Kevin Toms Football Manager

About

This repository contains the original 1982 BASIC source code for the ZX81 version of Kevin Toms's Football Manager, the first game in the Football Manager series. The player manages a team starting in the fourth division, balancing player selection, finances, and a basic transfer market, using entirely text-based displays and keyboard entry — later ports to other systems added animated match-highlight graphics not present in this ZX81 version.

History

Football Manager was a commercial hit, selling 500,000 copies in its first six years, and was ported to a wide range of home computers between 1984 and 1987, spawning a series that continued through Football Manager 3 in 1992.

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Reception

The game was nominated for the 1983 Golden Joystick Award for best strategy game, losing to Melbourne House's The Hobbit, and its ZX Spectrum version was voted the 26th best game of all time in a 2004 Your Sinclair poll.