Football Manager Review

Any team from the 1982 Football League can be selected, but you'll end up with exactly the same squad of misfits and be unceremoniously plonked in Division Four, regardless of your shirt colour. Your task is, of course, to ascend the league and capture the FA Cup. There's a simplistic transfer market (one player can be bought after every fixture, which means changing your squad is painfully slow) and seven skill levels. That's your lot.

The main challenge is juggling the squad before each fixture to ensure they at least equal the opponent in every area of the field, and occasionally resting players to allow them to recover. In this early incarnation, fixtures are represented by crude stick-figure highlights which show a flurry of attacks from the game. While watching these, it's important to yell "SHOOT, SHOOOOOT!" at your bumbling striker as he languidly dallies with the ball. Then it's back to the main menu to start the whole process again.

Footballing royalty from 1982 - Forest fans rejoice!