1-0 Soccer Manager

Category likeness to » DOS games. Added to Authentic Society 3 years ago.

1-0 Soccer Manager was developed by a little known company New Era Software. It was published by Wizard Games of Scotland, Ltd. and released in mid-1992, the time when plenty of the 286's with 1 megabyte of RAM memory were about to be superseded by the 386 Intel machine. Even for the "manager" genre, it is a very simple game. But let's face it, it was one of the first games of a kind. Comparing this game to modern Soccer Championship Manager games is almost like comparing Dune to Starcraft 2. While the game lacks graphics and the interface design relies heavily on boxes separated by lines populated with plain text (the soccer players are actually just numbers on the field, printed in text like every other phrase or statistic), it is the game that started the soccer manager game craze.

Unfortunately, there is no save option in this game and it was common for soccer fans to keep their computer on to continue their virtual careers as soccer managers. The players peak value is purely based on what club a particular player originated from. The basic idea is to buy young players from teams whose value is high. If you've played this game, you may notice that all Werder Bremen players peak at approximately 9 million, while all Benfica players peak at 2.9 million and so forth. Therefore one of the strategies you can implement is to buy young, cheap players from big clubs. There probably isn't an ideal formation for your soccer team, or at least it is difficult to find one.

The game can be played in one-player mode or you can invite a friend to compete against you in the player-vs-player mode. Like many other soccer manager games that followed, you can choose to watch the entire game play out or you can choose to only see the crucial parts of the soccer game where there is an increased probability that a goal could be scored. While the game is very simple, we cannot blame it for the lack of graphics as it defined the classic elements of the soccer manager genre games that came out thereafter. The game features actual player names from the soccer clubs of 1992.