My Story – The beginning (part 1)
November 30th, 2007 by rromie
Before hattrick, Football management (game 
) is nothing new to me. During my university days I was introduce to 1-0 created my Wizard Games of Scotland which has taken many of my life hours supposedly to be devoted to my studies. Maybe none of you has encountered this game before as it was a really old games, and uses text to show its football match. Wizard Games also release Goal, an national team football management game. This is the first place, where I can find Malaysia beat England.
Not enough with vs AI (artificial intelligence) game, my friends and I use to camped in my room to play against each other. So ‘real’ was our cheer when one of our roomates actually tought we were watching ‘real’ football. Championship Managers, Premier Managers and Player Managers soon added to the list of expenses which was suppose to be for books.
Still not enough, I discovered from football magazine that there are PBM (Play by Mail) games, which I shortly subscribe. It must have cost around GBP1, per week plus some stamps to post and received your instructions. For those of you not exposed enough, this was during the early day of internet, PBM games dominate. You play 1 game per week, sending your instructions via mail, yes, snail mail!! You can also call (using payphone) to negotiate on buying and selling of players. Come to think of the old days, hattrick must be much simpler.
My venture in PBM was quite successful, I won my league in the first season and was later voted by other manager to manage….. SCOTLAND!!
Unfortunately good things have to come to an end, soon I need to go back to Malaysia, and my carrier has to be cut short.
(to be continued: Next – back to the land of golden opportunity)
Tags: Hattrick
November 30th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Wah… the thot of you as Alex McLeish is er… er… interesting
For me it was table soccer, the home made ones with the folded in 2 card board and rolled paper ball, and later the Atari one (I think) where the players were sprites…
November 30th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
lol home made soccer, I played that one too!!
Never got to convince my parents to buy me atari though…
November 30th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Buy? No lar brudder… my friend had a set and I always tried to find excuses to make him my pal kekeke
December 1st, 2007 at 10:16 am
And I tot I was the crazy one playing with home made soccer! I played my football on the field and the basketball court back in school with hockey goalposts….remember that one, Jeff? Wasted a lot of school shoes playing on hard court!
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:23 am
The hard court? Can still feel the knee scrapped wounds man… we had the smallest padang in Ipoh town and sometimes we just ended up playing handball instead kekeke
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:16 pm
1-nil??? wow… i thot i was the only one playing that…
i remember i had to play it all 4 seasons at one go, coz i played the free version mah… hahahaha…. and oh yeah, this was during my college days on my 386 PC…
December 4th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Wah..your college days oredi have 386 pc ah…..I only had a 286 to play with.
December 4th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
i had 286 initially wan… then i bought the 386 motherboard from my fren and sendiri upgrade my pc lor… with 4Mb RAM summore… hahaha…
December 4th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
power leh you people. I start college that time Intel also launched Pentium 133.
Used 286 in early secondary. 486 during late secondary and early college.
December 4th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
i went to college with zero knowledge abt PC leh… and it was such a luxury item those days. had to literally beg Fama bank to approve the PO wan…
December 4th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
LOL… I only started using a PC when I started working at age 20…
December 5th, 2007 at 9:08 am
So Jeff, you have now….what….25 years of experience on the PC!!!! LOL
December 5th, 2007 at 9:14 am
@redtooth, I still got 1-0 if you want…… hehe…
December 5th, 2007 at 9:17 am
no tq… i’m already quite content with HT and BB atm… hehehe…
December 5th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
What’s “BB”? Battrick?
December 5th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
“BB” to redtooth could be a myriad of things….ie. his babies, his babes, or it could just be an online basketball game similar to HT. I am playing that too.
December 5th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Sorry, rromie….BB is also known as Buzzerbeater. Check it out at http://www.buzzerbeater.org
December 6th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Nooooo…. not another virtual life…..
December 6th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
dei Lam… it’s not that much if you count in dog years
December 6th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Hehehe….Jeff…..in dog years we are all so young, probably virginity still intact!
December 6th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
wow… of coz still virgin la… dun tell me u guys already lose ur virginity when u were a toddler… hahaha…
December 6th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Then wait until we are ungker ah?
December 8th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Yes I played 1-Nil before. Nice game. I remember those days when CM doesn’t even exist yet. I’m CM hardcore too. Already retired playing this time consuming game. My advise… Don’t Play and Don’t Even Try
December 9th, 2007 at 10:45 am
i love 1-Nil.
January 8th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Mana part 2 of this?
January 9th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Sudah siap.