Comments on: Daily Record have wiped me out of history! http://blog.kevintoms.com/2009/10/24/daily-record-have-wiped-me-out-of-history/ Original author of Football Manager computer game Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:32:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dai smout http://blog.kevintoms.com/2009/10/24/daily-record-have-wiped-me-out-of-history/#comment-130 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:35:33 +0000 http://blog.kevintoms.com/?p=250#comment-130 my post in the DailyRecord.co.uk ..

“Football Manager was written in 1981 by Kevin Toms (the Collyer Brothers were probably still wearing short trousers at that time) and published by his own company, Addictive Games. The Spectrum version being available in 1982.

‘Kevin Toms Football Manager’ was, incredibly, ported to 14 different formats and was still found on sale ten years after it was written.

Championship Manager, an entirely different game, was released in 1992 by the Collyer brothers and published firstly by Domark and then, after acquisition, by Edios. After splitting with them in February 2004 the developers of Championship Manager (Sports Interactive) retained the rights to the source code but not the name. Hence their latter games were named Football Manager (and have no relation to Kevin Toms Football Manager.)

Championship Manager (by Beautiful Game Studios) is still published by Eidos, as is an Online version (Championship Manager Online) created by a seperate developer, Jadestone.

Whilst not the first football management game released, Kevin Toms is widely regarded as the father of the genre. With his photo printed on the sleeve his face was recognisable as with any 80′s icon and his games sold in the millions.”

]]> By: dai smout http://blog.kevintoms.com/2009/10/24/daily-record-have-wiped-me-out-of-history/#comment-126 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:05:46 +0000 http://blog.kevintoms.com/?p=250#comment-126 …and, lastly, their name actually was ‘Collyer’ so i’ll just bury my face in my hands (again..)

]]> By: dai smout http://blog.kevintoms.com/2009/10/24/daily-record-have-wiped-me-out-of-history/#comment-124 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:52:00 +0000 http://blog.kevintoms.com/?p=250#comment-124 yes, rather inaccurate. firstly, their name is ‘Collier’ and, secondly, when your game was first released they would have been about ten years old..

]]> By: Kevin Toms http://blog.kevintoms.com/2009/10/24/daily-record-have-wiped-me-out-of-history/#comment-108 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:06:51 +0000 http://blog.kevintoms.com/?p=250#comment-108 Thanks Eric, if they just made assumptions though, that’s not a good look for journalists!

]]> By: Erik Hogan http://blog.kevintoms.com/2009/10/24/daily-record-have-wiped-me-out-of-history/#comment-106 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:37:33 +0000 http://blog.kevintoms.com/?p=250#comment-106 Sorry to hear that.

I don’t think it was done deliberately, I think that the Daily Record have incorrectly assumed that your original Football Manager game is part of the later series by the Collyer brothers. I’m guessing it’s just a case of shoddy Journalism.

In any case, I would leave a comment on the article pointing out their error.

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