I guess it was Christmas of 93? when I got this masterpiece of a game, around 15 years old then.  Kids in our Virginia neighborhood didn't know too much about Hockey but this game changed everything.  We would battle for hours and hours and then fight outside afterwards about it.   This game is Timeless and has soul, unlike newer games.

Welcome! I got it for Christmas that year, too! I'm in Canada though, so of course most of my friends were already hockey fans, but I always like hearing how this game managed to create hockey fans.

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We would battle for hours and hours and then fight outside afterwards about it. 

Haha that's twice this week I've heard about this. It really lends credence to the joke in the Swingers movie about how they removed fighting from the game because "kids were hitting each other or something"