It’s Video Game Week at SB Nation and, like Marvel Week before it, the idea lets me combine the Islanders with another ostensibly fun but also often frustrating or disappointing pastime of mine.
Like most hockey fans, I’ve spent a lot of time playing EA Sports’ NHL series dating back to the 16-Bit era. Even the one that started it all, NHL Hockey for the Sega Genesis, was light years beyond the games of the previous generation. It had real NHL teams (but not NHL players yet) playing in a fast style that more closely mimicked the sport than Atari’s Ice Hockey or NES games like Ice Hockey or even the legendary Blades of Steel did.