What did the maker of Football Manager do next? Well, it's a football game...
Interview
Football Manager creator Kevin Toms has given us the lowdown on his first football management game in almost 30 years: Football Team Coach.
The iPhone game, which is due to be released at the end of this summer, is a brand new game, but will have distinct echoes of the original Football Manager series that sold millions in the 1980s.
Perhaps the biggest nod to Football Manager’s past is the inclusion of former playing greats, so you will be able to play Kevin Keegan up front for Rochdale, or have Terry Butcher marshalling the defence at Northampton Town.
True to the original game, players will also have to work their way up from League Two – or the fourth division in old money – rather than immediately glory hunt with teams such as Man City, Liverpool and...
Interview
Football Manager creator Kevin Toms has given us the lowdown on his first football management game in almost 30 years: Football Team Coach.
The iPhone game, which is due to be released at the end of this summer, is a brand new game, but will have distinct echoes of the original Football Manager series that sold millions in the 1980s.
Perhaps the biggest nod to Football Manager’s past is the inclusion of former playing greats, so you will be able to play Kevin Keegan up front for Rochdale, or have Terry Butcher marshalling the defence at Northampton Town.
True to the original game, players will also have to work their way up from League Two – or the fourth division in old money – rather than immediately glory hunt with teams such as Man City, Liverpool and...
- 6/4/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
32 years after he first released Football Manager, Kevin Toms is back with a new football management sim for the iPhone
Interview
When Sir Alex Ferguson trotted down the tunnel for the final time last season, people thought the longest running career in football management had come to an end. Not so. Four years before Sir Alex set about transforming Ron Atkinson’s expensively assembled pub team into a trophy photocopier, Kevin Toms released a pioneering game that made Fergusons out of all of us: Football Manager.
Now, more than 30 years since he released what became the blueprint for every football management sim that followed – including the huge franchise that bears the Football Manager name today – Kevin Toms is set to release his new football management game for the iPhone.
Toms, although he perhaps won’t thank me for saying it, is the forefather of football management sims; the Bill Shankly...
Interview
When Sir Alex Ferguson trotted down the tunnel for the final time last season, people thought the longest running career in football management had come to an end. Not so. Four years before Sir Alex set about transforming Ron Atkinson’s expensively assembled pub team into a trophy photocopier, Kevin Toms released a pioneering game that made Fergusons out of all of us: Football Manager.
Now, more than 30 years since he released what became the blueprint for every football management sim that followed – including the huge franchise that bears the Football Manager name today – Kevin Toms is set to release his new football management game for the iPhone.
Toms, although he perhaps won’t thank me for saying it, is the forefather of football management sims; the Bill Shankly...
- 5/12/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
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