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John Madden Football NES prototype?


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#1 justinthebull OFFLINE  

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Posted Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:33 PM

Has anyone ever found any evidence of a prototype for an NES version of John Madden Football? I swear I remember reading a small preview for the game in one of the gaming magazines around 1991 or so, complete with a couple of screens.

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Posted Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:18 PM

View Postjustinthebull, on Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:33 PM, said:

Has anyone ever found any evidence of a prototype for an NES version of John Madden Football? I swear I remember reading a small preview for the game in one of the gaming magazines around 1991 or so, complete with a couple of screens.
I can't believe this would have been made. I thought EA didn't work with Nintendo because they wouldn't agree to Nintendo's licensing agreement.

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Posted Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:14 PM

Gameinformer has scans of the game a couple of time in 1993. The game was meant to be released in 1993, not 1991. It had a month planned to be released. The game was shown at the Summer CES 1993. The publisher was ubisoft.

It was never planned to be part of the EA Madden Series. It was developed by NMS Software.

Edited by 8th lutz, Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:01 PM.


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Posted Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:47 PM

View Postjustinthebull, on Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:33 PM, said:

Has anyone ever found any evidence of a prototype for an NES version of John Madden Football? I swear I remember reading a small preview for the game in one of the gaming magazines around 1991 or so, complete with a couple of screens.

There is a cart that is only some cycling screenshots, with no gameplay. I've never actually heard of it being playable.

#5 justinthebull OFFLINE  

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Posted Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:25 AM

Thanks for the information. I knew I'd seen screens in some magazine at some time... I just wanted to make sure I hadn't gone crazy.

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Posted Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:20 PM

View Postjustinthebull, on Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:25 PM, said:

Thanks for the information. I knew I'd seen screens in some magazine at some time... I just wanted to make sure I hadn't gone crazy.

Yeah, I have the cart for it, it has the cycling screens, but yep, no gameplay.




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