{"id":845,"date":"2012-09-01T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T12:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2012-09-04T18:15:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T18:15:44","slug":"my-top-100-95-blades-of-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"My Top 100: #95 – Blades of Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1988 – NES (Konami)<\/p><\/div>\n

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It’s perfectly fine to enjoy a game tremendously, while being pretty damn terrible at it at the same time.<\/p>\n

<\/em>On the surface, Blades of Steel <\/em>is your typical bare-bones hockey game.\u00a0 Choose your city, play against a differently-colored team, try to score goals.\u00a0 However, if you were to assume that’s all there was to it and never played it, you’d be missing out on one of the best sports titles to ever hit the NES.<\/p>\n

None of the teams are associated with their NHL counterparts, so you really only chose them for the colour of their jerseys.\u00a0 There was no competitive advantage to choosing\u00a0the yellow and red (Montreal) over\u00a0green (Edmonton), though I’m sure some seasoned veterans of the game would say otherwise.<\/p>\n

Moving the puck around was easy enough, but it was\u00a0bumping into other players\u00a0and causing an on-ice fracas that everyone loved doing.\u00a0 A heavily-digitized speech said “FIGHT!”, and the battle was on from there!\u00a0 “High punch!\u00a0 Low punch!\u00a0 Block!\u00a0 Watch your health you’re losin-awwww…”<\/p>\n

And with that, the winner of the fight picks up right where he left off, all while the loser is dragged off the ice and to the penalty box.\u00a0 Sweet justice!\u00a0 You could also trigger a Penalty Shot by fighting, but I so rarely managed to do that, that I’m not even sure how to do it!<\/p>\n

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