Tactical Manager is a football management simulator video game for the Commodore Amiga, Atari ST

Atari ST

The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals...

 and DOS

DOS

DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related...

 platforms. It was developed by Camy Maertens and published by Black Legend Software

Black Legend (software publisher)

Black Legend was an Amiga and PC games publisher, based first in Switzerland, then in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, and finally in Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England...

 in 1994.

Giovanni Trapattoni

Giovanni Trapattoni

Giovanni Trapattoni , sometimes known as "Trap" or "Il Trap", is an Italian football coach and former player, considered the most successful club coach in the history of Serie A. As a player he was part of Italy's squad at the 1962 FIFA World Cup....

 appears in the game cover.

Gameplay

Tactical Manager is a football management simulator that allows one to 46 players to play simultaneously. There are no set goals, but the aim is to manage a football team to be as successful as possible. To achieve this the player can pick the team, set tactics and buy and sell players.

Reception

Tactical Manager received mixed reviews. CU Amiga magazine rated the game 87%, calling it "Extremely involving", while Amiga User International

Amiga User International

Amiga User International was a monthly computer magazine published in its later years by AUI Limited, it was the first dedicated Amiga magazine in Europe and in comparison to other Amiga magazines, AUI had a more serious perspective...

magazine rated it 45% and said that the game looks dated when compared to other management games available. Later on a new game called tactical manager 2 was released.