| Kenny Dalglish Soccer Manager | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Cognito[1] |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Designer(s) | Ian Copeland[1] |
| Platform(s) | Commodore 64[1] ZX Spectrum[1] Atari ST[1] Atari 8-bit family[1] Amstrad CPC[1] Amiga[1] |
| Release date(s) | |
| Genre(s) | Association football management[2] |
| Mode(s) | Single-player Multiplayer |
Kenny Dalglish Soccer Manager is a football computer game that was released exclusively to Europe in 1989.
This video game involves taking the role of Kenny Dalglish as he manages an English football team from the Football League Fourth Division right to the Football League First Division.[1]
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.[1] Dalglish eventually would retire from the athletic aspect of professional football after the May 9, 1990 game between Liverpool and Derby County F.C..[3] As of May 12, 2011, Dalglish is again permanent manager for the same Liverpool team that he became famous for playing with.[4]
The game is a spiritual successor to the original computer game Football Manager (referring to the original 1982 series; not the revised 2005 series).[5]
The game is powered mainly by icons and menus; dragging the "managerial football" genre into the 1990s.[1] 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.[1] The computer gaming magazine Your Sinclair gave this game a rating of 85% in its July 1991 issue.[1] Match highlights can be either enable or disabled; but the results tell the identical story as the highlights.[5]
There are no random "game-changing" events - everything can become routine after a while.[5] All the images are done in the 16-color styling of the 8-bit computer systems of its time.[5]
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