Published by Domark (ask your dad), written in BASIC (ask your dad) by the Collyer brothers and featuring no real-life players, Championship Manager stood out from the crowd with an eye-catching match engine and the introduction of the average rating to the genre, meaning that you could now track the performances of your players over several games. So, join me as I take a look back at the Championship Manager years.

However, the groundwork for the franchise’s huge and continued success was laid in its most formative period from ‘92 to 2004.