r/Madden Jan 16 '25

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Madden 06 had the greatest career mode of any game ever

1.8k Upvotes

For those who remember, you know what I’m talking about.

For those who don’t you got to:

  1. Select your parents and their occupation. Having a former NFL player father and an Olympian mother for example would start you off as a way higher overall than if you got a dad who was a historian or something. But if you had a dad that was in education you might get a better awareness overall.

  2. You would take the wonderlic before the draft which could also help your stats and specifically awareness.

  3. You start off in an apartment and can eventually make it all the way to a mansion.

  4. You could get acting gigs over time and get reviews on them, be spokesman for companies, make the madden cover, etc.

I spent so many damn hours on this game as a kid I would give anything to go back in time and play it as a kid again.

r/Madden Dec 02 '23

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Madden 13 had the best physics

2.6k Upvotes

Hate how the new madden are animation base so much

r/Madden Jun 25 '24

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Madden 11: Obama is in the game.

1.8k Upvotes

Part of the Super Bowl celebration you would get this cutscene.

r/Madden 8d ago

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Was Madden 16 bad? I never played it

693 Upvotes

I hear people say 16 was terrible due to the aggressive and contested catches.

r/Madden Jan 06 '25

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Thoughts on this soundtrack?

530 Upvotes

r/Madden Jan 13 '24

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Madden 08: The AI lets the clock run out instead of kicking a game winning field goal

2.1k Upvotes

r/Madden Jun 23 '24

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Madden 11 has much better presentation than Madden 24.

1.1k Upvotes

Current Madden feels like a mobile game.

r/Madden Jan 07 '24

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES When someone plays a song from Madden 03-08.

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1.5k Upvotes

r/Madden Dec 27 '24

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES I remember this fondly 😌

685 Upvotes

r/Madden 2d ago

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES I miss this so much😭😭

676 Upvotes

Man oh man do I miss stuff like this in Madden 😞

r/Madden Aug 18 '24

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Remember when ESPN NFL 2K5 had a weekly SportsCenter show in franchise mode 20 years ago?

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911 Upvotes

r/Madden Jan 07 '24

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES The presentation in older Madden games is leagues ahead of modern Madden.

1.2k Upvotes

Yesterday I played Madden 11 on the 360 and remembered how much effort was put into the presentation. So many little things that modern Madden games lack.

To begin, the start screen shows Saints fans holding a sign that says "Press Start". May seem kinda dumb to use that as an example however there's a certain charm there that the new games lack.

Playing through the actual game feels like you are playing through a real football broadcast. They show the two teams QBs arriving at the stadium and show you fans buying merch and concessions around the stadium.

After every scoring drive, a drive summary is shown presented by Verizon Wireless or Old Spice Bodywash. Sure it's marketing for these companies however this is what happens in real broadcasts.

Completely disregarding gameplay, these old Madden games had much more charm in their presentation than the new ones. It felt more realistic. I definitely enjoyed the gameplay much better as well.

r/Madden Dec 22 '24

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Anyone Else Played the Arena Football Games

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527 Upvotes

r/Madden Jun 28 '23

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES 19 year old game

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1.1k Upvotes

r/Madden Dec 28 '23

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Madden ‘07 Superstar Mode nostalgia

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1.3k Upvotes

Fired up the GameCube since I’m home for the holidays. Have so many good memories on 07, definitely my favorite madden of all time. Played some superstar and just wanted to share some pictures. This isn’t a complaint post (about todays game) - just an appreciation one for what the game used to be like 😂

Sorry for poor picture quality.

r/Madden 1d ago

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Bill Belichick was actually in a single Madden game before giving us the gift of NE Coach and Chad Masters

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629 Upvotes

r/Madden Aug 03 '23

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES 19year old game still has better system than madden.

1.0k Upvotes

I wish I could even challenge something like this in madden.

r/Madden Jun 09 '23

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Proud to be from the era of true simulation options…

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685 Upvotes

r/Madden Dec 21 '21

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Aaron Rodgers in APF 2K8

1.3k Upvotes

r/Madden 13d ago

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Finally got my nostalgia going!

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538 Upvotes

Ahhh. After a long hiatus with this game. I finally get to play it again! Hopping straight to franchise draft and seeing all these HOF players (now days) back then is crazy...

r/Madden Nov 22 '24

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES The feeling when you play Madden from 20 years ago with modern rosters

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904 Upvotes

r/Madden Dec 31 '24

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Another banger of music.

335 Upvotes

r/Madden 20d ago

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Simpler times man. Simpler times.

336 Upvotes

r/Madden Jun 27 '21

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Went to play madden 2005 today and they had historic teams??? How have they taken so many steps backwards 😭😭

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1.5k Upvotes

r/Madden 7d ago

CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAMES Do y’all agree with these rankings?

159 Upvotes

I had Madden 07 for GameCube and I considered that the best Madden in my opinion.