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The Franchise : An EA Sports 'Madden' Retrospective

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1989-90 "John Madden Football"

Photograph By EA Sports

The original 1989-90 "John Madden Football" took four-plus years to make and was revolutionary for its time, featuring detailed player ratings, pro-style playbooks and a simulation-oriented game-play philosophy favored by its namesake and by EA's founder.
  • 1989-90
  • EA's reverse-engineered Sega Genesis
  • 1991
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