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When did the first football video game come out?

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The first game of football wasplayedon November 6, 1869, between Rutgers and Princeton,twocollege teams.

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Herein, when was the first football video game made?

Atari Football (1978, Atari) Widely viewed as the first game toaccuratelydepict footballyou know, minus the fact thatplayers arerepresented by Xs and Os.

Also Know, when was the last NCAA Football video game made? NCAA Football 2005, the last game intheseries to have the full year on the cover and released forthePlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and Xbox, featured UniversityofPittsburgh wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald onthecover.

Also to know, what was the first football video game to feature real NFL players?

The persistence paid off. JohnMaddenFootball--with a full 11 players perside--wasreleased in 1989 for the Apple II computer. This firstgameserved as a launching point that soon propelled the seriestoother, more enduring platforms such as the Sega Genesis and thePC.Gameplay was rather simplistic at first.

When did Madden 20 come out?

August 2, 2019

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