Everyone knows those guys. The ones who crowd around the television screen feverishly pressing buttons while swigging whatever the cheapest beer happened to be at the gas station earlier that night. They yell when they make a wrong play and cheer when they one-up their opponent. Exams, girlfriends, family pets, and all others get left in the dust that is caused by the Madden obsession.

I’m no stranger to gaming myself. I own various systems beginning with the Atari and advancing to the popular Sony Playstation 2. I’ve been addicted to helping Mario save his princess, committing Grand Theft Auto, street racing in Japan, and leading the Bulls to victory but the one game that I can not stand is Madden. I’ve tried it but I have to say I absolutely hate it. In fact, I don’t know of a single girl that is a Madden fan. They might be out there but I’ve never encountered them. So for the next 30 days, I’m sentencing myself to my personal hell, 60 minutes of daily Madden.

Will the addiction overtake me? Will I too become one of those people who neglects everything around me to play Madden? I guess we’ll find out as I blog daily about the game, the people I know who play it, and video game obsessions in general.

To keep everything easily separated from the rest of my posts, I have set up a blog account at http://whenmaddenattacks.blogspot.com/ which I will use only for this project. This is the first post from that blog which was posted on March 17.

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