Former EA founder Trip Hawkins (who has his own legal problems) has disputed a lawsuit by Robin Antonick against Electronic Arts (although the litigation is moving forward).
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Antonick recently learned that the same code base that he created for the original 1988 version of John Madden Football is still being used today.
Trip Hawkins, who is the original founder of EA and was the man behind the concept of the game (he convinced John Madden to come on board), has said that Antonick was not the person driving the game and that EA dropped him as a contract worker when the industry upgraded to 16-Bit consoles because the job required the skills of more advanced programmers.