I used to study and do my homework while playing this game, cause I only had 8mb ram and I had to wait for LOADING. Looking back at it, that was for the best, otherwise I dunno how much studying I'd have done
I remember when I first got the game I didn’t know you could speed up the games so I would always sit through every game at the lowest speed reading the commentary 😅
I always sign Bjorn Heidenström (Leyton Orient), Marc Emmers (Minor Team) & Graeme Tomlinson (free transfer)...All great budget options. Robert Page, Andrew Duncan, Richard Wright, Marc Viven Foé, Tom Youngs, Martin Knutsen same. The key to find regens is noting stats in determination, creativity and injury proneness. Those 3 stats + nationality never change when the player regenerates. Lets say Gudjohnsen is retiring (usually happens 15.7.98) and he has 15 in determination, 15 creativity and 10 in injury proneness...you put these stats in the search filters and choose "based anywhere" and boom you should find young unkknown icelandic player with amazing stats Also make sure you dont have player shortlisted that is about to retire, Players in the game do not retire if they are shortlisted.
I agree all quality signings for teams on a budget, even though Tom Youngs has been a frustrating player for me to sign in the past! 😅 Great tip on the regens! I always look for the Schmeichel and Hagi ones when they retire
Yeah him and John Curtis (probably the best defender in the game), so difficault to sign him. After season 1 i always go for Hristo Stoichkov, Gudjohnsen + Hagi regens. I still play this game every now and then...had my copy for 27 years 😮 Won everything in it Those old Cm game (93-01) have unbelivable replay value, cm 01/02 is still getting fan updates 22 years after its release...just amazing. I think the newest for 97/98 is 2020/2021 season with wagefix. (100k max) Pretty solid games
@@titanicsurvivor1434 completely agree with you the Champ Man games are iconic and they have that pick up and play appeal. I will always continue to play CM97/98 and find new teams to get promoted or European powerhouses that I can try and get to Champions League Glory by only signing players that have played for them at some point in real life 😃
Fantastic video - loved this! Had some really fond memories of CM2, but mainly the 97/98 variation of it. I remember my main go-to guy was always Marco Sandy - he'd slot into my Liverpool team straight away and upgrade my back four.
Thanks for the feedback I appreciate you saying that and I’m glad you enjoyed the video! 😃 There were some quality players in that Liverpool squad - Jamie Redknapp was great in midfield and of course Owen and Fowler upfront would grab plenty of goals 🔥
i'm fairly certain this was the game me and my two mates used to play, he had Barcelona and for some reason bought Djorkaeff - a player I'd never normally consider. He was easily his best performer and played so well I was super envious lol. To anybody making a new save on this game, give him a try and see what you think, he was putting in MOM performances practically every game, & at Barce, theres certainly great competition for that job so he had to be good. Pretty sure it was this version of the Cm series and Djorkaeff from Inter was goals galore and top ratings, would love to hear any other players views on him :)
Completely agree, if I ever went Inter he would typically be on the bench for me (since the Inter squad is packed with quality players up front) but once I started playing him he would always pop up with a goal or assist! Great shout! 😃
@@TheBosmanViewing yeah he was a beast, and a guy I never fancied for my team lol, my 1 mate was relatively new to cm but he impressed me with his Barce team he put together - great memorys :)
Love this! I actually still have the original CD in its case (front inlay is missing but back one still intact) which speaks volumes as I've got rid of all the other versions I had. It's essentially useless though as you need a DOS emulator to load it and most versions of the game now are free to download anyway. I would say CM97/98 is probably the 2nd best iteration after 01/02, which is the absolute king of CM games for me. I've not long started a game with Rangers - I always had a soft spot for them growing up and did a few different saves with 'Gers - but Svindal Larsen isn't in the version I'm playing :-( Some of this is new to me as I didn't know a lot of it when I was a kid so I'm enjoying the revisit.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video and that you’re still loving CM9798! I wish I had kept the original disc even just to have in my football collection, 01/02 is also a classic! Best of luck with your Rangers save, a few good signings and they will be competing for European Trophies no problem! 😃👍
I think the Golden Age of watching Football (having been born in 86) was probably 88 (when I started watching) to around 95/96. There's obviously been some wonderful seasons since then (I personally think Football died around 2013/2014). This is the ultimate Football Management game, I spent far too much time playing it but I still rank it above the Football Manager series which I think lost a lot of the old Champ Manager magic. I always loved managing Gillingham and guided them to three Premier League titles and two FA Cups without cheating.
John Curtis of Man Utd was an elite defender in this game! I remember making myself a player. I put top marks for every stat except Injury....yet I was a terrible player. Signing Batistuta, Florian Maurice or Marco Negri guaranteed goals!!
Curtis becomes an absolute legend in the game! I agree all great strikers in CM9798 and in real life! Another one is Erik Nevland who becomes a goal machine if he is signed by the right club 😃
@@txr4262 and I found him notoriously difficult to sell on and if I hadn’t given him enough game time due to poor performances his work permit would expire
@@TheBosmanViewing the work permit issue was annoying. Plus, non EU players were always difficult to shift, which I'm sure was a bug in the game. If you bought a clanger you were basically stuck with them.
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I used to study and do my homework while playing this game, cause I only had 8mb ram and I had to wait for LOADING. Looking back at it, that was for the best, otherwise I dunno how much studying I'd have done
I remember when I first got the game I didn’t know you could speed up the games so I would always sit through every game at the lowest speed reading the commentary 😅
I always sign Bjorn Heidenström (Leyton Orient), Marc Emmers (Minor Team) & Graeme Tomlinson (free transfer)...All great budget options.
Robert Page, Andrew Duncan, Richard Wright, Marc Viven Foé, Tom Youngs, Martin Knutsen same.
The key to find regens is noting stats in determination, creativity and injury proneness. Those 3 stats + nationality never change when the player regenerates.
Lets say Gudjohnsen is retiring (usually happens 15.7.98) and he has 15 in determination, 15 creativity and 10 in injury proneness...you put these stats in the search filters and choose "based anywhere" and boom you should find young unkknown icelandic player with amazing stats
Also make sure you dont have player shortlisted that is about to retire, Players in the game do not retire if they are shortlisted.
I agree all quality signings for teams on a budget, even though Tom Youngs has been a frustrating player for me to sign in the past! 😅
Great tip on the regens! I always look for the Schmeichel and Hagi ones when they retire
Yeah him and John Curtis (probably the best defender in the game), so difficault to sign him.
After season 1 i always go for Hristo Stoichkov, Gudjohnsen + Hagi regens.
I still play this game every now and then...had my copy for 27 years 😮
Won everything in it
Those old Cm game (93-01) have unbelivable replay value, cm 01/02 is still getting fan updates 22 years after its release...just amazing.
I think the newest for 97/98 is 2020/2021 season with wagefix. (100k max)
Pretty solid games
@@titanicsurvivor1434 completely agree with you the Champ Man games are iconic and they have that pick up and play appeal. I will always continue to play CM97/98 and find new teams to get promoted or European powerhouses that I can try and get to Champions League Glory by only signing players that have played for them at some point in real life 😃
Monaco also had an INSANE team in this version of the game.
Yes they were filled with legends like Barthez, Henry and Trezeguet plus some great in game players like Legwinski and Collins! 👍
I mean both Legwinski and Collins were great players in their own right!
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Joao pinto from benfica, first player signed every time. Goal machine for me every time
@@Matt-r8h Good shout 🇵🇹
Another great video. Always awesome content!
Ultimate Soccer Manager 98 was far more better als known as USM98
I’ll need to look into that 😄👍
I remember playing football manager 1995, I play it on my parents pc it was laoud as hell, so much nostalgia
Gotta love the og Champ Man games 😃👍
@@TheBosmanViewing it's great game mate, I remember bebeto being op.
@@tahahadada1936 you are right bebeto was the man in it!
@@TheBosmanViewing good days bro
Fantastic video - loved this! Had some really fond memories of CM2, but mainly the 97/98 variation of it. I remember my main go-to guy was always Marco Sandy - he'd slot into my Liverpool team straight away and upgrade my back four.
Thanks for the feedback I appreciate you saying that and I’m glad you enjoyed the video! 😃 There were some quality players in that Liverpool squad - Jamie Redknapp was great in midfield and of course Owen and Fowler upfront would grab plenty of goals 🔥
i'm fairly certain this was the game me and my two mates used to play, he had Barcelona and for some reason bought Djorkaeff - a player I'd never normally consider.
He was easily his best performer and played so well I was super envious lol.
To anybody making a new save on this game, give him a try and see what you think, he was putting in MOM performances practically every game, & at Barce, theres certainly great competition for that job so he had to be good.
Pretty sure it was this version of the Cm series and Djorkaeff from Inter was goals galore and top ratings, would love to hear any other players views on him :)
Completely agree, if I ever went Inter he would typically be on the bench for me (since the Inter squad is packed with quality players up front) but once I started playing him he would always pop up with a goal or assist! Great shout! 😃
@@TheBosmanViewing yeah he was a beast, and a guy I never fancied for my team lol, my 1 mate was relatively new to cm but he impressed me with his Barce team he put together - great memorys :)
@@TheHungryTrollRawr Barcelona do have an amazing squad in it but I’m sure Youri Djorkaeff would have fitted in no problem! 🙌
Does playing a narrow formation exploit the match engine in this like it does in CM 01/02?
@@cns180784 Check out @cm9798 and @cm9798v2 on Twitter/X for good formations and tactics 👍
Used to sign the Marcelo Salas all the time on that
A great buy in the game who would always grab goals 🇨🇱🔥
Love this! I actually still have the original CD in its case (front inlay is missing but back one still intact) which speaks volumes as I've got rid of all the other versions I had. It's essentially useless though as you need a DOS emulator to load it and most versions of the game now are free to download anyway. I would say CM97/98 is probably the 2nd best iteration after 01/02, which is the absolute king of CM games for me.
I've not long started a game with Rangers - I always had a soft spot for them growing up and did a few different saves with 'Gers - but Svindal Larsen isn't in the version I'm playing :-( Some of this is new to me as I didn't know a lot of it when I was a kid so I'm enjoying the revisit.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video and that you’re still loving CM9798! I wish I had kept the original disc even just to have in my football collection, 01/02 is also a classic! Best of luck with your Rangers save, a few good signings and they will be competing for European Trophies no problem! 😃👍
I think the Golden Age of watching Football (having been born in 86) was probably 88 (when I started watching) to around 95/96. There's obviously been some wonderful seasons since then (I personally think Football died around 2013/2014). This is the ultimate Football Management game, I spent far too much time playing it but I still rank it above the Football Manager series which I think lost a lot of the old Champ Manager magic. I always loved managing Gillingham and guided them to three Premier League titles and two FA Cups without cheating.
The 90’s was a special era for football and I completely agree that Football Manager never quite captured the same brilliance of
Champ Man 97/98 🙌
Class game.
@@Dean-p6b Absolutely 🙌
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Thanks man I appreciate it and I hope you enjoy the content! You should check out our Spurs Guess the Player video!
John Curtis of Man Utd was an elite defender in this game! I remember making myself a player. I put top marks for every stat except Injury....yet I was a terrible player. Signing Batistuta, Florian Maurice or Marco Negri guaranteed goals!!
Curtis becomes an absolute legend in the game! I agree all great strikers in CM9798 and in real life! Another one is Erik Nevland who becomes a goal machine if he is signed by the right club 😃
@@TheBosmanViewing yes Nevland was a goal machine. Egil Østenstad from Southampton was a machine too!
@@ttube111 yes you’re right another top striker who always ‘wants to leave for a bigger club’ from Southampton!
I did the treble with ac milan in my 4th season back in the day weah and Batista as my 2 main strikers
Milan have a great squad in it with the legendary Maldini and the underrated Boban and Albertini in midfield 🙌
Zanetti never worked for me either.
Glad to hear I wasn’t alone with that 👍
@@TheBosmanViewing never settled in my Reading team. Consistently poor performances then the temerity to want to move to a bigger club.
@@txr4262 and I found him notoriously difficult to sell on and if I hadn’t given him enough game time due to poor performances his work permit would expire
@@TheBosmanViewing the work permit issue was annoying. Plus, non EU players were always difficult to shift, which I'm sure was a bug in the game. If you bought a clanger you were basically stuck with them.
@@txr4262 yes exactly or if you find a gem for a smaller side they always have a big club release clause and you end up losing them
long live cm 03-04
Everyone has a version of Champ Man that they’ll always want to play 🙌
Everyone has a version of Champ Man that they’ll always want to play 🙌