Premier Manager

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Premier Manager
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Covert art for Premier Manager 2003–04 on the Game Boy Advance
Genre(s) Sports management
Developer(s) Dinamic Multimedia, Realms of Fantasy, Runecraft, Urbanscan Limited, Zoo Digital Publishing
Publisher(s) Focus Entertainment, Gremlin Interactive, Zoo Digital Publishing
Platform(s) Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, Game Boy Advance , Mega Drive, Windows, Nintendo 64 PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3
First release Premier Manager
1992
Latest releasePremier Manager 2012 (PC)
2012

Premier Manager is a series of a football management simulation video games started in 1992. Published by Gremlin Interactive, it was first developed by Realms of Fantasy, later passed to Spanish company Dinamic Multimedia. The later games were later published and developed by Zoo Digital Publishing (later renamed as Zushi Games), who bought the rights from Infogrames and hired some members of the original Gremlin staff. [1] The latest releases in the series were developed by Urbanscan Limited, a company established by Gremlin founder Ian Stewart. [2]

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Games in the series

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  2. ↑ Yin-Poole, Wesley (18 July 2011). "Gremlin Graphics back in the game". Eurogamer . Retrieved 30 January 2022.
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  6. ↑ "Preview: Premier Manager 2002". Official PlayStation 2 Magazine (UK) (Special Edition: Sports Games). Future Publishing: 98. June 2002.
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  10. ↑ "Premier Manager 2005/2006". IGN . Retrieved 8 January 2023.
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  14. ↑ "Premier Manager 10 for Windows (2009)". MobyGames. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
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