Madden Videogames - The New Wheaties Box?

Posted by simoniker on Thursday August 14, 2003 @01:41PM from the cooking-a-mean-turducken dept.

Thanks to Slate for their article discussing the Madden football game series' enormous popularity. The article suggests: "To a new generation of football players, landing on the cover of the latest version of the game is a career-defining experience, the way an enormous shoe contract, or the Wheaties box, or the cover of Sports Illustrated once determined which sports stars had hit the big time." It also points out that "In the last two years, only the Grand Theft Auto games sold more copies than Madden", and Wired News are also running a story on the Madden franchise, which debuts its 2004 version this week, and was recently voted into the Pro Football Hall Of Fame.

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This takes me back... by NeoBeans · 2003-08-14 14:52 · Score: 4, Interesting

I remember playing Madden '93 on Sega Genesis, and having epic gridiron battles with a friend of mine. The most interesting thing about the Madden franchise is that I can walk up to any version, and after adjusting to the differences in game speed and button layout, and play it.

The great part is, I know it's not reflecting *real* football perfectly, but as a game, it's always had phenomenal replay value, and anytime two hardcore football fans get together to play it, it can be more entertaining than the real thing...