Hi guys, This isn't about the new ones of course! (Are they even making them anymore?!) but I've started playing CM 2 96/7 and 97/98 over the last few days and I've remembered how great these were! Very very simple compared to the Football Manager games today and the stats for the players can be a bit wide of the mark sometimes but the nostalgia value is definitely there... and you can do a season in like 2 hours! CM 2 96/97 is argued to be what's called 'Abandonware' which means its free to distribute, I'm not sure about 97/98 but as long as you have the disks somewhere around then that okay. I wouldn't want to encourage piracy and all that If any of you want a copy of either just drop me a PM! I sent samoholic a copy of CM2 97/98 yesterday so figure we can use this thread to discuss our games!
On CM 07 I took Eastleigh from Conference South to Prem within 8 seasons. By 2016 they were title challengers before I resigned.
Didn't sega start making football manager and left CM...thats why everyone changed over to football manager...played CM up to 2004 then switched
My understanding was that Sports Interactive and Eidos stopped their working relationship and this meant that Eidos owned the name 'Championship Manager' but the developers Sports Interactive owned all of the code. Had a quick gander at the ever reliable wikipedia and... "On 12 February 2004, after splitting from publishers Eidos Interactive, it was announced that Sports Interactive, developers of the Championship Manager game, had retained the rights to the source code but not the rights to the title Championship Manager, which were held onto by Eidos (who previously acquired the brand rights from Domark upon their merger in 1995). These developments led to a further announcement that future Sports Interactive football management games would be released under the famous Football Manager brand name. Whilst the Championship Manager series would go on, Eidos no longer had any source code, or, indeed a developer for Championship Manager."
CM 2007 has no relation to any Championship Manager game pre 2004. The lineage is... Championship Manager made by Sports Interactive and published by Domark/Eidos 1993 to 2004, Sports Interactive split from Eidos in 2004 then made Football Manager using the Championship Manager code. In 2004 Eidoes got a new developer Beautiful Game Studios to use the Championship Manager name and created a new game from scratch - Championship Manager 5 until they stopped due to poor sales. That explains why Championship Manager from 2005 to 2010 was crap, i.e. it had no relation to that of Championship Manager from 1993 to 2004. More about the split here... http://www.edge-online.com/news/miles-jacobson-comments-eidos-split
MS dos was a pain in the arse, but the simplicity of some of the old games was really quite appealing. One I liked was the original PS2 Fifa Street - bit clunky and the graphics weren't great, but the game was simplicity itself and great fun to play.
I think it got so bad that before the end they started letting people chose how much they wanted to pay for the game... as long as it was at least £1. You can imagine what happened there.
Getting on pretty well with my Rangers game on cm2 96/97, heading for a 2nd European Cup win in 2 seasons! 7-2 on AGG!
