{"id":24579,"date":"2023-11-30T15:34:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T15:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/?page_id=24579"},"modified":"2023-11-30T15:37:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T15:37:38","slug":"fm-history-why-i-love-it","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/fm-history-why-i-love-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wonderful World of Football Manager: FM History & Why I Love It"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FootballAs we all know, Football Manager is the biggest and most played football management game in the world. Millions of fans play the game daily, and every new edition takes the immersion into the game to the next level.<\/p>\n

Here, I will go into the game’s history and its connections to real-life football and talk about my history with the game. Hopefully, this will be an interesting read for both new and experienced fans. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

The history of Football Manager<\/h2>\n
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As many people will know, Football Manager is not the original iteration of the game. The game started life as Championship Manager in 1992 and quickly gained massive popularity as the most in-depth football management simulation.<\/p>\n

After that huge success, things seemingly took a turn for the worse in 2003, as Sports Interactive broke away<\/a> from the game’s original publisher, Eidos Interactive.<\/p>\n

Sports Interactive retained the source code for the game but not the Championship Manager naming rights. This led to the announcement that SI would continue their project under the name Football Manager. Eidos was left with the Championship Manager name but little else, as they had no source code or developer to continue the series.<\/p>\n

\"footballWithout a publisher, Sports Interactive partnered with video game giant Sega, and in 2006, the publisher acquired the rights to the game entirely. The first iteration of Football Manager came in 2005 in the shape of FM 2005, which competed with Eidos\u2019 Championship Manager 5, a game made in conjunction with Beautiful Game Studios.<\/p>\n