NHLPA Hockey '93

NHLPA Hockey '93 is a Mega Drive/Genesis and SNES ice hockey game developed by Park Place Productions and published by Electronic Arts Sports Network. It is the second installment of the NHL series and the first to be released on SNES.

Features

Included is a single-game exhibition mode and a playoff mode (single-elimination or best-of-7), wherein the winner collects a trophy similar to the Stanley Cup.

Unlike NHL Hockey, NHLPA Hockey has a license from the NHLPA, but not the NHL. The game includes mostly complete rosters and all 24 teams from the 1991-92 NHL season, including the expansion Tampa Bay Lightning and Ottawa Senators. Because the game lacks an NHL license, no team names are present in the game, and teams are identified by their team colours and location (for example, blue and orange is Long Island for the New York Islanders).

The Sega Mega Drive/Genesis version also included EEPROM battery saving, which allowed one to save lines and the ongoing Playoff, rather than use passwords as in the Super Nintendo version.

NHLPA

NHLPA is an initialism for:

Both games have only an official license by the NHLPA and have all the players represented in their respective seasons (former: 1992-93; latter: 1995-96), and have NHLPA in the title.

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