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Post by metalhead on Mar 8, 2016 9:07:51 GMT
None of that FIFA 2016 nonsense.... as someone who literally can't be arsed with games anymore, I only have fond memories of the ones I played as a youngster. As such, post your favourite football games, management or actual gameplay. So my favourite FIFA game was probably World Cup 98, absolutely loved that game.... although I also have very fond memories of FIFA 97 in-which the goalkeepers were absolutely dreadful. Shoot from anywhere, you had a chance of scoring Also indoor football haha.... Also played FIFA 2000, 2001 and 20002. My favourite PES was probably 6. I was absolutely lethal on that, plus you could download Stoke onto it from t'interweb. I even got to the final of a PES Tournament (as gay as that sounds) at University , yes, I lost As far as management games go, nothing will eclipse the Premier Manager series on PC for me. Premier Manager 97 and 99 by Gremlin. Probably two of the most underrated football games of all time imo. Light years ahead of Championship Manager (now Football Manager) and with far more features (like 3D matches and realistic transfers). Of course, Gremlin subsequently went bankrupt and Premier Manager ended there and then. There have been spin off since but none of them using the same engine, which seems to have been all but lost. Ahh the memories.
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Post by hamptonpig on Mar 8, 2016 12:54:54 GMT
Sensible Soccer on Megadrive. Nothing's come close since. link
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Post by metalhead on Mar 8, 2016 16:35:02 GMT
Was a bit before me, but I wish I'd had a game, it looks mint
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Post by sorethumbs on Mar 9, 2016 11:54:59 GMT
The Amiga version was best, truly was 'World of Soccer' - every professional league in the world, with real player names and proper names for the cups. None of this licensing crap that EA have the monopoly on nowadays. I think there were over 5000 actual football player names in the game! A 20 season long player manager mode where you could take some obscure European team to Champions League winners whilst getting better and better job offers along the way, eventually getting offered the England managers job and then taking England to European and World Cup winners. Just a brilliant game
Sent from my GoTab_GT9X using proboards
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Post by rockthecity on Mar 10, 2016 15:51:13 GMT
The Amiga version was best, truly was 'World of Soccer' - every professional league in the world, with real player names and proper names for the cups. None of this licensing crap that EA have the monopoly on nowadays. I think there were over 5000 actual football player names in the game! A 20 season long player manager mode where you could take some obscure European team to Champions League winners whilst getting better and better job offers along the way, eventually getting offered the England managers job and then taking England to European and World Cup winners. Just a brilliant game Sent from my GoTab_GT9X using proboards THIS ^^^^ Epic game!! might have to go up the loft find my Amiga 1200 out!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 17:09:39 GMT
The Amiga version was best, truly was 'World of Soccer' - every professional league in the world, with real player names and proper names for the cups. None of this licensing crap that EA have the monopoly on nowadays. I think there were over 5000 actual football player names in the game! A 20 season long player manager mode where you could take some obscure European team to Champions League winners whilst getting better and better job offers along the way, eventually getting offered the England managers job and then taking England to European and World Cup winners. Just a brilliant game Sent from my GoTab_GT9X using proboards Absolutely battered this one school summer on the A1200. Took Brum to the top of the PL with Kevin Francis scoring over 200 a season. Memories.
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Post by s70wky on Mar 10, 2016 17:32:25 GMT
LMA Manager 2007 was a quality game, being able to upgrade your stadium and visible cup draw just added to the joys of playing the game.
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Post by pricey21 on Mar 10, 2016 17:47:05 GMT
PES 3, 4, 5, 6, 2008 FIFA 2002 World Wide Soccer 98 This is Football Ultimate Soccer Manager 98 FA Premier League Manager 2000 Total Club Manager 2003 & 2004
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Post by Frogger Theft Auto on Mar 14, 2016 9:17:13 GMT
Premier Manager 97 was my favourite too, I played it for years. Getting Rugby up to the Prem with a 200,000 seater stadium, signing the best players in the world (Ronaldo) for £16M. The star rating system, brilliant.
Best design for a football manager game that there's ever been, if you had no experience in the genre, you could pick it up straight away and enjoy it. You need a degree in computer science to pick up and play a new Football Manager for the first time if you haven't been keeping up with the tweaks.
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Post by metalhead on Mar 14, 2016 12:27:05 GMT
Premier Manager 97 was my favourite too, I played it for years. Getting Rugby up to the Prem with a 200,000 seater stadium, signing the best players in the world (Ronaldo) for £16M. The star rating system, brilliant. Best design for a football manager game that there's ever been, if you had no experience in the genre, you could pick it up straight away and enjoy it. You need a degree in computer science to pick up and play a new Football Manager for the first time if you haven't been keeping up with the tweaks. What amazes me is that despite being a popular game at the time, it's rare that I find someone who played it. Those who did however, totally get how good it was. It blew Championship Manager away... in literally every aspect. As you say, the star system (totally forgot about that) was ingenious. The fact you could handle club finances and how your team was marketed to fans was also an excellent feature that I'm yet to see on any other game. The other thing with Premier Manager 97-99, contrary to popular belief.... it was significantly faster than Champ Man. You could either play the match via the 3D engine or simulate the match using their algorithm. It meant you could pick and choose which games to sit in on and of course, you could make in game subs which could naturally win or lose you a game. It was years ahead of its time. In Spain, it has a huge following (it was sold in Spain as PC Futbol, absolutely the same game though, identical but with Spanish teams), but it seemed Championship Manager monopolized the English market before PM came about.
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Post by foster on Mar 15, 2016 9:43:27 GMT
SWOS - Sensible World of Soccer - PC
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Post by LGH87 on Mar 18, 2016 11:57:05 GMT
Premier Manager 97 was my favourite too, I played it for years. Getting Rugby up to the Prem with a 200,000 seater stadium, signing the best players in the world (Ronaldo) for £16M. The star rating system, brilliant. Best design for a football manager game that there's ever been, if you had no experience in the genre, you could pick it up straight away and enjoy it. You need a degree in computer science to pick up and play a new Football Manager for the first time if you haven't been keeping up with the tweaks. What amazes me is that despite being a popular game at the time, it's rare that I find someone who played it. Those who did however, totally get how good it was. It blew Championship Manager away... in literally every aspect. As you say, the star system (totally forgot about that) was ingenious. The fact you could handle club finances and how your team was marketed to fans was also an excellent feature that I'm yet to see on any other game. The other thing with Premier Manager 97-99, contrary to popular belief.... it was significantly faster than Champ Man. You could either play the match via the 3D engine or simulate the match using their algorithm. It meant you could pick and choose which games to sit in on and of course, you could make in game subs which could naturally win or lose you a game. It was years ahead of its time. In Spain, it has a huge following (it was sold in Spain as PC Futbol, absolutely the same game though, identical but with Spanish teams), but it seemed Championship Manager monopolized the English market before PM came about. Spent far too many hours playing Premier Manager 98 on the PS1, used to fucking make my blood boil as well.
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Mar 25, 2016 7:43:47 GMT
One of the best Championship Managers came out around the turn of the Millenium (Can't remember the exact year, somewhere around 98-02 sort of time) I had a mint career on there managing Parma in Serie A. I had some fella called Alex who was my free-roaming playmaker who'd take all my corners & free-kicks, then had Mario Jardel upfront. They'd score over 30 goals each every season without fail & lead me to numerous Serie A titles & domestic cups. Never won the Champions League with them though, although I swear it was fucking fixed. Closest I ever got was the semi-final where I played Bayern Leverkusen, battered them 3-0 in the away leg & it was 0-0 at half-time of the home leg. Somehow I ended up losing 6-3 on aggregate!!!
In 'playing' terms the first PES & FIFA's were good (Running away from the ref in FIFA for ten minutes was always a laugh!) One called Total Soccer or summat on the erm... Conna think if it was Mega Drive or PS1, it had a brilliant crowd in it who'd be jumping out of their seats when you scored, which was quite a big deal back then! The best would be one on the Sega Saturn though, conna remember what it was called but I think it was summat along the lines of Worldwide Soccer. Great selection of stadiums & if you played in the 'up & down' view (rather than side to side) you could pull off some ace Beckham-at-Wimbledon-esque goals.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 12:02:41 GMT
Sensible Soccer on Megadrive. Nothing's come close since. linkThis. The hours I spent on that game.
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Post by oxfordshirestokie on Apr 26, 2016 18:01:05 GMT
I also adored FIFA 98, I'll always have fun memories of that game cause of that Blur - song 2 soundtrack.
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Post by metalhead on May 11, 2016 11:10:04 GMT
I also adored FIFA 98, I'll always have fun memories of that game cause of that Blur - song 2 soundtrack. Only just spotted this. Indeed, first time I really listened to Blur was on that game. Great soundtrack.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2016 14:54:08 GMT
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Post by Skankmonkey on May 15, 2016 3:43:47 GMT
Sensible for me. Also One-Nil, by Wizard games, back in the days of Dos and the C.> prompt.
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Post by Skankmonkey on May 25, 2016 15:02:42 GMT
Just me with One-Nil then?
Boster of a game. The FM/CM of its day. Shareware too.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2016 20:03:29 GMT
Football Director on C64
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2016 20:07:55 GMT
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Post by ashleyscfc on May 26, 2016 20:33:48 GMT
FIFA Road To World Cup 98, had an indoor pitch.
Before its time
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2016 22:04:12 GMT
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Post by andrewguk on May 29, 2016 15:11:17 GMT
Premier Manager 97 was my favourite too, I played it for years. Getting Rugby up to the Prem with a 200,000 seater stadium, signing the best players in the world (Ronaldo) for £16M. The star rating system, brilliant. Best design for a football manager game that there's ever been, if you had no experience in the genre, you could pick it up straight away and enjoy it. You need a degree in computer science to pick up and play a new Football Manager for the first time if you haven't been keeping up with the tweaks. What amazes me is that despite being a popular game at the time, it's rare that I find someone who played it. Those who did however, totally get how good it was. It blew Championship Manager away... in literally every aspect. As you say, the star system (totally forgot about that) was ingenious. The fact you could handle club finances and how your team was marketed to fans was also an excellent feature that I'm yet to see on any other game. The other thing with Premier Manager 97-99, contrary to popular belief.... it was significantly faster than Champ Man. You could either play the match via the 3D engine or simulate the match using their algorithm. It meant you could pick and choose which games to sit in on and of course, you could make in game subs which could naturally win or lose you a game. It was years ahead of its time. In Spain, it has a huge following (it was sold in Spain as PC Futbol, absolutely the same game though, identical but with Spanish teams), but it seemed Championship Manager monopolized the English market before PM came about. I'm not sure if it's legit but you can download it for PC here
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Post by lagwafis on May 30, 2016 14:03:09 GMT
I sometimes still play Championship Manager 1996/97 on a DOS emulator. That was one of the better ones in the series. To new ones are far too complicated for me these days, the older versions kept it simple.
International Superstar Soccer Deluxe on the SNES was one of the first football games I remember with 'commentary' if you could call it that. They didn't have player naming rights back then but you could clearly make our Ruud Gullit, Roberto Baggio, Carlos Valderrama etc.
Striker on the SNES had real names but they messed up appearances. Lee Dixon was black and Carlton Palmer was white.
You could score some crazy goals with 'after touch' on Super Soccer.
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Post by stokiefromhaslo on Jun 2, 2016 16:16:38 GMT
Don't know if anyone ever played it but there was a game called RedCard, I think it was on PS2.
Used to just roam around snapping people and scoring crazy goals, it was totally different to normal games but so fun to play.
In terms of older games FIFA 99 was the one for me, in recent times I think Fifa 12 was my favourite.
Football Manager 2007 was the last FM I truly enjoyed, the new ones are far too complex. Tried playing 14 and just couldn't do it! I also vaguely remember a manager game that was dedicated to the individual team and you can only manage them, I remember having the Stoke one and it being brilliant.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2016 17:54:37 GMT
Sensible Soccer is getting a reboot. Jon Hare, the original coder of the original game is bringing out Sociable Soccer on PC, PS4 and XBOX One. Rough release date of Q1 2017.
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Post by andrewguk on Jun 7, 2016 19:51:04 GMT
Sensible Soccer is getting a reboot. Jon Hare, the original coder of the original game is bringing out Sociable Soccer on PC, PS4 and XBOX One. Rough release date of Q1 2017. You can get this version too. I'd wait until it's on offer though.
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Post by metalhead on Jun 8, 2016 13:32:00 GMT
Don't know if anyone ever played it but there was a game called RedCard, I think it was on PS2. Used to just roam around snapping people and scoring crazy goals, it was totally different to normal games but so fun to play. In terms of older games FIFA 99 was the one for me, in recent times I think Fifa 12 was my favourite. Football Manager 2007 was the last FM I truly enjoyed, the new ones are far too complex. Tried playing 14 and just couldn't do it! I also vaguely remember a manager game that was dedicated to the individual team and you can only manage them, I remember having the Stoke one and it being brilliant. I remember Red Card.... I don't remember much gameplay, just lots of kicking players
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Post by Bowyer83 on Dec 22, 2016 17:12:39 GMT
FIFA 94/95 on the mega drive were superb, FIFA 97/98 on the PS1 were even better.The road to World Cup opening scene with Blurs Song 2 playing brings back some memories. Pro evolution soccer on the PS1 was immense for the gameplay alone.
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