In Madden 2004, before each season you were forced to come up with prices for items such as: hot dogs, nachos, soda, beer, and even foam fingers. Parallel to real life, if the prices were too high, then people would not purchase food. Otherwise, revenue would continuously increase. Beer was very important within the food sales industry. On Madden, the average price of beer was $8. As a owner, you were able to get away with selling it up $11, but any price above that was ridiculous. Jersey's were also a valuable item that would be sold. As an owner , every gamer had the choice to either an average price for jerseys around the league, and to heighten or lower the price. With money earned, each year franchises had the opportunity to relocate their teams, or renovate their stadiums. If an owner had the money to add renovations then they could. Their were options that carried from adding 5-star restaurants to personal televisions on each seat.
Madden has been the epitome of professional football games for the past 20 years, and there has always been an authenticated game-play within it. However, I believe that Madden 2004 was one of the greatest Madden games produced because it also provided an educational part into the game.(Not to mention having the greatest Madden soundtrack that was ever made.) Being a little kid, I learned about revenue and losses because of Madden, player's contracts, and stadium renovations. The constant decisions that I had to make about how I can make more money were real and authentic, since real NFL owners are forced to do the same. For anyone who still has a Play Station 2 or Nintendo GameCube, I highly recommend that you invest some money into this game. It's currently on eBay for prices as low as $3.99.