Since I literally wrote the book on football games history, it’s about time I finally chimed in here instead of just checking for new posts every time I drop by to lurk the forums.
As noted by others, there were a fair number of notable management games that made their way to DOS, including the Championship Manager, Premier Manager, and Ultimate Soccer Manager series, and FIFA was on DOS for its first few years as well. Likewise, the first Actua Soccer was a big hit on DOS.
Football Fanatic, mentioned above, is a good freeware one, as were the New Era Software games like One-Nil (which had a match engine with textmode graphics!).
Others include The Soccer Wizard (another freeware game), the Supremo series, Ubisoft’s Action Soccer, and a cool Korean game called Super Action Ball.
So there’s lots that could be talked about, both commercial games and from the freeware/shareware scene. If it’s ever decided to do an episode on this topic, I’d be happy to come on and lend my expertise to the discussion.
