1989 - Softimar (Portugal)
by Tiago Martins
At this time a lot of football strategy games had been made, some quite good, some awful.
'Treinador de Futebol' (not to be confused with the Portuguese version of 'Football Manager') adds nothing new or special to the genre.
It has all the basic elements other games like 'Football Manager' had.
The presentation is simple, the action scenes are also basic (the background colour should have been in green but i guess grey is fine), and the options are only the essential ones, so there isn't anything groundbreaking here. Looks mainly like a Football Manager fan tribute game.
But it is still an enjoyable game to play, but only if you aren't aware of all the other games there are out there.
Review by YOR on 08 Dec 2018 (Rating: 2)
It's a BASIC football management game but in Portuguese, and this one DOES have match highlights! But they don't work well, the goalie doesn't move at all resulting in pretty much every shot being a goal, now you can see why BASIC football manager games had no highlights in the first place. To give it credit though, it's a BASIC game so what did we expect from it, it is largely no different to the other BASIC football manager games.
