yashide Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Hi guys ! I came across your website recently and as a big fan of the NHL games and especially the NHL 94, I had to create an account ^^ My nickname is Yashide, I'm 30 and I'm from France. I discovered the NHL and became a hockey fan playing NHL 94. As a young french boy I knew nothing about this sport which is not exactly popular in my country... My favorite team ? The Pittsburgh Penguins and obvioulsy my favorite players are Jaromir Jagr and Mario Lemieux! Feel free to ask anything if you want to know more about me ;-) By the way, here is an article I wrote about NHL 94 on my blog (retrogaming and 80s/90s culture) : http://anotherretroworld.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/nhl-94-sur-megadrive-ou-la-decouverte-dune-passion/ Yashide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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trudatman Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 (edited) http://anotherretroworld.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/nhl-94-sur-megadrive-ou-la-decouverte-dune-passion/ In this weekend begins the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Russia. Althoughless publicized than the Summer Olympics , it is still an unmissableevent for all budding athletes (well rather in snow or ice) and for meit is always a pleasure follow such an event , while allowing me to brighten up long days of work and little daunting motivating!This is an article of fact that I will not tell you what my virtualinitiation and declare my love (Olympic ) for discipline at leastconfidential in our country , ice hockey !My first experience of hockey dates back to the early 90s with the gameBlades of Steel Game Boy , although small friendly game (includingphases of fight and penalties) but had not struck me more than that to time.The " steel blades "However, a little later, around 1993 to 1994 , two events have really made mediscover the joys of this sport and ignored totally underestimated here.What are these two events do you ask! Yes yes I know that you burn with desire to know!Start with great cinema ...Well, first of all, and this is not the video game , this is the trilogy offilms " Little Champions " (The Mighty Ducks VO, which led to thecreation of the NHL franchise same name Anaheim) a small spark lit in me. Forthe record, the first part (my favorite) tells the story of GordonBombay ( Emilio Estevez ) , a lawyer (and incidentally former risingstar of the broken hockey career ) condemned as a work of generalinterest to coach a team broken arms a decade. Of course, Walt Disney Production requires , after complicatedbeginnings, the team will discover some talent, including young CharlieConway ( Joshua Jackson) , a state of mind and unwavering solidaritythat will lead to the top. very young Josh JacksonFly, Josh ! Fly!This flame is then permanently aglow when I discovered the game NHL 94 (Electronic Arts ) on the Megadrive . Icertainly do not owned the console since I was in the enemy camp , but Iwas playing regularly because my father could hire , and some games,thanks to its EC (see article). And in the middle Sonic , Ghouls'n Ghosts and other Streets of Rage ,the famous NHL 94, an early version of the highly recurrent EA license.Let's drop the puck !Let's go Pens !Once the game started, the first step , the choice of a team ... The game ison NHL license, all franchises of the time were so well represented inthe game Anyway, there knowing nothing , it must be go groping ... I go from one team to another in the selection menu , I hesitate , I turn to the next, and so on. I come then to the letter "P" and the Pittsburgh Penguins team ... Moronand fun as I am not much of me (" Ahahah too funny there's a team that'spenguins like I'll try to play with them ") , it takes no more that my choice is thisfranchise ( being also one of the best , which did not hurt ;-)) .Mule style ... Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr , my 2 favorite players EVERBut let's get to the facts , this game had it special? Andcertainly not his game modes, not very original (Exhibition , oddlynamed Regular Season , Playoffs , Shootout goals ... ) . As for its realism, difficult to judge when no one knows virtually nothing to the sport . Interms of the range of movement available is quite limited, we go ,pull, load ... As for entertainment and graphics , however , it is quiteamusing is fluid , it glides well , with a view topideal for a good vision of the game And finally, what is the soundenvironment , there are no comments yet but a few points are interestingas the groans of the players after a violent charge , the traditionaltunes organ played before the set , the audience reacts during hot sequences ...A description of the significant forces before each meetingI would still like to make one point about the realism of the game, which I went What posteriori account . Idid not understand that sometimes the computer removes her guardian andI consequently found alone with the aim to have more than push the puckinto the net . I hoped that at any time during the game I would have the chance to come across this situation and score easily. Idid not realize until later that it occurred at the end of the match,where the opposing team had 1 or 2 goals down , to have a player ofadditional field and expect to enjoy numerical superiority to return to the score. I was also very amused when I first saw an NHL game on TV and that the situation occurred . Good as most of the time it resulted in a goal conceded ...The end of the game approach, the empty netter is not far !In short, from my point of view rookie , we can say that the bet isdefinitely won with this game , especially since he managed the feat oftape to play other refractory people to the base! Isit not a guarantee of quality when you suggest the first time yourfriend to play and he tells you " yeah it sucks blah hockey , you do notwant rather to Streets of Rage or DBZ ? "And in the end the following times it is he who wants to come back?Another goal for Mario Le Magnifique ! And a minor penalty for Jagr !Accepted in my Hall of Fame ...Yes, quite simply, that imposed this game in my life gamer , this is stillpushing permanent pleasure and always want to do one more game , and theultimate sadistic pleasure of popping the face of his friend against Plexiglas without devastating loads!Unhealthy satisfaction to send an opponent to the hospital: DIt does not take much to make me a hockey fan and supporter of thePittsburgh Penguins for decades to come ... And since that time , Iproudly part of pigeons that buy (almost) every year the updated editioneven if the changes are minimal ... for some it's FIFA or PES (ok I also had my period ... ) , for me it's NHL !It took me until 2009 to finally see my triumph and Penguins win the Stanley Cup ... Edited February 23, 2014 by trudatman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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