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You might not know the designer of John Madden football but his name is Robin Antonick, he created the super sports series for the C64, Apple 2, and MS-DOS back in 1988. Now it’s Twenty-three years later and the series is a hundred-million dollar plus entity of its own. Now Robin is seeking some of the revenue from it, and also some credit for his hard work.

Antonick has filed suit against Electronic Arts, seeking “tens of millions” in royalties according to Routers, plus a portion of the enormous profits EA has made on the series. “According to recent statements by Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins,” Antonick’s complaint reads, “the current generation of software apparently derived from software developed by Antonick.”

And though “he was responsible for the development of virtually all of the ground-breaking technology at the heart of the game,” Electronic Arts has not issued a royalty payment to Antonick since 1992, according to the claim.

More info as it comes out…