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Subject: Re: FREE GAMES: "Football Manager 2024" & "Sniper Ghost Warrior
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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 09:54:39 +0100
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On 05/09/2024 16:59, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 
> 
> The days are getting shorter but the free games seem to be becoming
> more plentiful. Perhaps it's harvest season for video-games? Well,
> let's take a ride to old man Epic's farm and see what goodies are on
> the vine this week.
> 
> 
> * Football Manager 2024
> https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/football-manager-2024
>      Oh good, another footie management sim. It can go right
>      there on the shelf next to my never-played copies of
>      Football Manager 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023! I mean,
>      I guess the games are alright, but /managing/ a video-
>      game football team is even less interesting to me than
>      playing virtual footie, and that's a genre that's pretty
>      low on my lists of interests to begin with. Then again,
>      I drive virtual trucks, so who am I to judge?
> 

Football Manager I haven't played since it was released on the Specky 
48k. Virtual football, we used to play a lot of it on Saturday night. So 
go to the pub, comeback and watch Match of the Day (a highlights show of 
the day's football) and then on to Fifa International Soccer.