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They bought the exclusive contract to the NFL when they faced a challenge from 2K games. That's how this dynasty stays around.
Now that I think of it, I just played the game at home and had no idea how popular and financially successful it was.
There's this odd little rumor/story that gets passed around from time to time that Madden, deep down in the core of its object code, is still running the SNES game engine from the 1990s. From a blog somewhere else: "Madden 2015 has a long, dark history. Inside its inmost code, there's a tiny copy of snes9x, linked to a tiny virtual display, used only in memory, never shown to the user. This arrangement has been used…
I'd really like to see a Gruden NFL game myself
I remember asking my dad how I was supposed to play this when I was about 4... he didn't know either.
There's this odd little rumor/story that gets passed around from time to time that Madden, deep down in the core of its object code, is still running the SNES game engine from the 1990s. From a blog somewhere else: "Madden 2015 has a long, dark history. Inside its inmost code, there's a tiny copy of snes9x, linked to a tiny virtual display, used only in memory, never shown to the user. This arrangement has been used…
I worked on Madden for several years. It would be delightful and hilarious if that were true. There is some very old code in there, or at least was when I was on it. I recall digging up the code that updated your score on a touchdown—not a bit of logic that has much need to change—and saw Steve Chiang's initials on it, from back when he still coded. One obvious sign is that it's a fake is that there's no way there wo…
FTA: "In 2004, EA paid the NFL a reported $300 million-plus for five years of exclusive rights to teams and players. The deal was later extended to 2013. Just like that, competing games went kaput." They became a monopoly.
Interesting that ESPN doesn't seem to mention this in the article considering their name and properties were used for the 2K games.
There's this odd little rumor/story that gets passed around from time to time that Madden, deep down in the core of its object code, is still running the SNES game engine from the 1990s. From a blog somewhere else: "Madden 2015 has a long, dark history. Inside its inmost code, there's a tiny copy of snes9x, linked to a tiny virtual display, used only in memory, never shown to the user. This arrangement has been used…
I'd really like to see a Gruden NFL game myself
Well maybe you could be the one to figure out how this thing works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U0azTHBn-E I remember asking my dad how I was supposed to play this when I was about 4... he didn't know either.
They bought the exclusive contract to the NFL when they faced a challenge from 2K games. That's how this dynasty stays around.
and Front Page Sports Football had already tanked with a version that never got patched to actually work. It had a nice package though. I still think FPS: Football was a better game.
I'd really like to see a Gruden NFL game myself
Well maybe you could be the one to figure out how this thing works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U0azTHBn-E I remember asking my dad how I was supposed to play this when I was about 4... he didn't know either.