Football Manager 2022

[fourstarfizzle]

2 hours ago, Lineker said:

 

Tó Madeira. Never forget.

[Adam]

7 hours ago, Lineker said:

 

Cherno Samba. To Madeira. Kennedy Bakircoglu. Taribo West. Michael Duff. Mark Kerr.

These are legends you can never forget.

[King Ellis]

The portion of my brain dedicated to remembering CM 01/02 gems is far bigger than it has any right to be. Aside from some of the ones Adam mentioned: Abgar Barsom, Michalis Konstantinou, Dionisis Chiotis, Emile Mpenza (shame he was pants at City IRL).

You could probably fill your squad with Scandiwegians in that game and do well.

 

[Hobo]

CM03/04 was my first CM game.

As a result I will always have fond memories of Supat Rungratsamee.

[fourstarfizzle]

14 hours ago, Adam said:

Cherno Samba. To Madeira. Kennedy Bakircoglu. Taribo West. Michael Duff. Mark Kerr.

These are legends you can never forget.

My friends bands name was 'Cherno' purely in honour of that legend.

[METALMAN]

00/01 was my first CM but it was 01/02 that I played the most by far. Largely because I didn’t have a computer that could handle any of the subsequent editions until 06/07.      : /

[FLiam]

I first game was CM 97/98 on MSDOS. I’ve bought/played every edition since then bar FM20. 

A quarter of a century pretty much spent playing Championship/Football Manager on and off. Mental. No wonder why I can’t shake the addiction. 

Before that I remember playing Premier Manager ‘95 on the Mega Drive not really fully understanding what I was doing but I loved it.

[Hobo]

I played a lot of Ultimate Soccer Manager as a child. I think I eventually played every version.

Because we had USM2 for ages. I was really familiar with 1996/97 Premier League squads for a while.

[fourstarfizzle]

14 hours ago, FLiam said:

I first game was CM 97/98 on MSDOS. I’ve bought/played every edition since then bar FM20. 

A quarter of a century pretty much spent playing Championship/Football Manager on and off. Mental. No wonder why I can’t shake the addiction. 

Before that I remember playing Premier Manager ‘95 on the Mega Drive not really fully understanding what I was doing but I loved it.

This is pretty much a mirror of me, I was always obsessed with building new stands in Premier Manager 95, and I miss those great scoreboard animations you'd get in game. My fondest memories of CM 97/98 was when a load of school mates would get a chance to stay at one of our houses overnight and really get into it on a multiplayer game. I fondly remember my mate buying Denilson from Real Betis from under my nose (I was a huge fan of him) and then we ended up playing each other in the FA Cup Semi Final, and Denilson missed the deciding penalty costing them the game. Never had I experienced such redemption and joy at the same time.

[Adam]

20 hours ago, METALMAN said:

00/01 was my first CM but it was 01/02 that I played the most by far. Largely because I didn’t have a computer that could handle any of the subsequent editions until 06/07.      : /

00/01 was my first one too...I think we got it as some sort of co-promotion with the Telegraph!?

My dad had extensively played CM3 and 98/99 (unless they're the same one) so I had played and think even completed a season on CM3, but I was quite young so didn't really know what I was doing. 00/01 was the first one I really got stuck into and knew what was what with, but 01/02 just took it to another level and I was still seriously playing it into my 20s.

The only other subsequent edition that I enjoyed was FM08, which I must've poured months of my life into as a teenager. That probably perfected the genre for the time period for me, and anything since has drifted away from what I loved about the series. The 3D engine and boring meetings mechanics rather spoiled it all and I struggle to get into them anymore.

[Lineker]

FM08 was perfection. The only one that came close to touching it for years thereafter was FM11.

[Gazz]

On 12/10/2021 at 21:12, King Ellis said:

You could probably fill your squad with Scandiwegians in that game and do well.

CM01/02 was all about the Greeks. Papadopoulos and Skalidis up front, scoring 80 goals each a season. Patzatzoglu and Tobros in behind. Chiotsis between the sticks.

[The Kraig]

LMA Manager on the PlayStation was my gateway drug into Championship Manager. Kim Kallstrom all the way. Little did I know I'd be updating and massively expanding the .lnc file many moons later.

[fourstarfizzle]

LMA Manager! How could I forget that gem, this was a big fix for me when our family PC died and didn't get repaired/upgraded for a good year or two, my PSX was my only other outlet.  Loved me some LMA.

[Malenko]

5 hours ago, Lineker said:

FM08 was perfection. The only one that came close to touching it for years thereafter was FM11.

I really liked both of these. I didn't mind those in between but I kept playing 11 up to 14 and still remember how bad FM12 felt.

 

 

 

I started with the first italian league version of Championship Manager. One of my dad's friends from when I was a kid fixed computers. It's all I ever knew about him. Sometimes he had to fix ours, and he would bring me games he'd copied from other people's PCs. He brought me every single pc game I played from 1988 to around 1995/96.

It was this one:

 

Then I had the 96/97 and 97/98 versions (the second one was the first CM you could run 3 leagues simultaneously).

I played it non stop (even more so than the 01/02 version) during my football obsessed years up to 01/02. I only had one more up to FM06. Can't remember which but didn't play it too much. From that moment on, I was already working so I could get it every year and did so up to FM14. Then I stopped again because I didn't play it enough so it was kinda pointless to get new versions I'd play half a season and quit. I restarted in 2018 I think? The game has changed a lot, and there are loads of new features, but to be fair, most of the stuff that has been added lately is pointless to me. I was ok with how the game looked back in FM14. I like the 3D even if it's far from perfect.

 

Prior to that, I played this absolute classic:

 

 

5 hours ago, Adam said:

00/01 was my first one too...I think we got it as some sort of co-promotion with the Telegraph!?

My dad had extensively played CM3 and 98/99 (unless they're the same one) so I had played and think even completed a season on CM3, but I was quite young so didn't really know what I was doing. 00/01 was the first one I really got stuck into and knew what was what with, but 01/02 just took it to another level and I was still seriously playing it into my 20s.

The only other subsequent edition that I enjoyed was FM08, which I must've poured months of my life into as a teenager. That probably perfected the genre for the time period for me, and anything since has drifted away from what I loved about the series. The 3D engine and boring meetings mechanics rather spoiled it all and I struggle to get into them anymore.

Yeah. CM3 and 98/99 are the same game.

[Kyle]

I think the first one I played was an old copy of Premier Manager 02/03, either that or one of the LMA games. First one I played where I could actually be semi-competent was FM08 though.

[Bobfoc]

I remember CM2, which I think was the only game in the series to have audio commentary. You could have Clive Tyldesley commentate on your matches, but it made them run a lot more slowly.

 

[The Kraig]

Did anyone actually play these? At the time, meh. Now? I'd love the nostalgiagasm.

[Adam]

17 hours ago, The Kraig said:

Did anyone actually play these? At the time, meh. Now? I'd love the nostalgiagasm.

I did, the licensing was odd. For instance, this game existed but in other versions of Club Football...Arsenal were called Highbury.

The menus also had a supremely irritating noise that accompanied anytime you moved to a different button. Like a rusty hinge.

[Cymbols]

I had the Real Madrid version of that! My local Choices store never had the Aston Villa one sadly. Also remember getting it at the same time as Vice City - which was swiftly confiscated when the fam realised what Vice City was. Fun times…