This set-up with two publishers putting out two different NHL games was unique. Now back in the late 2000’s EA looked much like it does now, except 2K Sports had the NBA and MLB all to itself and the two studios both published simultaneous NHL games each year.
EA who covers FIFA, NHL, and the NFL (Madden) series, 2K Sports who now mainly only focus on the NBA, and Sony Interactive Entertainment who exclusively cover the MLB.
For those of you not aware, there are three companies in North America who make video game version of all the major sports. So we’re moving past those years to the great EA vs. Those eras are forgivable limitations set by the technology of the time and we just won’t talk about those chunky nightmares on ice. Let’s skip those late 90’s early 00’s years of the world’s first 3D gaming experience. I really, desperately, wish I could say that. I wish I could tell you the NHL games got better over the years. It is one of the most raw, fun, exciting, and tense things you can pick up a controller and play, even if you know next to nothing about hockey. NHL ’94 is one of the greatest games of all time, and I say that from a place that isn’t just pure nostalgia. My point is, hockey is an amazing sport and has an amazing video game history. A long time before he would also piss me off as a broadcaster for crying when the Blackhawks won the cup (nice unbiased broadcasting shitbird, act like you’ve been there). Probably the only two non-hockey related games I played back then were Earthworm Jim and Mario Andretti Racing, both of which I only saw after Jeremy Roenick would piss me off on the virtual ice. If I had to pick a second favorite game from that era, it’d probably be Mutant League hockey. We had a SEGA Genesis when I was a kid, and my favorite game was NHL ’94.
I grew up in that city, in the Lemieux/Jagr era when hockey was an unavoidable topic. I was born in Pittsburgh in ’91 when Lemieux and Jagr brought home the Pittsburgh Penguins’ first ever Stanley Cup win and followed it up next year with the team’s second ever Stanley Cup win. Let me preface this article a bit by saying I’m a lifelong hockey fan.
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