If you’re old enough to have a good recollection of the 8bit and 16bit era of sports video games specifically, then you’ll likely recall that for the most part they were pretty dire.
In fact, we specifically herald certain sports games as being legendary simply because they were the rare gems we always wanted to find.
Firstly think of any old video game console that you like a sports game on. Now, it’s likely that if you go find a list of the games released on that console and further narrow it down to the specific genre of that sport of which your chosen game is simulating, that you’ll find a handful or more of lesser sports games. Some of these you probably never even knew existed, and then there will be others on that list that’ll have you muttering along the lines of “oh jeez, I forgot about that game, uhh”
(sorry for undoing the memories your brain worked hard on suppressing).
Well today’s entry in Winter in Gaming is mostly focused on Blades of Steel for the NES. In fact it was almost entirely going to be based on Blades of Steel until whilst doing a little research into this entry I came across some loyal support for Nintendo’s own “Ice Hockey”, but more on that game later… Continue reading “Winter in Gaming – Day 9 // Blades of Steel (w/ Ice Hockey)”
