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Malcolm 
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Posted on: Mar. 21 2013,17:31 |
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From the "when EA wasn't run by bitches" file, prompted by PA's "The Cut"...
Something I remember fondly from days long past. Â I had some fucking EPIC games on the Sega on this one with scores that rivaled NFL games. Â Granted, I was in grade school at the time, but it was just as unrealistic as NFL Blitz and just as much fun. Â
I think I can still pull off the 100% certain goal on the breakaway due to the deke move. Â Unless the opponent takes direct control of the goalie, you always score. Â
Then there was "the spot," a tiny, tiny position on the top inner half of each faceoff circle in the D-Zone where any player had a guaranteed goal if you could get it just right. Â Righties could score from the left circle, lefties from the right.
Finally, there was my personal favourite because it could be done from clear across the fucking ice and flew in the face of all known hockey logic. Â If you were on the exact center of the rink's long axis, then did a pass while holding the D-pad up, and no one managed to touch it, there was a 50/50 chance of the puck taking off like it was on a zipline and going through the 5-hole of the opposing goalie. Â This was particularly lethal during shootouts, when the game was kind enough to start you on the long axis.
Edited by Malcolm on Mar. 21 2013,18:34
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TheCatt
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Posted on: Mar. 21 2013,18:18 |
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I remember a lot of drinking and enjoying this game in college.
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Malcolm
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Posted on: Mar. 21 2013,18:33 |
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(TheCatt @ Mar. 21 2013,20:18)
QUOTE I remember a lot of drinking and enjoying this game in college.
If you remember, it couldn't have been that much.
EDIT: If nothing else, you have to give props to a hockey game played on a Sega two decades hence that people still give a shit about ... that had ZERO fighting. Â Completely removed, whereas NHL '93 had unlimited(?) fighting and subsequent entries would permit it in a limited fashion.
Edited by Malcolm on Mar. 21 2013,18:37
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Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
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TPRJones
I saw The Fault in our Stars opening night.
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Posted on: Mar. 21 2013,21:09 |
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Well, I was about to say how I remember it well, that my college roommate and I played it a lot, but while whatever we played looked like that and was on the Sega, there was most certainly fighting. So it must have been something else.
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TheCatt
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Posted on: Mar. 22 2013,05:45 |
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(Malcolm @ Mar. 21 2013,21:33)
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(TheCatt @ Mar. 21 2013,20:18)
QUOTE I remember a lot of drinking and enjoying this game in college. If you remember, it couldn't have been that much. EDIT: If nothing else, you have to give props to a hockey game played on a Sega two decades hence that people still give a shit about ... that had ZERO fighting. Â Completely removed, whereas NHL '93 had unlimited(?) fighting and subsequent entries would permit it in a limited fashion.
Oh wait... there was a lot of fighting, I must be thinking of NHL 93. That game was awesome.
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Malcolm
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Posted on: Mar. 22 2013,07:12 |
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Yeah, but '94 had the one-timers.
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"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
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TheCatt
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Posted on: Mar. 22 2013,07:51 |
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OK, yeah, NHL 93 was the one that was awesome. BLOOD!
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TPRJones
I saw The Fault in our Stars opening night.
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Posted on: Mar. 22 2013,08:48 |
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It was NHL 95 for me. Good game.
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