Ice Hockey (video game)

Ice Hockey is a game originally released for the NES created by Nintendo and designed and directed by Hideki Konno

Gameplay
The game plays similarly to the real life sport except with 5 players including a goaltender on each side instead of the normal 6. The goal is to hit the black puck into the opposing team's goal with a hockey stick that each player uses. The arena is quite similar to a real world arena covered with ice and various markings. Each game is made of 3 periods and whoever has the most points at the end it wins. The beginning of a match starts with a face-off in the middle rink where the two opposing players duel to gain control of the puck.

There are three kinds of players in the game; a weak but fast one good at face-offs, an all around average one, and a powerful but slow one that is poor at face-offs but good at body checking and shooting strength. If two opposing players fight for the puck for a certain amount of time, other players join into the fight, resulting in the player from the losing team in the fight to be put in the penalty box for a period of time.

Legacy
This game help kickstart Hideki Konno's career as a director, later becoming the director of such titles as SimCity, Super Mario Kart and Yoshi's Island as well as become one of Nintendo EAD's Group Manager. It is one of the 12 games featured in NES Remix 2.