It's staggering to me that Matrix is still trying to get $50 for an actual physical copy of this game.

More staggering, perhaps, it that they have not tried to distance themselves from this diseased, diarrhea-spray of a game to maintain some semblance of credibility as a publisher.

Ran across this little gem. Might want to think about putting Pumpy on suicide watch.

Update on IFL game status | TSG: The Sports Gamer

I love this.


Office has never been free, if it came with your computer you paid for it moron.

So confident, yet so wrong. Free 60 Office Trial Maybe you should reserve calling people morons for times you know for certain you are correct.

This should be good.

:popcorn:

Um, you know what you have to do when the trial is up, right?

Wait, you mean it is possible for software to have a trial? So you can try it out to see if you would like to buy the full version? Where have we not seen that available before?

I know what to do, but I'm not the one with the problem of not having Access, just pointing out that because you have it on your computer does not mean you must have paid for it.

You may want to go back and read the post you initially responded to. You missed his point completely.

I re-read it, I guess I was under the assumption that by 'free' he mean free through illegal means, which he does not think is possible anymore. But it could be 'free' with the free trial and a free key. Hence if it is on your computer does not mean that you paid for it. Maybe I could have been more clear as I only posted a link to the free download.

No, you still missed it...I'll break it down for you. The original quote said "I'll be damned if I'm paying for something that used to come 'free' with every other computer I've ever owned." MS Office never came free with a computer. If it came pre-installed, it was purchased with the computer. The "moron" statement wasn't in relation to the demo, it was for the belief that Office came free with any purchased computer. Make sense now?

LOL! Oh this thread will never get old.

I get what you are saying and realize he was stating it was not free because you eventually had to pay for it if you go through legal means. The question then is what does 'free' mean? Whether it was 'free' because it was paid for unknowingly, or 'free' because it was an illegal copy. My thinking it was the second option or why have the apostrophes around free? My argument then was he does not know how to get it 'free' anymore, and does not feel he should have to pay since he did not previously. I could be wrong, but that is how I read it. Hence you can have a free copy of it still if you have the free trial installed if you get an illegal free key online. The point I'm trying to make is that because something like Office is on your computer pre-installed or not does not mean it can't be 'free' to the user.

No, he was referring to the fact that when Office is preinstalled you have in fact paid for it and it is not free.

You know what else isn't free? Freedom. It has a heavy fuckin' fee. Freedom costs a buck o' five.

Understatement of the century:

Even more scary is that he apparently was satisfied with the product twice.

60 days of office for free does not mean free. You still have to pay for it in the end.

Absolutely 100% clutch here :D :D :D :D

Wow. Just. Wow.

We need to raise money for some kind of fellowship position dedicated to refurbishing all the red x's in the golden days of this thread to their former glory.

Somehow in this very thread, y'all have discovered perpetual motion. Unbelievable.

+1 and then some.

"I know a guy who has a game that you can code for him..."

Nice.

maybe i can just die

The Operation Sports Text Sim Encyclopedia - Operation Sports

What an outrage! Maximum Football didn't make Operation Sports' Text Sim Encyclopedia!

sportsdigs omitted them 2 weeks ago.

Since there was only one game under the category of "Quasi-Wagnerian stop-motion approximation of a sport somewhat resembling an athletic contest of the North American Football variety", and they didn't want to create a "Fashion Barbie simulation" category, they made an editorial decision to leave it out of the listings.

:lol: :lol:

On April 1st, 2010 Maximum Football 3.0 was announced!

Computer Football Game - Maximum-Football PC Program - Wintervalley Custom Software

Hah sorry no update, that was from 2009 :)

Improved environments??

SUPER Beer Tents!!!!

Are we sure it isn't an April Fool's Day joke?

*prepares more photoshopping glory*

Shootout overtime?? Never heard it called shootout overtime in the NFL or CFL.....We talking about Sochocball now?

Maybe I need new meds.....

"Basic Player Trade AI" for leagues.

Was there absolutely NO trade AI before, or is "Basic" an upgrade?

It means it's written in basic.

Now now, give him SOME credit.

if rand( 10 ) <= 5
accepted = TRUE
else
accepted = FALSE

:lol:

stop talking shti about my man winter

I wonder if BaboonHeart is enjoying the game.

or, maybe he can.

I spent most of my day at work re-reading this thread -- got up to 34 pages.

This thread is neither the most posted-to nor the most viewed.

:confused:

I think the Obama versus McCain should be renamed 'Obama versus the World'

Matrix Games Forums

His profile page in the forums suggests he may have other interests besides just football. Oh my!

Interests: SCUBA Diving, football, other things..

I can see it now...Maximum Scuba Diving. brought to you by Daivd Winter.

Good idea, I'm bored at work with nothing to do. I think I'll do the same.

apologies if this is old news since i never followed this thread very closely- i never realized that he works for EA Sports.

David Winter - Canada | LinkedIn

Was he responsible for NBA Elite?

Uh no....this is the first I have heard of this. Does that mean EA allows their employee to produce competing sports titles (or attempt to)?

I'm pretty sure this was discovered at some point.. that he was maybe involved in the Head Coach line AFTER MF was released.

FAIL. I should read the link first.

Naw....that was Joe Stallings (from .400 Studios)

LOL....I wonder.

He is the Axl Rose of the sports text sim world.
If only we could get Dr. Pepper to offer everyone in America a free drink on release day, maybe that would spur this to development.

Chinese Football?
Maximum Democracy!

He needs to link this thread to his stupid resume.

I've tried to link this thread to the Wiki page, but it keeps getting deleted.

"competing" :lol:

Anyone played this?

I have it on layaway at K-Mart.

For a second I thought they deleted my forum account overthere, but apparently they didn't.
Joy.

Happy 5-year anniversary to the greatest thread ever.

I've just been looking at the operationsports list of sports text games and find this list for football:

FOF
Professional Football Simulator
Football Mogul
Action PC Football
Total Pro Football
Universal Football League
Draft Day Sports Pro Football
Strat-O-Matic Football

I always enjoyed playing Head Coach V3 back in the early nineties but have not been aware of a worthwhile multi-season, headcoach game since. Are any of the above worth downloading and playing?

None of them are worth playing? :eek:

I've been tempted by Strat-O-Matic, so was looking forward to opinion too. Enjoyed the board game, but I would prefer season on season progression, and can't work out if that is part of the PC version.

One you missed was Second & Ten - I've dl'd the demo a couple of times, but find it a little bit dry, and the career mode seems very clunky at best.

DDS: Pro Football hasn't been released yet, FWIW. I love FOF from a GM standpoint. TPF was a bit of a hot mess IMO, although some people really liked it. Football Mogul is terrible in every way.

Looks like we might not get a chance to revive this great thread.

http://www.wintervalley.com

I'm looking forward to my scale model stadium, complete with beer tent. This is going to be amazing.

Well, one things for sure, there's always some product that is in development there.

My heart gets all aflutter when this thread gets bumped!

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/...m-Football.2.0

We can keep it alive folks. :D

Game somewhat reminds me of the FPS football series, mainly '96 version with Barry Sanders on the cover.

*Bump* In honor of Football Hall of Fame Weekend, a bump to the Hall o fFame Thread.

Oh, hi everyone.

Hea dtrauma!

I give it 33 Out Of 5 Stars.

Maximized.

A call for a time to remember...

I remember special moments, such as plays starting from inside the endzone... or ninja defenders that would be in stealth mode and then appear out of nowhere...

Thankfully there was a beer tent...

That is one great screen shot. I love how the grass to the right of the player looks like it has some kind of motion blur, the shadows' ultra realistic triangle shapes, the ball either being dropped or magically floating under the hand of the player and the frost bite on the player's finger tips.

If Maximum Football means, ultra realistic, I'm in!!!

Apparently Daivd is now trying to distance himself as far as possible from the epicness that is Max FB.

Wintervalley Scale Model Decals and Accessories for RCAF Subjects

so he's gone from ultra-realistic 3D football simulations to making stickers for toys?

Same great website graphics. How can this NOT fail?

That seems a much more appropriate business for one guy.

Hopefully he will sell beer tent stickers.

Obvious troll attempt.

He fixed these issues in Maximum Football 2.0. :)

Awesome!

I knew resin had to be involved on some level.

Damn! It was just 7 years ago on this day that this song was dropped on one of the most amazing threads in FOFC. The thread that lingered for years and had a slew of developers as well as FOFCers contribute. If there are any new game developers and/or game publishers to find out what not to do, this is the best thread for reference.

LLLLLOOOOVVVEE IT!!!

Laughing so hard I'm crying. Totally forgot about this song any my favorite "not the Steelers" logo.

On vacation next week may just take a day and reread this thread. It is Gold.

So many fun images have been lost to time and space. Such a pity.

I was rereading this sometime last week which is why I realized this was coming up on 7 years. From start to finish, I am still amazed at this thread even though images were deleted or even references to other threads were removed.

This is one of my favorite post/replies from back when Bubba was still vehemently defending the game.

this was so awesome!!!!!!

we need an antmeister anthology thread or something so we can go back and relive the classics!!

I can't believe I missed this Ant classic!! LOL, nice work, I miss your songs.

Please tell me that was Ant singing.

One of the all-time greats posts here.

One of the all-time great threads here. :)

I know it's been 7 years, but does anyone happen to have that commercial mp3 or any of the movies/animation I did?