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Revision as of 10:27, 21 January 2021
Ice Hockey is a sports game developed by Nintendo (R&D2) and Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo on the Famicom Disk System on 1988-01-21 and on the Nintendo Entertainment System in March 1988. While the game is based on the sport of hockey, it takes great liberties with the rules; for example, each team has only five players. Despite being such a primitive simulation of the sport, Ice Hockey is one of the more enjoyable early sports games made for the NES.
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Personal
I first played Nintendo's Ice Hockey at a friend's house around 1990. Although I was never a big fan of sports games, I was fairly well-versed in them because I had an older brother who loved them. Even though the game was new to me, I was still able to figure the game out well enough to beat the kid who owned it.
Status
I own this game and have beat the AI using the USA team.
Review
4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
Best Version: NES
— This section contains spoilers! —
Good
- Allowing the player to customize their team players with three body sizes (thin, medium, and stocky) is a fun, if ridiculous, way of making your team unique.
- Allowing the player to switch control of their player makes it much easier to control a whole team with only one player.
- You can adjust the game's playing speed. While this technically doesn't make the AI better, it makes everything faster which decreases human reaction speed, effectively making the game harder.
- The game supports two-player simultaneous versus mode which can be a lot of fun when both players are equally skilled.
Bad
- The game ignores the majority of the rules of hockey (although, to some extent, this helps keep the game fun). Examples of ignored rules include: the number of players on the ice is five instead of six, icing is the only real penalty, players without the puck can enter the goalie crease, fighting arbitrary punishes a player, etc.
Ugly
- The AI only has one difficulty level, and, once you get good at exploiting it, which doesn't take long, there is no challenge left in single-player mode.
- There isn't much to the game. After you play your first match, you will probably have seen everything there is to it.
Media
Box Art
Documentation
- Ice Hockey - NES - Manual.pdf
NES manual.
Nintendo Fun Club tips.
Coming soon in The Official Nintendo Player's Guide.
Videos
Credits
The original game doesn't have credits.
Role | Staff |
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Director | Hideki Konno |
Music Composer | Soyo Oka |
Titles
Language | Native | Transliteration | Translation |
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English | Ice Hockey | ||
Japanese | アイスホッケー | Aisu Hokke | Ice Hockey |