With all that said, I am not new to the NHL franchise. Sports video games have gotten to the point, where they look so much like the real thing, that visitors to my apartment sometimes do not realize that the basketball (or soccer) game we are so involved in, is not real…

Needless to say, time has passed since then. Prior to that moment – Ice hockey in video games was relinquished to the choice of “Skinny, Medium, and Fat” on original Nintendo, or the fight-centric “Blades of Steel”, both of which did not have official licenses. It shattered my comprehension that they had added the complete current NHL rosters to a video game, and that the counterparts performed reasonably like the players did in real life. The screen happily announced to me that the goal had been scored by “L. Gretzsky, or what looked like a small digital #99 (on the Kings), had the puck in the corner, and placed a perfect pass to Luc Robataille for the finish… This was mind-blowing. I stood there, 11 years old, with my face pressed against the window as the game’s demo mode replayed the Kings vs. The store, which I frequented, had a brand new display showcasing NHLPA for Super Nintendo.

It was a Sunday in 1992, I walked by a closed Compucenter store, nestled in a dark corner of the concourse level at Yonge & Bloor. I remember the first time I saw an NHL hockey game by EA Sports.

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