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| Developer(s) | Park Place Productions |
| Publisher(s) | EA Sports |
| Composer(s) | Rob Hubbard |
| Series | NHL series |
| Platform(s) | Mega Drive/Genesis |
| Release | 1991 |
| Genre(s) | Sports (ice hockey) |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
NHL Hockey (titled EA Hockey outside North America) is an ice hockey video game by EA Sports. Released in 1991 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, it is the first game in the NHL series.
Glenn Healy who was then a goaltender for the L.A. Kings.
Mega placed the game at #2 in their Top Mega Drive Games of All Time. [1] 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 , it became an instant classic." [2]
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