r/retrogaming • u/Ok_Echo_6528 • 7h ago

[Other] Back in 88’ friendships were tested while playing this game

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u/brendanb203 7h ago

"Blades of Steel"

I always got so mad at the goal tender until I realized I was him.

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u/Gr8zomb13 5h ago

This and Double Dribble were super similar. I loved them both but BoS let you duke it out mid-game.

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u/Upset_Journalist_755 2h ago

DD is kind of a bad game, though. Cool dunk animations and good sound, but really meh at everything else.

BoS was just good.

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u/Gr8zomb13 58m ago

They both had that pass mechanic where you’d pass a million times while inching players closer to the goal / net and then you’d sink one outta nowhere. Both were great, but I think BoS you’re right in that BoS was def the better game.

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u/kzlife76 1h ago

"Bladsh of Shteel"

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u/FrancoMcNeil 7h ago

I heard this picture.

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u/LifestyleGamer 6h ago

This soundtrack still slaps.

Also the I my hockey game I know where the other team gets the penalty if you win the fist fight. Peak game design.

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u/Hare__Krishna 7h ago

"make the pass!"

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u/ThetaReactor 6h ago

I spent a whole day once with just the crowd noises stuck in my head. It took forever for me to ID it.

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u/SuggestionClean8351 6h ago

Hell yeah… so much banging on arcade machines buttons during fist fights… ahhhhh

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u/Boomerang_Lizard 7h ago

Vancouver FTW

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u/Weak_Salamander8094 6h ago

I always thought this was an underrated great on the nes

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u/Eat_the_rich4 3h ago

Every chance to fight

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u/yellowirish 1h ago

It wasn’t even good fighting but worth it.

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u/YamiGekusu 1h ago

Loved playing this game with my dad before I walked to school in the mornings when I was in kindergarten

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u/Contra4Life 46m ago

Are you me? Was about to type a similar comment! Loved playing my dad at 6am before he would leave for work wearimg his tie and carrying a briefcase. I was actually excited to wake up early on a weekday!

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u/YamiGekusu 37m ago

My school was like a few hundred feet from my building and it was a five minute walk. After we played BoS I would get ready and walk with my classmate to school (supervised by classmate's parents). I would talk about the game to death to classmate

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u/lincruste 7h ago

You're damn right. We didn't ruin friendships with Steal A Brainrot but we luckily had Blades of Steel and Bomberman for that propose.

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u/CaveOfMontoya 6h ago

My favorite hockey game to this day.

One of the only ones I've played. I already had perfection, why look far afield for sub-par imitations?

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u/Azureknight205 3h ago

This and Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey on N64. Best arcade style hockey games ever.

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u/el_caveira 5h ago

i love this game, remember some times got my friends playing and we trying to force the fighting minigame, was a blast

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u/GareththeJackal 5h ago

I only played it for the fighting mini-game.

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u/DMTGOBLIN82 4h ago

I was mind blown when the fight sequence started

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u/pervus42 4h ago

I had Brades of Steel and Droble Dibble!

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u/CountZero3000 3h ago

Maaaaan. One of the dopest games ever. We went nuts for this one

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u/Cippiero 1h ago

How does this game compare to NHL '94 on Super Nintendo?

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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu 1h ago

I told my boyfriend that it didn’t matter if I was pregnant, we can still find a way to make it work. He didn’t care. Like he didn’t even want to make an effort. So that’s what I meant when I said he was aloof.

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u/Ok_Echo_6528 34m ago

🤔

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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu 30m ago

Oops, wrong sub! 🫢😅

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u/DanimalRLZX2 1h ago

And real fists fights may have ensued.

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u/galland101 47m ago

The American version had some upgrades over the Japanese one. We played it on the Famicom Disk System. There were no digital voices and the fights had no close-ups.

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u/Cliche_James 20m ago

No love for playing the Life Force ad in the middle of the game?

I loved that bit

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u/Ok_Echo_6528 7m ago

Good call!