Bret Favre recently retired from the NFL after 17 seasons as a quarterback. He holds pretty much every significant passing record. But the endless highlights and newspaper articles fail to accurately capture his greatness. Leave it to 16 years of video game appearances to fully show how great Favre was. Check out this post for screen caps and commentary on various games throughout Favre career. While it says it is a 16 page article, the article is only a few paragraphs per page—the rest is a screen cap and user comments. I recommend skipping around. While the focus of this piece is to show Favre through the ages, it also shows quite a bit about football video games. I really enjoyed this and any Madden fans need to take a look.
Favre
- Author By Brian Sommers
- Publication date March 10, 2008
- Categories: Uncategorized
- Categories: video games
- 1 Comment on Favre
My nigh-obsessive love for the man (and the team) aside, this is a great piece. Simultaneously tracking a quarterback’s career on the field and in the console gives an extra dimension that says a lot more about his worth to football fans, or at least to football fans like me. My understanding of the technical ratings and statistics for players is slim (unless it’s something like MOST COMPLETED PASSES), but I can understand the basic rating systems that at least the earlier games used. It’s the earlier games that may be more interesting . . . documenting a young player, a much less-known quantity, as opposed to spit-shining the plaque that says “This Old Guy Might Be the Best.”