NHL 98 Appreciation Thread

[kidglov3s]

This game ruled, 3D hockey done right.



Remember how they had all those Olympic teams? I can recall many lopsided contests where my favorite team ever the 96-97 Flyers schooled Belarus. Any NHL 98 memories? Remember how NHL 99 totally sucked despite having John Leclair on the cover?

[triplethreatmark]

First off, it's always nice to see another hockey fan on the FAN. Second of all, yeah that game was boss. Although NHL '99 wasn't as dynamic as '98 was, it was still pretty damn good; had Eric Lindros on the cover actually.

Besides picking the Kings (my favorite team), I usually picked the Mighty Ducks (I was a kid in the 90s, you do the math there. Not to mention Kariya/Selanne), Buffalo Sabres ( I thought the logo was cool plus Hasek was a wall in both video game form and reality) and the Islanders because of their wacky uniforms.

Also, this is one of my favorite intros to a game ever:

[Friday Night SmackOwn]

It was pretty cool that the goalie masks were accurate and there was even a Goalie Mask Viewer thing where you could get a good look at them.

[Lord Bendtner]

Owned this game for YEARS on PC, loved it. The commentary was so entertaining as well. My favourite was "Chelios...NAILED HIM!" And obviously the gameplay was great as well.

Actually, the entire 98 series from EA was classic. The only year where I bought all their sports franchise series' (NBA, FIFA, NHL, Madden) Ever since then, they went from being a good hybrid of realism and arcade style play, to just total realism - with each new title seemingly having more glitches and errors compared to the previous years. FIFA 13 for example has so many errors which would take me forever to talk about.

[Deleted]

This was the first hockey game I ever owned. I'd always put Dominik Hasek on all of my teams.

I also made the entire D2: The Mighty Ducks team on there.

[mike2789]

98 was great, but 99 I can remember in 5th and 6th grade having tournaments almost every weekend to crown the champion of the week. I was runner up seven weeks in a row, I will never forget that. Never won hahah

[Deleted]

Loved it. One of the first hockey games I've ever owned. Although I do remember it being incredibly easy to score goals sometimes.

[Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie]

nope

the entire series ended with 94 for me

it moved wrong for a start and never ever really appealed to me either, i only played the demo for it for a few minutes

[OGBoardPoster2005]

My favorite sports game as a kid along with Madden 99, Triple Play 98, and (yes) the Space Jam game. Good times.