Football Management Simulations (1) Introduction

                   By Piotr Tyminski

Since football management sims are one of the most popular games
on the market and since millions of people (including software
houses, programmers and disk-based mag editors) have been begging
me to write some more unbelievably excellent reviews I have
mercifully decided to produce a couple of them although, honestly,
it will not make me more famous (well, how could I become even
MORE famous than I am, eh?).

So starting with Gremlin's "Premier Manager" I'll go through
"Championship Manager", "Professional Football Masters", "Division
One Rev.  1", "Football Magic", "Football Tactician", "The
Manager" and possibly some more, in case I decide to become even
more football crazy (and knowing myself I will) and buy "Soccer
Supremo", "Football Tactician 2" and maybe a sequel to
"Championship Manager" (they try to hide it but I know they're
just about to finish it). Since I do not buy games just to review
them (although I'm awfully rich and I could easily afford it) but
first of all to PLAY them to death I'll let you know how they
REALLY work, i.e.  not like those glossy mags' reviewers who
review AMIGA versions pretending they played them on the ST (and
even if they do it seems they do it in a hurry, they're probably
afraid of being sacked for not writing enough so every morning
before going to work so they try to boot as many games as possible
and review them in the subway on the way to their office).

I'll do my best to let you know how they all look, how it is to
play them and how REAL they are.  When I'm finished with them -
unless there are some more published; in this case I'll never
finish anything - I'll make a short summary so you could know what
is hard drive installable and what's not, what kind of printer
support you get, are all Cups covered and, basically, what's good
and what's a total rip off.

Please note all games mentioned have been played on the ST, but
since many of them are available for the PC and AMIGA too, there's
really not much difference.

So stay tuned, you'll not find such brilliant reviews anywhere
else.

Small footnote:

Eeer...  actually it was me begging Sue to publish any of my crap
things.  She even promised to to do so (she must've been drunk!)
so I really feel like a megalomaniac now. Even my psychiatrist
said things got better recently. Thank you.