The start of the affair: NHL 95

Yes, it’s technically July here on the East Coast, but I had my heart and mind set on writing a “start of the affair” article, so here it is.
I must confess something to you all: before I got a PS2, my game collection consisted (nearly) entirely of sports games. I’ve played many of them over the years — Super Baseball 2020, NFL Quarterback Club 96, and MVP Baseball 2005 — but I remember no sports videogame more fondly than EA Sports’ NHL 95 on the Sega Genesis.
Bliss. Pure bliss. That’s how I would describe NHL 95 — or at least, that’s the way my younger brother and I felt about it back when we were playing it on Christmas morning, 1995 (we were seven and nine years old, respectively). In fact, I would’ve captioned the above image with that, but I didn’t want to sully the game’s cover art.
I mean, […]

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