20 år er lang tid, men bestemt ikke glemt. Robin Antonick som for 23 år siden skabte Electronic Arts’ Madden-serie, vil nu have sin bid af kagen. Gamasutra kan nu fortælle, at Antonick mener at han har krav på 1.5 % af hvad serien har indbragt gennem årene. Det er ikke så lidt endda. Madden-franchisen har generet i omegnen af $4 mia. og det er således ikke så lidt, Antonick mener at han har krav på. Det er dog yderst tvivlsomt om Antonick får held med sin argumentation.
The lawsuit highlights innovations the original game brought to virtual football, such as 11-player sides, 3D camera technologies, instant replay features and “sophisticated models of player behavior in place of static rules-based gameplay.”
These models formed “the foundation of the Madden franchise,” according to the lawsuit, and make further games in the series subject to a 1986 contract that promises Antonick 1.5 percent of the profits from any “derivative works” made for different hardware.
EA has withheld those royalties, Antonick says, by arguing that subsequent Madden games were developed independently of Antonick’s computer version. When Park Place Productions was brought in to develop the 1990 Sega Genesis version of the game, the company allegedly told Antonick that his IP would not be used because the title was going in a new, more “arcade”-focused direction.


























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