NHL 09, 10 and 11 were the absolute class of this series. I literally cannot wrap my head around how they got away from that formula. Skill mattered by a huge margin and the game did what your thumbs input on the control sticks. Can’t believe whoever has been running EA NHL since 15 still has a job.
This summarizes exactly one of my biggest frustrations in past decade. I worked on that skill, and was getting pretty good at it. Now it's all taking advantages of AI glitches.
To me, EA relied on one touch buttons to execute all these fancy puck moves. Maybe 2K had those same buttons, but I didnt need special puck magic buttons to beat my friends and family. I just stick handled around them like real life, no cheater buttons to make me Patrick Kane. Just me, handling the PlayStation controller manually.
It’s the same thing that ruined most all video games…youtube marketing. You have a bunch of people with zero connection to a game forcing development to happen in a way solely for how it will “look” in a 2min fall time hype trailer. That, and they know we won’t have another option so fuck us right?
We didn’t know how good we had it when we were getting 4-5 different good hockey games per year. I was always 2k , face off and power play series. … now it’s been 12 years of just 1 😢
that's insane to see different brands for the same year. I remember ea was leading the rest in realism and graphics then , now it's least real in gameplay with no competition for years.
People like us are few and far between lol. That game was one of the most fun NES games, not just sports. Remember if you won the fight you were rewarded with a 2 min and the loser had a 5 minute?
For the NFL, EA Sports has an exclusive license. That's why Madden has stayed stale. NHL has no such excuse. Why have there been no ESPN 2K NHL games out in so long?
@@tomservo75 EA has an exclusive license for the NHL series, it was established in 2012.... hence why no one else came out with an NHL sponsored hockey games after 11... look into it pal, Betteman screwed the loyal gamer.
When these games came to Germany, I took the bus to the store, a 45min trip, bought it, a 45min trip back home and reading the manual while on the bus. I remember those days as if they were yesterday.
NHL 04 was really ahead of its time. The intro of the skill stick for more realistic puck handling. GM mode was awesome. The fighting was good too. It still holds up. NHL 11, NHL 14 were also very good. Hitz was an institution. I wish there were more hockey games so EA had to actually try and make a good game. Hear Doc on NHL faceoff was awesome especially since EA botched him.
Wasn't the skill stick introduced in NHL 07? I remember buying it for the 360 and I feel like I remember distinctly tutorials "introducing the new skill stick feature"
@@tyehardy4534 shooting with the skill stick and more control over passing were introduced then I believe. 2004 you had enough of a skill stick to stickhandle
@@PeacedoorbaII В 2004 даже если и выиграешь Президентский кап, то в плей-офф обязательно в первом раунде вылетишь. Очень сложно было играть в плей-офф даже сильной командой против компа.
@@Alexsapir_21 ну хз. Я выигрывал 99% матчей на самом сложном уровне. Тактика была щелкнуть вратарю в блин и добить. Но нужно брать ручной прицел в настройках. И из-за ворот тоже много забивал. Ну короче надо вратаря запутать и положить. 😅
Oh man, loved this video. Some amazing throwbacks there. Highlights were: Blades of Steel, Ice Hockey (NES), Wayne Gretzky Hockey, NHL '93, Mutant League Ice Hockey, NHL Open Ice, Hitz series, and 2k series. All those gave me so much memories.
AS A 13 YEAR OLD WHEN NHL 93 CAME OUT FOR SEGA GENESIS WITH THE BLOOD AND FIGHTS....YOU WOULD HAVE KIDS LINED UP OUTSIDE MY HOUSE JUST TO COME IN AND HAVE A SEAT TO WATCH US ALL PLAY.....SUCH GREAT TIMES.....STILL MY FAVOURITE HOCKEY. GAME....👊👊...RESPECTS YOUR CHANNEL KICKS ASS
me and my friend played sega hockey for money. i think it was the hockey before the blood and fights. i would get chicago for jeremy roenick and ed belfour always gave up goals from the length of the ice even tho he was a 98 rating. i would put in ray leblanc or someone. my buddie would never play me on my nintendo. asshole. LOL.
That 1980 Intellivision hockey was one of the most fun games of its era to play, on any platform, of any type. Its weird little quirks and bizarrely unrealistic gameplay made for hours and hours of laughter. I would play it now if I had the equipment to do so.
i liked that game too but the controls of the intellivision were awful. also games were ending many times 15 to 12 or something which was not realistic. the goalie sometimes being almost dead on the ice for like a minute after a shot was funny. it was the best hockey game at that time i agree even if it had issues but it was not the best game there was. remember that pac man was also an 1980 game or missile command , berzerk , battlezone and there was also other good games out there and not everyone like hockey. note that there was a better version of this hockey game. it was super pro hockey on the intellivision and you could play vs the computer. at that time i had only the game which need 2 players and i was playing alone sometimes lol
I like the 2k11 for the best atmosphere. EA NHL series is a money maker. I get it. They’re not interested in giving us what we want just what will sell. The technology exists to have the absolute coolest hockey video game but they need the consistent income. So the consumer gets less than their money’s worth.
EA NHL 2001 was my 1st introduction to the hockey video game franchise. Later on I got the original Xbox and had NHL 2002, and man I loved that game. I wouldn't pick up another hockey game 15 years later (NHL 17) and NHL 17 was really good too. Then I got NHL 20 which in my opinion wasn't as good as NHL 02 or 17. I haven't picked up any NHL games since 20, but definitely would like to get back into it
Well, at least we've got 100% all genders and nationalities represented among the refs in NHL23.. except white men. You know, since the NHL in reality has a 100% white male referee squad, why would anyone want to play the game as realistic as possible? 😆
Fun fact: the skaters in 1991 NHL Hockey are images of the artist himself in pads. Old school rotoscoping off VHS images. He let me color in my favorite teams.
NHL 94, the best and a game changer. Also note that the jump in quality and graphics in 91 was huge with Mario Lemieux for Sega. Never seen it before until this, but wow, what a change.
My favorite was NHL 2003. I only had a NES before that and my parents got me the xbox for christmas, I went to the store and got to pick out a couple games, one of them was NHL 2003. I became addicted to that game, it was perfect. I feel like that game was more fun to play than the NHL games out today, but it could just be the nostalgia.
In my book, NHL 94 will always be the best sports game ever made. The one-timers were an absolute game changer. Back then, I received it at Christmas, spent countless hours playing it. The next Chrstimas I got NHL 95, played for about 2 weeks, than sold it and came back to NHL 94....
I was self aware in 1993 (7 years old). N64 Wayne Gretzky's hockey was the best NHL game I played. Just bring your controller over and have a marathon a fun all night. Such great memories.
The body checks in that game were fantastic. Guys would literally go spinning in the air. Slap shots could knock the goalies and nets back into the boards. Toe to toe, bare knuckle boxing matches for fights. It WAS amazing.
I can't express the disappointment that was Wayne Gretzky hockey for NES seeing as how he was my favorite player growing up. But then we got Sega Genesis and EA hockey, and Jeremy Roenick suddenly became my favorite player, lol. Dude was unstoppable in that game.
Mike Emrick is my favorite hockey commentator of all time, but I used to think that Mike Emrick on the commentary (in the game’s specifically) was annoying. When they switched the broadcast team from the Eddie, and Doc to James, I realized I really liked the old NBC broadcasting of the previous games. Nothing beats NHL 10 commentary though GREAT SAVE LULANGO
Grew up a fan of the EA franchise first on Sega Genesis (NHL Hockey, NHLPA Hockey then NHL94, plus that game's iteration on PC). We later played NHL2000 on PC for countless nights. The fun we had whacking away at opponents after the whistle and have them flip upside down with hip checks (though when they spun like a screw being drilled, it lacked juuust a bit of realism)... Also played some of the next installments on PC, as well as earlier entries on SNES, N64 or GameCube with the friends that actually had those. Recently discovered the featured Super blood hockey, although on Switch. That is more of a disgrace than the Slapshot movie on steroids, and brings the fun back where it may have faded.
Back to back in this video are the best in my childhood opinion. NHL 95 and Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA all stars. Best fight mode in the Gretzky game.
The original Wayne Gretzy’s 3D Hockey for N64 was SO much fun. Remember when the goalies would literally turn into a brick wall? Or the code that made their heads enormous?
A few days before the release of NHL 23, I offer you a video that traces the evolution of hockey games since 1979. Have you played these games? Which one is your favorite? If there are games missing from the list, feel free to mention them in the comments. Thanks
Spent most time with NHL 93. It was just pure fun to play. Really good old golden times. Then switched to NHL 96 and legendary NHL 98, which was the real milestone. Next big step was introducing NHL 2003, many years peaking with NHL 2009. Since then, EA somehow managed to kill the series with random ideas and become unplayable. Anyways, whenever I do recall NHL series, warm heat comming from my heart instantly. What a time it was.
I miss when there was competition between 2k and EA. They would be unique, and most of the time, top tier quality NHP games. I also miss NHP games on PC.
To this day it's amazing to see how badly the Amiga blew everything else away during that period. Graphically it took years for everything else to catch up.
that thumbnail summarizes the entire game industry so well. i love playing games from 80-10 (the early ones get boring much faster but a few months later i can take a run again), but after about 2010 almost the only change in general is the emphasis on microtransactions, battle passes and other junk that pretty much ensures no game will be as impressive and solid as the 2010ish games were. that picture is the dictionary definition of diminishing returns
I used to get so amped up during the fights for nhl 2004. I was 9 so i litetally stood up and was way too into it lol I even had a copy with Heatley on the cover before they changed due to the tragedy that occurred. Still probably my favorite old school nhl game
i didn't even know there was a hockey game in the 70s. lol i remember playing some old style games as a kid. but never hockey first one i can think of was in the 80s Nintendo. that was my first hockey game
Excellent video, thanks! 👍Oh, God, this PC games 1978 and later so funny, I have no idea that this games exist, wow! Sure, fast progress of hockey video games and it variety - very impressing! My first hockey game be "Blades of Steel" (on 8-bit Dendy, it licensed Taiwan analog of NES), later played on SNES from NHL 95 to PlayStation1 (NHL97-2001), Xbox (original) from NHL’06-08. Unfortunately, NHL Hitz be very rare game in my country and I not played in it. And last my stage be Xbox360 from NHL’08 to NHL Legacy Edition (2016). My personal opinion and impressions from evolution, I can say in coupe of sentences. We can saw huge visual difference in gameplay and graphics in 80’s, 90’s and beginning of 2000’s. But, I think many people will agree, in last 10 years difference in gameplay and graphics not so huge how it be 20 years ago. Sure, difference exist, but it not so much how hockey games of 90’s be different from 80’s. Last huge level of evolutional difference be how Xbox NHL 2006 differ from PlayStation1 NHL 2001. When you look on EA NHL hockey on XboxOne you not saw so much difference from Xbox360 NHL 15 or 16 (Legacy Edition). All very close now. In same time in past we saw how much different hockey games existed, and now EA have 90% some kind of monopoly in Hockey games on last new generation console systems. But, all changing, and appear new companies whom try new directions, I mean VR, Oculus. And I have feeling what ways of EA console games and VR games will cross in future and it generate new, different hockey games from all that we knew before. Difficult to say now what it be and how, but progress and evolution of hockey games will continue. P.S. Sorry for my poor English.
i actually have a still-functioning arcade cabinet for 2-on-2 Open Ice Challenge in my basement, played it in college. About 12 years ago, i found one on ebay and bought it
i had so many of those going all the way back to atari activision hockey. intellivision had a good hockey game. my friend had that system. the nintendo hockey w/ skinny, medium and big guys was the best.
This was an amazing video..brings back so many memories. How me and my friends loved blades of steel! It was ahead of it’s time Hard to believe it’s been that long ago Thanks for the upload
Softspots shown here for this old man include 1980 (Mattel Intellivision) which was awesome fun. Advanced strat included shooting at the goalie from behind the side of the net which would incapacitate him, and an open goal would result for about 10 seconds.
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NHL 09, 10 and 11 were the absolute class of this series. I literally cannot wrap my head around how they got away from that formula. Skill mattered by a huge margin and the game did what your thumbs input on the control sticks. Can’t believe whoever has been running EA NHL since 15 still has a job.
This summarizes exactly one of my biggest frustrations in past decade. I worked on that skill, and was getting pretty good at it. Now it's all taking advantages of AI glitches.
HUT ruined it all, they can just make an roster update and kids will spend 500$ in HUT every year
To me, EA relied on one touch buttons to execute all these fancy puck moves.
Maybe 2K had those same buttons, but I didnt need special puck magic buttons to beat my friends and family. I just stick handled around them like real life, no cheater buttons to make me Patrick Kane. Just me, handling the PlayStation controller manually.
I’m not going to lie, now that I think about it, pretty much all sports game hit their peak before or in 2011. After that, a slow descent.
It’s the same thing that ruined most all video games…youtube marketing.
You have a bunch of people with zero connection to a game forcing development to happen in a way solely for how it will “look” in a 2min fall time hype trailer.
That, and they know we won’t have another option so fuck us right?
*EA SPORTS PRESENTS.... NHL 98*
My God I probably heard that 10,000 times playing on PC back in the day. Oh the nostalgia
That intro video was 🔥
That was one of the last actually good ones.
We didn’t know how good we had it when we were getting 4-5 different good hockey games per year. I was always 2k , face off and power play series. … now it’s been 12 years of just 1 😢
100% agree!
Biggest reason the game has stagnated! Good example of how monopolies hurt inovation.
@@capthappy8884 monopolies and companies whos main priority is having modes that lead to more micro transactions.
that's insane to see different brands for the same year.
I remember ea was leading the rest in realism and graphics then , now it's least real in gameplay with no competition for years.
Blades of Steel was the game I grew up playing. Still one of the better ones from that era.
People like us are few and far between lol. That game was one of the most fun NES games, not just sports. Remember if you won the fight you were rewarded with a 2 min and the loser had a 5 minute?
definitely peaked in 2009, i remember being amazed at the graphics on the new 360. almost 1.5 decades later and it has barely changed since then
Lies. Lmao
Honestly, once you get to NHL 16, the game hasn't changed much.
Lost interest for the series after NHL 16
@@kistar3460 me 2. Out of curiosity I picked up 22 on sale, meh. I let my little cousin borrow it and he lost it. Lets just say I'm not mad
For the NFL, EA Sports has an exclusive license. That's why Madden has stayed stale. NHL has no such excuse. Why have there been no ESPN 2K NHL games out in so long?
yup...still hockey
@@tomservo75 EA has an exclusive license for the NHL series, it was established in 2012.... hence why no one else came out with an NHL sponsored hockey games after 11... look into it pal, Betteman screwed the loyal gamer.
NHL 06' is special for me because its part of my late teenage time around 19 yr old. Having soooo much fun with my best friend, still today
When these games came to Germany, I took the bus to the store, a 45min trip, bought it, a 45min trip back home and reading the manual while on the bus. I remember those days as if they were yesterday.
Nhl 2k5 and nhl 06 have a special place in my heart
2006 was an AMAZING year in the NHL. But then again, I'm a Hurricanes fan.
NHL 94 was a gamechanger. It changed absolutely everything with hockey video games.
Yep. Agreed. And it got two whole seconds of representation in this video.
@@the406seadonkey6 yeah even then they credited with the SNES version The Genesis version is the one that lives in infamy.
@@Boswdabsolutely
NHL 04 was really ahead of its time. The intro of the skill stick for more realistic puck handling. GM mode was awesome. The fighting was good too. It still holds up. NHL 11, NHL 14 were also very good. Hitz was an institution. I wish there were more hockey games so EA had to actually try and make a good game. Hear Doc on NHL faceoff was awesome especially since EA botched him.
Wasn't the skill stick introduced in NHL 07? I remember buying it for the 360 and I feel like I remember distinctly tutorials "introducing the new skill stick feature"
@@tyehardy4534 shooting with the skill stick and more control over passing were introduced then I believe. 2004 you had enough of a skill stick to stickhandle
В 2004 NHL я играл очень много.
@@PeacedoorbaII В 2004 даже если и выиграешь Президентский кап, то в плей-офф обязательно в первом раунде вылетишь. Очень сложно было играть в плей-офф даже сильной командой против компа.
@@Alexsapir_21 ну хз. Я выигрывал 99% матчей на самом сложном уровне. Тактика была щелкнуть вратарю в блин и добить. Но нужно брать ручной прицел в настройках. И из-за ворот тоже много забивал. Ну короче надо вратаря запутать и положить. 😅
Oh man, loved this video. Some amazing throwbacks there. Highlights were: Blades of Steel, Ice Hockey (NES), Wayne Gretzky Hockey, NHL '93, Mutant League Ice Hockey, NHL Open Ice, Hitz series, and 2k series. All those gave me so much memories.
Blades of Steel from NES,Mario Lemieux Hockey from Genesis,NHLPA Hockey 93 for Genesis where my favorites growing up
Nhl99 was the first hockey game I've played. memories... thanks for sharing
AS A 13 YEAR OLD WHEN NHL 93 CAME OUT FOR SEGA GENESIS WITH THE BLOOD AND FIGHTS....YOU WOULD HAVE KIDS LINED UP OUTSIDE MY HOUSE JUST TO COME IN AND HAVE A SEAT TO WATCH US ALL PLAY.....SUCH GREAT TIMES.....STILL MY FAVOURITE HOCKEY. GAME....👊👊...RESPECTS YOUR CHANNEL KICKS ASS
Nowadays 13's wouldn't even picture the situation. You're priveleged afterall, and so am I.
@@CelticGladiator7 Your absolutely right when you think about it..👊
me and my friend played sega hockey for money. i think it was the hockey before the blood and fights. i would get chicago for jeremy roenick and ed belfour always gave up goals from the length of the ice even tho he was a 98 rating. i would put in ray leblanc or someone. my buddie would never play me on my nintendo. asshole. LOL.
The graphics may be better nowadays but nothing today compares to nhl 94. Best hockey game ever made.
Thank you. I was hoping someone would say this.
Yes
Yesssss!!!
NHL 95
92,93 and 94 were all fantastic in their own ways. I always preferred 93 though. Anything after 94 was an after thought.
I can still remember the soundtrack of NHL96 - that's amazing
The menus as well, oh lord was it exciting!
That 1980 Intellivision hockey was one of the most fun games of its era to play, on any platform, of any type. Its weird little quirks and bizarrely unrealistic gameplay made for hours and hours of laughter. I would play it now if I had the equipment to do so.
i liked that game too but the controls of the intellivision were awful. also games were ending many times 15 to 12 or something which was not realistic. the goalie sometimes being almost dead on the ice for like a minute after a shot was funny. it was the best hockey game at that time i agree even if it had issues but it was not the best game there was. remember that pac man was also an 1980 game or missile command , berzerk , battlezone and there was also other good games out there and not everyone like hockey. note that there was a better version of this hockey game. it was super pro hockey on the intellivision and you could play vs the computer. at that time i had only the game which need 2 players and i was playing alone sometimes lol
used PS2 + intellivision lives games and you are back in times
I think the Atari 2600 Ice Hockey was superior in terms of being better than the Intellivision version of Hickey in the early 1980s
@@raphaellall6270 I preferred Activision
Atari used the Activision developed games. So it's really Activision/Atari@@sappyjohnson
Wow the sound of NHL 99 brought me back
This is LITERALLY a fact: NHL 02 and 04 will FOREVER be the BEST games. No one can prove me wrong at all. Best music too hands down!
I like the 2k11 for the best atmosphere.
EA NHL series is a money maker. I get it. They’re not interested in giving us what we want just what will sell.
The technology exists to have the absolute coolest hockey video game but they need the consistent income.
So the consumer gets less than their money’s worth.
04 yes
EA NHL 2001 was my 1st introduction to the hockey video game franchise. Later on I got the original Xbox and had NHL 2002, and man I loved that game. I wouldn't pick up another hockey game 15 years later (NHL 17) and NHL 17 was really good too. Then I got NHL 20 which in my opinion wasn't as good as NHL 02 or 17. I haven't picked up any NHL games since 20, but definitely would like to get back into it
NHL 02 best ever!
‘04 has never been topped
Love how the footage shows that nhl 16 with roster updates could easily be nhl 23 since nothing meaningful has changed.
Well, at least we've got 100% all genders and nationalities represented among the refs in NHL23.. except white men. You know, since the NHL in reality has a 100% white male referee squad, why would anyone want to play the game as realistic as possible? 😆
@@hollowmadegenders? What, EA now putting preferred pronouns and pride flags on the game? Instead of actually fixing this piece of ass?
NHL 2024 where black Asians with blonde bowl cuts feel included. 😂
These are honestly the best videos on TH-cam right now!!
Fun fact: the skaters in 1991 NHL Hockey are images of the artist himself in pads. Old school rotoscoping off VHS images. He let me color in my favorite teams.
I still remember my Intellivision hockey very well....early 80's....used to play it for hours and hours with my buddies....
NHL 94, the best and a game changer.
Also note that the jump in quality and graphics in 91 was huge with Mario Lemieux for Sega. Never seen it before until this, but wow, what a change.
Stanley Cup 93, i always remember 😢
NHL 95' baby. Played that game everyday
I enjoyed EA hockey in 1991 so bad I began learning to skate and began ice hockey . Still playing at 50... but my level is still 1991 !😅
I had NHL 98 & NHL 2000 at Playstation One.
My favorite was NHL 2003. I only had a NES before that and my parents got me the xbox for christmas, I went to the store and got to pick out a couple games, one of them was NHL 2003. I became addicted to that game, it was perfect. I feel like that game was more fun to play than the NHL games out today, but it could just be the nostalgia.
In my book, NHL 94 will always be the best sports game ever made. The one-timers were an absolute game changer. Back then, I received it at Christmas, spent countless hours playing it. The next Chrstimas I got NHL 95, played for about 2 weeks, than sold it and came back to NHL 94....
I love this game too. Peace!
Face Off looked like it was ahead of its time graphics wise. Those players look 3D almost.
I was self aware in 1993 (7 years old). N64 Wayne Gretzky's hockey was the best NHL game I played. Just bring your controller over and have a marathon a fun all night. Such great memories.
Wayne Gretzky's 3D hockey will forever be the greatest hockey game ever made.
A fucken men 😂
The body checks in that game were fantastic. Guys would literally go spinning in the air. Slap shots could knock the goalies and nets back into the boards. Toe to toe, bare knuckle boxing matches for fights. It WAS amazing.
NHL Breakway 98 will always have a place in my heart.
1:03 “HES SCORES!!!” *Sound of a thousand screeching souls*
wow thanks for this video, bring back a lot of memories!!
@3:23 I remember having this one for Sega Genesis. I used to love sports games back in the early to mid-90s when I was a kid. I miss those days.
I miss Jim Hughson in every NHL and Triple Play in the day. Play by play is boring these days.
Triple Play had the best fake product ads. “Extreme doilies, the in your face doilies.”
Yzerman SHOOTS IT HARD! STONED COLD BY PATRICK ROY!
Shame he retired, still got it. That was the voice of my childhood.
I miss the game ads, now it's real ads for a Honda Pilot...... Boring
@1:35 that cut screen for slapshots LOL
I can't express the disappointment that was Wayne Gretzky hockey for NES seeing as how he was my favorite player growing up. But then we got Sega Genesis and EA hockey, and Jeremy Roenick suddenly became my favorite player, lol. Dude was unstoppable in that game.
This video makes me appreciate the newer games
Ea NHL 94 Needed a much longer segment. It was a key development in the franchise.
Играл только в НХЛ 2009 на протяжении 10 лет 😊
Love how the crowd cheering is just static noise in International Hockey.
Happy Winter Day 🥶☃️❄️ from VGE!
Mike Emrick is my favorite hockey commentator of all time, but I used to think that Mike Emrick on the commentary (in the game’s specifically) was annoying. When they switched the broadcast team from the Eddie, and Doc to James, I realized I really liked the old NBC broadcasting of the previous games.
Nothing beats NHL 10 commentary though
GREAT SAVE LULANGO
I remember since NHL 2000, what a good times. From that time saw the evolution of the game
Are we not gonna talk about how you used NHL 15/Legacy Edition footage for NHL 23?
Sick video.
NHL 98, NHL 08, NHL 2k5 and NHL 2K7 were gem
Grew up a fan of the EA franchise first on Sega Genesis (NHL Hockey, NHLPA Hockey then NHL94, plus that game's iteration on PC). We later played NHL2000 on PC for countless nights. The fun we had whacking away at opponents after the whistle and have them flip upside down with hip checks (though when they spun like a screw being drilled, it lacked juuust a bit of realism)... Also played some of the next installments on PC, as well as earlier entries on SNES, N64 or GameCube with the friends that actually had those. Recently discovered the featured Super blood hockey, although on Switch. That is more of a disgrace than the Slapshot movie on steroids, and brings the fun back where it may have faded.
Blades of Steel (NES & Game Boy), NHLPA Hockey '93, NHL 99, NHL 2000, NHL 2K3, NHL 11,12, 14 and 19 have always been my favorite Hockey video games
NHL 23 has the winter classics and it has the old people in it when you do it
Wayne Gretzky Hockey II and Power Play Hockey were my jams.
Back to back in this video are the best in my childhood opinion.
NHL 95 and Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA all stars. Best fight mode in the Gretzky game.
You have made some real effort on this video, subscribed.
The original Wayne Gretzy’s 3D Hockey for N64 was SO much fun. Remember when the goalies would literally turn into a brick wall? Or the code that made their heads enormous?
Never found out about the invention of the PC during that whole time. Wild.
huh ?
1:38 BLADES OF STEEL! sound of intro... i loved blades of steel which was actually 87. I loved the fighting and take the gloves off.
I had a Nintendo with Wayne Gretzky Hockey on it and it was a very good game. I would love to get my hands on that one again.
A few days before the release of NHL 23, I offer you a video that traces the evolution of hockey games since 1979. Have you played these games? Which one is your favorite? If there are games missing from the list, feel free to mention them in the comments. Thanks
My favorites are Ice Hockey for NES, NHLPA 93, NHL 94 - 96 for Genesis and NHL 10 for 360
I saw a different game in the place of NHL 23.
NHL 14 was my grind
Can you still get all these games
NHL 93 Super Nintendo
Spent most time with NHL 93. It was just pure fun to play. Really good old golden times. Then switched to NHL 96 and legendary NHL 98, which was the real milestone. Next big step was introducing NHL 2003, many years peaking with NHL 2009. Since then, EA somehow managed to kill the series with random ideas and become unplayable.
Anyways, whenever I do recall NHL series, warm heat comming from my heart instantly. What a time it was.
NHL '96 was my fav as we used to take turns playing it while in college
Has there ever been a nhl video game that player the actual goal songs played at the actual rinks?
from what I gather pre-NHL 18 titles had it. Not certain if 7th gen titles did tho
I miss when there was competition between 2k and EA. They would be unique, and most of the time, top tier quality NHP games. I also miss NHP games on PC.
The fact that you BUY all of these games yourself and edit the videos yourself as well got you a subscriber here 👏🏼
To this day it's amazing to see how badly the Amiga blew everything else away during that period. Graphically it took years for everything else to catch up.
There was also Atari 2600 'hockey'. It was basically Pong with a light blue (ice) background.
that thumbnail summarizes the entire game industry so well. i love playing games from 80-10 (the early ones get boring much faster but a few months later i can take a run again), but after about 2010 almost the only change in general is the emphasis on microtransactions, battle passes and other junk that pretty much ensures no game will be as impressive and solid as the 2010ish games were.
that picture is the dictionary definition of diminishing returns
NHL 2001 is kept in my heart. good times
That's gonna cause health issues if it hasn't already
You missed that one gameboy NHL game, “Ice Hockey” I think it’s called.
NHL games will always have a special place in my heart.
Yes You got it.
What’s weird nhl games made me watch hockey
along with there soundtracks
It was nice when there was competition, not just the same game every year
This was a great video, oh I remember the old retro days going to the arcade and play hockey specifically air hockey
1:50 NES Ice Hockey, still legendary.
1988 ice hockey! Loved that game!!
3 on 3 arcade was goated man
I used to get so amped up during the fights for nhl 2004. I was 9 so i litetally stood up and was way too into it lol I even had a copy with Heatley on the cover before they changed due to the tragedy that occurred. Still probably my favorite old school nhl game
nhl 95 , 06-09 and 14 are my favs. Especially on the PS3 when your hard drive stored music played over the arena loud speaker.
I Liked all of these tbh
Couldn't raise the puck in "Blades of Steel". Had to pass it into the net.
I really like those " Mario Lemieux Hockey" graphics. Something about it makes it seem like it could be a modern pixel art game.
NHL 94 with Roenick was awesome 😂
i didn't even know there was a hockey game in the 70s. lol
i remember playing some old style games as a kid. but never hockey
first one i can think of was in the 80s
Nintendo. that was my first hockey game
The amount of times I saw Philadelphia teams in this video is unreal
Excellent video, thanks! 👍Oh, God, this PC games 1978 and later so funny, I have no idea that this games exist, wow! Sure, fast progress of hockey video games and it variety - very impressing! My first hockey game be "Blades of Steel" (on 8-bit Dendy, it licensed Taiwan analog of NES), later played on SNES from NHL 95 to PlayStation1 (NHL97-2001), Xbox (original) from NHL’06-08. Unfortunately, NHL Hitz be very rare game in my country and I not played in it. And last my stage be Xbox360 from NHL’08 to NHL Legacy Edition (2016).
My personal opinion and impressions from evolution, I can say in coupe of sentences. We can saw huge visual difference in gameplay and graphics in 80’s, 90’s and beginning of 2000’s. But, I think many people will agree, in last 10 years difference in gameplay and graphics not so huge how it be 20 years ago. Sure, difference exist, but it not so much how hockey games of 90’s be different from 80’s. Last huge level of evolutional difference be how Xbox NHL 2006 differ from PlayStation1 NHL 2001. When you look on EA NHL hockey on XboxOne you not saw so much difference from Xbox360 NHL 15 or 16 (Legacy Edition). All very close now. In same time in past we saw how much different hockey games existed, and now EA have 90% some kind of monopoly in Hockey games on last new generation console systems. But, all changing, and appear new companies whom try new directions, I mean VR, Oculus. And I have feeling what ways of EA console games and VR games will cross in future and it generate new, different hockey games from all that we knew before. Difficult to say now what it be and how, but progress and evolution of hockey games will continue.
P.S. Sorry for my poor English.
i actually have a still-functioning arcade cabinet for 2-on-2 Open Ice Challenge in my basement, played it in college. About 12 years ago, i found one on ebay and bought it
Some of the older games seem wayyyy smoother in this video compared to how they actually play.
Early 90’s hockey that got me into gaming
EA 94’, Gretzky 3D, 98, 2001, and of course 07’ was groundbreaking…actually 2024 was really well done.
Missing Puckoff which came out in 2022. Also, the 2K series needs to come back. Some of the game modes were so much fun
if NHL 2k was still going, EA wouldn't be so lazy.
1998 NHL we play with cousin on PS1 all time omg :)
Whatever your fave, NHL 2002 has the best music and that's an undisputed fact. Limes Are Nicer baby
love NHL video games so much 💙❤
i had so many of those going all the way back to atari activision hockey. intellivision had a good hockey game. my friend had that system. the nintendo hockey w/ skinny, medium and big guys was the best.
This was an amazing video..brings back so many memories.
How me and my friends loved blades of steel! It was ahead of it’s time
Hard to believe it’s been that long ago
Thanks for the upload
me too! always tried to push to take gloves off.
Softspots shown here for this old man include 1980 (Mattel Intellivision) which was awesome fun. Advanced strat included shooting at the goalie from behind the side of the net which would incapacitate him, and an open goal would result for about 10 seconds.
i loved the wayne gretzky hockey on the amiga