OT: Madden players, when did you start playing? (Nostalgia)

Madden ‘97 for SNES.

If you were really cool you knew how to unlock the Panthers and Jaguars where everyone was a 99, even the kickers.

I started playing around 1993.  They had a lot of the old teams and I couldn't get enough of the 1985 bears with Payton.  I don't enjoy the game very much anymore.  NCAA football was always superior and 2k1 surpassed Madden before Madden got exclusive rights.  That being said, I have lots of great memories of playing over the years.  Vick had to be the most over powered player ever the year he was on the cover.

Started in 1990 on Sega. I skip years here and there now. Skipped last year because the player boosts are really stupid to me. Probably skipping this year again unless I can get it for $10-15 or less. 

1998 however the next year discovered NCAA and madden took a backseat for a decade and a half.   The only reason I picked it up was #2 was the cover athlete and he had become the favorite player of my 14 year old self.

Madden 99 on N64 for me. Between a Dreamcast and N64, I was always torn between Madden and NFL 2K. Best years by far are Madden 04 (franchise mode and moving the team from GB to Milwaukee lol then raising hot dog prices was fun) and NFL 2k5 (crib mode was too much fun, was also $19.99 MSRP).

I held out until someone told me Tecmo Bowl 2 wasn't cool.

Madden 04 on PS2. 8 year old me had a ton of fun scrambling around with Mike Vick (even though I did mostly suck at the time)

Madden 96 for Super Nintendo. Both Madden and CFB 96 & 98 were so easy a young kid (ie, me) could master the AI and score every single offensive play on the hardest settings. Nostalgic indeed for the Michigan sports dynasties I built. I forget what year it was added, but allowing players to graduate from CFB and be drafted on Madden was about the only good thing EA ever did with the franchises.

Madden 2001. Had it until Christmas 2003, when my dad got me Madden 2004, where they made Vick the most unstoppable human ever. ~97spd ~99THP

That Falcons team in that game we’re just unfair. Vick was god-level, TJ Duckett and Warrick Dunn we’re insane options that could be motioned. Peerless price was the 2nd fastest receiver in the game and was wayyyyyy overrated but Madden to be well into the 90s overall.

But their biggest advantage was Brian Finneran. 6-5 WR who caught everything regardless of coverage or where you threw the ball. He was the X factor. I remember in Madden a few years back they had the all-time madden team and they made him a starting WR (over Moss/TO/Calvin etc.) in it as a joke.

If you had to play someone online in Madden 2004 and they were using the Falcons, though, you were screwed.

I believe it was 1995 or 1996. There is a home movie of me yelling "wow look at those graphics!" On Christmas Day. Good times.

93 Madden on the Sega Genesis burned a ton of hours sophomore year...my roommate and I nearly came to fisticuffs multiple times over that one due to a bug in the system that allowed you to overturn a pass interference call...good times in Ann Arbor

I was more and NFL quarterback club kind of guy. First Madden was 99 for N64. I got both the 2004 and 2006 games and played them more than I care to admit. But EAs NCAA football stole my heart and I started getting that game every year till they stopped making it. 

The first one I played was 2001 on the N64. I started playing heavily in 2004 on the GameCube.

I believe it was Madden 92 on Sega.  I remember playing that with my dad as a kid.  I always loved the firework show complete with a grand finale after playing the super bowl.  Still to this day my favorite super bowl celebration in any madden.  

Also, they had some all-time teams in that game in exhibition mode.  I remember always playing as the 85 Bears against the current year Colts (worst team in league) and running HB Sweep every play with Walter Payton.  As a kid, that never got old.

I played on Super Nintendo (best system ever) in grade school.

Early 2000 range, started playing on GameCube.  

I remember 2003 version, you unlocked cards with cheerleaders on them and in the dial up days, you savored that shit along with Girls Gone Wild Commercials.

2004 on GameCube was my top on that system. Great soundtrack.

2007 on Playstation 2 was my top on that system.

Haven't played the new ones much or in general for awhile now.

I like the simple setup of the SNES and Playstation Controller. The more complex the controllers and buttons to press started to get, the less I played.

Definitely going to try and get back to it soon.

Madden 2002. 

For the longest time, I thought hitting the B button was the only way you could pass the ball. Fortunately I always played as the Vikings and Randy Moss was usually the B receiver. 

I never really cared for Madden much, but for some reason, I loved ESPN NFL 2K5. 

That's a game line that I wish they'd find a way to pick back up. 

madden 2005 on ps2 at around age 10-11.

Started in the Early 90s

Played in a lot of Tournaments  across the country, played in a lot of leagues, hosted a couple tournaments also, including 5000 dollar payout tournament in Milwaukee

Member of the EMFL - Milwaukee

Wom lots of money in neighborhood games

Biggest cash money ( Non EA game ) Game ever I saw was in Miami I believe it was over 10 gs

with a famous Hollywood actor against BGJ

Member of the Original MWS ( madden world syndicate )

made it to a final 4 of a 2005 Madden Challenge  which my friend won and  he went to Vegas I went with him as his labbing partner  as part of the final 32 in 2005 ( ray lewis on the cover that year, I swear we had the best defense in the country between me and Timmy until the Juke glitch came out that season )  but he didn't win it

I am till very connected to the Madden Community as I have friends who work now at EA and work

on the ESPn madden Tv portions of the competitions.

Madden 1993 with Super Nintendo. I had the greatest cheat on the game, I would use  the All-pro team and after my first TD I would just do onside kick formation but kick it to the corner of the field in front of the end zone, Deion Sanders was a cover guy and he would beat the other team to the ball. I would have the ball with usually under 10 yards to go. The score was typically in the low triple digits and I'd have some low number of yards like 300 or less and the opponent would have negative yards. I also played the 1995 Madden but a few years after that I became a father and work became busier so I had to put up the video games.

Madden 94 for sega...toys r us once i paid for it I had to redeem it from the video game guy in the locked up fence room ...got home to reveal the huge poster w all the plays

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