Great Ice Hockey
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System(s): Sega Master System | ||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Sega | ||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Sega | ||||||||||||||||||||
Peripherals supported: Sports Pad | ||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Sports (ice hockey) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1-2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Great Ice Hockey (グレートアイスホッケー) is an ice hockey game for the Sega Master System. It requires the Sports Pad in order to function correctly.
In Japan, Great Ice Hockey was only released as a competition prize; 1,000 copies being offered for those who had purchased Phantasy Star. Customers were to mail in their Phantasy Star barcodes to Sega on the back of a postcard, with the chance of winning both Great Ice Hockey and a Sports Pad. The older Sports Pad's incompatibility with the Sega Mark III meant that until the release of Sports Pad Soccer and the redesigned Sports Pad in November 1988, Great Ice Hockey was technically a Master System exclusive.
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Gameplay
The game is an ice hockey game using an overhead perspective and a horizontally oriented rink. The game requires the use of the Sports Pad, which gives players fine-grained, analogue control using a trackball; it does not function properly using a standard control pad. The rink has three segments, and the game pauses momentarily to pan over to a different segment when a player with the puck skates over to it. A scoreboard is shown on the side of the screen behind the goal (but it is not shown when in the middle segment of the rink).
There are eight teams, representing different countries (though only the USA is playable in one-player games). Teams consist of six players plus a goalkeeper. Games are three periods long, and players can choose the length of each period (3, 5, or 10 minutes). In the event of a tie in a one-player game, the computer wins by default; in a two-player game, the players play an overtime period with no time limit where the first team to score wins the game.
From the title screen, a one-player game can be started by pressing on a Sports Pad plugged into the first controller port, with two difficulty levels for the computer team (Junior and Senior). A two-player game can be started by pressing
on a Sports Pad plugged into the second controller port. The game requires two Sports Pads to play a two-player game. Players are prompted to choose a difficulty level in two-player games, but it has no effect.
Teams
In one-player games, the player can only play as the United States and can choose any other country as an opponent. Each country increases in difficulty (with Poland being the easiest and the Soviet Union being the hardest).
In two-player games, either player can choose any country (but must choose different countries).
United States (USA)
Poland (POL)
West Germany (FRG)
Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Finland (FIN)
Canada (CAN)
Sweden (SWE)
Soviet Union (URS)
Hints
US hints 2 (with Great Baseball and Rocky)
Magazine articles
- Main article: Great Ice Hockey/Magazine articles.
Physical scans
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Based on 4 reviews |
Technical information
ROM dump status
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128kB | Cartridge (JP/US) |
References
Great Ice Hockey | |
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Main page | Magazine articles | Reception |
Games in the Great sports series |
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Soccer (1985) | Baseball (1985) | Tennis (1985) | Golf (1986) | Ice Hockey (1986) | Baseball (1987) | Basketball (1987) | Volleyball (1987) | Football (1987) | Golf (1987) |
Ice Hockey games published by Sega | |
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Champion Ice Hockey (1985) | Great Ice Hockey (1986) | Slap Shot (1990) | Mario Lemieux Hockey (1991) | |
NHL All-Star Hockey Series | |
NHL All-Star Hockey '95 (1995) | NHL All-Star Hockey (Game Gear) (1995) | NHL All-Star Hockey (1995) | NHL All-Star Hockey 98 (1997) | |
NHL 2K Series | |
NHL 2K (1999) | NHL 2K2 (2002) | NHL 2K3 (2002) | ESPN NHL Hockey (2003) | ESPN NHL 2K5 (2004) |
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