The Madden Curse
Get on the cover of Madden, get hurt. From Garrison Hearst's ankle to Michael Vick's leg to Shaun Alexander's foot, a decade of cover athletes made fans build a website begging EA to leave their guy alone.
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Madden NFL
Every August a new Madden, and every year the same arguments: the rosters, the ratings, the cover, the curse. EA's football series started as "Trip's Folly" in 1988, became an annual release in 1990, and in the 2000s turned into a calendar event, complete with a tournament on Super Bowl weekend and a reality show about finding the best player in America.
SSX Tricky
IT'S TRICKY! The snowboarding game that traded realism for backflipping off a glacier while Run-DMC loops in your skull. Uber Tricks, a celebrity voice cast, and the loudest announcer in video games — winter sports as a Saturday-morning cartoon.