Knuckles the CLown wrote:"OH NO"- Pat Summeral Madden '96 for Sega. The last good thing (the sound bite not the game) to ever come out of EA sports. Robb please tell the story of my compassion.
My brother and I played a complete season of Madden 96 for the Sega Genesis. It would let multiple people control multiple teams. I was the Saints, and my brother was the Seahawks. This is before the re-alignment, so Seattle was still in the AFC. We were destined to meet in the Super Bowl.
I was playing the NFC Championship game (Mike had already secured his place in the SB) and my entire offense was heaving the ball to Michael Haynes. That was it. Haynes was a free agent pickup that the Saints, at that point, rarely made. He wasn't a particularly memorable player for ... well, anybody.
Except for my Madden 96 team! Anyway, my brother was half-asleep in the same room I was as I was finishing up the NFC Championship game. I think I had the game well in hand, but I was still throwing bombs to Haynes. Towards the end of the game I heard a "crack" and Pat Summerall say, "Oh no....!"
Well, this meant that Haynes was not going to play in the SB, and I would have absolutely no possibility of beating my brother, and it was gonna be a remote chance anyway.
"You can reset it if you like," my brother said. But I declined.
Mike was up about 40 points before halftime. We got into a fight because losing a football game to my brother is one of the few times in life that I can be set into a blind rage, and the Genesis was knocked over, resetting itself.
We then simmed the SB, and the Saints won in the sim by like 3 points. That made it extra-humiliating, because I had naturally assumed that Mike had a talent advantage as a gamer, and better players in Madden 96. Now only the former was absolutely true. :(
[quote="Knuckles the CLown"]"OH NO"- Pat Summeral Madden '96 for Sega. The last good thing (the sound bite not the game) to ever come out of EA sports. Robb please tell the story of my compassion.[/quote]
My brother and I played a complete season of Madden 96 for the Sega Genesis. It would let multiple people control multiple teams. I was the Saints, and my brother was the Seahawks. This is before the re-alignment, so Seattle was still in the AFC. We were destined to meet in the Super Bowl.
I was playing the NFC Championship game (Mike had already secured his place in the SB) and my entire offense was heaving the ball to Michael Haynes. That was it. Haynes was a free agent pickup that the Saints, at that point, rarely made. He wasn't a particularly memorable player for ... well, anybody.
Except for my Madden 96 team! Anyway, my brother was half-asleep in the same room I was as I was finishing up the NFC Championship game. I think I had the game well in hand, but I was still throwing bombs to Haynes. Towards the end of the game I heard a "crack" and Pat Summerall say, "Oh no....!"
Well, this meant that Haynes was not going to play in the SB, and I would have absolutely no possibility of beating my brother, and it was gonna be a remote chance anyway.
"You can reset it if you like," my brother said. But I declined.
Mike was up about 40 points before halftime. We got into a fight because losing a football game to my brother is one of the few times in life that I can be set into a blind rage, and the Genesis was knocked over, resetting itself.
We then simmed the SB, and the Saints won in the sim by like 3 points. That made it extra-humiliating, because I had naturally assumed that Mike had a talent advantage as a gamer, and better players in Madden 96. Now only the former was absolutely true. :(