GameStop shopping and mail from Japan

Went to GameStop this weekend and bought some Xbox 360 games and a Wii game.

Silent Hill: Homecoming, Silent Hill Downpour, Prince of Persia, Far Cry 3 and Red Steel. All used games and probably not the best deals, but I wanted them.

Resident Evil 6 I first bought used at GameStop but then found it cheaper and new still in plastic at another shop for half the price. Looked like it was wrongly priced because all other copies of it was more expensive. So got lucky there.

I went back to GameStop and changed Resident Evil 6 for Far Cry 3.

I also got a package from Japan. A Famicom game I order on Ebay.

Ninja Hattori-kun

Now I'm just waiting form my Famicom to arrive that I order this weekend.

Some empty boxes and more games

Bought a box filled with some stuff from a guy in Sweden. The main reason I bought the box where for the Super Mario bros. 2 and 3 boxes with instructions to go with the lonely carts I had. So now I have those complete. Although I have the Scandinavia cart, and instructions, for SMB 3 and this was German boxes, but still looks better on the shelf. SMB 2 I had the German cart so that is fully complete now.
Also in this box was a box and instructions for the Game Boy game Golf, a complete Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam for Game Boy Advance, Sim City 3000 World Edition, CD and cover, for PC, a still in plastic Pipe Mania for Playstation 2 and the same game complete for Nintendo DS, instructions for Tetris for Gameboy, instructions for the Game Boy, instructions for Baseball for NES, instructions for Wayne Gretsky for Nintendo 64, and a bag for the Game Boy.
All this I bough for 300 sek (about $37).

I also bought some stuff from Tradera (Swedish Ebay). The Sega Mega Drive games Stargate, European Club Soccer, James Bond 007 The Duel, The Ottifants and Pac-Mania. All is complete.
I also bought some German instruction booklets to complete some of the German NES and SNES games I had in box, Rad Racer, Tetris, Track & Field II, and another Super Mario Bros 2 for the NES. Super R-Type. Lemmings 2 and Magical Quest starring Mickey Mouse for the SNES.

Newest addidtions

Got some new games for Playstation 2 last week. Broken Sword - The Sleeping Dragon and Prince of Persia - Warrior Within. Got a 2 for 1deal on Ebay.
Also got two controller extensions for Sega Mega Drive. Can also be used on Amiga and Commodore 64. Also bought on Ebay from China.

Think I forgot to mention that I got RC Pro Am and Kung Fu for NES a couple of weeks ago. Both in small boxes that were in not the best condition.

Also got 11 GameBoy plastic cases for the carts. Also from Ebay and China, so they are not original cases.

And I also downloaded Amnesia - The Dark Descent for free on Steam.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - The Action game

I decided to play through Indiana Jones and the Last crusade on Commodore 64. I own two copies, both on cassette. One in big jewel case and one in a collection box with Robocop, Ghostbusters II and Batman, called Hollywood Collection. Both I've had in my collection since I was a kid.
I played this a lot as a kid. Never beat it, so this was my mission as I started it.

The game has 5 stages. The first stage you are in a cave trying to find The Cross of Coronado and is one together with stage 3 the hardest stages.
Second stage you run atop of a train and this is by far the easiest level.
Third stage you are in the Catacombs in Venice also the stage ends with you going up the wall of Castle Brunwald.
Fourth stage you are on board a Zeppelin and needs to find Indy's dads diary and escape the Zeppelin.
Fifth and last stage you have to get to the Holy Grail before the time runs out, to save Indy's father, and try to avoid all the traps.
Each of the stages needs to be loaded after completing the previous stage.
Indy has 5 lives but you are given unlimited continues up until the last stage. If you die and get game over you need to load the game again.

It follows the movie pretty OK. Although you are adult Indy for the first two stages where in the movie it was young Indy that was in the cave and on the train.

I must say I really like the graphics. Very good for C64, I think. The thing that bothers me most is the controls. It's very easy to miss a simple jump sometimes.

I had to play both of my copies. First one I played, in the jewel case, had a bug when I tried to take the Grail in the end. Nothing happened.
The one in the Hollywood Collection was a bit different. First you load the title screen and get a message to reset the counter, probably so you can load first stage faster if you need to restart, then load the first stage.
Also in this copy I experienced a bug. Second stage was totally messed up, but the later stages was good and it was possible to grab the Grail in the end.

I'm also missing the copy protection for the jewel case version, so need to find that some how, but I have it in the Hollywood Collection.

After beating this I decided to try out the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis version, which I never had played before.

The settings of the levels are the same, but level design is different, except that level 3 is just the catacombs and level 4 is Castle Brunwald and there is no Zeppelin level.
Also every level, except the 5th have a boss fight.
This games is also much harder, and you only get 2 continues.
But after some frustrating hours I finally was able beat it.

I liked both versions. Even though I hated the Mega Drive version while playing it. But after beating it I sort of liked it. It gave a challenge.

Down here you can see videos of me beating both versions.

Commodore 64

Sega Mega Drive

PC deal

I got contacted by a guy on Facebook who had some PC games he wanted to sell. Nothing really exciting- I gave him an offer for all but he felt it was to low. And I understand him, was a very low offer.

But I did buy 3 of the PC games. Cutthroats, looks a lot like Sid Meier's Pirates, Myth The Fallen Lords and Return to Krondor by Sierra, which looks very promising. I had never heard of these games, but the boxes look really nice and was in almost new condition.

I also got 3 Playstation 1 games thrown in to the deal, Viva Football, complete but with broken cover, Hidden & Dangerous, also complete but a small scratch on the CD, and 007 The World is Not Enough, which I already have in a double box with Tomorrow Never Dies, but is nice to have on it's own. Although the instructions was missing so a little bummed there.

I am a big Bond fan and have decided to try and collect all the Bond games I can find.

I also bought Illusion of Time, cart only, for SNES, I have Illusion of Gaia which is the American version of the same game but haven't been able to get it to work with my SNES adaptor, so I decided to buy this also.

It was a decent price, at least compared to prices in Norway and Sweden. Bought it from Germany, but it was the UK version so English text in the game.

Alien Breed

On of my favourite games when I was you was Alien Breed. Me and a friend used to play multiplayer and had a lot of fun. I liked Alien Breed: Tower Assault the most which I thought was the second one, but now know it's actually the third game in the series.

So when I decided to collect video games Alien Breed was one of the first game I bought.
I bought the Special Edition '92 version, which is a bit different then the first Alien Breed game. I did not know that when I bought it.

This is actually a budget version that they released before the second game, The Horror Continues.

I still really enjoyed this game and had great fun beating it.
I will now try and find the first game and the sequels.

If you like to see me beat the game, watch the video below.

REVIEW: Castlevania II: Simon's Quest

I'm a big fan of the Castlevania games, much thanks to Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (but mostly for Symphony of the Night for PS1), so this was a must have in my collection.
I know many thinks this is a shitty game. Hell Angry Video Game Nerd made an episode of how bad this is. But I always liked it, even though it is very cryptic at times.

I have very fond memories of watching my older brother and cousin play this when I was young, and then later I got to play it but not sure if I ever managed to beat it back then.
It was not until I downloaded it on my Wii's Virtual Console I think I beat it first.

It's been a couple of years since then and I tried to beat it the other day on NES without walkthorugh.

I didn't remember much so it took some time, and I did get stuck one time and actually had to check what it was I had missed. But I did manage to beat it. It is not that hard. The thing that makes it hard is the cryptic puzzles. The enemies are vary simple compared to the first and third Castlevania. Dracula extremely easy if you know what do to.

But still I like this game and it is a classic and for me a must have in a NES collection, toghether with the other two for the system (which I don't have yet, but will get eventually).
Also this is the cheapest of the Castlevania games for the NES.

You can watch me playthrough the whole game here or watch the highlights of me beating it.
I got the bad ending this time but will soon playthrough it again and go for the normal and good ending.

Got a package from Japan

This week I got some games I ordered from Japan. They where both complete with box and instructions.

The games are Mystery Circle, a puzzle game like Tetris.Blocks are falling and you control a spaceship and have to draw a line around the blocks to get them to disappear. Looks pretty fun.
The other is Tengai Makyō Zero, Far East of Eden Zero. A RPG that is supposed to be pretty good. Hard for me to play because it's all in Japanese, but I liked the box and it was not expensive so I bought it.
Also it didn't work with my adaptor so haven't been able to test it.

I'm now on Twitch!

I started an Twitch account and will be playing through some of my games.

Today I will be playing Alien Breed on my Amiga 500

My twitch channel

This weeks new stuff

I got some new games this week. Evil Within and Thief for Xbox 360 new and still in plastic.
City Crisis for PS2 also still in plastic.
Enter The Matrix for Gamecube, Grand Theft Auto London and Resident Evil 2 for PS1, F1 World Championship Edition and Super Smash TV for SNES, Tennis, Popeye 2, Pokémon Gold, Armorines, Micke Mouse and Dr. Franken for Gameboy.
Also got an UA Universal Adaptor Expert Version for SNES.
I also got an adaptor for NES to play Famicom games (not in picture)

REVIEW: Chrono Trigger PS1

So I just beat Chrono Trigger for the first time. I really liked it.
For you who don't know of it, Chrono Trigger is a RPG by Square who is most famous for the Final Fantasy series.
It was first released on Super Nintendo in 1995 and later ported to the Playstation in 1999.
I have the PS1 version in a compilation called "Final Fantasy Chronicles" together with Final Fantasy IV, and I know that it's consider to be worse then the SNES version because of the loading times, and yes that is the main fault with this game.
It loads every time you want to go to the status screen, and also when you want to change characters.
But I really like the Anime scenes the have put in.
Looks really nice.

Compared to Final Fantasy I find this to be a little easier. No random attacks on world map and you see most enemies so you can just avoid them if you like. Not suggested thou because you need to level up, but it's good to have the option. At least when you are backtracking and fighting low level enemies just gets annoying.

I also like the humour in it. A lot of jokes, some very silly but I always like a bad joke every now and then.

All in all. A very good game that I recommend. Not as good as Final Fantasy IV but not far from it.
I will try and grab a SNES copy in the future but it is quite expensive, around $100, and it was only released in the US and Japan.
But you can also find it on Nintendo Virtual Console, Nintendo DS about, Playstation Network and even on mobile.

I payed about $17 including shipping to Norway for mine so you can get it with out spending $100.

New PC game

One PC game I have many fond memories of from the 90's was the horror/puzzle game The 11th Hour.
I had totally forgotten about this game up until a week ago, when I for some reason started to remember it.
I asked for it on a videogame Facebook page I'm a member of and got a fast reply. A guy had it and was kind enough to sell it to me.
It's in perfect condition. Almost new. Only a small dent on the box and a little worn on the edges, but CD's look like they never been used.

Will be neet to play this again.

Some new PC games and two for the PS3

I had told myself to take a small break from buying games. At least for a month since I bought so many during my vacation. But no. I can't stop. It's like a drug.
I saw that a guy on a Facebook page was selling one of my favourite games so I just had to get it. He also had a couple of other interesting titles so I thought "What the hell, let's buy those too."

The game that caught my attention was LucasArts' Loom. A hilarious point-and-click adventure. I played through it allot when I was a kid. Back then on an Amiga. This is the PC CD-rom version.

But to my disappointment. The first thing I noticed was that the bottom of the Loom box was torn. Except for that the box looked great. The contents was in superb condition. Instruction book, Book of Patterns, The Adventurer magazine from LucasArts issue No. 4, a music CD. But wait! Where is the game CD?
The game CD was missing!!! So disappointed! I contacted the seller and he promised to send the CD during next week. It seemed to be an honest mistake.

The other games where in great shape. The Dig, also by LucasArts, box was in very good condition and had all contents. Toonstruck was in even better condition. Still in plastic! Not sure if I should open?
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zero for PS3 was in OK condition and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
 was still in plastic.

So what did I pay for this? 600 Norwegian kroner, about €65. Not very cheap but still OK price I think. What do you think?

REVIEW: From Russia With Love PS2

Being a big Bond fan, and From Russia With Love being my favourite Bond movie, I just had to buy this game when I saw it.
Must confess that I didn't know much about it. Was it good? Was it just awful? I had no idea. I just wanted this game in my collection.

The game opens up with a nice Bond intro in the same style as the movies and looks very good, showing of some of the original cast and some new cast for this game including Natasha Beddingfield.
Bond himself is voiced by Mr Bond himself, Sean Connery. The other cast from the movie has just the likeness of the old actors but are voiced by other talent.

You can both play single player and multi player, I only played the single player campaign.
There are 14 missions in single player and every time you start a new mission you can change difficult settings. There is 3 different difficulties, Operative, Agent and 00 Agent. I choose the default Agent setting throughout my play through.

The game is played in 3rd person view and also have have a couple of driving segments.


The graphics are very good for a PS2 game, in my opinion. I think it looks very good in fact. The likeness of the actors is very good.

So is it any good?
Yes. It was maybe a little too easy on the Agent difficulty and wasn't that long but still I enjoyed playing this. They taken elements from the movie and also added new stuff.
The only problem I have with this game is the driving segments. It really isn't that good. It's very easy to loose control of the car. It's like they tried to do what GTA does, but is far from as good driving control as that game.
But in all a good and very enjoyable game.

Yet another Playstation 1

What a strike of luck. I just picked up one more Playstation 1 with 9 games, 3 memorycards and 1 controller very cheap. Only 100 NOK, €11. Bought it from a woman I contacted on Facebook. She lived near by and wanted just to get rid of it. 

Two of the games I was specially interested in. Broken Sword II, which I wanted for sometime now, and Final Fantasy VII. I already have FF7 but will try and trade or sell this.

The other games are V-Rally '97 Championship Edition (disc only), NHL '98, FIFA '97, FIFA '98 (missing manual and cover), DBZ: Dead Ball Zone (missing manual and very cracked case), Monsters Inc.: Scare Island (Norwegian cover), Mortal Kombat 4 (missing both front and back cover, manual. The back cover is from Soviet Strike).

So very happy about this deal.

Vacation is over

Doge palace in Venice

Now summer vacation is over. It's been a good summer. Been on a European road trip through Germany, Austria and northern Italy.
Visit some game related places such as Venice, looked at some buildings I have climbed as Ezio in Assassin's Creed series, and Neuschwanstein castle in Germany, that is an important part of one of my favourite computer games, Gabriel Knight II: The Beast Within.

Neuschwanstein castle

I also managed to get some more stuff for my collection before vacation was over.
Bought an Playstation 1 with two controllers, controllers extension, memory card and 20 games and a couple of demo discs for only 300 sek (Swedish kronor), approx €32.

Playstation 1 with games

And there is more. I got 10 Commodore 64 disk games and 12 Amiga 500 games for 815 sek, approx €86. Now I just need to get a 1541 diskdrive so I can play these games.

C64 games

Amiga games part 1

Amiga games part 2

And lastly I got one of my favourite Playstation 1 games of all time. Silent Hill. For this I payed 200 nok (Norwegian kroner), €22.

Full list of the games I bought this summer

Playstation 1

Addidas Power Soccer

Namco Tennis Smash Court

Urban Chaos

Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas

Pitfall 3D: Beyond Jungle

Syphon Filter (no cover)

Syphon Filter 2

Gran Turismo

Gran Turismo 2 (no cover)

Nagano Winter Olympics '98

Porsche Challange

Driver (no cover)

Formula 1

R4 Ridge Racer Type 4 (no cover)

Need For Speed: Road Challange (no cover)

Monster Trucks

Formula One '99 (no cover)

Olympic Games Atlanta 1996

Ridge Racer

Rage Racer

Silent Hill

Commodore 64 Disks

Fighter Bomber

Superstar Ice Hockey

Knightmare

Jet

The Pawn

Presumed Guilty

Espionage: The Computer Game

Bards Tale III: The Theif of Fate (disks only)

Pirates of the Barbary Coast (disk only)

Amiga

Rise of the Robots

Space Quest Chapter 1: The Sarien Encounter

Space Quest III: The Pirates Pestulation

Police Quest 3: The Kindred

Grand Prix

Armour-Geddon

B.A.T. II

Wayne Gretzky Hockey

F/A-18 Interceptor

Space Rouge

Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula

King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

Some new stuff

Got some new stuff sent to me from Germany. Two games, Demolition Man for the SNES amd Four Players' Tennis for NES, 10 dustsleeves for NES, Gamboy game cases, a Playstation 2 DualShock controler and two German NES manuals, Top Gun and Mega Man 3.
So now I have complete german versions of those two games, game, box and manual.

New Xbox 360

So I managed to get another Xbox 360 very cheap. The reason I bought it was I wanted the AV cable and to my surprise it also had a Wireless WIFI device which I didn't have before. So it was a very good deal for me.

Not sure what to to with the Xbox thou. Maybe use it so I can watch Netflix and HBO in my game room, or just sell it.

Making a game

Yes I'm trying to make a game for the Commodore 64.
When I was a kid I loved making programs and games on the old C64, and also on DOS, but sadly I left that part behind. I really wished I stayed with it and learn more about programming, so now I'm back to basic.
Have forgotten most of what I knew back then so I have to learn again.
I decided to try and make a text adventure based on an adventure for "Drakar och Demoner", a Swedish version of "Dungeon and Dragons". I choose to adapt an existing adventure so I could concentrate on programming and not on the story.

At first I wanted to do an test adventure with RPG elements, experience points and a level up system, but it seemed to be a little to advanced for my limited programming knowledge.
So I went with a simple text adventure.

I decided to go with the adventure "Svart Duell", which was an adventure I had as a kid and I knew it was quite short.
My first mistake was I wanted to jump right into programming and didn't plan out the adventure beforehand.
So it quickly grew to big and I started to add new things I wanted in the game and complex attributes which just made me have to redo code I had already written.
So I decided to do start over, and write down everything first on paper, and not add new content while programming.

And that's where I'm at now.
Carefully planing out each section of the game.

I also got a new game idea, which I probably will do after this game. It's a more math based game and I need to work out a good formula to do the math so the game will work. Not gonna say much more about this game but hopefully I will comeback to it in another post.

*pictures from riotminds.se

More Gameboy games

Got three more Gameboy games for my collection.
Once again from a guy on Facebook.

Alien vs Predator: The Last of His Clan, Ren & Stimpy Show: Space Cadet Advetures and Castlevania: The Adventure. Payed 60 NOK (€6.78 or $7.73) for Castlevania and 35 NOK (€3.96 or $4.51) each for the other games.

Looking forward to play Castlevania. I have the reboot, Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth, on Wii and excited to compare them.

Some new games

Been away for an awesome Foo Fighters concert, even thou singer Dave Grohl fell off the stage and broke his leg in the middle of the second song but he came back and finished the show, in Gothenburg (read about it here) and came back to find some new games in the mail I ordered.

Gears of War, Gears of War 2, Mass Effect 2 and Aliens: Colonial Marines for the Xbox 360.

Davis Cup World Tour, Champions World Class Soccer (both missing intructions) and NFL Sports Talk Football '93 (complete) for Mega Drive and GTA III for Playstation 2, which I already had a broken copy of. Hope this is better.

I got all the games very cheap from two diffrent guys on Facebook. Only 10 NOK* (about €1,15 or $1.29) each except Aliens wich I payed 20 NOK*.

So a pretty good deal.

*NOK=norwegian krone

Popeye for the NES

Popeye is a classic arcade game by Nintendo and was released in the arcades in 1982 and was one of the first game release for the NES in 1983.
It's based on the popular spinach eating sailor with the same name.
In the game you should avoid Popeye's arch nemesis Brutus and try to rescue Popeye's love Olive Oyl.

At the start screen you get 4 options.
1 player game A, 1 player game B, 2 player game A and 2 player game B.
Game B is just a harder setting of the game.

The game consists of only three different levels and after you beat all three you start over from level 1 but the difficulty rises and you can continue as many rounds you can stay alive and collect points.

The first round your at the docks. Olive is throwing heart that you should collect, and when you collected 24 hearts you advance to next round.
You also have to avoid Brutus who are trying to get you. You can't hit him but you can hit the objects he's throwing or get the spinach and then you can run into him and he flies across the screen and you get points. But the spinach only last a few seconds.
You can also hit the punching-bag so the bucket falls and with right timing it lands on Brutus for more points. The further down he is on the screen the more points you'll get.

Second round Olive is throwing musical notes. 16 of them and you advance to round three.
Here you can get extra points by going on the seesaw and hit the floating platform where Swee'Pee is sitting.
And as the first round look out for Brutus.
You will have spinach to help you deal with him in this round too.

The third round Popeye's on a boat. Olive is this time throwing letters that spells H E L P.
Each letter caught will start building a ladder up to Olive Oyl.
24 letters and Popeye's love is rescued.
Other than Brutus you also have to look out for a vulture. But one hit in the beak and you earn 1000 points.

Fourth round you'll back at level one but now you an evil hag will throw skulls at you as well as you have to avoid Brutus for each new round. If you start game B she will be there for round one. First two skulls, then if you manage to complete all levels again she will throw one more skull.

At first this game seem a little boring but after a while you want to do better and better, and is quite fun. Not super great but still enjoyable.

My record so far is round 8 with a score of 77110.

Got some new stuff in the mail

Today I got some video game stuff in the mail.
A 3.8mm security screwdriver to open up games carts for cleaning etc. Bought cheap on Ebay from a seller in China.
From the same seller I got these two cheap ass Megadrive/Genesis controllers.
They feel very plastic and toyish. But they work, and was very cheap. Just bought them so I have something to play with on my Megadrive, since my original controller is broken. My biggest complaint about them is that the cable is very short. Even shorter then the original controller which is also very short.

I also got the stickers that the guy I bought the Surprise pack from promised.

And earlier this week I also got a AV cable for the Megadrive.

Blog update

I did a little update today on the blog. I added lists of all my games and also added a link to my reviews. Both can be found up above.

Here's also an update on what games I currently are playing.

Chrono Trigger (PS1)

Uncharted 3 (PS3)

GTA V (Xbox 360)

Football Manager 2014 (PC)

A suprise in the mail today

I had ordered a surprise package from a guy on Facebook, same guy I bought my Mega Drive from, that arrived in the mail today.
It promised a Nintendo 8-bit game and one surprise.
There was a list of 20 games, I had 5 of them so it was a little bit of a gamble, and the surprise could be everything from another NES game, Gameboy game, controller, cables or stickers.

Thought it was a pretty funny thing to do, and it was a good price too I thought. So I gave it a shot.

So what did I get you may ask?
Was I pleasantly surprised or hugely disappointed?

Well... Look below and find out.

Eh... well it was a disappointment I'm afraid. Track & Field II and a... lollipop!? Well Track & Field II is a good game and all, but I already own a copy. A boxed, although a very worn box, copy.
It was a gamble, I know, so can't really be mad about the game. But I'm very disappointed about the lollipop. Was hoping for at least something Nintendo related.

Still I think it was a great thing this seller did. There was some really great games in the lot so some buyers was probably happy. And he did compensate me. Gonna get some Nintendo stickers

Football Manager for the Commodore 64

I decided to play some Football Manager. Not Football Manager 2015 on PC but Football Manager on the old Commodre 64.

It was first released in 1982 by Addictive Games and designed by their founder, Kevin Toms, for the TRS-80 and ZX81 computers but was later ported to the Commodore 64 in 1984.
My copy however is a 1987 re release tape version, it was also released on disk, in which you could have won a trip to the 1987 cup final (English FA cup I guess), but sadly to voucher is gone.

One of the first things I notice when I look at the back of the cover is that the game play pictures is not from a C64 but from a Spectrum computer. This is not unusual, it was often the case back then. Sometimes the pictures was from a superior computer, so you was a bit tricked when you bought a game and the graphics wasn't as good as on the cover. But in this case the C64 graphics are better then the showed Spectrum graphics.

Another thing that stand out on the back is the list of features like "Matches in 3D graphics", that pretty impressive considering the game is from 1984, and the last line "You can even be sacked!" I find to be a bit humorous.

The instructions are well written and easy to understand. But one thing had me worried, "Loading time is approximately 20 minutes", but gladly it wasn't that long. Just about 3 minutes.

Let's talk about the game. First you get to choose your team. There are 64 teams to choose from, all from the English league system, and the team you choose will start off in Division 4. There are 16 teams in each of the four divisions and you will fight to gain promotion and eventually win the 1st division.
There's an option to change all the team names anytime you want during he game.
You also get to choose the game difficulty. There are 7 different settings, starting with beginner up to genius, and you can change this any time setting during the season and also after each season you get to choose again.
There are 24 real life players, from the 80s, in the game's database. Players like Peter Shilton, Ian Rush and Bryan Robson. And, as for the team names, you can also change the players name during the game.
You get 12 of these players in your team when you start, and later you will get offers to buy one of the others after each game. You can have a total of 16 players in your team and you can also sell players you don't want.

The players are either defenders, midfielders or attackers. No goalkeeper which is a bit odd, he counts as a defender I guess. And the players have a skill from 1 to 5 and energy level 1 to 20.
Before each game you choose our team and try to out match your opponents stats. The defenders skills adds up, the same goes for your midfield and attack, and you get an average of your players energy points.
You also have a moral stat, which starts at 10 and gets higher after a win and lower after a loss.
The energy of the players will drop 1 point each game, but the players that rests gain 10.

After each season the players skill level and energy changes, so if you build up a great team, the next season the skills are no longer the same.
This is where the game gets a bit difficult. Even on the lowest difficult setting. Because it's hard to win the first games of the season. You have players with low skill and low energy and the when you lose, the team moral drops.
Each season you play 15 league games, you only play each team once, and also FA cup games.
I have played 3 seasons and haven't been able to gain promotion, but I won the FA Cup the first two seasons. The higher league teams are not so much different then the other teams.

When you start a game you get to see match highlights in, as the cover stated, "3D graphics".
So how are these amazing 3D graphics?
Well, it's not really 3D, as you can see in the photo.
More of a tilted side view of the pitch. But that can be what they thought of 3D back in the day.
Still I think it's pretty good graphics for a game like this. I've seen ordinary football games with worse graphics than this.

So what's my opinion about Football Manager on the Commodore 64?
It's a pretty decent game. Fun and addictive. And a great feature is that you also can save your game.
I will play more of this game and try to win the 1st division.

I score this 3 out of 5