Play NHL Hockey '95 Online

Man, NHL Hockey '95 on Game Boy takes me back. The graphics are chunky and the sound effects are basically just beeps, but there's something weirdly satisfying about flicking pixelated pucks past a goalie who moves like he's stuck in molasses. You pick your team (obviously I always went for the Red Wings), and within seconds you're already in the middle of a breakaway—no menus, no fuss.

The controls are stupid simple: pass, shoot, and occasionally body-check someone into the boards so hard their sprite glitches for a second. It's not realistic by any stretch, but that's kind of the charm. You'll score way more goals than you would in real hockey, and the AI goalies have this hilarious habit of just freezing sometimes. Perfect for killing time on the bus or when you just want to zone out with some old-school hockey chaos.

Honestly, modern sports games stress me out with all their menus and microtransactions. This one? Pure, dumb fun from the second you power it on. Just don't expect to figure out what any of the pixelated players actually look like.