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Hopefully we have some hockey fans round here who can chime in  :P

After grabbing a copy of NHL 94 on the Genesis, I'm reminded of how much I loved NHL games when I was a kid.  Looking back though, I missed a TON of EA and 2k2 titles, etc, and I'm not sure which ones were worth checking out.

Anybody have any favorite NHL titles that stick out in their mind?  Anywhere from NES Ice hockey to NHL 13, its all good.

Blades of Steel (NES)

I'm not a big hockey fan - I'm from Brazil and this sport is not very popular around here - but I had a great time playing this one back in the days.

blades of steel is really fun

oh cool, I haven't played that one, and its nes too!  good stuff

I really enjoyed NHL '94 on the Mega-CD... I also spent a crazy amount of time playing NHL All-Star Hockey on Saturn using the 3rd person view to immerse myself in the action. Don't know if I could still recommend that one though as it doesn't look like it has aged well.

yeah NHL 94 rules. NHL 06 is great too, as it kind of takes 94 as inspiration.

Oh and Ice Hockey on NES.

Yeah NHL '94 was a huge hit with me. Me and my friends logged so many hours into that game and played it many years to come after that.

NHL Hitz was another game me and my friends played a lot too. Put a nice twist on the game.

A lot of people hate Stanley Cup on the SNES but I thought it was awesome and still find it to be pretty playable.

good stuff, good suggestions for sure.  I actually just picked up a copy of Stanley cup in a craigslist lot the other day.  Its pretty good, but the big beef I had with it was the players with no names.  dumb licensing stuff i'm sure >_>

Oh and that camera... wowza

NHL 95 was the hockey game my friends and I played the hell out of.

One of my absolute favorite 'games nobody knows about' of all time is NHL Rock The Rink for the original Playstation. Super fast-paced arcade style hockey with weird power-ups. It's fantastic and I guarantee you can find a super cheap copy somewhere.

I'm also partial to NHL Hitz Pro for PS2/Xbox. I have a friend that was a playable...er, player in NHL 09, so I'm a fan of that one as well.

Rock the rink was amazing, I forgot about that game.

Mutant League Hockey for the Genesis was a blast.  A little trickier to find but well worth it. 

Blades of Steel for the NES will be played every year for the rest of my life.

NHL 94 for the Sega CD was the first time I saw FMV in a hockey game and that stuck with me.

The FMV intro for NHL 98 on the PSX is AWESOME.  Especially if you love or hate death metal.  Play it, you'll see what I mean.

NHL 2K7 for 360 had a really interesting "cinemotion" mode where there was no play by play announcers, but a musical score would play over the game reacting to the dramatic moments in the game.

wow... just watched the intro on youtube, and it was epic.

NHL 99 was my favorite intro.  It was kinda in 2 parts.  Really mellow in the first half, and then totally explosive!


never played/heard of it, but I'll check it out for sure

I can't believe how well the NHL 98 intro holds up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnOJ8GnheXc

I feel like Batman is commanding me to play this game

That gives me a brilliant idea for Halloween hockey! Just have a bunch of random and embarrassing suits mixed in with some awesome ones to just have completely ridiculous hockey matches.

Wayne Gretzky's 3d hockey on the N64 is a blast. A very arcade style with a goalie who turns into a brick wall and ambulances that come by after especially brutal power checks.

WHERE ARE THE OTHER PUCKS GOING?!!!!

NHLPA 93 - Might not be the best hockey game but my friend and I played the hell out of it on the Genesis. No one could beat us.  A bunch of my friends had a tournament for NHLPA 93 but I couldn't play since I would destroy them. I played games during it for fun and the closet game was 13 goal difference.

NHL 11 and NHL 12 have been fun but the achievements suck.

I agree with all of this.

NHLPA 93 required you to be a better player to score since the one-timer wasn't introduced until NHL 94. 

The achievements in all of the recent EA NHL games put a HUGE focus on grinding the parts of the game that aren't fun or aren't the reason I play.  I used to have an achievement addiction and the NHL games are part of what broke me out of it.

NHL 94 all the way... I used to take the Rangers and see if I could peg out the decibel meter.

I have all the achievements in the NHL 2K series. I am so glad that series isnt made anymore. Each year it got worse and worse. NHL 2K10 is one of the worse hockey games I have ever played. I have 2 or 3 achievement left in NHL 11 and NHL 7-11 are all done. I have started 12 and I just got the Stanley Cup Edition of NHL 13 for free so I will be starting that one soon.

Totally.  I really liked 2k2 for the dreamcast though.

The last game released for the Dreamcast in the US if I'm not mistaken.

it was indeed.

My friends and I still break out NHL '95 a lot more than we should.  It's odd how many players from that era we all still remember.

Other than that, I really liked the NHL Hitz series.  NHL Hitz 2002 is probably one of my most played sports games ever.

Not sure how I didn't know about this but I just found out about  a limited edition big box Mario Lemiex Hockey for the Genesis that came with a puck.  For something I've never seen for sale on any of the collector forums, there sure seem to be a lot for sale on ebay.  Definitely adding this one to the want list.

I dont have the big box anymore but I do have the puck.

[img width=700 height=933]http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy233/Tynstar/Sega/Genesis.jpg[/img]

wow, nice.

Thanks to the lockout, there's only college hockey and the video game variety.

Personally, I was always a fan of NHL 96 and 98 for the SNES.  Back when they actually added new features every year.

That is one very VERY awesome collection.

Actually I like NHLPA so much I have 2 copies of it. One opened and one sealed. It is on the third shelf behind the Hat Wheels car.