Apparently, John Madden invented videogames
From the archive: published Aug 20, 2009, 17 years ago. Details may have changed since.
LA Times: How far has the video game evolved since the days [EA founder] Trip Hawkins … approached you in 1986 to do a title?
Madden: When Trip Hawkins and I started, there were no videogames. He was going to make a game you could play on the computer. The reason I joined him was that I wanted to make something that could teach football. Then it took us years to get to that point.
Hear that, Spacewar!? NO VIDEOGAMES. Oh suuuure, you can suggest 1962 was before 1988, but we all know it wasn’t.
Seriously though, John Madden is either hitting senility early, or isn’t very knowledgeable about one of his main sources of income: videogames. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest it’s the latter.
See also: Madden NFL 10: Review Round-up