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John Madden has died

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Re: John Madden has died

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Post by justinpage »

FillardMillmore wrote: post #5
sfblah wrote: post #3

I wonder what will happen with the game franchise. For a lot of folks his name is synonymous with NFL gaming.

EA will keep his name and they'll continue to make a boatload of money with each yearly release while making the minimum amount of fan-requested changes with the least effort possible.

I feel like this can apply to just about all sports related video games.

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Post by danachow »

acjohnson55 wrote: post #16
tjr225 wrote: post #8

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I would argue John Madden is an important figure in tech history by endorsing one of the most popular video game franchises in the world, and moreover, one that brought video gaming into the mainstream.

It was one of the biggest things that put EA on the map in the 90s, and for better or worse EA is one of the most important companies in the game industry.

More specifically it was the lift off point for the entire EA Sports division which is notorious for its 2 decade aggressiveness in pursuing video game sports licensing.

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Post by boomboomsubban »

sfblah wrote: post #3

I wonder what will happen with the game franchise. For a lot of folks his name is synonymous with NFL gaming.

Having retired over a decade ago, I bet a fair number of Madden players already have no idea who John Madden is and may think it's an obscure term like gridiron.

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Post by prometheus76 »

sfblah wrote: post #3

I wonder what will happen with the game franchise. For a lot of folks his name is synonymous with NFL gaming.

They'll probably use his twitter account to shill NFTs sometime in the next year.

EDIT: for the downvoters: I was referring to Stan Lee's twitter account now being used to shill NFTs, and saw John Madden as the next logical target of that behavior. Said it tongue in cheek. I'll keep my jokes to myself from now on.

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Post by Overtonwindow »

On the issue of obituaries, etc. on HN, I think it's helpful for us to remember that we are reaching that point when the people of our collective childhoods, the pioneers of technology, media, entertainment, etc. will start to die off. I didn't realize Madden was that old, what a great guy he was.

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Post by mindcrime »

kcb wrote: post #10
tjr225 wrote: post #8

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That's not the rules > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

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Post by kloch »

What a loss for Football, what a loss for Broadcasting.

I'm pretty sure I saw him coach in the 70's but my fondest memories of him are as a broadcaster in the 80's and 90's.

No matter how trivial the thing he said was you felt like you had just received critical knowledge directly from the football Gods. (Because you did!)

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Post by syspec »

Great 30 for 30 podcast episode, where they feature a few stories /from/ Madden himself about what it was like creating the first John Madden video game and how his early influence helped make it what it became.

> Madden's Game: we look back at how John Madden went from being a football player and coach to the conscience of a billion dollar video game franchise that has stayed true to the sport itself.

https://30for30podcasts.com/episodes/maddens-game/

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Post by boulos »

I ran into John Madden a few years ago at A.G. Ferrari in Soma (he had a residence nearby at the St Regis). He cut in line in front of me, to get his seemingly daily sandwich. The lady behind the counter and I let it slide.

I'm glad I didn't quote the game (or worse, say "boom, tough actin tinactin"), but it was definitely interesting to have thought "Huh, what a wild life. Now he's just an old man who wants a sandwich like anyone else".

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