Talk:NHL 96

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Review: February 20, 2019. (Reviewed version).

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Did you know... that for NHL 96, the National Hockey League changed its stance on fighting in licensed hockey video games and allowed the feature as long as it occurred only once or twice per game?

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I removed the mention of the PlayStation and Saturn versions as they were consoles that only got NHL Powerplay '96 which is a game made by Virgin Interactive Salavat (talk) 08:59, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting... Artifact?

A message was left in the SNES version of the ROM directed at ROM hackers, offering potential jobs. Spinout182 (talk) 23:02, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Reviewer: DasallmächtigeJ (talk · contribs) 13:27, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I will give this one a look. Please note that while I am knowledgable on video games, I have zero to no knowledge about ice hockey as a sport. So I trust the nominator or other willing editors to help me out on questions related to the sport.

1. Is it well-written?

There is no need for the brackets in the gameplay section ("goalie" etc.), as everything explained in the brackets could be done in better style by simply linking the discussed topic, while most of it is self-explainatory anyways ("goalie"). Everything put in brackets has a Wikipedia article, yet almost none of it is linked. In general, the section should link all ice hockey related vocabulary to its related article.

Also, the gameplay section seems excessively detailed, especially the second paragraph. I am no expert on the sport of ice hockey, but it seems to me that the editor tried to explain actual ejection/penalty rules in great detail, whoever, this can be done in more brief fashion. In the first paragraph, I also have a feeling that it is a bit overly detailed as far as manoveurs are concerned. It is a hockey game, so the idea that you can pass/shoot is pretty much self-explainatory and mustn't be discussed in great detail.

I fail to comprehend how there can be 1.6 fights per game. Does that mean the second fight is aborted?

I would also lose the bracket (and effectively best hockey game of 1995, since the first-place winner was a football game), since the award does not specifically state that.

2. Is it verifiable with no original research?

Yes. Almost all sources consist of magazines and the game's manuals etc. However, with articles for games of that age that is not unusual. The article sources suficiently and aside from the (and effectively best hockey game of 1995, since the first-place winner was a football game) I cannot see original research here.

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

As I have detailed above, the gameplay section is too detailed in some regards.

What I miss in the article is information on sales. As the editor apparently has access to a great amount of contemporary magazines, would it be possible to attain information on units sold? If so, it should definetely be included.

4. Is it neutral?

Yes.

5. Is it stable?

Yes. Absolutely nothing is going to change here.

6. Is it illustrated?

Yes, sufficiently.

Conclusion

If the problems I see in the gameplay section are adressed, I see no reason why this article should not pass. I would do so myself, but as I said, I am no expert on the sport of ice hockey, so I would rather have somebody else do it. Also, please include sales if availiabe.--DasallmächtigeJ (talk) 14:02, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest, I'm really not a sports person either, so I suppose I overcompensated by going for what seemed to make sense for an article and writing for the benefit of readers who were just as clueless about hockey as I am. Plus, I figured at this point that detailing what commands the player is capable of was par for the course for video game articles in general. At the very least, the bracket issue has been taken care of and the detailing on penalties has been reduced and merged with the paragraph on fighting.

"1.6" was just the number given in the source, but if "one or two" makes more sense, I'm willing to make that amendment.

Unfortunately, my searches couldn't readily turn up anything in regards to precise sales figures. However, I do recall maybe one or two of those magazines featuring something resembling a sales/rentals chart, so if those are the closest thing that can be scrounged up, I could see about working something in. Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 21:29, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

hey there, thanks for working in the changes so quickly. As soon as you give me an update on whether you dug up some sales numbers, I‘ll pass the article.DasallmächtigeJ (talk) 22:04, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry to say that my latest search also came up dry. That "Blockbuster Hot Sheet" thing from GamePro was the best I could manage. Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 03:30, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, we did what we could. I will update the article‘s status now.-DasallmächtigeJ (talk) 08:02, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]