#63: Championship Manager (Domark, DOS, 1992) 

Nowadays, the tendency to cite so many football statistics from ‘the Premier League era’ means that anything from twenty-four years ago feels a lot older still. Maybe there’s another parallel with the British games history all but swept away after the takeover of bigger ’90s powers. Personally, I have only ever watched football in that era, and grew up playing later editions of Championship Manager. The effect of playing the original, experiencing one all-conquering franchise placed at the cusp of another, is all a bit Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time. Strange names emerge from the mists of history: a ‘Rumbelows Cup’ fixture against ‘Maidstone United’, you say?