The Madden Ambulance
Philadelphia QB No. 12 gets crushed. A siren wails.
A pixelated red-and-white ambulance rolls onto the field (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_138p6uzhUk), running over teammates and opponents alike to reach the fallen signal-caller. "Madden 92" may not have been the first sports simulation to feature injuries, but it probably was the first one that made gamers look forward to them. Beyond provoking giggles, the Madden ambulance taught a generation of players a harsh, almost existential lesson about the fragile nature of real-world quarterbacks: They go down and go down hard. And by plowing through other players like traffic cones, the ambulance slyly mocked our star-obsessed culture a decade before the "Grand Theft Auto" series took a blowtorch to all things American and dumb. Besides, without "Madden's" inspiration, would the makers of the subsequent "NHLPA Hockey '93" ever have let us made Gretzky's head bleed?
Ahh how I loved that ambulance! :dj:
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:lmao: That is ****ing awesome! I totally forgot about the Madden Ambulance. :rofl: