Premier Manager '97 is one of those old-school football management sims where you spend half your time yelling at pixelated players who refuse to score. You start by picking a team—probably some mid-table struggler—and immediately realize your squad is terrible. So you dive into transfers, haggling over players with stats like "pace: maybe" and "shooting: if he’s lucky."

The tactics screen looks like someone spilled graph paper on a spreadsheet, but once you figure it out, there’s something weirdly satisfying about tweaking your formation just right. Then comes match day, where you watch little dots run around while praying your striker doesn’t trip over the ball again. Lose three in a row, and the board starts sending you passive-aggressive letters. Classic.

It’s janky, it’s brutal, and somehow that’s why it’s still fun. Just don’t expect fancy cutscenes—this is pure 90s spreadsheet football with a side of rage. If you can handle the occasional nonsense result, it’s a solid time capsule of management sims before they got too complicated.