The early days of John Madden Football
Other little gems include actual NFL players calling up EA to complain that their in-game characters weren’t good enough. Except for Jerome Bettis, that is. He called EA and said, “I’m playing the game and I appreciate what you guys did but you made me too good.” And in later years, EA “hired an engineer with a PHD in flocking behaviour to design algorithms where players would converge on another and tackle him.”
Good stuff all around, especially if you’re an old-timer like me and remember playing Madden on the Sega Genesis way back in the 90’s.
The Making Of: John Madden Football [Edge Online]