BLADES OF STEEL‼️
Blades of Steel, later released in Japan as Konamic Ice Hockey (コナミック アイスホッケー, Konamikku Aisu Hokkē), is an ice hockey video game released by Konami for North American arcades in 1987, and ported to the Family Computer Disk System and Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988. All teams are fictional but based out of real Canadian and American cities. The game is known for its fast-paced hockey action and especially for the fighting. It is a one or two player game. When playing against the computer, there are three difficulty levels to choose from: Junior, College, and Pro (with Pro being the most difficult and Junior being the easiest). Each team consists of three forwards, two defencemen, and a goaltender.
Blades of Steel
PAL NES cover art
Developer(s)
Konami
Novotrade (C64, Amiga, MS-DOS)
Publisher(s)
Konami
Programmer(s)
Shigeharu Umezaki
Composer(s)
Shinya Sakamoto, Kazuki Muraoka, Atsushi Fujio, Kiyohiro Sada (Famicom Disk System/NES)
Hidehiro Funauchi, Akiko Ito (Game Boy)
Platform(s)
Arcade, Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Family Computer Disk System, Game Boy, NES
Release
Arcade
NA: October 1987
Famicom Disk System
JP: July 22, 1988
NES
NA: December 1988
PAL: November 23, 1990
C64
NA: 1990
MS-DOS
NA: 1990
Amiga
NA: 1990
Game Boy
NA: August 1991
EU: 1991
JP: November 27, 1992
Genre(s)
Sports
Mode(s)
Single-player, multiplayer