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NHL 97 - Sega Genesis (1996)
As you might be able to tell, I'm on a bit of a sports kick lately because I simply haven't shown much. Usually when you see a pile of these available to buy, you just automatically ignore them. That's completely understandable, but there was also a reason why these ended up forming mountains at EB Games. People bought them. People do be serious about their sports and they always have been. If anything, the passion for good sports titles back in the day fed into what made sports monopolies today. I'll expand on this through the videos, but for this one, I just want to focus on the legacy cartridge titles. The CD generation had been around long enough at this point making these pixeled games on old systems a bit odd. But was it? Not everyone loved the move to polygons and buddy feuds were often still fought on the 8/16-bit consoles. While this didn't advance much from the previous year, it did get the new roster in...so yeah. That's where that trend began. It makes a lot of sense, too. You have a game you like from 1994 and you want to update to the new roster, but you don't want the new system. Time to buy into a new system and maybe a new controller? Or buy the game for $5 more on a cartridge? Yeah, it was sometimes that close. Especially sports...they sold for way too much.
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