and your imagination. PS. The first game I ever played at home was George & the Dragon on the ZX81, you had to type the bloody code in every day, not load it from a cassette or disc, then you got to move the letter "G" around a maze of black blocks whilst being chased by a letter "D". Fantastic stuff. We should lock some of the posters here in a room for a year with a ZX Spectrum and games, some tap water, spam, angel delight, wispas and some vesta curry ready meals. Show them what the late seventies early eighties was really about. We could give them 10p a week pocket money as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter-evo Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Im young and this thread is really refreshing, this must have been brilliant at the time, oh how I hate my youth That seriously is quite brilliant Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affo Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Thanks guys for a very entertaining and refreshing read. From a smiling 36 yo reminiscing of those glory days, might just have to download some of those old games. Cracking thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GillsMan Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Thanks guys for a very entertaining and refreshing read.From a smiling 36 yo reminiscing of those glory days, might just have to download some of those old games. Cracking thread. DON'T!!! I got hold of loads of old games not so long ago, such as James Pond II: Robocod; Dizzy; Pyjamarama; Miner; Spy Hunter; Jet Set Willy, This Ghostbusters Game and others and, well, nostalgia is often better than reality. You'll only be disappointed/bored by the games. Keep them as memories in your head, my friend. It's better that way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexx Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 hey was this wen u were a child growing up in 1920s. were u evacuated??xx Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sad Git Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Jet Set Willy is the greatest game ever. Apart from the bug that stopped you from finishing it. (Was this the first game ever to receive a patch?) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
solstar Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Lol......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neji Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 DON'T!!! I got hold of loads of old games not so long ago, such as James Pond II: Robocod; Dizzy; Pyjamarama; Miner; Spy Hunter; Jet Set Willy, This Ghostbusters Game and others and, well, nostalgia is often better than reality. You'll only be disappointed/bored by the games. Keep them as memories in your head, my friend. It's better that way. James Pond is awesome! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigBwfc Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 DON'T!!! I got hold of loads of old games not so long ago, such as James Pond II: Robocod; Dizzy; Pyjamarama; Miner; Spy Hunter; Jet Set Willy, This Ghostbusters Game and others and, well, nostalgia is often better than reality. You'll only be disappointed/bored by the games. Keep them as memories in your head, my friend. It's better that way. LOL James Pond II: Robocod has to be the funniest game name i've ever seen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackter Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 DON'T!!! I got hold of loads of old games not so long ago, such as James Pond II: Robocod; Dizzy; Pyjamarama; Miner; Spy Hunter; Jet Set Willy, This Ghostbusters Game and others and, well, nostalgia is often better than reality. You'll only be disappointed/bored by the games. Keep them as memories in your head, my friend. It's better that way. I massively disagree - those games are mostly as awesome now as they always were. Especially james Pond. Get yerself Earthworm Jim too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klimowicz Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 i thought the OPs picture was a ****take of the 3d view on fm09 using Paint! i was 1 years old when that came out ffs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taras_Shevchenko Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 We - the older ones - had really luck to be able to live the whole period of game developing. We could even organize an evening with friends without mobile phones around.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clovis_kanda87 Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Division 4 it was!No matter which team you chose to be you always started in Division 4, and you always started with the England squad. Mick Mills, Kevin Keegan, Russell Osman, Gordon Cowans, Trevor Morley, Glenn Hoddle, etc etc etc. And the player rating systems was simply 1 to 5. That was as in-depth as it got. A “1 star” player was valued at £5k, a “5 star” at £25k. None of these fancy-dan ratings. Consistency? Pah! Determination? Pffffft! Footedness Bugs? Pharumph! A simple game for simple people. One of said simple people...liked this on the Amstrad CPC 464 That takes me back. I lost hours of my youth on that game. Classic!! Weeks...lost weeks on this..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcidBurn Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I massively disagree - those games are mostly as awesome now as they always were.Especially james Pond. Get yerself Earthworm Jim too Earthworm Jim was a wicked game, one of my favourites ever. This is a great thread adn even funnier when people dont quite get it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJP Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Played many seasons of Logacta chart soccer in the late 70s if anyone else remembers it. More fun than waiting 20 mins for The Boss to fail to load on the C64 for the third time! Usually followed by a couple of games of Subbuteo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logacta Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadijk van Kaarhandel Posted November 8, 2008 Author Share Posted November 8, 2008 Logacta - that looks brilliant. Love the idea of the differently 'weighted' dice for the home and away teams. I'd have been right into that if i'd been a wee bit older like you obviously are AJP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexta200 Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 they should have used that in 09! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne\'o Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 lol i remember that game, was addicted, also played. the boss!! football director. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerner Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Did they have press conferences afterwards? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas78 Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 Sigh, I was taking a look at the football management games history that has been posted before, but there is no mention of the craptastic (that is the reason why, maybe? ) "Soccer Supremo", which I dearly played on the Atari ST at the end of the eighties. http://hol.abime.net/4242 I can't remember if you could only play Stockport at the beginning, or if you could actually edit things around. "Football Fortunes" was nice, anyway, a combination of board game and videogame (duh) : http://zxspectrum.hal.varese.it/footballfortunes.jpg And after all this time, I think the only other football management game that has come close to CM/FM greatness was "The Manager" on the Amiga. "Player Manager" was great as well (I loved Kick Off 1/2 and Goal!), but the possibility of playing as a footballer made it similar to an arcade. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamweesel Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 LOGacta sounds like a good game Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gullee Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 amazing games Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathcab for Cutie Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 When I were a lad this is what we had. 1982, my first Football Manager game. Been playing the genre ever since, but next time you think you'll have a mope and a moan about what you've got today you'd do well to remember what the kids of the 80s had to play with Check out the 3-D animation. Have a look at the Youtube link below just to see how lucky you are http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A13M4_If_4I the resemblance between that and fm09 is uncanny :o Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeusbheld Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 graphics aren't as good as the classic One-Nil. ah the good old days of the stone age. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stooper Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I'm only 22 and I had a copy of that game on the Atari ST in c1995 It was a classic! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPlanet Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 The tactics haven't changed much over the years either Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_G_32201 Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 ah well the truth is still there! some people would complain if you hung them with brand new rope Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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