Back when EA Sports wasn't a corrupt money hungry company. Back when they actually cared about their products and when the developers put their heart and soul into every game they made. This was my first NHL game on PC and it remains the best for me. The soundtrack, the menu, the sfx the ambience.. everything is awesome.

This was one of the best games I ever owned. I always bought games for PC back then because the game play and graphics and sound was so much better than anything else.

I used to stay up late on weekends in the summer and just let my team play against the cpu all night. Like I was watching my team play all through summer haha. Miss those days. Where the hell did 20 years go.....

This was a night where parents went to the movies, played all night. They came home late, and I "waited up for them." They went to bed exhausted, and I played till 2am. Had no controller either - all keyboard. My team was in fact the Whalers. Stacked team by the end of the season, when I went 82-0, 5 star rating on everything, Shanahan and Sanderson had 86 goals each, Cassels had 145 assists. Burke's GAA was something like 0.92. Fucking Jimmy Carson had 30 goals on the 4th line! I think I scored 550 goals every season on Expert mode. It became a joke, and I just grew out of it. Then 98 came along. That wasn't the greatest. Goofy music, weird menu layout, the line combos were vertical instead of horizontal. Then 99 hit, and that...THAT was THE game. Cheapest way to score was to slapshot from the point, rebound was picked up by a defender, and for some stupid reason, kept skating the puck backwards into their own net. What else....EVERY shot to the empty net was dead centre. Changing jersey numbers in the rosters was adventurous to say the least. I never played with offside - just took forfuckingever to finish a game. Music was masterful. I actually credit 97 with getting me into metal music at 14 years old.

Oh god NHL 97 for PC. This game blew my freaking mind when it came out. I played it all the freaking time! The commentary was amazing. The graphics were so far ahead of anything else at the time. Just great memories

I still remember clearly when i saw this game the first time. It looked so great i was in heaven.

This game was waaaaay ahead of it's time! The problem was, it was also way ahead of the technology, so it crashed all of the time... It even had player re-assignments and injuries during the pre-game warmups! EA learned to tone it back just a little bit and NHL 98 was a smooth beast. Three things I wish this video had though... 1) The intro. 2) The very best edit lines screen a game has ever had. 3) I wish a team was chosen that you could use the hidden button on to activate third jerseys! (I remember how excited I was when I was just goofing off one day and found it on accident)

Menu music was so awesome.

i loved the setup an match-up screens for this game. I remember one day I went through every players profile an trying to find matching birthdays lol. also they had a cool feature where you could see all goalie masks...Kolzigs 'zilla' mask an trevor kidds were the best lol

Who is watching this is 2019-2020 😂 now there is nhl 20 man time has changed!!

Oh to be 10 years old again. I freaking went crazy when commentary got added lol.

Can't belive the Blues didn't win a cup that year. That lineup is stacked.

I remember playing this game on Super Nintendo... lol such a difference

Such a classic game what a great. Got my Acer Aspire home system. 6k CAD btw.

Before the Great One signed with the Rangers that summer. The one & only EA NHL game with Gretzky as a St. Louis Blue!

Bring back the Hartford Whalers

wtf Craig MacTavish has a helmet on lol he was the last one to go without.

Best front-end in an NHL game ever. After this the PC version became a console clone, making managing your team take an ice age.

Incredible game. This music is a masterpiece. :}

Love it

Memories!!! Still the best hockey game to this day... Ea became a joke

This is the 90s I grew up on.

Man this takes me back :)

Loved this game. Played through the whole season as NYI but lost to Washington in the playoffs almost every time

i played this every day after school lol..

Nostalgia.

EA bringing back Anthems in NHL 23 marketing it as new feature lmao

The good ‘ol days of PC games!

That game was the shit :D had it for the PC playing it with the mouse... Left Button was for passing/poke checking, right button for shooting/ checking... :D Ps. Anyone remembering the highlight clips of the best Checks, Goals, Saves...? Or the Slideshow of the Goalie Masks?

the day's when a .66 mhz faster cpu cost 2x the price

The best front end ever

After this game i get an epilepsy in my childhood 😅

My friend and I always played Hurricanes vs. Red Wings. The computer would always stutter Kurt Maltby's name. Wesley on the Hurricanes had unfair speed!!!

Wow, played the shit out of this game on PC I remember that menu music. I also remember the game looking much more realistic lol. Always picked the Sabres

Click on the team banner at control setup and it unlocks 3rd jersey for that team if they had them.

Ohhh awesome! I miss the opening and pré game starting lineup design ans show :) #MyFirstHockeyGameEver

Way too many fans are ignoring the "No flash photography" rule lol

Hartford’s Creatures - November 14, 1993

That’s robbery !

I remember it was pretty difficult to score. That's why I enjoyed it :-) I remember the menu and sounds and stuff too :-) Too bad NHL 98 got a lot worse then (10 or more goals in a game). IMHO, NHL 97 had the best goalie AI or whatever, AFAIR.

Great game but this one crashed too often during a game so that was very annoying playing a season ...

Damn what a soundtrack

RIP Brad McCrimmon

Even in NHL 19 they dont have the anthem

The game was so much fun, and the music kicked so much ass..

I love the commentators voice.

I don't remember it glitching like that 😂

I wanna this organ musics... How can I get it? I've got this game, but I can't install on win10.

omg this is all i used to do

how did you get this game to run a modern PC? Thought it was not compatible with newer windows versions?

wow.. NHL with out a Roster update you had to do it all by yourself.lol.. that really sucked. lol..

Wow that is fkn bad