Madden NFL 2003
Take one of 32 NFL teams through exhibition games, playoffs or a full season. Call offensive and defensive plays and manage your roster in Front Office.
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Provenance
www.thegameisafootarcade.com
USA GBA photographic label AGB-ANJE-USA on the fixed gray display shell
Specification — NTSC
- Platform
- Game Boy Advance
- Region
- NTSC
- Release year
- 2002
- Developer
- Budcat Creations
- Publisher
- EA Sports
- Language
- English
- Entry type
- Official release
- Archive code
- AGB-ANJE-USA
About this game
NFL American football provides the setting for this GBA edition, with all 32 teams in their realigned divisions. Pick plays, run or pass on offense, and switch defenders to tackle the ball carrier. Choose an exhibition match, playoffs or a season. Front Office lets you create players, adjust rosters and arrange trades. Multiplayer Link Play requires compatible Game Boy Advance systems and Game Link Cables.
Archive notes
USA AGB-ANJE-USA Madden NFL 2003 label on the fixed gray GBA catalogue shell, replacing an unrelated Madden NFL2002 packaging image. Complete title, rating, code and printed marks retained without repainting. Source photographic halftone and lighting retained. Fixed shell colour is a display convention, not factory-colour or specimen authentication. Source photograph and credit: Source cartridge photograph: Retro MTL, https://retromtl.com/en/products/madden-2003-game-boy-advance ; original image https://retromtl.com/cdn/shop/products/IMG_8511.jpg?v=1660318521&width=2048 . Public retailer photograph; no Creative Commons licence claimed. Only the complete AGB-ANJE-USA label paper is projected onto the fixed gray GBA catalogue shell. Source halftone, mild surface marks and lighting retained; no official title, code, rating or seal repainted. This composite does not authenticate the physical cartridge. Independent physical title/code/layout comparison: https://poshmark.com/listing/Nintendo-Madden-NFL-2002-2003-2004-Game-Boy-Advance-GBA-Cartridges-Lot-6abfad78fa43c1e8beed06c3 Background and core gameplay paraphrased from Electronic Arts original Game Boy Advance instruction booklet, pages8-11: https://www.thegameisafootarcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Madden-NFL-2003-Game-Manual.pdf. The consulted publicly available PDF text explicitly names Game Boy Advance and its controls. Removed unverified console EA Trax, Mini Camp, cover-athlete and commentator boilerplate. The existing 2002 release year is retained; no exact launch date or software-language claim is newly inferred. The photographic label identifies this specific USA printing, not every printing.
Source & provenance
External reference: www.thegameisafootarcade.com
Catalogued from USA GBA photographic label AGB-ANJE-USA on the fixed gray display shell.
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Reference title: Electronic Arts - Madden NFL 2003 original Game Boy Advance instruction booklet, pages8-11
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