NHL Stanley Cup
This early SNES title is one of the first hockey titles to simulate 3 dimensions by using the SNES mode 7 SNES technology. It contains all 26 NHL teams at the time with varying strengths and weaknesses. It…
NHL Stanley Cup is a sport developed by Sculptured Software, released 1 July 1993 on Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
What NHL Stanley Cup is
NHL Stanley Cup is a sport game developed by Sculptured Software and released in 1993. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Super Nintendo Entertainment System only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
This early SNES title is one of the first hockey titles to simulate 3 dimensions by using the SNES mode 7 SNES technology. It contains all 26 NHL teams at the time with varying strengths and weaknesses. It doesn't have the players association license, but all of the player numbers and abilities were true to their real-life counterparts. You can take your favorite team from the regular season all the way through the titular Stanley Cup. It even has a menu option in the North American version to change the between English and French languages.
Where it sits in the NHL series
NHL Stanley Cup is the fifth of 111 entries we hold in the NHL series. It arrived 9 months after Wayne Gretzky Hockey 3. The next entry was NHL '94 in 1993.
What it launched against
NHL Stanley Cup launched on 1 July 1993, within three weeks of Street Fighter II' Turbo, Super Mario All-Stars, The Punisher and Dust: A Tale of the Wired West.
Released around the same time: Street Fighter II' Turbo, Super Mario All-Stars, The Punisher, Dust: A Tale of the Wired West.
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