Hello there. My name’s Christopher, I’m 29 years old, and I live in north-east London. I mainly use this blog to write about the “Football Manager” video game series… but not today. I want to write about something much closer to me.
Today is World Autism Awareness Day, when people of the autistic spectrum come together to raise awareness of their conditions. Today, I’m going to write about my experiences of living with Asperger syndrome. Continue reading “Living with Asperger’s” →
You might remember that I reviewed Soccer Manager 2019 – a free-to-play single-player game currently available on Steam and other platforms – a couple of weeks ago. That game wasn’t very good, but plenty of you seemed to be interested in my review, which attracted nearly 100 unique views in its first 24 hours. For a relatively new blog like Fuller FM, those numbers are quite impressive.
Today, I’m going to be looking at the multiplayer game that spawned SM19. Soccer Manager Worlds is one of the biggest online football management games around, with over 1 million users logging in every month. I myself have been playing that game since 2007… but not anymore.
This is the story of what happens when a video game developer horribly neglects its most popular title. Continue reading “Soccer Manager Worlds: Game, Neglected” →
It’s hard to believe that I have been playing Football Manager (or Championship Manager, as it was) for nearly two decades. I was eight years old when I first set out to prove myself as a virtual Arsene Wenger, and I’m still going now as I near my thirties.
My love affair with CM/FM, like any relationship, has had its peaks and troughs. I’ll go through some of the trials and tribulations I’ve had on this game since I was introduced to Championship Manager 3 during the 1998/1999 season.
I should note that I have retrospectively played the original Championship Manager (released way back in 1992), CM2, and CM97/98 since I started out with CM3. I shall not be recounting those earlier games in this article, though I may look back at them in the future.
In this second part, I will chronicle my experiences from Football Manager 2011 – which got me back into the series after an anger-induced break – to the recently-released FM19. You can read Part 1 here. Continue reading “Football Manager and Me: Part 2” →
It’s hard to believe that I have been playing Football Manager (or Championship Manager, as it was) for nearly two decades. I was eight years old when I first set out to prove myself as a virtual Arsène Wenger, and I’m still going now as I near my thirties.
My love affair with CM/FM, like any relationship, has had its peaks and troughs. I’ll go through some of the trials and tribulations I’ve had on this game since I was introduced to Championship Manager 3 during the 1998/1999 season.
I should note that I have retrospectively played the original Championship Manager (released way back in 1992), CM2, and CM97/98 since I started out with CM3. I shall not be recounting those earlier games in this article, though I may look back at them in the future.
In this first part, I will chronicle my experiences from the Championship Manager 3 demo to Football Manager 2008 – a game so buggy that it almost killed my enthusiasm for this franchise completely. Continue reading “Football Manager and Me: Part 1” →
I was browsing the Sports Interactive forums on Friday afternoon when I came across some rather sad, if not surprising news.
Prima Games – who had published video game strategy guides for the best part of 30 years – would be shutting down in the second quarter of 2019. The closure was announced in an internal memo from its parent company DK (formerly known as Dorling Kindersley).
These days, if you need help on a particular game, there’s no need to buy a bulky book when you can find all the tips and hints you need online without paying. Back in the days before the Internet was massive, though, Prima guides were almost essential reading for strategy gamers such as yours truly… Continue reading “Remembering the Prima Games strategy guides” →
Welcome to Fuller FM – a new blog dedicated to football management PC games, and in particular the award-winning ‘Football Manager’ series.
Before I go on, I’ll quickly introduce myself. My name is Christopher Fuller, but you can call me Chris for short. I am a 28-year-old from north-east London, and I have supported Arsenal for two decades. More importantly, as far as this site goes, I have been playing Football Manager – or Championship Manager, as it used to be – since the CM3 era in the late 1990s.
For most of my CM/FM life, I have always wanted to write and tell stories about my adventures in management. This passion I have for storytelling has grown more serious over the last few years, and in 2014, I started publishing my work on the official Sports Interactive forums. Some of you may know me there as CFuller.
My stories have developed a strong following in the ‘FM Stories’ section of the SI Community, and have been nominated for (and even won) the sub-forum’s annual awards. Now, though, I feel that it’s time to take my exploits to a wider audience. That is where this blog comes in. Continue reading “Welcome to Fuller FM” →
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