Kenny Dalglish Soccer Manager
Encyclopedia
Kenny Dalglish Soccer Manager is a football computer game that was released exclusively to Europe in 1989.
as he manages an English football
team from the Football League Fourth Division
right to the Football League First Division
.
By 1989, Dalglish was hardly playing for Liverpool F.C.
anymore so a computer game had to be made in order to adapt to his new role as a manager
. Dalglish eventually would retire from the athletic aspect of professional football after the May 9, 1990 game between Liverpool and Derby County F.C.
. As of May 12, 2011, Dalglish is again permanent manager for the same Liverpool team that he became famous for playing with.
The game is a spiritual successor to the original computer game Football Manager (referring to the original 1982 series; not the revised 2005 series).
s and menu
s; dragging the "managerial football" genre into the 1990s. A chairman can be consulted if players made the right decision while a physiotherapist
can check for player injuries and the football scout
can find players that can be recruited into the team. The computer gaming magazine Your Sinclair
gave this game a rating of 85% in its July 1991 issue. Match highlight
s can be either enable or disabled; but the results tell the identical story as the highlights.
There are no random "game-changing" events - everything can become routine after a while. All the images are done in the 16-color styling of the 8-bit computer systems of its time.
Summary
This video game involves taking the role of Kenny DalglishKenny Dalglish
Kenneth Mathieson "Kenny" Dalglish MBE is a Scottish former footballer and the current manager of Liverpool F.C.. In a 22-year playing career, he played for two club teams, Celtic and Liverpool, winning numerous honours with both. He is the most capped Scottish player, with 102 appearances, and...
as he manages an English football
Football in England
Association football is a national sport in England, where the first modern set of rules for the code were established in 1863, which were a major influence on the development of the modern Laws of the Game...
team from the Football League Fourth Division
Football League Fourth Division
The Fourth Division of The Football League was the fourth-highest division in the English football league system from the 1958–59 season until the creation of the Premier League prior to the 1992–93 season...
right to the Football League First Division
Football League First Division
The First Division was a division of The Football League between 1888 and 2004 and the highest division in English football until the creation of the Premier League in 1992. The secondary tier in English football has since become known as the Championship....
.
By 1989, Dalglish was hardly playing for Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...
anymore so a computer game had to be made in order to adapt to his new role as a manager
Manager (association football)
In association football, a manager is responsible for running a football club or a national team. The manager of a professional club is responsible directly to the club president. The position of manager is almost exclusively used in British football...
. Dalglish eventually would retire from the athletic aspect of professional football after the May 9, 1990 game between Liverpool and Derby County F.C.
Derby County F.C.
Derby County Football Club is an English football based in Derby. the club play in the Football League Championship and is notable as being one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888 and is, therefore, one of only ten clubs to have competed in every season of the English...
. As of May 12, 2011, Dalglish is again permanent manager for the same Liverpool team that he became famous for playing with.
The game is a spiritual successor to the original computer game Football Manager (referring to the original 1982 series; not the revised 2005 series).
Gameplay
The game is powered mainly by iconComputer icon
A computer icon is a pictogram displayed on a computer screen and used to navigate a computer system or mobile device. The icon itself is a small picture or symbol serving as a quick, intuitive representation of a software tool, function or a data file accessible on the system. It functions as an...
s and menu
Menu (computing)
In computing and telecommunications, a menu is a list of commands presented to an operator by a computer or communications system. A menu is used in contrast to a command-line interface, where instructions to the computer are given in the form of commands .Choices given from a menu may be selected...
s; dragging the "managerial football" genre into the 1990s. A chairman can be consulted if players made the right decision while a physiotherapist
Physical therapy
Physical therapy , often abbreviated PT, is a health care profession. Physical therapy is concerned with identifying and maximizing quality of life and movement potential within the spheres of promotion, prevention, diagnosis, treatment/intervention,and rehabilitation...
can check for player injuries and the football scout
Scout (sport)
In professional sports, scouts are trained talent evaluators who travel extensively for the purposes of watching athletes play their chosen sports and determining whether their set of skills and talents represent what is needed by the scout's organization...
can find players that can be recruited into the team. The computer gaming magazine Your Sinclair
Your Sinclair
Your Sinclair or YS as it was commonly abbreviated, was a British computer magazine for the Sinclair range of computers, mainly the ZX Spectrum.-History:...
gave this game a rating of 85% in its July 1991 issue. Match highlight
Highlight
Highlight may refer to:* In photography, any of the brightest parts of a subject, in contraposition to "shadow"* An especially significant or interesting detail or phenomenon.Highlight is also used in the following expressions:...
s can be either enable or disabled; but the results tell the identical story as the highlights.
There are no random "game-changing" events - everything can become routine after a while. All the images are done in the 16-color styling of the 8-bit computer systems of its time.