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Good job, Evan. I hope this brings a few new people into the fold.

Anyone here play Hattrick by any chance? Just wondering.

My suggestion for settling this is to say that I am a better NHL '94 player than you.

After reading this, I stand by my previous statement.

Excuse me, what? You don't think I'm better than you???? Are you being medicated at this time? Are psychotropic substances ravaging your grey matter at this moment? Here's how it goes in North America: kgman > Tick, tk (HABS) > Ben > everyone else

His AIM is kgman01, but he's not on it that much. He's not in the spring league. He's really quite the enigma, in fact.

I'm about middle of the road with the ping handicap, but I don't really move up that much when you take out that effect. Strange, I know, but true. Their top guys are brutal. kgman's the only one who can stay with them on a consistent basis.

So those lovable Fins over at nhlgamer.com and #nhl94 on IRCNet are starting up a new summer league, and it appears they're actually using a wiki to run, or, at the very least, to sign up. I asked them if they wanted me to try and recruit any North Americans and they said go ahead, so here goes. The site is http://nhl94.kulde.net/index.php?n=Main.NHL94Kes%e4liiga, and you can sign up there with your desired number of games and team. Here are a few things to bear in mind if you actually want to give it a shot... 1. They are located in Finland, and many of them will be willing to play you on an American server up to half the time, but in any case you'll wind up playing a lot of games on a European server (hopefully one in England or France or some place in western Europe). That's a minimum 100 ping, and it'll only go up from there, so you really should be on the east coast or close to it to consider it. 2. They're 7 hours ahead of EDT, though they're largely night owls. Afternoon or early evening game times are best for them if you can manage them, but weekend mornings or afternoons are possibilites, too. Now that I've scared everyone away, those of you who are left should head over to #nhl94 on IRCNet (http://chat.ircnet.org/ is a good Java chat for IRCNet) and talk to them a bit (and don't give up if no one's around the first time.)

Line changes make the game more strategic, since you have to pace your players instead of hammering the C button incessantly, and you can't rely upon a single dominant player so much. You have to make tough decisions sometimes about whether to put out an under-strength Sc1 or a rested Sc2. You can also give yourself a great advantage in a tight game with a well-timed timeout.

The guys over at www.nhlgamer.com are mostly in Finland, so you could talk to them, too. Their channel (which I also hang out in) on IRC is #nhl94 on the IRCNet network.

Six.

With my term finally complete, I'll now be a bit more available for people who want to play practice or league matches (Gens, though I'm willing to branch out into SNES play). Also, my tournament, as promised, will be starting soon. More to come...

gg

http://nhl94online.com/downloads/NHL94%20%...6%20GENS%5D.zip Thanks for stopping by #nhl94, too. I hope more people do so in the future.

I can't wait for the first loser who doesn't want to confirm a score. My money's on...cr0ssbar.

No love for Hat Trick? I hate you all.

Yes, I will be on most evenings.

I was inspired by Evan's addition of live chat to the forums to register #nhl94 on the GameSurge IRC network. I don't know how many folks we have around here who use IRC, but I hope the channel can at least be of some service. Come on by and I'll make you at least a peon.

OMGOMGOMG! EVAN!!!!!! r u going 2 host a live chat 4 us? that wud be s0 kewl!!!!! i have sooo mny things i want 2 ask u!!! i luv u!!!!!

I always liked Hat Trick, even though it's 1-v-1 hockey. Fun if you can find an opponent.

You could go to the online league site and gather AIM names from there, but try and figure out the rudiments of online play before you hit people up, because nobody wants to be asked for a game and then have to sit there for 30 minutes explaining how to do it. Also, I hope you're on broadband.

Maybe it was an in-house tournament?

First and third players to join the channel play against second and fourth players to join the channel.

Wonder Boy on Sega systems (including arcade) = Adventure Island on Nintendo systems It's true. Look it up.

The wit and aplomb with which you demolish not only the players of NHL '94, but their very souls is demoralizing at best and psyche-destroying at worst. We can only try and rebuild our shattered minds and hope to challenge your mesmerizing dominance at this rapid game, a dominance made even greater by your mysterious nature. Nonetheless, there is hope, as I have closed the gap between us significantly recently, even managing to win some of our games. To be sure, you were a strong opponent the other night when you won 3 out of 4 and only lost to my Philadelphia team as Hartford 6-5, but do you forget that prior to that, I had won our previous game and also 2 out of 3 the time before that? Surely you didn't expect us not to be forced to improve and progress with our very survival as first-class NHL '94 players at stake? There your miscalculation is obvious. If a shark stagnates in the water, it suffocates. It must remain eternally in motion, for at every moment its very existence hangs in the balance. So, too, must the competitor effort and strive, for inertia in body leads to inertia in ability. To be sure, memories of skill can be retained and recalled, as it appears occurs with you during your long absences, but excellence breeds excellence, and competitors such as tk and myself, though currently seated amongst those in the upper echelons of online play, cannot sit back and allow one such as yourself to emerge from time to time and remind us of where we stand while simultaneously fending off challenges from those who would seek to dethrone us from below. But is it not a paradox that to become the best, one must defeat the best, but if the best is defeated, was the best really the best at all? In short, the spoils of victory are fleeting, for just as the stoutest rock can be worn away by the tiniest waves, so, too, can the mightiest champion find himself felled by the most unlikely of competitor. Or, to put this all in language you'll understand, OMG LOL U SUCKZ0R U MAY HAV 1 B4 BUT U R IN 4 A BEAT1N I PWN UR A$$ SO BAD GG