Review by Raphie on 09 Feb 2012 (Rating: 2)
When I was a lad I bought Manchester United Europe on the ZX Spectrum, and it was pretty crap, so now I look at the prequel and to be honest, while it's still a right turd of a soccer game I think it's a lot better than the sequel.
I personally think it controls a lot better here in that I seemed to have the ball a lot more than I did in Man U Europe and the presentation's better with the scoreboard on the right. I can't seem to score a goal for the life of me though, the CPU goalies are machines!
But in the end it looks like Man United and plays like Blackburn Rovers, work that one out.
Review by YOR on 11 Dec 2018 (Rating: 2)
Yes, the world's most famous mid-table team had their own game back in 1990. All of your favourite Man Utd players from that era are here, including that famous legend Ralph Milne. Well all the options from others football management games are here, injury report, sign a player, training etc etc etc, and speaking of injuries I found myself in a unique situation where I had all at the same time, Lee Sharpe out with a broken nose and Clayton Blackmore out with concussion as if they had a fight with each other, and Mal Donagh out with a strained ankle, presumably picked up whilst trying to break up the aforementioned fight. But this is different from most football management games as it doesn't have highlights nor a match screen, it has an actually match, arcade style, played by YOU! It's on a separate side and requires more loading so there was a catch, but still we get to play a game so this already is much better than 98% of football management games. Our first league game is against Tottenham Hotspur, yet WE are the ones wearing white. We're Man Utd yet we're not wearing red, limitations yes but surely this could have been avoided. This doesn't actually play too bad compared to the majority of football games on the Spectrum, it's just bloody difficult to score a goal. The match finished 0-0 and we'll be last of Match of the Day tonight as a result. Then my second match against Aston Villa was exactly the same, all shots but no goals. A football game where you can't score? What a waste of money.
