Posts tagged robin-antonick

John Madden Football designer's lawsuit against EA going to court

by JC Fletcher (Apr 30th 2013 5:15PM)

Robin Antonick, designer of John Madden Football for 8-bit computers, will have his case against EA proceed to trial June 17, after a federal judge denied EA's motion to dismiss Antonick's lawsuit. Antonick filed in 2011, seeking royalties and a cut of profits from the Madden series' subsequent ...

Trip Hawkins disputes Madden lawsuit claims

by David Hinkle (Apr 7th 2011 5:00PM)

Robin Antonick, a designer on John Madden Football, filed a lawsuit against EA recently, looking for monetary compensation and credit for his work. He claims the current generation's installments were "derived from software" he helped develop. But according to statements from Trip Hawkins (via LA ...

Boom! Original John Madden Football designer files lawsuit against EA

by JC Fletcher (Apr 1st 2011 4:10PM)

No, John Madden isn't the person who designed John Madden Football. That credit goes to a man named Robin Antonick, who created the first game in the megahit sports series (and its little-known spinoff, Tough-Actin' Tinaction) for C64, Apple 2, and MS-DOS back in 1988. Twenty-three years later, ...