The teacups were next!‘Ah where it all began’! Graham ‘Turnip’ Taylor was was still England manager (just!), ‘Pistol’ Pete Sampras was the Wimbledon champion and Manchester United were beginning an era of domination. The year is 1993 and Championship Manager 1993/94 has just hit the shops. The second in what was to become a legendry series of games.The birth of the football management sim as we know it today, Championship Manager 1 hit the shops. And from that day to this Championship Manager and its successor Football Manager have ruled the market in football Management games.To this day, I still unashamedly have a copy installed on my PC and frequently enjoy firing the old girl up every now and again for old time’s sake.

For this game, although groundbreaking at the time was and still is beautifully simplistic. A full season complete in approximately 45 minutes! Yes 45 minutes! In Football Manager 2009 all I’ve managed to do in that time is have 5 transfer bids turned down, declared my interest in signing Kaka and played one pre season friendly away at Bournemouth (which we lost).CM 1 is a timeless classic that you can still enjoy playing now, it gives a welcome break from the in depth world of planning training schedules and deciding what Robinho eats for lunch in FM09.Obviously before you can start enjoying the magic, you have to get into the game first!

I’ve long since lost the booklet with all the game codes in so when it asks me what the score was in line 600 I haven’t got a bloody clue! As a rule though, you can’t go far wrong with 2-1! Auto racing news. You always get in eventually.When starting a new game Liverpool were normally my team of choice, although it was always tempting to pick the cheat side Tranmere. For some reason if you decided to boss them, you were loaded up with £30 million in the bank to spend as you please.

Aug 20, 2015  Championship Manager ’93 took the original concept and refined it. Real player names were added, loading times were reduced (although you could still expect 2-4 hours of processing time at the end of a season) and other cosmetic improvements were made. Championship Manager 97/98 is the final update to the Championship Manager 2 series. It was developed by Sports Interactive and released in October 1997. Data was updated for the 97/98 season and includes several European leagues.

And boy what a side they had! Ged Brannon, John Aldridge and John Morrissey to name just a few. I tell you, it made me the proudest manager on earth when Ged Brannon ‘moved abroad’ at the end of my successful 95/96 season. Not sure who exactly he moved to, as the game wasn’t that detailed, but in my own mind it had to be either Milan or Barcelona. Although probably a more likely destination was Malmo or FC Tirrol Innsbruck, but who cares.The transfers negotiations were wonderfully basic, with all business concluded inside 2 minutes and on one screen.

‘Make an offer for Rob Jones, offer declined, Make another offer, offer accepted. 2 year contact, Rob Jones wants three years, three years it is. Rob Jones wants £3250 per week, Rob Jones accepts £3249 per week, he signs for Tranmere’. Jobs a good un’ who else can I sign before I next exhale.Of course the most exciting screen of the game was the ‘foreign players’ list.

A weird and wonderful unknown world, but look at the names! David Platt, Christian Vieri and the Jewell in the crown Paul Gazza Gascoigne himself!

The day you got Gazza himself to leave Lazio and come and play for Oxford United is without equal the single biggest achievement of your life! Of course 95% of the players on the list are complete and utter crap, but to me the fact they were total dross was never important, after all according to my screen Reynald Deutchser is a German International, that’s good enough for me!The In game screen is where the game came to life, a simple possession and chances screen which never did change that much until the 3-D match engine of FM09. I myself normally lined up with a 1-4-1-4 formation, which was discovered randomly but became the formation that guided me to every trophy available to the club manager. No need for any defence on this game, we’ll just outscore the opposition! Matches frequently ended up in double figures for goals, most if the time in my favour. In one particular season with Liverpool, Nigel Clough bagged 96 goals in a season! Beat that Ronaldo!

No you can’t can you!The on screen commentary was amazing, and you could certainly tell that in the early 90’s the game was still a game for men! Such phrases as ‘Ruddock ticked off, he punched Shearer’ or quite aptly ‘Shearer warned, he elbowed Ruddock’. Every game was complete with this theatre. It had the ability to have you out of your leaping with excitement ‘Shearer clean through!

He’s slides it past the keeper.And it hit’s the upright!’ And then slumped back in your chair devastated.As with every truly great game it also had its comedy glitches. I’m pretty sure that when they made the game, they didn’t design it to be played for 60 seasons on the bounce.

My mate Dave did this and somewhere during the 2050/2051 season every single playing and coaching staff in the game became Ron Atkinson from Malta! Equally funny is the fact that when he tried to fine a player, instead of saying the player thinks it is unfair, he got a message saying ‘we think you’re a right bandit’!All these things add to the magic of this revolutionary title, I for one will always treasure it, and I recommend you download it right now! Go on, turn your head away from Zlatan Ibrohimovic’s obscene wage demands for an hour or so, and nurture the talents of Ged Brannon and John Morrissey, give them they’re dream of a move abroad. Live a little.

Great article! I’m sitting at work and already thinking about the next crap team I want to take to the Premier League! I did have CM 2008 and a few before it, but then I got married, and for the sake of preservation, got rid of them. I then accidentaly downloaded CM94 with the end of season up date, cant think how that happened. Darren Eadie, Akinbiyi, Nick Henry, Ceri Hughes, fantasticand as for crap player who you THINK would be good,Kanchelskis never did a damn thing, Le Tissier was pretty poor, and why oh why do I sign Cobi Jones, stats look good, plays like pants!!Ah well, kills time when I go to Zurich on business, the looks I get sitting on the plane with a cool laptop playing something that looks like it was designed in MS Paint!! ( it probably was!)Cheers!!James.

Foreign players, Richardah, the murky world. Well, there are always those who WILL come.

Vieri will come to any Premier or division 1 club, Guardiola ( though crap in this game) will also come along. Melli comes to the prem or big teams in the 1st. Most of them are pretty poor. Lamptey is the best, worth getting him if you can. His story in the real world is an interesting one, check it out on google. First name, Nii, or Ni.

I dont play the game anymore as I have Windows 7 Premium and cannot get the game to run, a shame really. There are some cracking players in the lower leagues, Ceri Hughes is great, Cambridge have some cracking players, too. Sadly for me, most of the West Brom lot are cack except Bob Taylor, so it takes 3 months to sell the squad!

If anyone knows a way to run it on a Mac or Windows 7, please email me. Dont even waste your time trying to buy Gazza until he is at least 32, and even then you need to be a top 3 in the prem type team.Best bargain, easy.Darren Eadie and Ade Akinbye, pick em both up from Norwich, you can get them as the manager of pretty much any team, even Rochdale! I’ve just finished playing my 10th season on this wonderful game. I’m in control of Portsmouth and have just guided them to the domestic treble and European Cup! I have a squad full of international players (I’ve had Cantona and Gazza to name but 2), and I’ve enjoyed it a little too much considering I’m a 30 year old man who should know better!

I loaded up my 11th season with the idea of taking over a 4th division club, so I resigned from Portsmouth only to be greeted with the infamous “we think you’re a right bandit” message!!! Haven’t laughed so much in years, great game.I use Dosbox to play it btw. And you are still playing it? Get a life, I can’t believe itseriouslywhat is wrong with you??I’m 36 next month and I’m still playing it!!You bandit.I’ve got a copy of Football Manager 2011, snorecant be bothered with it. Wheely 4 game. Far too much detail, having to debate everything with every sodding player just to get him to use his left foot. Nope, Champ man 93 94 is the business.

See him, click him, sign him, play him, list him, flog himall in 10 minutes!!!Cambridge united at the start of the season is the team to raid, danny granville and a few others plus ceri hughes from luton and you’re going up! Loved this game as a kid, haven’t been able to get my “proper” Amiga version (with the broken Foreign Market and crashing every time I try to resign) working again so I had to look around for it.And while I’ve gotten hooked again, I can’t find the version I had anywhere.

The closest I can get has a completely messed up Cambridge Utd squad, one of my fave teams on the old one, no Granville, Micah Hyde, Carlo Corazzin, Jody Craddock and a few others missing on every version I findOh well, I’ll have to settle for the legends of Darren Eadie, Junior Bent and, the true all-time legend of Champ Manager, Gary Bennett(once got him 120 goals in a season for Everton with an average rating of 4.05). Hello!I’m from Brazil and just love this game! It’s the better of all CM’s.By the way, sometime I was playing with Liverpool, winning a game against Man City by 2-0, at 85 minMan City made a tactical move and wins the game by 2-3! I was pissed of, and before the game ends, I saw “opponents team” and observe the changes at Man City’s tactic. I used this “new tactic” and I guess that is a bug in the game, ’cause I was Champion of UCL with Hartlepool (4th division) using this tacticThe tactic is: 1 – 4 – 3 – 3, using 3 Midfilder Center (MC) and 3 atacker center (AC).

I call it as “Compacted Tactic”Its so easy wins that the game became boring, LoL!Hugs!

Ever wanted that version of Championship Manager that had Jurgen Klinsman at Tottenham? The official '94 end of season update.

I was only ever able to find a copy for the Amiga and the performance of the emulators weren't great compared to dosbox. It was a pretty long and complicated task to get up and running and on my Mac just didn't work outright. I needed a copy for the PC that I used to play as a kid that would work on my Windows machine and Mac OS X.After a long search I finally found it. A fully working copy of Championship Manager 93/94 with the '94 End of Season (EOS) update disk data. If you would like to grab a copy along with the emulators and all other versions from the Championship Manager 93/94/95 series then I can send them straight your email!