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Player Manager 98/99

aka: Guy Roux Manager '99, Player Manager Ninety Nine, Player Manager Novanta Nove, Player Manager Época 98-99
Moby ID: 25724
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Like its ancestors, this title marks a return to the popular managing game where the player not only is a starting manager, but also a footballer close to retirement age (the player, however, does not control his footballing avatar directly in the field). Players are rated in 18 attributes (plus some hidden attributes), and eight formations. Several tactics give the manager a lot of depth to change into the style more suitable for the footballers available. As there isn't a stat to display the overall value of a player (other than his market value), the player has to choose the starting eleven according to the desired playing style by their individual strengths: defenders with strong heading should be placed in the middle, fast dribblers in the flanks and so on, as well as using the post-match analysis statistics to see how well they performed.

Like the older titles, the game uses the Kick Off engine to simulate games, in this case Kick Off 97. Other match simulation options include a 2D radar (which can quickly change to the 3D engine in key parts of the game such as goals and cards) and a CM-like text mode.

If two players want to discover who has the strongest team, they can do so by choosing the "Friendly" mode. This allows to import team data from the floppy drive, and play a dream match between them.

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Average score: 51% (based on 13 ratings)

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Trivia

While both Actua Soccer 3 and FIFA 99 distributors were notified to remove the games from store shelves due to unlicensed use of Portuguese club/player data, Player Manager 98/99 included the proper license from FutePro.

However, despite the license, it was a massive flop in a market completely dominated by Championship Manager 97/98.

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Player Manager 2000
Released 2000 on Windows, PlayStation
Alex Ferguson's Player Manager 2001
Released 2000 on PlayStation, 2001 on PlayStation 2
Player Manager 2003
Released 2003 on Windows, Macintosh
Ultimate Soccer Manager 98-99
Released 1999 on Windows
Kevin Keegan's Player Manager
Released 1993 on SNES
Alex Ferguson's Player Manager 2002
Released 2001 on PlayStation 2, PlayStation
Total Football Management
Released 1996 on DOS
Championship Manager: Season 99/00
Released 1999 on Windows, Macintosh
Football World Manager
Released 1998 on Windows

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Game added by Luis Silva.

PlayStation added by Kabushi.

Additional contributors: Kabushi, Dudujones.

Game added December 28, 2006. Last modified December 15, 2023.