NFL Gameday vs Madden | Retro Gaming's Biggest Football Rivalry of the Late 90's/2000's | NFL 2K vs Madden

I may not play football games, but even I find the good old NFL Gameday vs Madden feud to be interesting. You've gotta love a good old fashioned Football rivalry. Once the Rivalry between Gameday and Madden ended after the terribly Gameday 2001 on the PS2, Madden found itself competing directly against NFL 2K on the same consoles. Unfortunately, EA cheated to win, and we have been robbed of seeing epic football game rivalries since. Fun times for Sports gamers though.

Note: This footage was taken off a PS2 running the games, and I used the Hyperkin PS1/PS2 HDTV cable to upscale. The early madden games have tons of visual glitches if you use a PS3 to upscale, so I opted to used the PS2 for this video.

Sources, and further reading for those interested:

-Electronic Gaming Monthly (Issue 137). December 2000.
-The Official Playstation Magazine (Vol 2, Issue 1), October 1998
-Gamepro Magazine (Issue 121), October 1998
-Gamefan (Vol 8 Issue 11), November 2000
-Dangerboy. “Madden NFL 96 (Unreleased).” game-rave.com, 15 Mar. 2021, https://www.game-rave.com/?p=2659
-Good, O. (2013, June 19). The Long-Forgotten Threat That “Always” Made Madden Nervous. Kotaku. https://kotaku.com/the-long-forgotten-threat-that-always-made-madden-nervo-5877712
-Staff, Ign. “Madden Vs. GameDay - IGN.” IGN, 21 June 2012, https://www.ign.com/articles/1998/08/08/madden-vs-gameday-2
-“Madden NFL ’98 - IGN.” IGN, 13 Dec. 2018, https://www.ign.com/articles/1997/08/27/madden-nfl-98
-“NFL GameDay 98 - IGN.” IGN, 21 Nov. 2018, https://www.ign.com/articles/1997/08/27/nfl-gameday-98
-“Madden NFL ’99 - IGN.” IGN, 13 Dec. 2018, https://www.ign.com/articles/1998/08/27/madden-nfl-99-4
-“NFL GameDay 99 - IGN.” IGN, 13 Dec. 2018, https://www.ign.com/articles/1998/08/29/nfl-gameday-99-2
-Staff, GameSpot. “NFL GameDay 99 Review.” GameSpot, 28 Apr. 2000, https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/nfl-gameday-99-review/1900-2547666
-`Staff, GameSpot. “Madden NFL 99 Review.” GameSpot, 2 May 2000, https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/madden-nfl-99-review/1900-2548197
-“Madden NFL 2000 - IGN.” IGN, 13 Dec. 2018, https://www.ign.com/articles/1999/08/21/madden-nfl-2000-5
-. “NFL GameDay 99 Review.” GameSpot, 28 Apr. 2000, https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/nfl-gameday-99-review/1900-2547666

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