Tactical Manager
Tactical Manager is an association football management simulator video game for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. It was developed by Camy Maertens of the then-defunct Essex-based UK developer Talking Birds and published by Black Legend Software in 1994.
Tactical Manager
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- 1994
- Genre
- association football video game
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Tactical Manager is an association football management simulator video game for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. It was developed by Camy Maertens of the then-defunct Essex-based UK developer Talking Birds and published by Black Legend Software in 1994.
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• Developer — Talking Birds • Publisher — Black Legend Software • Designer — Camy Maertens • Released — 1994 • Genre — Sports video game, simulation • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Platforms — Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS
Gameplay
Gameplay
Tactical Manager is a football management simulator that allows one to 46 players to play simultaneously. There are no set goals, but the aim is to manage a football team to be as successful as possible. To achieve this the player can pick the team, set tactics and buy and sell players.
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Tactical Manager received mixed reviews. CU Amiga magazine rated the game 87%, calling it "Extremely involving", while Amiga User International magazine rated it 45% and said that the game looks dated when compared to other management games available. Later on a new game called Tactical Manager 2 was released.
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- 1.Talking Bird Ltd's Contact page. Talking Birds Ltd's official website.
- 2.Black Legend. Tactical Manager manual. 1994.
- 3.Dillon, Tony. Tactical Manager review. CU Amiga. EMAP. June 1994.
- 4.AUI Ltd. Tactical Manager review. Amiga User International. October 1994.
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