Retro Chel Thread

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Fun fact: Coleco Canada is what lead to the creation Coleco's gaming industry.

They manufactured tabletop hockey games throughout the 1970s and when the pong/tennis/racquet sport video game craze hit Coleco relized there would be a niche market for electronic hockey.

The Coleco Telestar launched as the original Chel station because hockey was the featured game. This is the reason the telestar did so well in Canada over the other pong clones. The coleco name was already well known and it was a Christmas tradition to play tabetop hockey after unwrapping the presnents.

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>>3584807

Besides rod hockey they also made handheld hockey. These were dreadful.

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Hockey, eh???

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>>3584813

haha I forgot that even existed.

My uncle swears pic related is the greatest hockey game ever made. It was 2-on-2 and felt like street hockey. I sucked at it though as a kid.

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>>3584819

Also if you wear this patch in a small town bar in Canada you may have middle aged men offering to buy you a beer.

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Blades of steel in the arcade still had the best control layout of all time. Just look at it...

Fight button was the biggest button and we wore it out at my arcade.

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Loved it as a kid. It can be very disorienting at first, but you get used to.

>>3584840

You are right about the disorientating part.

The mode 7 on the SNES was used on a few sports games but I wasn't a fan. It looked pretty for it's time but it was harder to follow the action and keep an eye on other players.

I only rented that one and never got used to it. Maybe if I owned it the game would have warmed on me, but around that time there it was goign head to head with EA at their peak.

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>>3584807
Hey, I remember that stuff!

>>3584819
Nah this game is awesome and is god tier with two players

>>3584850
I still think it looks appealing on a CRT where it isn't all heavily pixelated. It's also very impressive coming from a 4th gen console.

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Huh thought my buddies came up with the chel name. Smartest thing those drunk stoners ever did. Now I know it's all a lie.

Anyways here was my favorite.

>>3584807
Aw cool, I would love one of these. I have a strong niche interest in tabletop sports games.

>>3584957

Stanley cup hockey, nice choice my fellow Canigger

>>3584957
>Huh thought my buddies came up with the chel name

"Chel" entered Canadian slang back in the 90s.

>tuck the chelstation under the couch. Babes hate chel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z27mv43jT8w

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One of my happiest childhood memories was when the zamboni song played in this game.

Something about Nintendo and their comfy and uplifting music.

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>player who loses the fight goes to the penalty box

This is what makes retro hockey games so charming.

Oddly enough "Hit the ice" was a hockey game built around fighting where the losing player did not go to the penalty box. They just got weaker and sluggish after losing a fight.

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>>3585069
>Aw cool, I would love one of these. I have a strong niche interest in tabletop sports games.

I worked at an arcade in 1995. We had Killer instinct, the latest MK, etc and modern driving games but pic related milked more quarters out of people than any other game.

It was an ancient machine too, but these arcade bubble hockey games printed money like you would not believe.

>>3585169
why are the zamboni guys wearing masks

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>>3585234

There are a lot of "why" questions when it comes to NES ice hockey. It is an odd little game but very charming.

>>3585220
Not the anon you were talking to, but I believe it. I still try to grab someone into playing a game if I see one of these things, and even if I fail, I STILL idly spin the controls just for the feel...and then position everyone like they're in a real hockey match.
...Fuck, now I want to hunt one down.

>>3585316

The Super Chexx machines hold their value very well, and the company still makes the same machine today that they made in 1983.

New machine is $2500-$3000. Used ones are about $1000-$1500 but they have refresh kits (new ice, new players, new gears, etc) plus you can swap to other teams. People buy them to customize for their favorite NHL or world/olympic hockey rivalry.

A lot of high end man caves have these now.

https://www.icechexx.com/

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severely underrated, imho.

>>3586228

Wasn't this just NBA jam, but with hockey players?

Same "big head code" and everything?

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>>3586228
It doesn't help that the only console port was really awful

Also surprised no one posted pic related yet

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Blades of steel for the original gameboy. I know there's console versions but playing this on the super gameboy was the tits

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Not an official NHL game. Sega 2k2 really held up...aged well

>>3585220
tabletop sports enthusiast back and posting again, I love these things. I'll always play a game if I find one and have someone to play it with. I also really love those 'launch a ball off of a ramp' mechanical baseball games, and this one old basketball game I once played where two players pressed buttons to trigger air cannons, which pushed the ball around and (hopefully) into the opponent's hoop.

>>3585383
I can't afford that but I would get that for an office space.

I'm also a big fan of the lego soccer/football and basketball games, oddly I never played Lego Hockey but I bet I would enjoy it.

One of these days I'll have to play subutteo as well.

>>3586228
Looks swell.

>>3586624
Always seem to be pleasantly surprised by GB sports games. I never expect something like NBA Jam or F1 Race to be fun on GB, but then I'm proven wrong. Not as good as console counterparts maybe, but still pretty fun.

I'd really flip my lid if NBA Jam supported the 4-player adapter. My bet is that it was too far from relevancy to get a chance of being compatible though.

>>3585383

Other tabletop anon here, thanks. I did look up some prices on Amazon, and like the other, I can't quite justify buying one of those. But the want still burns...

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Under appreciated, really ugly, but overall greatest NES chel game - Wayne Gretzky Hockey

>>3585383
I want a Super Chexx with one team Minnesota Wild and the other team the defunct Minnesota North Stars

>>3586413
More or less, yeah. Outside of EA's games from that period, i don't think any other 2D hockey game comes close to matching the speed/physicality of the sport quite like this one.

>>3586453
hmmmm, I haven't played the PlayStation port, but I will take your word for it.

>>3585241
I'm not even a hockey fan, but Ice Hockey is a fucking awesome NES game.

>Chel Station

so would the dudebro who only buys a console for Madden football call it the MadStation? or the FellStation?

>>3587086

I dunno how it works. Madden was just madden, but NHL was Chel.

what are the best hockey games for PS1 and N64?

>>3588625
For the Nintendo 64, probably NHL 99 or Midway's Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey

For the PlayStation, NHL 2000 (EA) or Fox NHL Championship 2000 (v.underappreciated)