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  • ShavarHayes
    Rookie
    • Jul 2011
    • 205

    #1

    Your First, and/or Greatest Madden Memory...

    First: 1991...I was eight years old. My cousin had Madden '92 (damn, I'm getting old), on Sega Genesis. I was still high as a kite on Tecmo Super Bowl (NES). The verical camera, the passing windows--super advanced. I fell in love, and created a lifelong marriage.

    Greatest: When my best friend and I rented a Playstation 2 from Blockbuster Video, just for Madden '01. We literally played all weekend with like 3hrs of sleep. The graphics were amazing, and the competition had never been better. I think my obsession reached another level that summer. It's about that time again fellas! What's your first/greatest memory?
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  • BreakingBad2013
    Pro
    • Aug 2013
    • 848

    #2
    Re: Your First, and/or Greatest Madden Memory...

    First: pS2 Madden, we would just play head to head play now, never did franchise.

    Greatest: hard to say, I'd say my hook was xb360 I played Madden 07 for a weekend straight, no sleep. First time I had online.

    Close second would be Madden/2k5 they were awesome Franchise mode.
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    • fballturkey
      MVP
      • Jul 2011
      • 2372

      #3
      Re: Your First, and/or Greatest Madden Memory...

      First: When I was a little kid I played a TON of Tecmo against my dad, and it just blew my MIND going from that to the first time I played Madden 98 at my cousins house. Games weren't advertised like they are now and I was still fairly young (10), so I was pretty much in the dark that something more advanced than Super Tecmo existed. It was just a huge leap. But not as huge as

      Favorite: It's hard to believe looking back, but one year, we went from this:


      To this:



      Like, literally one day you're playing that first game, then you go get a brand new PS2 or Xbox, and holy crap you're playing that second game. A couple of my friends came over because I was the first one of us to get a (at the time) next gen system, and we literally just watched the CPU play a couple games in awe. You could see their fingers! The player models weren't obviously polygons! It was crazy and we may never see another leap like that one unless Virtual Reality works out way better than expected.
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      • Raveneff
        Rookie
        • Apr 2014
        • 15

        #4
        Re: Your First, and/or Greatest Madden Memory...

        First was on 97 on PS1. Creating a character and for the life of me not figuring out how to sub in.

        Greatest would be in the superbowl on madden 05 against a friend (6-8 of us made a franchise and met at my house) he was packers I was ravens and I intercepted a pass from Favre with Kelly Gregg amd returned it for 48 yards for a TD.
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        • Mbalmer
          Pro
          • Jul 2008
          • 729

          #5
          Re: Your First, and/or Greatest Madden Memory...

          I camped at a Target in Ankeny, Iowa overnight with my girlfriend (Now wife) for a PS2 on release day. Got back to our apartment in Ames and I popped in Madden...was floored by how good it look. That would be my best Madden moment.
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          • TecmoZack
            Armchair GM
            • Jan 2010
            • 1276

            #6
            Your First, and/or Greatest Madden Memory...

            Madden 93. My cousin brought his Sega and that game over for Thanksgiving. We played for hours. I used 2 plays...lol. HB sweep with Emmit Smith on offense and Jam Middle on defense.

            Then for Christmas I got a Sega of my own with a copy of Madden 94. Boom!!!


            Good thread by the way. Nice to see something positive.




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            • Sheba2011
              MVP
              • Oct 2013
              • 2353

              #7
              Re: Your First, and/or Greatest Madden Memory...

              Don't remember my first Madden moment to be honest, I was more into the NFL series featuring Joe Montana and the QB club games.

              My greatest Memory was Madden 05 and it's deep franchise mode which I put hundreds of hours into. Everything from the Tony Bruno show to the hometown newspapers to the deep create a team made that game so much fun.

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              • Gorilla Glass
                MVP
                • Aug 2010
                • 1139

                #8
                Re: Your First, and/or Greatest Madden Memory...

                I have too many great memories to recall, but my most exciting moment was my first Online match on the PS2.

                I sweat a lot in anticipation of the unknown lol

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                • icicle22
                  MVP
                  • Jul 2002
                  • 2395

                  #9
                  Re: Your First, and/or Greatest Madden Memory...

                  Madden 93 seemed to be the high point for the series back in the day. 4 of us formed a league and put money in a fund and played an entire 16 game season. We won the money back for certain things like winning the super bowl, most yard rushing, passing etc. We even kept track of all these stats in an old fashioned paper ledger book. We created a "media guide" called the GFL (genesis football league) which tracked our historic stats and such. Great times.

                  The game has obviously gotten better but sometimes it's the experiences that you remember more than the technical aspects. Shortly after that we all got married and got jobs and while I enjoy gaming still....it's not the same.

                  You young ones enjoy it while you can!!!

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                  • Mav3rek7
                    Rookie
                    • Jul 2014
                    • 206

                    #10
                    Re: Your First, and/or Greatest Madden Memory...

                    First: Madden '93 maybe, or somewhere around there. Loved Madden from the first time I played it, and loved watching the ambulance come screeching onto the field knocking everyone out of it's way.

                    Greatest: I really liked it when the franchise had the pre-season training camps where you could take a player and work on a particular skill. I would always wait until the 7th round of the draft, and take the fastest receiver left. Usually they had a 97 speed, but their catching rating was God awful. First thing I would do is switch them to a DB, and then take them to the training camp and work on their hands year after year. Then I would play as the DB on defense and dominate. Save the highlights to my PS2 memory card and relive them from time to time. That was the most fun I ever had with Madden.

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                    • TexasFan2005
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                      • Aug 2010
                      • 621

                      #11
                      Your First, and/or Greatest Madden Memory...

                      First Madden memory: Madden 64

                      My parents took me to Target to get Quarterback Club 98 because I had been spending too much time at my neighbor's house playing the crap out of it. QB Club had just come out during those recent weeks and they were sold out of it, and the attendant said "well, we have this other game called Madden, but it doesn't have the real teams or players." Being as impatient that I was, and the fact that Madden was the only available football game in town (lol), I decided I needed my football gaming fix immediately, so I went with Madden instead of waiting a few days.

                      My "best" memory of Madden was after getting so hyped with Madden 06 on 360, playing it for few months, and ultimately being disappointed with the leap to those consoles, I went back to Madden 06 on ps2 and felt a relief to how great those versions were: responsive controls, tony bruno, etc
                      Last edited by TexasFan2005; 08-21-2014, 09:10 AM.

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                      • Mauer4MVP
                        MVP
                        • Mar 2010
                        • 2407

                        #12
                        Re: Your First, and/or Greatest Madden Memory...

                        My best memory is going over to my cousins and doing a rebuild with an awful fantasy draft. So many hours into building a team. Lol whenever we got the team built up to a consistent winner we got bored and started over.

                        I know that isn't a single memory or a single instance, but that is what I think of when I think of Madden.

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                        • Anaxamander
                          Imperator
                          • Mar 2003
                          • 2795

                          #13
                          Re: Your First, and/or Greatest Madden Memory...

                          Madden 2003 was the first I actually owned and got into hardcore.



                          I had a franchise with the Jaguars that I'll always remember. In the second season, it seemed like every game went down to the wire and was decided by a crazy play by Mark Brunell or Fred Taylor.

                          In week 15, my Jags were tied with Indy and Tennessee, all at 9-5. I lost a heartbreaker head to head with the Colts, and then saw that the Titans won, so I pretty much knew I was out of the playoffs.

                          Next week, I won against the Texans, so I had a glimmer of hope, and lo and behold, the Titans lost to the Giants and the Colts lost to the Chargers, which put us all three at 10-6. I was thrilled! I had split wins with both the Colts and Titans, so I wasn't exactly sure how the tie-breaker worked, but I thought I would probably make it.

                          I was wrong. Colts and Titans both got in at 10-6, and I was out in the cold. I was a little salty for a while, but I got over it. I think that's when I fell in love with franchise mode.

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                          • ThatMichiganFan
                            Pro
                            • Apr 2014
                            • 801

                            #14
                            Re: Your First, and/or Greatest Madden Memory...

                            First Madden: I got a PS2 and Madden 05 for Christmas and as a kid I thought it was the greatest game of all time.

                            Greatest Moment: I made a WR superstar in Madden 09 (I miss that mode soo much) and did well enough to made the Hall of Fame after 2 seasons
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                            • thinkjoey
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                              • Feb 2011
                              • 277

                              #15
                              Re: Your First, and/or Greatest Madden Memory...

                              i must have been 8-10 so 98 - 2000

                              i had my nintendo 64 and it was christmas...the only thing I got was Madden and I played that as much as I could

                              I did not complain...Madden was all I needed.
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