longish read but worth, it shows the value of computer games to some extent

I play games online or offline almost everyday. PC mainly. It is pure escapism. I follow and donate to a charity that ables disabled people to play games called Special Effect. The work they do is phenomenal.

 

I think the last games I played were Manic Miner on a Spectrum or Space Invaders arcade game. I can't remember the order.

I do sometimes wonder what these new arcade / computer games are like.

 

Not as good as Manic Miner or Dynamite Dan on Spectrum +. My favourite was Fred, such a simple game but played for,hours.

 

I used to love The Boss. Kids today would laugh their heads off at it but it was brilliant back then.

Jet Set Willy was pretty good too.

 

Here you go lads. Download an emulator and whatever games and have at it.

https://www.worldofspectrum.org/

I used to play loads on my uncles speccy in the 80's. Got my own Atari in the late 80's.

 

I had a Vic 20 then a C64. I think Blitz was the first game I ever played.

 

I am playing an online free to play game called World of Warships, it is mostly keeping me sane.

 

I used to give my keyboard some hammer doing the 100m in Daley Thompson's Decathlon.

 

FM is life. <3

 

I used to love and hate. manic Miner in equal measures. Used to love the game but not having a save function so constantly having to start from the beginning, and that background music used to really get inside your head!

 

Eugene's lare. I still remember it all these years later. And the cheat card.

 

Good game . Played it for a few months but did nt have the time to get the most from it . Got to put the hours in unless your willing to spend lots of money .

 

Do you ever muck about with the editor? I created a worldwide Champions League competition to replace the Club World Cup. In a group at the minute consisting of Barcelona, Atlanta United, Chapacoense and Barnsley. Reyt mix

 

Books are escapism, the cinema is escapism - yet there's still some who 'frown' on people playing games......

 

Also the biggest and most profitable entertainment industry too.

 

I've been called all the names under the sun for playing games at 50!! Don't care !! Was in at the beginning when al this started - been a big part of my life. Still got my xbox which I spend time on when I have a spare hour

 

Overtook film industry a year or two ago as the most profitable entertainment industry- Gta v wipes the floor with highest grossing film in terms of revenue generated

 

A little bit, but the game itself is hard enough without fiddling with the underlying data.

What I am more likely to do is download someone else's edited data and run that: if there's a USSR league or an Iberian league or a Yugoslav one, I find that more interesting than starting off in the Hungarian second division or whatever.

The most I have ever really done with the editor is to make Belfast Celtic as big as Barcelona, just to see the carnage it caused in the rest of the leagues.

On FM19, Larne were taken over by whichever al-Thani it was who owned either Malaga or Mallorca in real-life, and Belfast Celtic appointed Pep Guardiola as manager at the end of the first season having just won the third division. Belfast Celtic and Larne would get to Champions League quarter-finals and Europa League finals. The likes of Porto and Milan would turn up and be given a reight scare.

I wanted to do it because I was interested to see how far up the UEFA league rankings a small country with one vast club could get, and when I stopped running it in holiday mode in about 2040, the Northern Irish league was seventh in Europe.

It didn't really make Northern Ireland any better as an international team, though.

One of the most challenging scenarios in FM is this: to make Vaduz of Liechtenstein, or Wellington Phoenix, the best club side in the world whilst simultaneously taking charge of either Liechtenstein or New Zealand's national team with a view to winning the World Cup. Those two clubs are special because they're foreign clubs playing games in the Swiss/Australian leagues as there is no domestic league for them to play in. Bring your youth players through, sell them onto big foreign clubs, replace them with other domestic youth players, and you have the ones you just sold to select for a stronger national side.

The computer couldn't make either Belfast Celtic or Northern Ireland the best in the world, despite Celtic being the size of Barcelona (reputation 10000) and expanding their stadium over time to more than two million. So with no money in Vaduz or Wellington, I'd say it's almost impossible. Yet someone has done it with Vaduz, I was reading.

 

I used to get proper into it until about 8 or 9 years ago. I've been playing it since the mid 90s when it was CM.

Last time I played it properly I took over Stalybridge and got them into Europe. There was something i think was called the pentagon challenge where you would start unemployed and then have to win the 5 equivalent champions leagues in the world in the same save game. I never got round to trying it but sounded like a lot of work!

Over recent years ive mostly played on my phone (until recently i was managing Copenhagen) but plan to get back into the desktop version whilst we're on lockdown.