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Blades of Steel
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Item Condition
Game only: the cartridge in a protective holder, no box or manual. The photos are our own, taken from our stock of this game — look them over for condition, packaging and details. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
"Blades of Steel!" That digitized shout at the title screen was a jaw-dropper in 1988, and Konami's hockey game backs it up with some of the fastest, most physical sports action on the NES. Adapted from Konami's 1987 arcade game, it skips the fine print of real hockey, with no offside rule and only a couple of penalty types, and goes straight for speed, big hits and the thing everyone remembers: the fights.
Bump the same opponent three times in a row and the gloves can come off. The game cuts to a one-on-one bout where each player can punch or block high or low, and the loser heads to the penalty box while the winner skates free. Add digitized voice calls like "Faceoff" and "Fight," which were rare on the NES, and the whole thing has an arcade energy few sports games of the era could match.
Eight teams represent hockey cities of the day, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Minnesota, and you can play an exhibition or a playoff-style tournament for the Cup, against a friend or against the computer at Junior, College or Pro difficulty. Tied games go to a shootout. Konami even slipped a surprise into the intermissions: a playable little space-shooter break that nods to Gradius.
Blades of Steel is one of the defining sports games of the NES, a two-player rivalry machine that still settles arguments on the couch, and the hockey cartridge that best captures Konami's 8-bit golden age.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1988
- Publisher
- Konami
- Genre
- Sports
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer
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Blades of SteelC · Collector Grade
$9.99
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NES
Blades of SteelC · Collector Grade
$9.99
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