As it was this took a lot of persuading before it ran in Windows 95, needing the latest Matrox drivers, yet at least six other DirectX games have worked without problems with my previous drivers. DirectX and Windows 95 seem to have something against ice hockey games - witness the problems with Virgin's NHL Powerplay '96. NHL '97 comes with both MS-DOS and Windows 95 (DirectX) versions on one CD. The manual was somewhat lacking on this subject and I don't think I was ever certain what icing was until reading the NHL '97 manual! As I only ever played the PC version I can't comment definitively, but I spent many enjoyable hours playing it, despite at the time having never really seen ice hockey being played or really knowing the rules. It was said at the time by some that the PC version was inferior in gameplay terms to the Megadrive original. This was around three years ago and it featured one almost top-down forced perspective viewpoint and VGA graphics. The first NHL Hockey was a hugely popular game on the Sega Megadrive and was converted some months later to the PC. Judging from past EA Sports titles, I had high hopes for NHL '97 .

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