John Madden Football '93 [Championship Edition]
John Madden Football '93 [Championship Edition]
John Madden Football '93 [Championship Edition]

John Madden Football '93 [Championship Edition]

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Picture a football cartridge with no current season at all, just great teams lined up and waiting to settle arguments. That is the idea behind John Madden Football: Championship Edition, a special take on the Genesis Madden '93 game that sets aside the 1992 NFL schedule in favor of championship-caliber lineups drawn from 1966 through 1991.

Under the hood it is the Madden '93 that Genesis owners remember, the game EA had Looking Glass Technologies, the studio behind Ultima Underworld, build from the Madden '92 code in about five months. Every game opens with a coin toss to decide who kicks and which goal each side defends, a first for the series, and that year's additions include the no-huddle offense, taunting, stumbles, head-butts, one-handed catches and the chance to overturn certain referee calls. The play-calling and the hard-hitting, deliberate style are unchanged; what changes is the matchups. Instead of a modern season, you are pitting powerhouse squads from a quarter century of pro football against each other, the what-if games fans argue about for decades.

Like the standard edition, it gets the team colors right but carries no official team or player names, so part of the fun is recognizing the great teams by era and by how they play. Those vintage lineups were already a highlight of regular Madden '93, which included eight famous teams such as the 1976 Raiders and 1977 Cowboys; Championship Edition builds the entire game around that idea.

What sets it apart is how it reached players. Rather than going to store shelves like a normal release, it first appeared as a rental-only cartridge and was later sold exclusively by direct mail, so plenty of people who logged hundreds of hours of 16-bit Madden never knew it existed. For a Genesis football shelf, it is the oddball Madden, a history-of-the-game exhibition machine running on the engine that made Madden '93 such a Genesis favorite.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1992
About the game

Another update in the Madden football series. New this time are some graphics and animations, including an animated coin toss and some player moves. New gameplay features are no-huddle offense and a stop clock play. There are 28 teams from the '92-'93 season, two All Madden teams and 8 Greatest Ever teams. Game modes are the usual pre-season, regular season, sudden death and playoffs. A special playoff mode for the 8 greatest teams is also available.

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