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kevintoms.bsky.social
Good memories from the Amstrad CPC 464! 🙂

#KevinToms #FootballManager #Amstrad #AmstradCPC #CPC464 #RetroComputers #HomeComputers #Microcomputers #80sComputers #PersonalComputer #RetroPC #UKComputers #UKRetro
December 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
You can see how close Football Star Manager is to the original, yet improved, in my play through video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGQTkDmc1Uc

#KevinToms #FootballManager #AdventCalendar #Advent2025 #FootballStarManager #retrogames #retrocomputers #UKretro #UKcomputers #englishfootball #epl
December 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
Football Star Manager is my renewal of the original game on multiple platforms. I suggested it online with this post, and got such a great response, I wrote it.

👉 https://getonsteam.kevintoms.games

#KevinToms #FootballManager #AdventCalendar #Advent2025 #FootballStarManager #retrogames
December 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
COBOL and RPG programming languages are still used and maintained today - 65 years after they were created! 🤯

#KevinToms #FootballManager #podcast #newpodcast #retrogames #classicgames #retrocomputers #UKretro #UKcomputers #programming #compsci #computerscience #COBOL #RPG #IBM
December 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
I did also write Sofware Star, President, Football Manager 2, and Football World Cup edition, but not Football Manager 3. (I did not even know FM3 was being written!)

👉 https://getonsteam.kevintoms.games

#KevinToms #FootballManager #AdventCalendar #Advent2025 #FootballStarManager #retrogames
December 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
There is a discount! And who doesn't love a discount?
25% off the Steam version in the Winter sale. That seems a lot to me! :)
https://getonsteam.kevintoms.games/
#kevintoms #steamwintersale #footballstarmanager #steam #bargain
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
There were several evolutions of the Addictive Games logo. This ZX81 version had one of them

#KevinToms #FootballManager #ZX81 #RetroGames #HomeComputers #Microcomputers #80sComputers #PersonalComputer #RetroPC #UKComputers #UKRetro
December 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
Apparently I was one of the brains behind a big game 🙂 (A Daily Express article from the 1980s)

👉 https://getonsteam.kevintoms.games

#KevinToms #FootballManager #AdventCalendar #Advent2025 #FootballStarManager #retrogames #classicgames #retrocomputers #UKretro #UKcomputers #footballsim
December 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
A well known photo with the C64 version and the calculator watch! I bought a duplicate of that Casio watch in New Zealand, still have it somewhere :)

👉 https://getonsteam.kevintoms.games

#KevinToms #FootballManager #AdventCalendar #Advent2025 #FootballStarManager #retrogames #classicgames
December 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
Football Manager was runner up to The Hobbit in the CVG awards! There is no justice 🙂

👉 https://getonsteam.kevintoms.games

#KevinToms #FootballManager #AdventCalendar #Advent2025 #FootballStarManager #retrogames #classicgames #retrocomputers #UKretro #UKcomputers #footballsim #englishfootball
December 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
A blast from the past! Who here remembers the Torch computers?

#KevinToms #FootballManager #TorchComputers #AcornComputers #RetroGames #HomeComputers #8bit #Microcomputers #80sComputers #PersonalComputer #RetroPC #UKComputers #UKRetro
December 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
In terms of adverts, this was the best, most successful!

👉 https://getonsteam.kevintoms.games

#KevinToms #FootballManager #AdventCalendar #Advent2025 #FootballStarManager #retrogames #classicgames #retrocomputers #UKretro #UKcomputers #footballsim #englishfootball #pl #epl
December 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
Did you know Football Manager was originally created for the TRS-80?
Here's a sneak peek of Kevin Toms Talks' first episode!

#KevinToms #FootballManager #podcast #newpodcast #retrogames #classicgames #retrocomputers #UKretro #UKcomputers #footballsim #footballgame #TRS80 #VideoGenie #ZX80 #ZX81
December 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
The First ad in Computer and Video Games January 1982 led to so much!

👉 https://getonsteam.kevintoms.games

#KevinToms #FootballManager #AdventCalendar #Advent2025 #FootballStarManager #retrogames #classicgames #retrocomputers #UKretro #UKcomputers #footballsim #englishfootball #pl #epl
December 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
The Dutch I meet in Amsterdam, say they like a discount! So, they should like the 20% discount on Steam, which ends tomorrow!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3707550/Kevin_Toms_Football_Star_Manager/

#KevinToms #FootballStarManager #SteamGames #FootballGames
December 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
I gave a talk at Crash with Graeme and Julian (difficult because I had a cough and lost my voice!). But it was good and is here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bde8iSBjdBk

#KevinToms #JulianTodd #CrashEvent #CrashEvent2025 #FootballManager #ZX80 #ZX81 #ZXSpectrum #RetroGames #HomeComputers
December 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
The first order from W.H.Smith was 2,000 units and an insistence on better packaging!

👉 https://getonsteam.kevintoms.games

#KevinToms #FootballManager #AdventCalendar #Advent2025 #FootballStarManager #retrogames #classicgames #retrocomputers #UKretro #UKcomputers #footballsim #englishfootball
December 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
The draw was bad enough, now the ticket prices. At the top level Football has left the loyal fans, don't you think? #WorldCup2026 #KevinToms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYFNKoQ8XBs
December 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
In the play through video shown on Steam, I fixed a bug! There is a 20% discount just this week!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3707550/Kevin_Toms_Football_Star_Manager/

#KevinToms #FootballStarManager #SteamGames #FootballGames
December 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
I remember sitting by this Central Milton Keynes pool (also wrote Spectrum Football Manager in MK). I found a wallet there, took it to the police station and while I was there, the owner walked in to report his wallet lost! 🙂

👉 https://getonsteam.kevintoms.games

#KevinToms #Advent2025
December 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
I like playing my own game, I get involved, it was recorded on video. (20% discount this week on Steam only)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3707550/Kevin_Toms_Football_Star_Manager/

#KevinToms #FootballStarManager #SteamGames #FootballGames
December 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
In 1982, I got an order for 6 copies of Football Manager, from Tahiti 🤯

👉 https://getonsteam.kevintoms.games

#KevinToms #FootballManager #AdventCalendar #Advent2025 #FootballStarManager #retrogames #classicgames #retrocomputers #UKretro #UKcomputers #footballsim #englishfootball #pl #epl
December 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
Watch me play Football Star Manager on video, AND get a 20% discount, just this week!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3707550/Kevin_Toms_Football_Star_Manager/

#KevinToms #FootballStarManager #SteamGames #FootballGames
December 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
The upgrade to the original "Beeb" 🙂
Did you ever get a chance to use the BBC Master?

#KevinToms #FootballManager #BBCMaster #BBCMicro #RetroGames #HomeComputers #8bit #Microcomputers #80sComputers #PersonalComputer #RetroPC #UKComputers
December 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
kevintoms.bsky.social
1982 was a transformative year. Sales moved from mail order only to chain stores

👉 https://getonsteam.kevintoms.games

#KevinToms #FootballManager #AdventCalendar #Advent2025 #FootballStarManager #retrogames #classicgames #retrocomputers #UKretro #UKcomputers #footballsim #englishfootball #epl
December 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM