FlyersHockey1967
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I don't like Crosby that much, even if he's Canadian.
I like Ovechkin because he's great, he hits, scores, dekes, and I've seen him in a fight before (although it wasn't very good
)On another note, I think the Flyers will do very good this year. They have a great core of guys who can actually SCORE! Unlike some team.......
I LOVE Ovechkin because he hits people. I can't ever remember seeing Crosby hit anyone. That's why I also love watching Dion Phaneuf when I get the chance. He is, in Pierre McGuire's words, a MONSTER.
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See Addisonbr's post in this thread...there's a link to a gens players and their aims.
See, at first when I clicked on the link, I only saw two members with their screen names. But it wasn't until afterwards that I checked the "Contact" section of the toolbar and clicked on the Gens members there did I find all of the names. My bad.
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NHL'94.com members wall.
Holy crap, that is amazing! Great nod to the legacy of NHL '94 and its devoted followers.
Hey, I can see me on the goal line!
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Hate to bump this, but I just realized that I have an aim account. I never knew this, but I got an email from aol telling me I could use my screen name and send im's on my cell phone. Then I remember making one a few years ago but never got around to using it and stopped using aim altogether. Oh well, now that I've got it, I'm open for some classic 94 Gens action, usually on the weekends.
I'd like to see some more members posting their screen names here so it's easier to add them all in one shot instead of having to go around and look at everyone's profile.
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I seriously had a man who said he wanted to urinate on me because I liked Sidney Crosby.
I enjoyed "hating" on Forsberg because he and Crosby had a nice fiesty rivalry. Maybe Briere can bring some moxie to the table?
I doubt it. Briere just doesn't seem like the kind of player that would pick a fight with Crosby.
But I'm hoping Mike Richards will. He's not as feisty as Hexy was, but he's willing to stick up for the team and throw a few punches for his teammates. Richards, like Hextall before him, is one of the best examples of what it's like to be a Flyer.
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If anyone figures this out, you could actually make a roller hockey rom with the tiles and roller blades and whatnot since they play 4-on-4.
Wasn't there a 1-on-1 rom? Anyone know how they did that?
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I showed that clip to my friend, who absolutely hates hockey, and it left his mouth hanging open. That is saying something.
Seriously, do you guys expect me, a Flyers fan, to like a kid who happens to be on a division rival? Hell no!
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So today I was Philly hosting Les Habs at the ole Spectrum for a semifinal playoff game, five minute periods, penalties on except offsides, no line changes, manual goalie.
I was down 2-1 thanks to some horrible manual goaltending by me, 24 seconds to go in the third period, goalie pulled, Kevin Dineen out on the ice. Recchi skates up along the right wing boards, passes across to Lindros, who blows up the left and slides the puck into the slot for Dineen to one-time it past Roy glove side to tie it!
It's OT, I just tied it with the goalie pulled, and I'm psyched.
35 Sega minutes later, I'm still playing. It's the 8th, that's right, eighth OT, and we're still tied 2-2. It was just back and forth play for seven straight overtimes with many close calls, including one part where I took Lindros behind the net in the fifth OT and tried to flip pass it, went over the net, out the other side, then just bounced off Roy's shoulder and wide.
About 2 minutes left in the game, Gary Galley takes a penalty, face off in my zone to the left of Soderstrom. Habs win it, but I gain control and clear the zone. One Canadiens player tries to corral the puck in front of the benches, but Lindros lays him out and takes the puck up into the zone on a breakaway! I swoop in from the left and into the slot and fire a rocket slap shot FIVE HOLE for the goal!
Game over, Flyers win 3-2 in the 8th overtime, my longest game ever!! On to Pittsburgh for the Prince of Wales trophy!
So what was your longest game ever, and how did it end?
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how could anyone hate crosby?..he does and says all the right things...the next ambassador of hockey.
Ahem. *points to avatar*
Oh, and doing and saying all the right things isn't always the best. I mean, yes, I appreciate that in any hockey player, especially with all of the big-mouthed, arrogant, dumbass athletes you see every day on the news in every other sport, but I'd like the face of the NHL to be a Roenick-like player who isn't afraid to get goofy from time to time.
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I think it comes down to a few things.
- The Wonky Skating. It's just different than the later games. In 94, the players 'swoop', whereas, in the newer games, they turn on a dime. It's just better somehow. You really need to work with the momentum of the players. If your player is skating the wrong way, you shouldn't just turn around and skate the other way, you should try to pass to a guy who has some momentum in the right direction. If you miss a check, you REALLY miss the check.
- The Wonky Passing. Making over 60% of your passes is quite an accomplishment. I don't know why, but this unpredictability makes the game more fun, than knowing that every pass will work. If you pull off 3 good passes in a row, resulting in a goal, you just feel like you scored an amazing high-light reel goal.
- The Quirks (which are also wonky). NHL 94 makes me laugh, plain and simple. I've played so many games of 94, yet I'm still surprised by some of the things that happen. How i wish i hadn't accidentally saved over the clip of me scoring off Larry Murphy's face...
- Player Diversity. In new games, the players all feel pretty much the same. Not so in 94. The speeds, agilities, shot power and accuracy, and checking ability of the players are so varied, that every player has his own feel. Try playing with Randy Wood on the Sabres, whose speed is ~85, but agility is ~40. Then compare him to someone like Mike Modano (same speed, but better agility). Gretzky's shot will surprise no goalies, while Tomas Sandstrom's inspires fear in goaltenders, and Al Iafrate's inspires fear in every single player on the ice, other than the goalies.
- The Sounds. the check noise in 94 is just SO SATISFYING. BLLOOOAARRGHh!!!
- The Polish. The game is basically the evolution and refinement of a single vision over 4 years, from the first NHL Hockey game, to NHL94. OK, there are bugs for sure.. but they're good bugs! Also, compare the one-timers in NHL94, to the one-timers in NHL06 for the XBox -- the NHL94 ones seem much more natural and fluid.
- Unpredictabilty. I touched on this before with the passing. It also applies to the shooting, such as when Iafrate shoots a shot at around 500 mph about 35 degrees off from the net, nailing a guy minding his own business by the boards in the face; and the checking, where you don't always know if your check will knock the player flat, or if he'll slide off the check and go in for an easy deke (you need to know the players well to know who can check whom -- or get good with the B-button poke-check/trip). Unpredictability creates obsession. A bit like gambling, or a girl you just can't quite figure out, but feel endlessly required to try to. Yes, i am comparing NHL94.. to love.
Here are my NHL94 videos on youtube that I hope can help elucidate my points:
I heartily agree with the wonky skating, passing, and the player diversity, especially since the newer games seem to lack all of those. NHL 08, while still a great game, fails to differentiate between different players. Anyone from Crosby to Brashear can pull off the skill stick moves and can pass the puck tape to tape, no matter what the skill level. Funny how an older game like 94 can do that, yet the newest technology on the 360 and PS3 can't.
Simply put, it's just more fun than the recent games. I'm still stuck on the old Xbox, but the only games that can really compare to the fun I get with 94 are ESPN NHL 2k5 (starting to lose my interest do to either too little cpu offense or too many one-timers), NHL 2k3, NHL 2004, and NHL Hitz Pro. But 94 comes out on top.
I think a big part of the appeal NHL 94 has is the fact that it's low tech, so it's easier to imagine what the plays, the goals, the saves, and the big hits look like. With the technology and graphics in 2k8 and 08, the photo-realistic gameplay makes it easier to see the flaws, sort of like how human faces look much more realistic in games, but because they're closer to real life, it's easier to tell what looks wrong and it puts us off. NHL 94 doesn't suffer from that, and therefore is a better experience in the end.
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NHL 94 is so great because it was the game with the biggest improvement over the previous year out of all of the games in the series.
The only thing it lost was fighting. And fighting was like a double-edged sword, because while it was kinda cool, it also slowed the game down a whole lot, especially in 92.
One-timers were the single biggest improvement. Now there were many more ways to score besides slap shots top corner and deking the goalie in close. There was also goalie control, and penalty shots (also shootout mode). And while there was no season mode vs. the cpu, there was still playoff mode, and this was the first year that records were kept. So now you could keep track of your win pct., most goals in a game, and most saves in a victory. Records were also saved for the best performances of each individual player in the game. So the game never got old. The gameplay was so great while playing your brother or friend, but you also had motivation while playing to improve your record or pad the stats of your players or the crowd level. There were also player cards, with actual pictures of the starting lines, so the game looked better too.
I think if as many people had a genesis in 92 as they did in 94, then 92 would be remembered for how great it was too. I remember playing that, after I had been used to playing hockey games like Slap Shot for the Master System (Sega's version of Blades of Steel) and Ice Hockey on the NES. It was amazing, and you thought to yourself, it just can't get any better than this!
Not to mention that the goalies themselves were improved overall. 93 they were kinda weak and got out of position a lot, which I thought made it easier to score. 94 is more of a challenge, which is why they implemented the one-timer as another offensive weapon.
You can probably guess who my favorite player is (psst...Hextall...), but he was traded to Quebec and is on the Nordiques in 94, which of course makes me kinda mad since he was on the Flyers for 93, but here's how I look at it: yes, he's on the Flyers in 93, but you can't even control him, so it's not like it makes a difference. Once I realized that, I got over it and with that little personal thing out of the way, 94 is truly the greatest hockey video game in my eyes.
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One word: HAWT.
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Just a suggestion: You have the Flyers with a good power play and a bad penalty kill, when in reality, it should be the other way around: bad power play, good penalty kill. And Martin Biron should be starting for them, not Niittymaki. Other than that, good stuff!
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Xstioph, looks like we're on the other end of the spectrum when it comes to graphics and sound effects. While I love the goalie animations that the SNES has, I thought that the rest of the graphics were kind of bland, and I hated how the sound effects were muted. Granted, the muffled effect is great when the puck hits the goalie pads, but not so much for everything else like the music. But hey, whatever floats your boat is fine with me.
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as a guy who has played seasons in both consoles, i think i could provide a fair and objective point of view on plusses and minuses of each system...something i may very well do...later tonight
Now that's the kind of comparison I'm looking forward to.
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well, I've done it before and I guess I need to do it again.
for you Genessisies: get out your Speak-And-Spell and your Crybaby-to-English dictionaries, because I don't want you to claim you didn't understand this.
the following is why the SNES NHL '94 is supremely better than the Genesis NHL '94.
Genesis pluses:
-line changes fatigue bars reflect substitutions made (not just original lineups).
-battery for records
SNES pluses:
-line change button has only one use -- line changes.
-instant goalie control with the simple press of a button
-instant right defenseman control with the simple press of a button
-instant left defenseman control with the simple press of a button
-players are not on two teams at once
-more precise puck/stick control
-more precise skating control
-instant stand-fallen-player-up control with the simple press of a button
feel free to say that the Genesis version of NHL '93 is better than the SNES version of NHL '93, because that is tru
(I could itemize that for you, too, but I don't want to overwhelm you with the truth).
feel free to say that the Genesis NHL '92 is better than the SNES NHL '93 (again, it's tru), but for the sake of your own appearances, folks,
please don't ever say that the Genesis version of NHL '94 is better than the SNES version of NHL '94.
thank you.
stay smiling.
soon.
-Tru
Wow. It's not enough that you have to criticize those who prefer the Genesis version, but you also sink even lower as to replace my words with "whaaa" and tell us to get a Speak-And-Spell and Crybaby-to-English dictionaries.
Just give it up. You're not convincing anyone while at the same time making yourself look even more foolish than before. Just do everyone a favor and stop wasting forum space with your posts.
"Please don't ever say that the Genesis version of NHL '94 is better than the SNES version of NHL '94"? Just who the hell do you think you are?
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ooh, I suck because I can't play online? yeah. I'm not going to go out and buy a computer just to play a game I have on a real system.... yeah, whatever, fool. I'm not the loser, here. come by and show me how well you play, in person.
Seriously man, that's enough. I've had it with your stupid comments about how you think the SNES is better than the Genesis. You don't give any good reasons and you don't back them up; you just spew random words aimed to antagonize anyone who prefers the Genesis version, and frankly, it's annoying.
I happen to like the Genesis game more, but do I go whoring around the forums typing derogatory messages at everyone who doesn't agree with me? Hell no. It's just a matter of personal preference, and I'm okay with that. Just because someone happens to like something you don't doesn't give you the right to start criticizing them, especially in a childish, immature manner.
You're not winning anyone over. You're just giving the SNES crowd a bad name with your posts. So in light of that sentence, why don't you just stop posting?
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Not that I liked either 06 or 07 too much... But seeing as 2k has implemented a feature (skill stick) that EA uses for the third year and they are like "wow, look what we can do", well I'm not impressed at all from what little I've seen of 2k8. A bit curious (more suspicious though) about 08 though, has some interesting stuff in it.
In reality, EA's skill stick has only been used for a year; the previous stick could only do pre-determined moves.
Moreover, 2k8's skill stick allows one to stickhandle in every direction because shooting is mapped to a trigger. That means you can do the "Forsberg," the "Datsyuk," and basically anything.
It seems that competition has driven both 08 and 2k8 to be very good games. Which one is better? You'll have to buy both and find out. But don't let any biased feelings cloud your decision, because I've seen negative comments from EA fanboys who've never touched a 2k game, which is a shame because for the past few years, 2k ruled the hockey videogame world, especially with ESPN NHL 2k5. EA just started doing well with 07, and many people forget how bad their games were. Their last good one was 2004, and 2k had a stranglehold.
So if you're feeling adventurous and want to see what the next games hold, keep an open-mind, and a spare copy of 94 with you.
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Believe it or not, EA has actually compared NHL 08 to NHL 94 in terms of authenticity as well as fun factor. Perhaps they were also referencing its potential cultural impact, seeing as how both NHL games (08 and 2k8) are the first sports franchises to actually put some new, innovative stuff on the next-gen platforms.
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I ripped all of the organ tunes, SFX, and intros for '94 some time ago. If anyone wants them let me know and I'll give them to Evan so he can host them on his downloads page.
Do you mean the Genesis/Mega Drive rips, or Sega CD? If it's the former, I would really love to have them available for download.
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Stupid how my phone can record "voice memos," but can't make them as ringtones. Gah!
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i think its A + C plus start
That only deletes win-loss-tie records from the records screen; it doesn't delete any player cards, player records, or profiles.
I remember asking this question a while back, but there's no real solid way to get rid of all of them. If it's sensitive enough, pulling out the cartridge while the game is one might erase it.
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Here's something else I noticed when it happened again (with Recchi, as always): When the shot is done during gameplay, it has no sound. Yet when I checked the replay, there was the sound effect! What could this mean?
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Lindros is way too fat for me (fat = easy to check). His shot is definitely better than Recchi's, but he needs to be standing up to use it : )
Hm, I don't think I ever noticed that. Could just be an emulator-dependent thing..
Emulator-dependent when I'm using the actual Genesis console?
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He definitely had the potential. But it just was never meant to be.
Okay, I'm getting fed up with people who keep bringing that up. Seriously, not every Philadelphia guy is necessarily an Eagles fan. Second of all, this is hockey. Let's keep the football talk out of the hockey talk. I hear enough of it already on TV and in magazines. Thirdly, most of the people who went to that game probably aren't even alive now. Or would you rather talk about Nashville and Mike Modano? At least it's hockey related.
Filth? How about Buffalo? Have you been to Detroit lately?
And if you ask me, Philadelphia deserves a championship just as much as any other city. We're a tough place to play in, but we're all diehard fans. You won't find too many places that will fill up with more than 16,000 people during a team's worst season. You want to talk about cities that shouldn't win, look at Phoenix or Florida. Unlike those towns, we can actually support a hockey team.
Thanks for taking a thread about a great player (in his early years) retiring and turning it into an insult hurled at my hometown. Anything else you'd like to say?