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Post by Edmonton Oilers on Jun 18, 2020 14:15:28 GMT -5
Any of you old enough to grow up on, or retroactively play, any of these classics?
- Ice Hockey (for NES)
- Blades of Steel (for NES)
- Wayne Gretzky Hockey (for NES)
- Stanley Cup Hockey (for SNES)
- NHL 94 (for SNES or Genesis)
- NHL 96 (for SNES or Genesis)
- any NHL 2K game (PS2 or Xbox)
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Post by Colorado Avalanche on Jun 18, 2020 14:18:28 GMT -5
Earliest hockey game I had was Faceoff 99
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Post by Edmonton Oilers on Jun 18, 2020 14:19:47 GMT -5
I loved Blades of Steel as a kid. It wasn't until I was a bit older that I began loving the fun silliness of Ice Hockey. You could had 4 skaters and had to choose if each was fat, skinny, or medium. Fat guys were slow with big shots and hits. Skinny guys were fast as hell, but weak. Medium guys were medium at everything. Pure arcade fun.
NHL 96 was the first game I played that allowed trading and created players. Played that probably more hours than I have played any video game ever.
I got into 2K around NHL 2K8 when I was looking for something different than EA. Gameplay was meh at best, but simming it was AMAZING. It was fast, it did not end, and you could do literally generations of simming (i would draft a guy, make him a super star, then watch his whole career until he retired at like, 41. It was amazing. The game also had a ton of retro teams, but you had to manually change their names due to NHLPA regulations - they were just in-game as "Left Wing 3" or something like that, but all their details (age, size, place of birth etc) and ratings were clearly specific players. (I.e. Right Wing 1 for Winnipeg in 1992 might be a 94 overall born in Finland, etc).
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Post by Edmonton Oilers on Jun 18, 2020 14:21:08 GMT -5
Earliest hockey game I had was Faceoff 99 I never played Face Off games. Was it decent, now that you have played others? Should I pick it up for a few bucks for retro-value if I see it? |
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Post by Toronto Maple Leafs on Jun 18, 2020 14:29:51 GMT -5
The very first video game glitch I ever experienced in my life was with Stanley cup on SNES. You could skate straight up to the oppositions blue line and then flick the fuck up and it would drop right behind the goal tender and into the net. I think I was six or seven when I played that game and it is still to this day a memory that I will have because I figured it out myself.
One of my favourite hockey games of all time is missing from this list and it’s called hit the ice. I think you were actual NHL players but during the game wacky things would happen like big head mode and things like that and you basically just get it up and down the ice annihilating everybody in your path
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Post by Edmonton Oilers on Jun 18, 2020 14:33:10 GMT -5
One of my favourite hockey games of all time is missing from this list and it’s called hit the ice. I think you were actual NHL players but during the game wacky things would happen like big head mode and things like that and you basically just get it up and down the ice annihilating everybody in your path I forgot all about this delight of a game! |
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Post by Buffalo Sabres on Jun 18, 2020 14:44:43 GMT -5
First one I had was 3D Wayne Gretky's NHL 98 for N64. I had NHL 2002 for GBA, which I'm pretty sure was really NHL 94.
NHL 01 was my first real one for a console, got it during 03 bc my friend had it lol. Loved 04 for Christmas, did Gretzky's 2005, then haven't missed an EA game since (shut up Justin)
Retro for me was my N64. Top games back there were Mario Kart, Mario Party 2, Super Mario 64, Pokemon Stadium..... maybe another I forget. I had Zelda OOT, but I never got past the Doku Tree.
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Post by Detroit Red Wings on Jun 18, 2020 15:43:17 GMT -5
I'm not sure what hockey game it was, but i was visiting my grandma in the hospital when I was like 7 or 8 and my brother was like 4 or 5 and we played the PS2 they had in the kid room and all I remember is the fun fighting mini game that happened.
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Post by Colorado Avalanche on Jun 18, 2020 15:55:46 GMT -5
Earliest hockey game I had was Faceoff 99 I never played Face Off games. Was it decent, now that you have played others? Should I pick it up for a few bucks for retro-value if I see it? I mean, I was like 3 or 4 when I played it so I'm probably not the best person to ask if it was good lmao. All I remember is that you could pull the other team's goalie so I'd score like 100+ goals a game cause I'd pull the other team's goalie every shift. |
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Post by Toronto Maple Leafs on Jun 18, 2020 16:25:26 GMT -5
First one I had was 3D Wayne Gretky's NHL 98 for N64. I had NHL 2002 for GBA, which I'm pretty sure was really NHL 94. NHL 01 was my first real one for a console, got it during 03 bc my friend had it lol. Loved 04 for Christmas, did Gretzky's 2005, then haven't missed an EA game since (shut up Justin) Retro for me was my N64. Top games back there were Mario Kart, Mario Party 2, Super Mario 64, Pokemon Stadium..... maybe another I forget. I had Zelda OOT, but I never got past the Doku Tree. I can’t remember if it was 2002 or 2004 but one of those games you would be out by one or two goals and no matter what the computer would force overtime. It drove me absolutely nuts. I think the recent game still sort of do that a little bit but it was in full force back then. Great soundtrack though! |
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Post by Mighty Ducks of Anaheim on Jun 19, 2020 0:26:27 GMT -5
i only tried it onc time but nhl on wii was weird nd really eally hard and looked sooooo dofferent
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