Did anyone play Championship Manager 97/98 back in the day? we are celebrating the 20th anniversary here.

Bernard Lambourde and Charvet were good in that game.
The creators seemed to have a hard on for French players in general

Harley and Charvet down as attacking midfielders?

No, but I played this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chelsea-Official-Club-Manager-PC/dp/B0000DZ93J

Here I should have said

 

Take a look at CM/FM nostalgia (@CM_9798): https://twitter.com/CM_9798?s=09

No too early for me. I started 2000/2001

 

No manager game has come close to this beauty 

 

I actually have this game to thank for seriously getting into football. I always liked playing football and i supported Chelsea from the 90's, but i was a casual fan until i started playing this game. I played this game so much for so many years. When i finished school in 2005, i would be up until about 6am many times of the week watching old Simpsons episodes and American comedy films playing this game, it was that addictive. Just talking about it makes me want to play it again.

The best players to sign were Lucio ( £10.5m buy out clause ) Giampaolo Pazzini, cheap and grows into a hell of striker, Robben, Adriano ( hard to get early on because he was co owned by Inter Milan and Parma so you had to pay them both ) and weirdly......Jermaine Jenas. There were a few other bargains too like Freddy Grisales who had a £3m/£4m buy out clause. Gallas was immense too, him and Lucio were definitely the best defenders on the game. The problem was that every club would want him and if you rejected too many offers, the player would get annoyed and ask for a transfer. The trick to this was to wait for an offer and counter it with something so insane that the other club wouldn't follow through with it, then the player wouldn't complain. The only thing that sucked was that Terry and Lampard were kind of crap and had to be sold.

I enjoyed Football Manager 2005 a bit and i went through an addictive phase with Football Manager 2006 too, but those games couldn't keep me interested as long as this one did. The Championship Manager game that followed this one was absolute dogsh*te though. It was called Championship Manager 5 and it really was terrible. My brother paid £30 at the time and i couldn't even win a single match, i don't know what i was doing wrong but i hated it after only a few days.

The last manager game i tried properly was when Football Manager started using 3D models instead of dots on the screen. It didn't keep my interest though and since then, i haven't really bothered with any more manager games.

My first manager game was FA Premier League Manager 2002.

I have no played so many different management games it's unbelievable. I've recently found an old laptop that runs Windows XP....I've been able to install my old management sims, and I'm swimming a bit in nostalgia.

5 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

No manager game has come close to this beauty 

 

I actually have this game to thank for seriously getting into football. I always liked playing football and i supported Chelsea from the 90's, but i was a casual fan until i started playing this game. I played this game so much for so many years. When i finished school in 2005, i would be up until about 6am many times of the week watching old Simpsons episodes and American comedy films playing this game, it was that addictive. Just talking about it makes me want to play it again.

The best players to sign were Lucio ( £10.5m buy out clause ) Giampaolo Pazzini, cheap and grows into a hell of striker, Robben, Adriano ( hard to get early on because he was co owned by Inter Milan and Parma so you had to pay them both ) and weirdly......Jermaine Jenas. There were a few other bargains too like Freddy Grisales who had a £3m/£4m buy out clause. Gallas was immense too, him and Lucio were definitely the best defenders on the game. The problem was that every club would want him and if you rejected too many offers, the player would get annoyed and ask for a transfer. The trick to this was to wait for an offer and counter it with something so insane that the other club wouldn't follow through with it, then the player wouldn't complain. The only thing that sucked was that Terry and Lampard were kind of crap and had to be sold.

I enjoyed Football Manager 2005 a bit and i went through an addictive phase with Football Manager 2006 too, but those games couldn't keep me interested as long as this one did. The Championship Manager game that followed this one was absolute dogsh*te though. It was called Championship Manager 5 and it really was terrible. My brother paid £30 at the time and i couldn't even win a single match, i don't know what i was doing wrong but i hated it after only a few days.

The last manager game i tried properly was when Football Manager started using 3D models instead of dots on the screen. It didn't keep my interest though and since then, i haven't really bothered with any more manager games.

Great game, a little on the easy side though. So many good players on this game for such cheap prices.

Daniel Braathen

Cherno Samab

Antoli Todorov

Robinho

Fredy William Thompson  are my fav top 5 players. Football manager 2005 was amazing game aswell, i always signed Robinho,Tevez and Cavenghi those 3 could win you league with anyone.

I didn't get in to football games, until this game: 

I've been playing Fifa and Pes ever since, I just wish there was an alternative. I wish there was a game with the Pes gameplay, with the Fifa game modes and presentation, I miss the old soundtracks too. Only been playing football manager for a couple of years, but if I'd had championship manger 97, I definitely would have resurrected Mark Stein.

love it. ive actually got cm9798 on my s7 edge through dos box. Tommy svindel larrson and morten bisgaard killing it. 

FIFA 07 was the first football game I got into but, while I still play it (FIFA 15 was the last version I bought), I find Football Manager to be a much more superior footballing game

Played most CM's up until FM came out.  97/98 was the first I REALLY got into.  The best (for me) was 00/01, just such an amazing game.

I'm currently playing FM15, which is good but I miss the simplicity of the old CM's, having to deal with press and agent demands etc in modern games kills it for me a little.

love it. ive actually got cm9798 on my s7 edge through dos box. Tommy svindel larrson and morten bisgaard killing it. 

Bjorn Heidenstrom! ;)

love it. ive actually got cm9798 on my s7 edge through dos box. Tommy svindel larrson and morten bisgaard killing it. 

And that's a really cool idea

18 hours ago, Floyd25 said:

I didn't get in to football games, until this game: 

I just wish there was an alternative. I wish there was a game with the Pes gameplay, with the Fifa game modes and presentation, I miss the old soundtracks too. 

This would be amazing!  PES peaked at PES4.  I absolutely loved PES3, 4 and 5 and choose it over FIFA as the game play was incredible.  Problem was FIFA had all the licensing and better sound tracks etc!

4 minutes ago, Qaz said:

17 hours ago, big blue said:

love it. ive actually got cm9798 on my s7 edge through dos box. Tommy svindel larrson and morten bisgaard killing it. 

And that's a really cool idea

It was a bit of a pain to do tbh, and the drag and drop system is frustrating, but I've still put about 10 seasons into it! 

I used to play sooo much of it. Even more 99/00 windows one with Simon Davies and Matthew Etherington

best one was cm0102

On 20/08/2017 at 16:02, cm9798 said:

Did anyone play Championship Manager 97/98 back in the day? we are celebrating the 20th anniversary here.

don't suppose you have a link for 2003/04 database or thereabouts? 

11 hours ago, Evoann62 said:

having to deal with press and agent demands etc in modern games kills it for me a little.

I'd imagine most real managers today would echo that line.

Who remembers LMA manager? I played the 2003 version on and off for about 5 year's. You could also play two player with a friend and even build new stadiums and name them yourself.

I absolutely loved it, the one downside was players fitness was awful to the point even the young/prime players couldn't hack three games a week. I had to make 8 changes atleast whenever I had one game a few days after the other else you would be off the pace.

Edited August 23, 20178 yr by Argo

Who remembers LMA manager? I played the 2003 version on and off for about 5 year's. You could also play two player with a friend and even build new stadiums and name them yourself.
I absolutely loved it, the one downside was players fitness was awful to the point even the young/prime players couldn't hack three games a week. I had to make 8 changes atleast whenever I had one game a few days after the other else you would be off the pace.

I played LMA manager on my phone using a playstation emulator. Was an enjoyable little game

8 hours ago, Argo said:

Who remembers LMA manager? I played the 2003 version on and off for about 5 year's. You could also play two player with a friend and even build new stadiums and name them yourself.

I absolutely loved it, the one downside was players fitness was awful to the point even the young/prime players couldn't hack three games a week. I had to make 8 changes atleast whenever I had one game a few days after the other else you would be off the pace.

YES!  I had it on the Playstation! Absolutely amazing game!  Only downside was it was pretty easy to obtain cheat codes for it (A hotline was even listed in the manual for it) which made it very tempting to cheat! 

YES!  I had it on the Playstation! Absolutely amazing game!  Only downside was it was pretty easy to obtain cheat codes for it (A hotline was even listed in the manual for it) which made it very tempting to cheat! 

King midas for money
Witch doctor for no injuries
North and south for all transfers accepted (i think)