Madden NFL 97

Madden NFL 97
Developer(s)Tiburon Entertainment
High Score Productions
Stormfront Studios
Tiertex Design Studios
Publisher(s)EA Sports
SeriesMadden NFL
Platform(s)Game Boy, Genesis, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Super NES, Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS
ReleasePlayStation
  • NA: September 10, 1996[1]
  • EU: October 1996
Windows, Saturn
Genesis
Super NES
  • NA: October 24, 1996
Game Boy
  • NA: November 1996
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single player, multiplayer

Madden NFL 97 is a football video game released in 1996. It was the first Madden game released for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. 16-bit versions were also made for the established Super NES and Genesis platforms, as well as a portable version for the Game Boy.

This is the first edition of Madden to implement a salary cap when customizing team rosters. It also features the new Baltimore Ravens, formerly the Cleveland Browns for the 1996 season. The game also adds a team of real free agents (as opposed to the blank slate used in Madden 96), which can be traded and added to other teams' rosters (led by recently semi-retired quarterback Randall Cunningham), and can be played by using a cheat code.

Madden NFL 97 was the best-selling PlayStation game of 1996.[6]

  1. ^ "Electronic Arts - News Room, Electronic Arts Ships Madden NFL 97 for the PlayStation". Retrieved 2023-04-15.
  2. ^ "Checkpoint - Events And Software Releases". Computer and Video Games. No. 180. Future Publishing. November 1996. p. 48.
  3. ^ "Electronic Arts - News Room, Electronic Arts Ships Madden NFL 97 for the Sega Saturn". Retrieved 2023-04-15.
  4. ^ "Electronic Arts - News Room, Electronic Arts Ships Madden NFL 97 for the PC". Retrieved 2023-04-15.
  5. ^ "Madden NFL 97". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 88. Ziff Davis. November 1996. p. 276.
  6. ^ Paprocki, Matt (August 22, 2017). "The Asterisk on Madden's Annual Release Legacy". Polygon. Retrieved 2021-03-10.