Football Manager is a sport developed by Addictive Games Ltd, released 1 January 1982 on Sinclair ZX81, TRS-80 and ZX Spectrum.
What Football Manager is
Football Manager is a sport game developed by Addictive Games Ltd and released in 1982. It is available on Sinclair ZX81, TRS-80 and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The first football management simulator, many of the hallmarks of the incredibly complex games which exist in this genre today are found in embryonic form here. Club finances, player transfers, basic tactics, and perhaps most importantly of all, excellent white noise crowd sounds when your team scored.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective.
How it was received
Football Manager holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1982 averaged 66, so it scored 36 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Football Manager launched on 1 January 1982, within three weeks of Ms. Pac-Man, Zaxxon, Gorf and Robotron: 2084. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Ms. Pac-Man, Zaxxon, Gorf, Robotron: 2084.
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