![]() The Memories Come Rushing BackĪfter years of not really giving NHL 94 a thought, I sat down and fired up my first game in many years. Fond memories of an ambulance driving onto the field or windowless passing in Madden, real commentary in Sega’s Sports Talk Baseball and Football, and over 54 real golfers and 8 real courses in PGA Tour Golf III. ![]() It was the early stages of realistic sports titles, and so many breakthroughs were happening and happening quickly. To this day, people who experienced the game during its maiden voyage still reference many of these, which lends credence to the type of cultural phenomenon it actually was. While most of this stuff sounds generic in today’s world of hyper-realistic sports titles, I can assure you that it was not in the early ’90s. On top of having the real teams and real players, NHL 94 delivered such memorable gems as one-timers, wraparounds, body checks into the benches and hard-hit pucks breaking the glass that surrounded the ice. Before NHL 94 we had to deal with city names and no logos, and the combination of the two was simply an awesome experience. It was the first game in the NHL series that delivered both the official teams and official players all in one box, which was amazing. This was a sports title that just dominated my younger years, and even though I wasn’t the biggest hockey fan in my youth, NHL 94 and ’95 were titles that all of us played in college, and even maybe missed a class or two because of late-night sessions. If you are not old enough to have played this title when it was originally released, then trying to explain the impact that NHL 94 had on the home console market is a tough task, but I’ll try. If you pre-ordered NHL 21, you were recently granted access to one of the most beloved sports titles to ever hit the home console market: NHL 94. While the video game world welcomes the next-gen consoles this week, EA Sports recently dropped a blast from the past on us, or at least on those of us who pre-ordered the newest iteration of EA’s long-running NHL series.
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