The GOAT of Hockey Games | TSN Original

27 years after its creation, many believe EASPORTS NHL ‘94 is still the greatest hockey game ever made.

Oh, and it was made in a barn. And raccoons were shot.

Here is the backstory in our TSN Original – The GOAT of Hockey Games

[kahlillmyers]

NHLPA 93 was outstanding and great introduction to NHL 94. I had both games years ago, and I was totally addicted. I didn’t follow hockey at the time, I bought NHLPA 93 and learned the rules and players names with abilities and I was hooked. Madden was my go to until I bought NHLPA 93 and I put Madden to the side for quite awhile. Awesome memories!

[kingraph]

NHL'94 World Champion and Guiness World Record holder here. This video is amazing. And anyone claiming '95 was better because of season mode is insane. Sure season mode is great, but I'd rather play a single game of awesome than a whole season of garbage. Fighting in '93 was fun, but ultimately the one-timer, manual goalie, organ music and NHL teams propel '94 to #1 status.

[stewartmitchell]

Quebec, Calgary, and Boston were my teams....good times

[joycenkenes]

lateral movement..east to west is the key

[rickvon]

Buffalo Chicago Pittsburgh and the rangers were the teams to use...Detroit and Boston were also power houses

[RetroRbbie]

yep I always remember asking for the current year of NHL game for Christmas

[redryno]

I spent so many hours playing 94 with buddies back in the day.

[goodreverendk]

3 greatest home console sports games of all time. NHL 94', Tecmo Super Bowl, and NFL 2K5....That's the list. Book it!

[Wes_Snipes]

This needed to be 10 minutes longer! Is there an extended or director's cut!?!?

[williamfryman]

I Love 94. But I personally preferred NHL 96.

[joelvinson]

Roenick will always be the GOAt, but I LOVED playing with Bure, Mogilny, and Selanne. I would kill to have an updated version of this.

[Slotten]

Lemieux, Jagr, Kevin Stevens. Come at me bro.

[demianseale]

Great game -- played it incessantly for a couple years. Haven't been into a video game since.

[zeldadahedgehog]

i respect the arcade feeling and innovations with NHL 94, but for me nothing will ever top NHL 99

[dw]

I think NHL95 needs some credit here too. That was when you could trade and create players. That was groundbreaking for me to be able to play as myself on the game.

[leonardokula]

I played a lot of 94 and 96, but I always thought 96 was the better game, more polished, faster and players looked better, also 96 had voices. Any reason why 94 is considered to be better by almost everybody?

[gbblackknight]

NHL94 for the SNES had a better, 4-button control layout. And the PC version, NHL95 was a far better experience. I liked them both tho.

[IntoTheVoid]

Theres no fighting in 94? Fuck that. Don't the later 16bit ones have fighting? Like 97?

[jonnyjackson]

What do you think of the NHL 20 gameplay

[No_Fear_]

If you dont use manual goalie mode you aint ever going to win a big game. Manual mode goalie technique is a fine art!