Thanks, Joetberry - it's nice to see there is still a forum for these games. What happened to the Nosebleed Section site? Maybe a lockout casualty? It took me a while before I happened on this site. I've been here before but didn't notice a forum section.
Yes, our little tournament changed servers to www.theunholygrail.com, which is probably why you had lost the original link. I've been in quite the slump lately at the events, haven't won (or even made the finals) in the last three tournaments. I tried to boost my defensive play for the last few tournaments and it hurt my scoring too much. But everyone else plays defense to the max in that tournament, so I've decided to go with my all-out firewagon offence next time.
Thanks for visiting the site, next time I'll try to get an extra t-shirt printed up and send it your way - don't worry, there won't be an invoice attached (hehe) I get a few extra printed up each time - be sure to email me your address if you want one..
My theory is the more you play it, the more defence-oriented it becomes - you don't get easy wrap-arounds and one-timers against good defensive players. It's not as good a game vs. the computer, you really need to play other people to appreciate it. Maybe that's why the game gets trashed so much.
I don't want to say anything bad about '94, especially on this board, because it's definitely harder to beat the computer in that version - which isn't a bad thing. The only thing I'll say is once I started playing '95, '94 seemed really, really slow and seemed to have less player control. The players slide around too much, unlike '95 where you can really control your player.
But it still is a great game. I guess everyone has their preference.