The first video game, titled John Madden Football, was released in 1988 for the Apple II computer. “I didn’t want anyone to ever think it wasn’t real,” the announcer said.
EA founder Trip Hawkins proposed a game with seven players on each team, but Madden insisted it had to be 11 to mirror an actual football match. Madden signed a $100,000 contract with EA, but it took four years for the game to get off the ground because he was so particular about its design. Reuters/Matt Sullivan/ John Madden attends a Hall of Fame pre-season game in 2006. Having taught a class on football at UC-Berkeley, he envisioned the video game as an educational tool. While Madden knew little about computers, he regularly used a video markup device called a Telestrator to illustrate plays over games. When EA approached Madden about licensing his name for a video game in 1984, he had been working for five years at CBS, where he called football games with Pat Summerall. A slow start turns into a billion-dollar legacy With Madden, Electronic Arts (EA) built a billion-dollar franchise that influenced a younger generation of fans and even National Football League (NFL) players. 28), is perhaps best known for Madden NFL, the video game that’s licensed his name for over three decades. John Madden was a Hall of Fame coach who brought the Oakland Raiders to a Super Bowl victory before transitioning to broadcast television, where he won 16 Emmy awards for his sports analysis across multiple networks.īut the US football legend, who died at the age of 85 yesterday (Dec.
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