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Don’t let some old thread steal your thunder. That guy is clearly the billy Mitchell of nhl’94

Given its in the Sega forums, that would be the record!

It’s always better to assume they are lying about their scores. So our self esteem remains steady.

Here is the full thread on goal records. Do we suck or something? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.games.video.sega/NHL$20$2794$20record$20$23$20of$20goals|sort:date/rec.games.video.sega/ucXVL5hRFS4/FnwthvBT4Y4J No penalties means they can't even B check. Many doubted the SNES record holder guy on the forums a few years ago...

Oh, and it looks like you can fix the 2-player Playoffs bug with a 4-WayPlay adapter, according to a guy who said EA told him this.

This guy had 71 goals playing the Leafs against the Hawks - https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.video.sega/7DYXsG-tSVw/FGUwUsdKKY8J Some good advanced strategy here - https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rec.games.video.sega/DWTEcMAMLDM/discussion This guy picked it up the night of 9/22 - https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.video.sega/Zh35ZFAxXG4/s-Sg-t8ogrcJ This guy got it 9/23 - https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.video.sega/_qN5O4EyA4M/6BgjeHTb7LMJ Looks like the day it came out depended on where you lived. There's A LOT of good stuff in the usenet.

The usenet threads are an amazing treasure trove of information. I was just reading through some of them and it's great. Here is a link to the release date one that you mentioned: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.video.sega/geicW6XI1ts/V4wtLHV_XIIJ Here is the first realization of the weight bug, where a guy notices that Gretzky can really hit: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rec.games.video.sega/Ir--lOfmwqQ/fnSSjUWD0QQJ I love it all...will scan through and make a separate post to archive what was being said when this came out, which is undoubtedly Sep 24. As mentioned previously, the ROM header has JUL'93. Assume that is when the game was finished and it took 1-2 months of production to get the game ready for release.

Hey guys, I just ran across this thread while doing some research on NHL 94. I actually do a lot of research into game release dates (I have a website and YouTube channel), and generally turn to Usenet to see when people start talking about having particular games in-hand. Here's what I found for NHL 94: A post on September 8 talks about the game being "anxiously awaited", and states that the game's release date is the 24th of that month. A post on September 14 quotes an exchange between the poster and someone working inside EA, who said that the release date was "the 24th or the 27th, I don't know exactly which." Interestingly, this person also said "EA was not "too cheap" to pay for NHL and NHLPA licensing in 1993; the NHL made it very complicated with all that player revenue business. Also, the NHL refused to sanction a game with fighting in it. It just wasn't worth the hassle. It didn't have much to do with money." Not sure if you guys already knew that or not, but I found it interesting because it explains both why NHLPA 93 lacked a license, and why NHL 94 lacked fighting. A post on September 23 talks about having the game in-hand, and gives some first impressions. In another post on the same day, the poster says that he picked up the game "last night" and also gave his impressions. From there on, there are plenty of posts about the game. So that's pretty rock-solid evidence that the game was first available on September 22/23, 1993. Hope you guys find that helpful/interesting! Chris Edit: For anyone interested, the newsgroup these game from was rec.games.video.sega. I was also able to find that NHL 94 for the Sega CD was released in January of 1994.