''NHL Hockey'' (titled ''EA Hockey'' outside North America) is an
ice hockey
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video game by
EA Sports
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. Released in 1991 for the
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, it is the first game in the
''NHL'' series.
Cover
Glenn Healy
Glenn Healy (born August 23, 1962) is a Canadian former ice hockey goaltender who played for 15 years in the National Hockey League. Prior to that, he was a member of the Western Michigan University hockey team, and 1985 graduate of the school. H ...
who was then a goaltender for the
New York Islanders.
Reception
Mega
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placed the game at #2 in their Top Mega Drive Games of All Time. According to ''Maximum'', "A previously under-exposed and almost unheard of sport this side of the great divide, the original NHL on the Megadrive was a benchmark title and thanks to the reputation of
John Madden Football and an excellent review in ''
Mean Machines
''Mean Machines'' was a multi-format video game journalism, video game magazine published between 1990 and 1992 in the United Kingdom.
Origins
In the late 1980s ''Computer and Video Games'' (''CVG'') was largely covering the outgoing generatio ...
'', it became an instant classic."
References
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1991 video games
Electronic Arts games
NHL (video game series)
Sega Genesis games
Sega Genesis-only games
Video games set in Canada
Video games set in the United States
EA Sports games
Video games developed in the United States