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LMA Manager
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I never got in to that. I had a brief flirtation with Ultimate Soccer Manager for a short while. I got bored of messing about with the burger prices and quickly reverted back to Championship Manager.
I remember the excitement of getting Championship Manager Italia and having so many subs to use! That must have been the mid 90s
I remember the excitement of getting Championship Manager Italia and having so many subs to use! That must have been the mid 90s
shaunslats
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It's all about football manager!
mr sheen
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- Jan 17, 2008
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I had that, think it was one for the completist. Felt it was spoiled by the fact I knew hardly any of the players tho!
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It was quite tricky. Football Italia on a Sunday afternoon was a useful scouting tool!
Cian
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Messing with the burger prices was one of the wonders of USM.
HastingsSeagull
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USM was all about the stadium........ so weird other manager games (that get the rest right) didn't steal the layout etc.
Jimmy Grimble
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The LMA I had on Playstation used to have a glitch whereby every first match of the season, regardless of team, division or country, I would lose 8-1. Needless to say it didn't last long! 
Grombleton
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- Dec 31, 2011
- 7,356
I played LMA 2002 on the PS2 to death - getting the albion promoted using Bobby Z and Carl Leaburn as my strikeforce....top two scorers in the country.
Used to love it.
Used to love it.
shaolinpunk
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I used to LOVE USM98-99
Two big memories are
- creating a kickoff routine where the goalkeeper took kickoff and would inexplicably pick the ball up on the halfway line and punt it to the striker that has legged it down the pitch
- needing a win to secure the league title, offering my entire transfer budget to the other manager as a bung, the bung being accepted then that team going on to beat me anyway and I get investigated for match fixing and ultimately sacked
Two big memories are
- creating a kickoff routine where the goalkeeper took kickoff and would inexplicably pick the ball up on the halfway line and punt it to the striker that has legged it down the pitch
- needing a win to secure the league title, offering my entire transfer budget to the other manager as a bung, the bung being accepted then that team going on to beat me anyway and I get investigated for match fixing and ultimately sacked
KJP
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I had a few LMAs I did some of research for 2002 I think, had my name in the manual
Sergei's Celebration
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Finding the hexi that related to cash in hand on the PC for a football game in the early-mid 90's and never ever needing to worry about anything
turienzo's lovechild
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- Oct 25, 2003
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lma manager was too fiddly for me...i just don't think management games work on consoles for some reason (i'm in no way a game buff so can't provide any reasoning for this, just personal preference)
USM was really fun and the first management game i played...infuriating at times, but the ridiculous inclusion of things like bribes, bungs and the ability to set merchandise prices (how many managers actually do that?!) made it a fun play. Plus the crown in the jewel was ultimately the ability to go mental on the stadium. It's a shame that there weren't many options other than simply making it big...it was quite a basic game but i feel that another game could've developed the concept. FM/CM has never bothered with the stadium thing.
i was young at the time and during that era, 'cheats' were all the rage....on USM if you offered one of your coaches a contract of 99,999,999 they demanded a contract of something like -13,000,000....ie they gave you 13m a week...you just did that with all of your coaches and soon you were absolutely loaded enough to splash the cash on jari litmanen and mark bosnich #warchest
USM was really fun and the first management game i played...infuriating at times, but the ridiculous inclusion of things like bribes, bungs and the ability to set merchandise prices (how many managers actually do that?!) made it a fun play. Plus the crown in the jewel was ultimately the ability to go mental on the stadium. It's a shame that there weren't many options other than simply making it big...it was quite a basic game but i feel that another game could've developed the concept. FM/CM has never bothered with the stadium thing.
i was young at the time and during that era, 'cheats' were all the rage....on USM if you offered one of your coaches a contract of 99,999,999 they demanded a contract of something like -13,000,000....ie they gave you 13m a week...you just did that with all of your coaches and soon you were absolutely loaded enough to splash the cash on jari litmanen and mark bosnich #warchest