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Madden NFL 98 is a Sega Saturn American football game developed by Tiertex and published by Electronic Arts. The eighth entry into the popular Madden NFL series of sports titles, the game was first released in August 1997, and is the last Madden title published on a Sega system.
Later that October, Madden NFL 98 was ported to the Sega Mega Drive by the same developer[5] and released exclusively in the United States.
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Development
While Madden NFL 98 was developed by Tiertex, much of the game's production and testing were handled by publisher THQ.[5]
Production credits
Mega Drive version
- Strategy and Plays: John Madden
THQ Development Credits
- Vice President of Development: Steve Ryno
- Executive Producer: Donn Nauert
- Senior Producer: Greg Gibson
- Producers: Gabriel Jones, Jon Osborn, James Killy
- Associate Producer: Sanders Keel
- Lead Testers: Erick Fernandez, Skot Travis
- Testers: Jason Lewis, Erik van Rooy, Edward Ramiro
Tiertex Credits
- Programming: Donald Campbell
- Graphics and Animation: Kevin Knott, Bryan King
- Music and Sound: Mark Ortiz
- Testing: Gary Marshall
- Statistical Data: STATS, Inc.
- Player Ratings and Rosters: STATS, Inc.
Magazine articles
- Main article: Madden NFL 98/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #99: "October 1997" (1997-xx-xx)
Physical scans
Mega Drive version
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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650,739,600 | CD-ROM (US) | T-5024H V1.000 | ||||||||||
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1997-07-25 | CD-R | Page |
References
- ↑ http://riehlspot.simplenet.com:80/vgame/new/genesis.html (Wayback Machine: 1998-01-31 04:05)
- ↑ http://riehlspot.simplenet.com/vgame/new/saturn.html (Wayback Machine: 1999-02-21 17:22)
- ↑ Press release: 1997-08-26: Electronic Arts Ships Madden NFL 98 for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn; Last Year's Number-One Selling PlayStation and Saturn Title is Back to Claim the 1997 Championship Ring
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "February 1998" (UK; 1998-01-14), page 92
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Tiertex
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