The game of Ice Hockey is one of the only pre-NHL series hockey games that is worthwhile. Like most Nintendo games, its simplicity is key. Early in video game history it seems that the more simple a game is the better chance it has at being entertaining.

The game has few options, the most important being that you are able to choose which style of players you want on your team. Your choices are between: a slow, hard-checking and slapshooting fat guy, a skinny, fast, and weak guy, and then a piece of trash guy who is average in all categories and really can't do crap. The only other option you really have in the game is to pick your team. You can choose between a few different countries, but really all this does is change your team's color. Its kind of dissapointing that the U.S. is sky blue and not the high quality color scheme they used in the '80 miracle on ice.