- Year: 1996
- Platform: DOS
- Publisher: Electronic Arts, Inc.
- Developer: Electronic Arts Canada
- Theme: Hockey
Judging from past EA Sports titles, I had high hopes for ***NHL ’97 ***. The first NHL Hockey was a hugely popular game on the Sega Megadrive and was converted some months later to the PC. This was around three years ago and it featured one almost top-down forced perspective viewpoint and VGA graphics. It was said at the time by some that the PC version was inferior in gameplay terms to the Megadrive original. As I only ever played the PC version I can’t comment definitively, but I spent many enjoyable hours playing it, despite at the time having never really seen ice hockey being played or really knowing the rules. The manual was somewhat lacking on this subject and I don’t think I was ever certain what icing was until reading the NHL ’97 manual!