ESPN: Blades of Steel vs. Ice Hockey 30 Years Later

[smithformeragent]

Blades of Steel vs. Nintendo Ice Hockey -- which was better?

Ice Hockey is the better game.

Blades of steel has the better soundtrack.

My dad and uncle used to have some epic battles on holidays USSR vs Czechoslovakia.

My dad would practice on the black and white tv in the bedroom for hours.

Click to read more...

 

[wintersej]

Skinny, fat, skinny, fat

 

[DarrenBanks56]

nintendo ice hockey by far the better game. fake shot was a goal 100% of the time.
using the cheat code for endless friction on the puck was the best

 

[Dr Hook]

Going back not quite 30 years EA NHL 95 was the first video hockey I played regularly. There was a deke move you could use as money- had a line of Oates, Kvartalnov and Neely. Before that I had Intelllivison from Mattel in the lae 70s that had a hockey and it was rubbish, more like pong with vaguely hockey player-shaped guys LOL

 

[Baddkarma]

NHL 93 or 94 for the PC had every element. Goals, hitting, fighting all of it...

 

[774EVER]

Ice Hockey for me. Liked the gameplay better and loved mixing up different combos with the Fat, Skinny and medium guys.

 

[774EVER]

Going back not quite 30 years EA NHL 95 was the first video hockey I played regularly. There was a deke move you could use as money- had a line of Oates, Kvartalnov and Neely. Before that I had Intelllivison from Mattel in the lae 70s that had a hockey and it was rubbish, more like pong with vaguely hockey player-shaped guys LOL

Yeah, the inside out move was gold. I remember betting my buddie's brother I could score like 80 goals against him. Needless to say I won the $$

 

[NDiesel]

Ice Hockey was before my time, came out around 5 years before I was born - but every time my brother, who moved away to University when I was 8, comes into town (we are now 25 and 35 and still do this) we will get an epic battle of Ice Hockey going. I go against the grain and ice a full team of mediums. Change my mind that this isn't the best strategy out there.

 

[LSCII]

NHL 92 0n Sega Genesis killed them all. In terms of BoS or Nintendo hockey, fat, skinny, skinny, med was the key. That was a better game than Steel.