Football Manager Pico-80s
A football management game inspired by the classic 8-bit games of the early 1980s, including Football Manager and The Boss. You start in Division 4 and work your way up to the top of Division 1.
Competitions include the Four League Divisions, a cup competition and Play-Offs if you miss out on the automatic promotion places.
Transfer
You can buy and sell players (once per week) to improve your squad. Once you enter those menus, you have one chance to buy or sell.
Money
If you run out of money, the bank covers the shortfall automatically and adds it to your loan. If your debts exceed your credit limit after your available funds are taken into account, you are sacked. The credit limit is £250,000 in Division 4 and £1,000,000 in Division 1. Getting sacked deletes your save
Saving
Your game is saved automatically at the end of every season. When you next load the game, you'll be given the choice to start a new game or continue your saved career. Just select "load saved game", and you'll pick up the season you left off.
There's one save slot, so it always holds your most recent completed season. Your progress mid-season is not saved. If you quit during a season and start a new game, that season's progress will be lost.
Feedback
This is a beta release; please report any issues, thoughts and comments in this thread. Now it's your turn to play it.
v0.02.260318 Patch Notes
Bug Fixes
- Fixed game crash on updating league table/league table not updating correctly after promotion.
- Fixed the league table showing corrupt text when changing Divisions.
Improvements
- League results screen now shows division number instead of page number when browsing results
New Features
Goal Celebration
- Added a GOAL banner that displays when either team scores
- Classic ZX Spectrum-inspired yellow and red design
Nice! I chose Liverpool and played it to the end, finished second in the first division (@#€% Coventry)
I found out a loophole: if I sell all the extra players then noone gets injured, also I kept winning almost all games so all players ended up having energy 1 but morale 20 (maybe that's why they kept winning).
In the first division whenever I tried to sell any player the amount offered was always negative (meaning I had to pay).
Not sure what's the limit for loans because at some point I borrowed around 700k I think, and I never got the sack.
I had the pleasure of facing myself lol (Liverpool vs Liverpool). I don't know if I won or lost that match XD
All in all it's a cool game, thanks!
This is really cool. I liked the game simulation, that GOAL hits so good lol. My brother almost exclusively plays football manager games, I'm sure he'll be very into this!!
> I found out a loophole
I hoped no one would find this. I wanted to balance the game by not having the player have too many injuries, so they would have at least 11 players. I should add a minimum squad size before you can sell players.
> In the first division whenever I tried to sell any player the amount offered was always negative (meaning I had to pay).
Yeah, this is a bug. Fix in the next update (coming in five minutes)
> Not sure what's the limit for loans because at some point I borrowed around 700k I think, and I never got the sack.
The limit is 250k in Div 4 and 1m in Div 1. It's you need to max out your loans and then run out of money, so it's pretty hard to get sacked.
> I had the pleasure of facing myself lol (Liverpool vs Liverpool). I don't know if I won or lost that match XD
Yeah, that's another bug (caused by fixing the bug yesterday), also fixed in the next update.
> This is really cool. I liked the game simulation, that GOAL hits so good lol. My brother almost exclusively plays football manager games, I'm sure he'll be very into this!!
Thanks a lot. I hope he likes it.
v0.03.260319 Patch Notes
Bug Fixes
- Fixed negative transfer offers in Division 1 caused by integer overflow
- Fixed teams shown as playing themselves in fixtures after promotion
Football Manager '80s - Patch Notes
v0.4
Bug Fixes
- Fixed player skill dropping to 1
- Fixed match score text not centred correctly on match screen
Gameplay
- Minimum squad size increased to 13 players
- Maximum squad size increased to 17 players
- Player pool expanded from 24 to 42 players, including goalkeepers
- Squad now initialised with correct positional balance (1G, 4D, 4M, 2A + subs)
- Goalkeeper skill now contributes to defence score
Finance
- Maximum loan amount now displayed on finance screen
Menus
- Save/load removed from main menu, replaced with Buy Player
- Main menu reorganised: Team Selection, Buy Player, Sell Player, Finances, League Table, Fixtures, Continue
- Buy Player (like Sell Player) can each only be used once per week
- Transfer market moved from post-match to main menu
Bonjour everyone. It's been a while since our last update, so here's a bumper one for you. Unless anything goes seriously wrong, this should be the last update before full release
Football Manager '80s - Patch Notes
v0.9
Bug Fixes
- Second-half league fixtures desynced from week 19 onwards
- Second-half fixtures now reverse home and away instead of replaying the first half at the same venues
- Cup and playoff matches used the home/away of the previous league game, giving wrong gate receipts
- Playoff away gate receipts calculated from an unrelated club's league position
- Two players were assigned the wrong position
- Playoff draw was never announced on the week 37 news screen
- Being sacked started the new career inside the old one instead of returning cleanly to the title screen
- New career after a sacking inherited the previous squad
- Buy and sell were limited to once per week on screen only; the limit is now enforced
- Failed sale of an injured player still used up the weekly sale
- Squad limit blocked message stated the wrong maximum number of players (17)
- Starting a new game deleted the existing save before a team was chosen
- Simulated cup and playoff ties gave the first-named side an advantage in extra time
- Loan repayments no longer take the bank balance below zero
- Borrowing could exceed the stated credit limit
- Money could overflow and wrap negative after a long successful career
- Scoreline could be briefly overwritten when a goal was scored
- Away league gate receipts were 1/5 of what they should have been
Other changes
- Gate receipts can now fall much further during a losing run, matching the original
- Wage bill in the higher divisions roughly halved
- Sacking now based on debt against available funds rather than debt alone
- Transfer bids can no longer be raised above your available funds
- Tidied up transfer market screen
- Fixtures screen shows a win, draw or loss indicator beside each result
Please leave feedback!
Game is fun! Played two seasons before I knew it :)
I just have one comment : It's too bad that goalkeepers are basically treated as defenders. It's ok to not have a goalkeeper on the pitch, and it's also allowed to have more than one, which felt like cheating :)
The idea was to keep the game as simple as possible, like the 8-bit games it was based on. However, I might add this for the full release.
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