THE MAKING OF: MUTANT LEAGUE FOOTBALL

IN THE KNOW

» PUBLISHER: ELECTRONIC ARTS
» DEVELOPER: ELECTRONIC ARTS
» RELEASED: 1993
» PLATFORM: MEGA DRIVE
» GENRE: SPORTS

The story of Electronic Arts is a varied one, and the likes of classics from the Mega Drive era such as Desert Strike or Road Rash are generally what many gamers of a certain age will remember the publisher for. But for all its high-quality releases during the period, it was the sports division with games like Madden, FIFA and NHL that made the publisher and developer such a massive name in the industry. And so a game that was built to be a satire of those sports was always going to be a fun diversion to fit into its catalogue of games.

“This was very early in my career,” recalls Michael Mendheim, the creator of . “I had already done a couple of videogames so it wasn’t my first design but it was something that I was kind of working on, on my own, in my own time.” Michael adds that it was his love of both American football and monsters, mutants and violence that was the spark that this game came