While Visual Concepts’ Madden ’96 was still in development, EA had already hired Tiburon to work on a college football game for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn, beginning in the fall of 1995.

In the two decades since its inception, the Madden series has helped build and destroy console empires. It outlasted the rise and fall of SEGA's hardware in America, and contributed to both.

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Madden NFL 96 The PlayStation version of Madden NFL '96 was to be the series' first foray into the 32-bit generation and had a lot planned, but was ...

Hello, Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith. This is also the first release to feature handheld versions for Sega's Game Gear and Nintendo's Game Boy. 'Madden NFL '96' If adding pro football stars wasn't ...

Electronic Arts' Madden is still the game. But this year, millions of gamers (including myself) who don't necessarily prefer Sega ESPN football went out and bought it anyway. And here's how it ...

Because Antonick had no involvement in the Sega Madden games ... Last July, a federal jury ruled that multiple EA Madden NFL games published between 1990-96 used similar plays and formations ...

To be fair, I gave last year's Madden a lot of play time. In the end, though, my love returned to Sega's gridiron game, despite any of my concerns. While I grew up with Madden-- played the crap ...

It was the right result. As Judge Breyer held, there is no evidence that any of the Sega Madden games are virtually identical to the Apple II game that Robin Antonick programmed. The evidence also ...

So for the NFL, “Madden” and other licensed games such as Sega Corp.’s “NFL2K” have become not only a convenient and reliable source of revenue, but also an important tool for ...

Last year, “Madden 2004” rang up 5.4 million sales in North America, making it the highest-selling game of the year. Challengers, such as SEGA Sports and Acclaim, have just been unable to compete.

Instead, EA figured out how to make Sega cartridges for Madden by reverse engineering the game for the system. The process was done under secrecy and with lawyers in the mix, according to the ...