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NHL 94 is largely considered one of the best sports games ever made. 30 years after its release we talk to the developers about that era of sports game design and the magic that went into the development of NHL 94.
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00:00 – Intro
02:28 – The Origins of Madden
06:38 – EA Sports Network
13:47 – Mark Lesser Sports Game Design
20:45 – NHL 94 Features
30:24 – Fights
33:14 – Testing & Production
36:28 – One Timers
38:42 – Maine Magic
42:01 – NHL 24
46:48 – The Series After 94
49:54 – Why is NHL 94 Special?
53:48 – CREDITS
Edited by Jeremy Jayne
Additional Editing by Danny O’Dwyer
Filmed by Jeremy Jayne
Gameplay Capture Frank Howley
Motion Design by Dan Silverstone (Pica)
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Mark Lesser made an incredibly inspiring impression. So much of the brilliance of this game clearly comes from him, yet he still attributes it to the "Maine magic" without a hint of of irony or egotism.
Plus having to do it in isolation, with only occasional, if highly valuable feedback. Absolutely inspiring. Legend.
It's just hockey. You Americans and your insistence on naming a surface…
The one timers was the best. You actually felt it internally when it happened as if you were doing it for real.
wow brilliant conversations here. thanks for this! I remember being about five or six playing this on my genesis.
This vid was posted 6 days ago. I played way more than 6 days of this game. Lol
This game was so damn fun l was never a hockey fan but l played the hell out of it!!
FACE OFF !
I lived in a huge neighborhood. So many kids had this game. We would post flyers on stop signs inviting anyone to get involved in tournaments. It would get INTENSE. The age gap ranged from 12 to 18. The game was responsible for our street hockey obsession. Every kid had a favorite team and would get an NHL jersey with their favorite team and player. The impact this game had is insane. NHLPA 93 was the game that turned me into a diehard Hawk fan. I live in Rochester NY (1hour outside Buffalo) and have been to every Sabres vs Hawks game since 96. I've been to 10 Blackhawk playoff games in the UC. 3 games vs Detroit at Joe Louis arena and game 5 of the 2013 Stanley cup final vs Boston. All of this started from NHLPA 93 and NHL 94. Best sports game(s) ever created. No other game in any genre has done what these have. Life changing.
Nhl 95 for sega genesis is way better . the best teammate hockey game of alllll time . the first game ever to create players. Sign and release players make trades.. Start an 80 game season with stats and playoffs. With allll the trophies or awards.. Its the beat NHL95
I want to play this so bad now!!!
this game was literally 80% of my childhood
"DIBS ON ROENICK!"
Think about how awesome already very awesome NHL 94 would be with the improved fighting mechanics. It'd melt my brain.
SEMINAL game in terms of not only what I looked for in playing video games, but ALSO a game which worked as a learning tool for me to get more info about hockey and the rosters and the players, who was good who wasn't so good, getting into different players, etc. Great doc!!
You can hear the passion and/or the determination behind the hard work. Gaming was entering its golden age and it wasn't all about the money for the so called triple A studios. This video had me nostalgic to the core, very good production. 👌
Great documentary! The only mistake was wearing figure skates 😁
when he said they wanted to focus more on fun and gameplay than realism…this is the key to that game and other game makers need to learn this lesson.
I loved nhl 94 but nobody seems to talk about their best game nhl 2004.
The best hockey game of all time. Games are too complicated nowadays. I don’t care about the realistic graphics and fancy moves. I prefer when it was just the d-pad and one button to pass and one button to shoot. I don’t want to learn 17 different multi-button combos
The NHL series was a classic, then EA and their greedy ways turned it into a yearly shitshow, where the latest game is worst than the one before it. It's too bad, NHLPA 93 is where I started playing it all the way to NHL 23.
NHLPA 93 is still better in my opinion
Wow, just love the intro sequence with the games and music and everything, its soooo good.
nhl93 was better. 94 was like the nerd version of 93
Honestly these hockey games for sega are what got me into sports, my Dad got me NHL 96 and I was hooked on hockey from there and then started playing Madden in 2001
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Played hundreds of hours of NHL 94 for SNES as a kid with a friend.
I remember when my dad came home and surprised me with '94…still have it…miss you dad!
I loved this game, I still have my copy! Thanks for making this!
The fact you cant play NHL on PC is asinine
I went undefeated in this game for over a year with the Rangers. Finally my buddy Jeff beat me and I wanted to beat his ass 😂😂. I smoked him in a game right after that fluke loss but man I was enraged about it 😂
I can’t believe I played this so much and never knew the crowd meter had a function
I think one of the great miracles that makes NHL 94 so perfect is how Mark Lesser builds upon the foundation built by Jim Simmon, along with Michael Brook and Scott Orr at Electronic Arts. You get the best of both worlds, the peak of everyone's talents, and it all gels together so perfectly. Note how NHL 95, which is purely Lesser's baby, continues some strengths but also lacks many others, and even the highly-respected NHL 96 felt more like a skilled solo album than a band masterpiece. All of this just goes to show you how impossibly rare it is to capture lightning in a bottle.
Oh, and for the record, all the 1980s kids loved those Mattel Electronics sports games, even with those simplistic lights and beeps.
In the beginning, is my man wearing figure skates?
The crisp passing, the player AI, and of course the one timers really made this game. Everything just felt very balanced and smooth.
How could no one mention "The Move?" Goalies were helpless against it!
The movie Swingers has one of the best movies scenes features EA's NHL game.
we started tournament amongst friends. it was just a blast to play the NHL games like that, I think i still have the games in a closet.
I put countless hours into NHL '94 when it came out, it was such a fun game! The attention to detail these gentlemen put into making it really shined through in the gameplay. I 'm not even a hockey fan!
I had the unofficial high score for goals sometime in 2009, been lapped since
Maine’s contribution to the hockey video game landscape! Read about this years ago, it’s really cool to see a documentary about it.
nhl 92 was such a huge leap over any hockey gane prior. i played that game to death.
That was all LIP SERVICE because EA NEVER gives its PAYING CUSTOMERS what they want.
My friends and I had a rule. If you could body check and knock down the guy that scored during the goal celebration then the goal didn’t count! So you would score and immediately skate off camera and the other guy would chase blindly hitting the body check button. We always had a good laugh with the instant replay camera trying to see what happened off camera.