Football Manager Stole My Life...

[Simon Morgan]

All this talk is drawing me dangerously close to considering the idea of buying FM. And that book. I'm halfway through my Masters. Oh dear.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Pick off the swedish teams was always the way. Teddy Lucic, Kim Kallstrom etc etc

 

[BBassic]

I also had a game called 'ultimate soccer manager' not 100% of the year poss 95/96. it was great you could choose to spend your money on players or build bigger stands, club training ground ect, anyone else remember it?

Was that the one where you could build different buildings around your ground? Burger places, bookies and stuff like that? That game was fantastic.

Something I'd like to see in FM is more say on the business side. Ticket prices, fan days, kit sponsors etc.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Was that the one where you could build different buildings around your ground? Burger places, bookies and stuff like that? That game was fantastic.

Something I'd like to see in FM is more say on the business side. Ticket prices, fan days, kit sponsors etc.

Without getting too picky.....That side of the game has nothing to do with football management.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_M6bQpsME

 

[BBassic]

Without getting too picky.....That side of the game has nothing to do with football management.

True but I'm personally interested in the business of football as well as the actual football

 

[Seagull27]

There was Alessio Cerci one year, great if you got him on a free as a 17 year old.

Oh, and the classic Freddy Adu.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Feel current one runs too slow on my comp but still get obsessed for few days then drop it for a month.

Was addicted at uni around 01/02/03

The old game where built the different parts of ground was immense for that aspect, can't beleive other games haven't 'nicked' this part

 

[Eggmundo]

Just rediscovered CM4 and have devoted too much time to it. Annoyingly the game now freezes every time Wimbledon make an offer for Michael Dawson.

 

[GingerBeerMan]

Anyone starting a new FM2012 season you should buy Dedryck Boyata. I got him for about 1.5M, develops really quickly and turns into the worlds best centre back. He was my second top scorer last season with 19 goals, lol.

 

[Mike's Small]

I haven't played it since the 90s but "No chance Cheesewright." is still a catchphrase of mine.
For me, i never had a computer in those days, so i relied on my housemate to leave either for work or college in order for me to romp upstairs and begin again. 20 or 30 fags smoked. 10 cups of coffee. 2 Mars Bars. My girlfriend moved in at some point of this for a while. She would arise for work at about 5am. If she was gone and the housemate had stayed at his ladyfriend's then i was on it by 5.30 until the girlfriend came home from work. Even then i'd be playing, telling her i was upstairs writing an essay on and off. Come 9pm my efforts to convince her she seemed ever so tired and ought to sleep properly would succeed. Her eyes would close and i'd be back upstairs until about 3am inspecting on the progress of Tonton Zola Mokouko.

Him! I haven't heard that name for years, but he was the bollocks if you could get him!

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Haha, yea counter strike dominated mine from about 13-17, still play it now but not so much.

I stopped playing when I went to Uni, but have recently picked up CS: GO for a laugh, I'm carp at it now though, no reflexes anymore haha.

 

[Badger]

I gave up on FM after about 2006, I just found they added far too many features and took some of the enjoyment away.

 

[Woodchip]

The cheek of my missus. I'm sat here with my hands over my face as Millwall pulled one back to make it 2-1 and are piling on the pressure. She pipes up with the classic "I can't believe you're getting het up over fictitious scores."

The cheek of it!!!!

 

[Aadam]

Bought this book for my holiday reading. It's quite good so far. They interview some of the legends of the games gone by. Not ashamed to say I have the latest version installed. Bloom sacked me in my second season as brighton manager in January when 1 point outside the playoff places. Should have set the seasonal expectations a little lower, but was blinded by the additional transfer funds that comes with being 'title challengers'.

The new one should be out next month.

 

[JetsetJimbo]

Think I'll wait for the Jan transfers before getting the new version, mainly because I've barely scratched this one. Played a season when it first came out, then uhmmed and ahhed about starting again when the January transfers, got distracted by FM Handheld for a bit, and have just finished a first season for the second time. May as well stuck with it to get my money's worth.

Now the game takes so much longer to play, yearly releases seem a bit like overkill.

 

[andyconor]

Just a quick question... How long does it take you guys to get through half a season?