I used to play this for hours on end waiting for me to show up on the transfer list again. Although there is no training involved, the players skill will go up and down. One annoying thing that may happen is if a player breaks his leg he vanishes from your team.īut how much do you expect from a budget release? You have four divisions, the FA cup, European cup as well as a full game save on another tape. On the league table screen, scrolling text along the bottom will show you your gate receipts, wage bill, gas bill and maybe the director's vote of confidence. Once the match is over you are taken through a couple of screens which show the scores and tables. You are also limited to scoring four goals maximum a game as are the opposition. You cannot change the team or make any subs as the match plays. Once you have chosen your best team and formation that is it. Being a text based game, the match day just shows the two teams with the time played and the scores if any.
The game is not without it's probems though. A nice touch in the game is that it keeps a list of your leading goal scorers season after season.
As with these games you can buy and sell players, change the formation of your team to deal with your opponents, if you need to, get a loan from the bank. These stand for check, sell, play, move and formation. To move to the next screen you simply press either c, s, p, m or f. Managing your team is quite straight forward. You only get one man on the bench in each game and three reserve players when purchased to take over injured players. You start with twelve players which you can also rename. Naturally you start in division four, (no sign of the premiership here). With Soccer Boss, you had a choice of 92 teams to choose from of which only 80 could take part. There were many football management games on the cpc and it's rivals and this was my choice back in the eighties.Īlthough these games were quite limited there was still quite some fun to be had trying to get your team to the top. Soccer Boss was originally released as The Boss by Peaksoft before this version by Alternative.