 "Made Me the Christmas Hero" | 2009-01-19 |
| - Reviewed By User: A26TP277Y86YEY |
| I bought this for my 5-year-old nephew for Christmas. He LOVED it, his favorite gift this year. The two-player version worked out well because while the games were brand new to him, my older brother (his father) got to have a good nostalgia blast playing the old Madden game he used to love on Sega Genesis. It's really a brilliant concept, these plug and play games. They're perfect for younger kids who aren't as concerned with cutting-edge technology as they are having a new game to play. |
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| "Great fun, some glitches" | 2009-01-18 |
| - Reviewed By User: A9L37JODQ9LYG |
| Loved these games as a kid! They are brought back easily with this product. Two issues: control pad and buttons stick after some game play (altough it doesn't dramatically affect gameplay) and occasionally the system will restart itself during a game. This can ber very frustrating, but it's a worthwhile purchase nonetheless! |
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| "Excellent transition to this unit, good value" | 2006-12-31 |
| - Reviewed By gregkeller666 |
I have the single player game of this, but wished I had this version. I just loved both of these games on the Sega Genisis. head to head competition at a low price that is easy to travel with, a must have. The games still move just as fast, and the playability is still about the same. The graphics are pretty good remembering what the genisis was like, few details are harder to see. Also the names of the players are not there, but that is ok. This is a great combination. I just hope they put together a college football package, my alltime favorite EA game. Check this out, the price is dropping and you can't go wrong. This travels with me to play when I'm on call. Excellent toy for all ages.
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 "Reliving my college days..." | 2005-02-08 |
| - Reviewed By sdim66 |
| Back when I was a student at Va tech, me and my roomies used to play this (Sega Genesis NHL 95) all the time... well, maybe not all the time. After graduation I aquired the PC version, NHL Hockey 95, which I still have, but unfortunately it doesn't play well with XP (haven't been able to get the sound working, for one thing.... yea, tried VDS, etc, etc). My cousin and I used to play this one all the time... well, anyway. Until this came out I hadn't played the game for 2-3 years, but was contemplating buying an old laptop to use just for this game so that when I was home for the holidays my cousin and I could play once again. Then this thing comes along. We were both like "Cool!!" Forget the football, but the hockey is worth the price alone. I almost completed a season in the week I have had it... very addicitive.... and fun. The only drawback is that they took out the player names... but all the stats are there. I don't remember everything about the original, but it seems they took out some other stuff too, like skill level (Rookie, Pro, All-star... maybe some other stuff). I think they just used the All-star level for this game, because its harder than I remember... the defense is very tough. I really have to fight hard for points. It just makes a win all that more fun... and a loss all that more devastating. Anyway, I would recommend this to anyone who is a fan of the old game... or a fan of hockey. It doesn't have all the fancy graphics and stuff... but the gameplay and fun-factor are there in spades. |
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| "Overall good, but buyer beware..." | 2005-02-06 |
| - Reviewed By tju73 |
| I just picked this up last week. I had to have the two player version so my wife and I could "bond".. All in all I like both games, but the lack of player names on both titles, while understandable due to licensing, is unfortunate. While I know most of the NHL top level player and ALL of the Flyers from NHL 95, and at least all of the Cowboys of Madden 95, I don't know enough-- it is still of fun diversion to spend a half an hour or so before bed. The controllers, while basically faithful to the original clunky Genesis models, feel squshy on the directional controls and the butten lack the tactile respone I remember..But hey, that was -- geez TEN YEARS ago..I look forward to more of these plug and plays by Jakks and everyone else.. |
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| "Hockey is good, football is not" | 2005-01-28 |
| - Reviewed By ryano88 |
A near-perfect translation NHL '95, and a not-so great port of Madden '95. I'd originally heard that FIFA '95 (soccer) was supposed to be on here too, but I guess it never made it to the final product...
I got this last night - the hockey had some ommisions from the original (like the players NAMES - here you only get the jersey numbers; I assume there was a problem with licensing, possibly related to the current NHL lockout?!), but otherwise was still the same great game, and is a ton of fun to play.
The football, however, was barely playable. You can barely read the plays, and there's hardly any sound (no crowd noise, poor 'Maddenisms'), and even the music at the title screen isn't the classic music - it's just the re-used hockey music.
Design / implementation-wise, I thought they could've made it so you could daisy-chain the controllers together, but no - the single player version of this is a completely separate product - if you want to play two player you have to buy the two-controller version - you can't add on at a later date. This is unfortunate because these games (in the original Genesis versions) supported 4 players, which of course ups the fun factor by A LOT, but isn't possible they way Jakks decided to put it together.
I will continue to love this product for the hockey game, but I won't even look at the football game again. If you're an old-school fan of NHL'95, then this is worth the cash, but I just wish they could have left out the football and enhanced the hockey (like putting in the players names - it's hard to remember who's who from back in '95!).
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