John Madden Football '93 is a football video game released in 1992 by Electronic Arts. While technically just an update of the '92 game, this one set the bar for most Madden games to follow. The game is featured in the collector's edition of Madden NFL 09

Madden NFL 09

Madden NFL 09 is an American football video game based on the NFL that was published by EA Sports and developed by EA Tiburon. It is the 20th annual installment in the Madden NFL video game franchise. This game is known for its realistic graphics and big hits...

for the Xbox 360

Xbox 360

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 and PlayStation 3

PlayStation 3

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 as an exclusive bonus, including updated rosters for the 2008-2009 season.

Features

John Madden Football '93 featured 28 updated teams from the '91-'92 season, as well as 10 new teams: 2 All-Madden teams and 8 Greatest ever teams. The teams featured in the game were represented by city names. There were no player names, logos, or stadium names used, due to those rights being held by the NFL

National Football League

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 and the NFLPA. However, two of the game's teams, Oakland and New Jersey, are respectively based on the L.A. Raiders

Oakland Raiders

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 and N.Y. Jets

New York Jets

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 at the time. John Madden Football '93 was the first in the Madden series to incorporate "split-play calling", overturning of certain calls by referees, the use of the No-Huddle Offense, and player taunting. The coin toss was finally added in this version.

There was a "Championship Edition" later released for Genesis

Sega Mega Drive

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, replacing the 1992 season teams with teams taken from the 1966-1991 seasons as well as introducing two "All Madden" teams (one made of players from the 1966-1991 time period and one made of then-current players). It was a rental exclusive game.

There was also a John Madden Duo CD Football for the TurboGrafx-CD (primarily, the TurboDuo

TurboDuo

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) related to this game, which took features from both the original and the Championship Edition, and featured CD audio (menu music and audience cheering) and video (coin flips, etc) clips.