NHL '94 (Genesis) (744 hits)
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Submitted by Schwarzes_Glas (View user info) at 2004-09-21 15:35:53 EDT
Heh heh... odds are, if you came in here you're aware of the subject matter simply by reading the title.
NHL Hockey '94 is the greatest game ever made. Fuck all the new PS/PS2 ones; fuck all other sports games (fuck Madden). NHL '94 isn't just a game, it's an event - it's an epic.
Remember '94? It was the first one with one timers.
We've been playing hockey since the first one ('92). When I say we, I speak of myself (currently age 24), my brother (31) and his friends (30-34). We started back up again in 2000, playing at my brother's place almost every weekend before/after Boxing. We've exhausted many cartridges and 3 or 4 Segas. It brings us together.
We play hockey for shots. We play to kill Wayne. We play to determine who has the biggest cock that evening, for fuck's sake. And this is LONG before "Swingers."
After losing our records to the ill-fated battery backup on the cartridges a third time (1000+ games logged), we discussed other techniques of play. I remembered the Sega CD and that they released a CD version of hockey '94 for it - next thing we know there's a Sega CD in the house. This was more efficient because it stores the records on a ram chip directly on the board of the unit instead of a battery backup.
It didn't dawn on me for a few days that since we're now playing on a CD version, the data is easily accessible on a PC. After some research, we're now playing NHL '94 with updated stats (to our liking), updated players and player names, ultra-violence and other graphical enhancements, cursing, and updated sounds & music.
We're always looking for new players.
Long live Hockey '94, the greatest sports game ever.
User Reviews
Submitted by podium (user info) at 2004-12-02 16:32:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
ah, nhl '94. A lunchtime ritual for me and my friend throughout the entire 9th grade.
Submitted by Schwarzes_Glas (user info) at 2004-09-22 10:23:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Megadrive is a different system, silly fool.
Sega CD.
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2004-09-22 04:36:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Hell yeah! My brother and I used to play this to death, I still buy these now on my Playstation2.
I used to be able to score with the goal tender (Garth Snow of Vancouver), which really used to piss by brother off.
It's called a Sega Megadrive though, silly Americans.
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-09-22 01:29:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
One-timers were the best and worse part of these games.
Submitted by Schwarzes_Glas (user info) at 2004-09-21 23:39:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Tecmo Bowl is exquisite.
Submitted by DonkeyOnTheEdge (user info) at 2004-09-21 23:31:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I agree with you, and with Gent. NY Giants in Techmo Bowl had the flea flicker from Dave Megget to Phil Simms and always scored a touchdown. And the Raiders had Bo. Give the ball to Bo on a hand off, and you ran 99 yards.
Submitted by monkey at 2004-09-21 22:32:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Ahhh...Blades of Steel...which incidentally, I still have, awesome condition, along with my NES, awesome condition too...hell I could play it now.
Submitted by sketch9 (user info) at 2004-09-21 21:56:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i remember twiddling away my childhood on Blades of Steel.
I always figured he said Hit the Ass or something like that. But "Wosh Puh Puh" basically summed it up. There was no Detroit though! No Detroit? The best team in the NHL? What? Blasphemy!
Submitted by comicbookguy (user info) at 2004-09-21 21:51:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
one timers: revolutionary
Submitted by lilbill87 (user info) at 2004-09-21 21:36:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I owned this game...and spent most of my young life playing it, thanks for the reminder!
Submitted by honeycake (user info) at 2004-09-21 20:03:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Dear cunt boy,
This is shit.
TOO BAD!
Submitted by MisterCeltic (user info) at 2004-09-21 19:46:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
My brother scored 11 goals in one game with Jeremy Roenick, one timer from the slot everytime. He won the game 11-10 in OT and earned himself (and my folks) a $300 dental bill from a Sega controller to the yap.
Kick ass.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2004-09-21 19:23:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"make a pass" shit! My brothers and I would say "wosh puh puh"
thanks dude.
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2004-09-21 19:10:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by shane2004 (user info) at 2004-09-21 15:58:00 (#)
Ranking: 0
Too bad there won't be an NHL 2004 !
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Actually, there was one a year ago. Thats cause the season name is of the year it ends; not begins. Not only that, but there IS an NHL 2k5 video game too, even if there wont be a season, or atleast not much of one.
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2004-09-21 19:07:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
sully, smb3 also happens to be the only one i would ever compare to nhl94.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2004-09-21 18:17:43 (#)
Ranking: 2
DJMatt, in blade of steel, could you ever make out what the commentator was saying when you made a pass? I didn't know english when I was young to understand it.
I never saw that game again but I still can play the tune with my guitar and I clearly remember the ugly nauseating color of the players.
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He's saying 'makes a pass' belive it or not. Blades of steel is the next best sports game.
Submitted by AwesomeJohnson (user info) at 2004-09-21 19:03:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Tecmo Bowl? fuck yeah!
Submitted by SwissCamel (user info) at 2004-09-21 18:52:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Sensible Soccer
Submitted by Gent (user info) at 2004-09-21 18:34:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
A little too Sports Guyesque, but I admit it was a fine game.
Tecmo Bowl was far superior however.
Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2004-09-21 18:32:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Playing Road Rash for Genesis is one of the greatest experiences one can have by the way.
Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2004-09-21 18:28:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm a SMB 3 addict.
Yeah NHL'94 is easily the best sports game, and I don't even like hockey. It was still a blast to play. I liked NES and SNES games more than Genesis games though.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2004-09-21 18:17:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
DJMatt, in blade of steel, could you ever make out what the commentator was saying when you made a pass? I didn't know english when I was young to understand it.
I never saw that game again but I still can play the tune with my guitar and I clearly remember the ugly nauseating color of the players.
Submitted by DJMattB241 (user info) at 2004-09-21 18:13:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i prefer Blades of Steel (NES) but hey, whatever floats your boat. :)
Submitted by facts (user info) at 2004-09-21 18:01:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
'96 was the year they jumped the shark, everything since NHL '95 is almost irrelevant
Submitted by sublime (user info) at 2004-09-21 17:26:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i own this game, not in the nerd sense, in the literal sense as in i possess it.
Submitted by Petercide (user info) at 2004-09-21 16:52:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 even tho EA hockey did it for me.
ant beat micro machines 2 for 8 player mashed up fun tho.
Submitted by stevie_says (user info) at 2004-09-21 16:39:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I drove my parents nuts with bad Sega sound effects. I'm going to go dig my Sega out of the closet right now...
Submitted by Schwarzes_Glas (user info) at 2004-09-21 16:15:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by 1Point21Gigawatts (user info) at 2004-09-21 15:47:49 (#)
Ranking: 2
"Michael, is he brown? Is he clean? If he's clean let him in. I wanna see him Michael! Don't let him go!"
hahahaha! Actually, in Swingers they're playing '93 (the second one). '93 was the only one where you could make their "heads bleed."
Submitted by EmptyRobot (user info) at 2004-09-21 16:14:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Nhl 93:Most original violence on a hockey game. 1 game, 24 fights, blackhawks vs. blue jays
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2004-09-21 16:13:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I meant 99...okay, I'm done spamming
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2004-09-21 16:12:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
97 on playstation was pretty neat too
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2004-09-21 16:11:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
injuries were like rain in this game
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2004-09-21 16:00:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
They came out with a 95 version which I played on my computer. It had this great bug where the play by play would stutter.
You aint played hockey until you've done it drunk to the tune of
"TKACHUCK TKACHUK TKACHUK TKACHUK...."
Submitted by shane2004 (user info) at 2004-09-21 15:58:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Too bad there won't be an NHL 2004 !
Submitted by 1Point21Gigawatts (user info) at 2004-09-21 15:47:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"Michael, is he brown? Is he clean? If he's clean let him in. I wanna see him Michael! Don't let him go!"
Submitted by 1Point21Gigawatts (user info) at 2004-09-21 15:46:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Plus two for making sure to mention the reference to "Swingers," however if my memory serves me correctly, that movie came out when I was 15, making it in '95 or '96. This was slightly after the game came out, but its before your resurrection of the game in 2000.
Submitted by Schwarzes_Glas (user info) at 2004-09-21 15:42:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
'95 is good too, but '94 was the best. If you played '94, you'd know that the gameplay before and after it was lacking in comparison. '92-95 are all good in my opinion, but '94 is the best.
Submitted by Sideburns (user info) at 2004-09-21 15:39:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Ya know, they did come out with a '95 version.
Submitted by tuesdaydelay (user info) at 2004-09-21 15:38:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Even I liked it a bit and I'm British.