Ice Hockey
122K plays 1988 #Sport
Ice Hockey is a 1988 ice hockey video game developed by Nintendo and Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo for the Famicom Disk System and Nintendo Entertainment System. Ice Hockey is based on the sport of the same name, with the objective of the game being to get more points than the opposing player by hitting round, black pucks into the opposing goal with a hockey stick.
Ice Hockey received positive reviews from critics, and has been often cited as one of the best games for the NES. It was re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console service in 2006, as well as the Nintendo Classics service for the Nintendo Switch in September 2018.
From Wikipedia's article Ice Hockey (1988 video game), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Keyboard controls
| NES | Player 1 | Player 2 |
|---|---|---|
| D-pad | ↑↓←→ | IKJL |
| B | Z | N |
| A | X | M |
| Select | Shift | B |
| Start | Enter | Space |
Hotkeys
- 1 Quick save state
- 2 Quick load state
- 3 Change save slot
Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).
From the manual, page 7
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Keyboard controls
| NES | Player 1 | Player 2 |
|---|---|---|
| D-pad | ↑↓←→ | IKJL |
| B | Z | N |
| A | X | M |
| Select | Shift | B |
| Start | Enter | Space |
Hotkeys
- 1 Quick save state
- 2 Quick load state
- 3 Change save slot
Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).
From the manual, page 7
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Players 71 · 321 votes
No critic scores found for this game: this is the players' rating.
Review scorecard
- Graphics 3.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Sound 3.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Control 3.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Fun Factor 3.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
Overall fallback: Players 71 · 321 votes. The same 71/100 overall rating fills missing categories using the face scale; these are not separate category scores. Player rating; no critic scores available.
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What the critics said
Aaron Thomas of GameSpot also commended the Virtual Console re-release for being "one of those rare NES sports games that's almost as much fun to play today as it was when it was released."
— GameSpot, 2006 (Aaron Thomas)
From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Ice Hockey (1988 video game) article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.
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