gall0ws

Anyone for a test game? I'm ok to be wiped on Gens too (it seems less smoothly than Kega, but at least it works). AOL account is gall0ws8, my timezone is pretty terrible (CET), but ask anyway.

Hi guys, I just discovered this site, you're just amazing! You know, down here in Sicily ice hockey is not that famous and there is no media coverage whatsoever; I knew literally nothing about it before NHL'94, that baffling videogame I had as gift along with a more classic game for an Italian kid: FIFA International Soccer. But in the end, NHL became the favourite one to play with my SEGA Mega Drive (aka Genesis). I didn't knew the rules (icing? offside?), the teams (I fell in love with their logos anyway) and - worse - I didn't even knew english back then! With a lot of effort I translated the manual and eventually I mastered the game. Then I started to praise NHL'94 with my skeptical friends and, after a while, grew up a sort of cult around this strange game of mine (I was probably the only kid in town with a SEGA system and almost certainly the only one who knew something about NHL). It was like an alien sport to us, but that videogame was freaking great! After some years - thanks to the PSX and a broadband Internet connection - it was really nice to find out that Mario Lemieux, Wayne Gretzky or the Stanley Cup itself were real. Yes, because I loved hockey and NHL for years without even to be able to see footage of the game! It was really strange, because for a long time everything I knew about hockey came from NHL'94, nothing more. No one here knew anything about NHL, beside me and my friends obviously (I just remembered that we even nicknamed a fellow of us "Samuellson", after Ulf. But to me, he was just a pixelated figure on a videogame). I played (and I still play sometimes) NHL 2000 for PSX, but I always though that NHL'94 was the best among the EA titles. It's really fantastic that you love it just like me, I thought I looked to NHL'94 through rose-tinted glasses and I could never image *this*. The website is really great and your effort is invaluable; I'm looking forward to play NHL'94 online... actually I'm not that good and it's a lot of time since I played against another human; I'm pretty sure I will be wiped out, but it would be fun anyway and sound pretty exciting to be able to play with someone after so many years!