I wonder what will happen with the game franchise. For a lot of folks his name is synonymous with NFL gaming.
Get ready for Tom Clancy's Madden 2023
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#42It’s all over, fat man. You’ll be missed.
Rest in peace, you turducken lover. There's a place on the West Bank in New Orleans that made them for him special order and sent them to him on game days.
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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.
I would say the demographic of HN, being a plurality of American males, grew up watching football called by Madden or played videos games with his name on it.
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Even when you are wealthy or famous at the peak of whatever fame or wealth you may have, or at the end of it, some times you just want to be left alone and have a sandwich.
I have no idea if this applies to Mr Madden, but sometimes when you become wealthy, you expect people to cater to you and the little people don't matter. "Cutting" line to get to the front wouldn't even seem as a faux pas to them. They just expect to be served with priority.
John Madden had dementia so it's entirely possible he just did the same thing every day without even knowing what he was actually doing.
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The game is actually regressing. Just bought Madden after 3 years and the initial load time is somehow longer. Game sometimes stutters when running plays. Don't get me started on MUT being pushed everywhere. At this point, I wish they'd give me Madden 07 with better graphics.
They are doing the same thing with Fifa, pushing FUT and hoping kids gamble on packs. Gaming isn't about genuine good fun now, it is too focused on milking Mom and Dads wallets. I took a few years off Fifa because it was heading that direction and I knew it was time to retire. Caved in and purchased Fifa 22 last week after a 3 year sabbatical. My wife: "How's the new game?!?" Me: "Feels like 2019, I'm not sure what I…
> I'm clearly not their target demographic anymore.
Every year a new crop of kids come of age for the parents to be willing to buy them a game. For the rest, it's a status symbol just like the annual purchase of a new phone. Gotta have the latest player rankings! Like purchasing skins/wardrobe/stickers for in-game use. A whole generation of people that will probably be just fine paying Toyota a monthly fee to use their key FOBs.
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#46“At the end of the game the team with the most points on the board is going to win.” ― john madden
My friends used to say, “Thanks, John Madden” whenever someone said something particularly obvious.
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#47This podcast helped me understand just how significant an accomplishment the Madden video game was—I recommend!
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#48On 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.
The only thing that happened sooner in my life was musicians.
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#49One day in the late 90s or early 2000s a friend and I were playing Madden. My dad walked into the room and announced “huh, why are they playing football on a Friday.” He hadn’t noticed at a casual glance that it was a video game- John Madden’s voice was coming out of the TV and it looked like football, so it must be football. That has always stuck with me as an impressive level of immersion.
Sports video games, and Madden in particular, helped mainstream gaming and computing in a very real way. I hope EA brings him back to the cover one last time next year.
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