ZX Spectrum 48K - Football Manager

[Ackterband]

Hope these many "it's called football, dummy!" idiots realise that the term soccer was coined by the British and is short for "Association Football"...

[edwardszzz]

Did Kevin Toms spend his zillions of pounds on cocaine and fancy women. I bet he's on the dole now or works for Tesco. Saw his adverts in computer mags. A photo of him pointing to gameshot of the goalposts/players screen. Big fat man with beard and mullet. Couldn't be arsed to buy an assembler/compiler. Probably made the cassettes in his garage.His adverts were everywhere.All the mags every issue.Must have cost a bomb in advert rates.

[jaildesigner]

One of the BEST games for the little one :)

[GummoNZ]

Sometimes there was passing, of sorts. If a player fired a shot and one of his team mates was in the way the team mate might kick it as well altering the direction 45 degrees.

[Deanow195]

lmao i hate soccor aswel i used to write games myself on the spectrum the code was easy lol fek bring it back good memories :D

[nasoszeppos]

I remember more than 20 years ago, I used to go to my village on holidays and play with this thing day and night. I couldn't even pronounce these weird names of the english lower division teams (like Rochdale and Torquay)

[herbie72]

Oh my god. I spent hours playing that on my Speccy as a kid. Won the League with Brighton many times :)

[GenocideKommando1]

i love target renegade on speccy

[CloudCucku]

please stop calling it 'soccer' - it's football

[minijimi]

I agree it is called football, but I have been out of the UK for almost 20 years now... so when in Rome do as the Romans... thats why I call it 'soccer'.

[CloudCucku]

fair point

[sidjames1976]

Shouldnt that be seeing as I'm from London I'll choose Man Utd? Proper oldschoold classic and a trailblazer really. Bloody awful now though!

[stevieeng34]

Can i hire you for motivational speeches?

[c4lk]

Good 2 see Norwich up there!

[misfit1978]

LOL!

[kvbrock82]

if you were born in manchester you should go with Man city not Man utd.

There is only one team IN manchester.

[carhandle]

........as i said, entirely in Basic........

[chrisgy]

Was this really programmed in basic? Gee whizz!

[roborunner]

God i spent sooooo many hours on this game in my youth. Happy days !

[Kinitawowi]

H STOP in INPUT

LET s(2)=9: CONTINUE

Easy win. :D

[k3v1ch]

Hah! didn't know that one :)

[flammablepiss]

LOL Theres not such thing as soccer !

[Clarkey061]

Truer words were never spoken, my friend. There is no such thing as Soccer.

[Kingshymond]

We no your not a footy fan u called it soccer you fool ! Had to be a UTD fan, ive seen brighter eclipses

[minijimi]

I called it soccer because i have been living in Canada for the last 17 years (they call it soccer here because football is American Football).

[ApolloSaturnV]

For goodness sake, stop mumbling. He tells us nothing and repeats himself over and over again. Don't give up the day job.

[pault107]

Ahhh, the memories. Thanks for this video. I remember getting my Dad addicted to FM back in the day.

The speccy changed my life.

My first ever program:

10 Print "Paul woz ere"

20 Goto 10

I haven't stopped programming since. Good times.

[minijimi]

My first program wasnt much more advanced than that, but it was on a BBC though. I too learned how to program on the Spectrum and still am to this day.

[BobCassidy]

I always thought this was too easy and over rated. Football Director was a much better game.

[EdZep123]

I think what Kevin Toms lacked in programming genius he made up for in shrewdness. Football Manager came out for just about every computer that was going. He must have made a small fortune.

[sovietchimp]

Really amazing how it's coded in basic.

[prozacian75]

i used to cheat i change the program so every goal i scored counted as 5 goals lol loved that game

[sovietchimp]

Lol! Great idea!

[tedted777]

Many games today seem to be falling into similar genres. The variety of games available for the spectrum was amazing even thought the graphics are lame by todays standards. I liked commando.

If you know about the basic programing, are the other results of matches just random, or are they calculated to as much depth as the man u v blackpool match?thanks for the upload.

[minijimi]

All matches use the same algorithms that the Man. U v Blackpool game in the demo used. This game is really sophisticated and complicated for a Basic programmed game. I take my hat off to the people or person who developed it.

[robbbie85]

Cool video, very interesting, never knew how advance the original Football Manager was with it's highlight bit.

[minijimi]

Yes, this lay the foundation for games which incorporate the sport management gaming aspect. This was where it all started.