Comments on: Play Football Manager now!

By: Kevin Toms is our Hero « Blue Square

Kevin Toms is our Hero « Blue Square — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:52:50 +0000

[...] So who is this Kevin, and what relevance does it have on today’s post? Well, Kevin Tombs developed the first every football manager simulation game for the ZX Spectrums back in the very early 1980’s. In the game everyone the opportunity to manager a team, and watch the game unfold in pure two dimensional unadulted by advertising green graphics. Want to see what kept us in our bedrooms for so long at the time without a staple through their naval? Well you can still play a version of the game by clicking here. [...]

By: Kevin Toms is my hero « The Ball is Round

Kevin Toms is my hero « The Ball is Round — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:06:10 +0000

By: Kevin Toms

Kevin Toms — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:22:38 +0000

Thanks for the comment. Yes, a few people have told me they learned from looking at the source code. You are right it was not hard to break in to to see. Interestingly that was because when I put the original game out piracy was not around! So, I did put some copy protection in but no significant, and it stayed that way. I guess also with the code being in Basic it was more manageable to look at and learn from.

By: Tim Whitemore

Tim Whitemore — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:56:32 +0000

For my friends and I Football Manager was crack cocaine. I spent many many hours glued to it and I’m sure my career in IT was nudged along by learning from your source code (sorry – wasn’t exactly hard to view!). Now, just when I am fit to return to society you have re-aquainted me with FM courtesy of the Speccy emulator. There goes the evening. Again…

By: Kevin Toms

Kevin Toms — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:18:06 +0000

Thanks, that is very pleasing to know!

By: Cheesy beard

Cheesy beard — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:32:36 +0000

Kevin,

Even to this day, I still play FM on an emulator on my phone. 25 years on and it still occupies my time.

Fantastic stuff!

By: Eain

Eain — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:42:05 +0000

I loved playing Football manager, I too enjoyed endless days striving for success, in the end I won the league and F.A. Cup, it was the first game of its kind, and way ahead of its years, thank you.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:04:33 +0000

I played this non stop on my ZX81 all those years ago. I’ve played hundreds of footy games since but this is still the best (for it’s time)!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:10:55 +0000

Thank you so much, Kevin! You gave me back my teenage years. I wasted so much time playing your football manager games on my Commodore 64. And I’m going to waste another evening today. Thanks and all the best!

Cheers
Chris

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:06:19 +0000

best game ever