One of the best moments when tearing open a newly bought/borrowed/rented game back then was watching the intro. I love how the video is low-res, it just makes it period-correct.
Back in day, you didn't even have to play an actual game yet to get totally pumped up... All you had to do was watch the intro and you were set! Why in Gods name did EA Sports find the need to drop these? This and the NHL 98 intro were BEAST! If they added something like this to the new gen games, I'd have a bloody sportsgasim!
I don't know why EA stopped doing these awesome intros, watching Jonathan Toews skate up an empty rink and shooting a wrister past Jonas Hiller really isn't all that exciting.
@TheCanadianPrairies Yeah, those were always a laugh. CuJo banking the puck off the boards to clear it and it goes through the opposing goalies pads = priceless.
NHL 04 wasn't bad. had a pretty good soundtrack. anything Pre-1996 was good. but yeah, The new games aren't about the fun parts of hockey, more about the technical parts...but why leave fun stuff out of video games...when they're supposed to be fun?
@creautz08 well i dk about intro wise but i liked 2005 as a kid and for nhl 2012 there bringing back goaly fights and glass breaking and stuff it should be amazing
This video brings back old good memories when NHL hockey was at it's pinacle. Nowdays, NHL hockey is played in a more "robotic fashion," In other words, the NHL has lost it's sense of excitement.
Yeah, especially AFTER the whistle was blown, because the rest of the team would come after you, and then you get a right mosh-pit on your hands, which was sometimes more fun than the fights themselves. Haven't seen another NHL game that was quite as fun as this one. -It's all about graphics and realism these days (alright for some, I guess). I'd still have this game, and would still play it if I didn't move to Canada - the PS2 was a different format.
Propably the best intro , ever. Just shows how great the nhl was in the 90s. 2000 was good at the time , and 2004 was by far the best from the old ones but got to say 2010 is the real deal. I love how hockey the game is 09 was just too scoring fest with very limited defensive play, very nhl i think. But 10 is almost perfect as in real hockey defence cant be forgotten...
anybody knows whose were the songs in the soundtrack of this game??
I know it has Garbage (push it), Gearwhore (accelerator), Uberzone (dokta dokta) and Rinocerose (la guitarristic house organisation). but the game has one more song...
NHL 99 and 00 is 2 of the best NHL games ever. after NHL 2003 all the NHL games became the same only a couple of minor adjustments. not anything impressing
This game is beast!
JorDAMZ 4 weeks ago
I wish I could play this game on my computer, I still have the CD. Also this game has an amazing intro.
TheJuggerking 1 month ago
One of the best moments when tearing open a newly bought/borrowed/rented game back then was watching the intro. I love how the video is low-res, it just makes it period-correct.
miguelitogg 1 month ago
I fapped
Caztor84 1 month ago
Back in day, you didn't even have to play an actual game yet to get totally pumped up... All you had to do was watch the intro and you were set! Why in Gods name did EA Sports find the need to drop these? This and the NHL 98 intro were BEAST! If they added something like this to the new gen games, I'd have a bloody sportsgasim!
jimbodiced 2 months ago
@jimbodiced
I remember being very very young and this game, this intro really made me go in awe for hockey. This game for my childhood was and is THE SHIT.
dasdasdus 1 week ago
i LOVE THIS INTRO, it was from this one i found the song.
lpedy 2 months ago
i would trade in all my video games just to play this game for an hour, this game was the best!!!
zonkedforlife2 3 months ago
best intro in any sports game
PainStation3 4 months ago
12 years later it's still the best intro to any EA Sports game.
leftcoaster67 4 months ago
best intro for an nhl game ever
TheUnforgiven90 5 months ago
Back in my day, intros to NHL games were fucking awesome. God I've missed this...
54295662134 5 months ago
its tom fitzgerald who slides across the boards:)
MGrass07 6 months ago
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MGrass07 6 months ago
this just show how much better the league was before 2006!
youhoglin 7 months ago
:58 that guy was flying forever!! WHAT A HIT!!
NationalPro 8 months ago
thumbs up if you used to watch the intro for this game and in the new games you just skip to the main menu
buffalobillsarethebe 8 months ago 31
My both thumbs hurts again!
deiwi 8 months ago
These were the best games ever
goblew14 9 months ago
greaat video, so many memories (first game i have played on my pc :( ) I was soo happy to see this intro...
laufke 10 months ago
lol funny that they used the canuck goal horn at the end.....
ovywan08 11 months ago
0:58 I will never forget.. :)
ThomasKometak 11 months ago
@ThomasKometak pardon me asking,but who was that? it never really crossed my mind lol
waterlizardz123 9 months ago
0:18 the guy is looking at you with no pupils :O
JOEY3687 1 year ago
sometimes i just had to watch the intro twice before i played the game. AWESOME INTRO...and what a great game...and i just love that song!
Zet88DK 1 year ago
Man i still remember that save at 0:50
th3pwnsh0p 1 year ago
i would watch this shit when i was like 6 years old before a hockey game to get me pumped up
dirtydizmo 1 year ago
Best intro ever!!
metalli12 1 year ago 3
where i can get crack for nhl 2000
Dariusjat 1 year ago
i was the 100nd like´er
hasuuda4 1 year ago
memories...great stuff
ChiSoxJoe 1 year ago
0:57 seconds.... BEAST.
eggburner123 1 year ago
I don't know why EA stopped doing these awesome intros, watching Jonathan Toews skate up an empty rink and shooting a wrister past Jonas Hiller really isn't all that exciting.
SkinnyBlueKid 1 year ago 2
@SkinnyBlueKid I've been saying it for years, EA needs to bring back the live action intros with awesome rock music
TAG037 1 year ago
Am I the only one who watched one old intro and had to watch a bunch of the other old ones after? Greatest fcking memories with this shit.
plaspp 1 year ago 2
I remember this! Played it often. Had a goalie score a goal once. I was like 'ololol"
TheCanadianPrairies 1 year ago
@TheCanadianPrairies Yeah, those were always a laugh. CuJo banking the puck off the boards to clear it and it goes through the opposing goalies pads = priceless.
AvsJoe 1 year ago
best into ever
PainStation3 1 year ago
gooooooosehumps!!!!!
yaaaaaaa05 1 year ago 2
quality is awesome thanks brings memories
Dariusjat 1 year ago 3
I never was very good at this game, maybe because I was eight years old...
But the reason why I never stopped playing it was this intro =)
blackbetti92 1 year ago
They never did top this intro, and I've never really enjoyed an NHL game since.
koncorde 1 year ago 2
Can't believe this game is 10 years old.
St8Solja 1 year ago 3
lots of games played w/ friends during exam time in uni :)
killeragy 1 year ago
this game made me fall in love with hockey i had it for my pc man i wish i could find it
CBEaglesTopfan 1 year ago
best nhl intro! it psyches you up to play the game!
luyong300 1 year ago 2
that hit that made the nashville player slide across the top of the boards :59 was sickk
futurnhler9 1 year ago 4
Best NHL intro song
Maranello05 1 year ago
I think this is the best nhl game intro ever! and the song is amazing!
jonees17 1 year ago
flashback, thank you for this awesome video , best NHL & intro ever
serosoft 1 year ago
Best NHL intro ever. I thought 99 was good but this blew it away :P Never again did they hit the mark like this!
Vonstadt 1 year ago
I so remember seeing this into! I always loved the song!
PaintTheSilence1 1 year ago
vintage
dispoasbleheroes 1 year ago
NHL 98 was pretty good intro
lolwut71 1 year ago
awsome goal at 1:09 holy crap lol almost an impossible goal!
pilotmic89 1 year ago
at :59 that guy went flying for like an hour!!!! omgg!!
NationalPro 1 year ago
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this one is pretty good but 2002 is better.
clubpenguinmanyak 1 year ago
false
tidusfan1287 1 year ago
to you mabey
clubpenguinmanyak 1 year ago
nhl 99 and 00 is the BEST: anyone disagree? the rest is shit
creautz08 2 years ago 68
NHL 04 wasn't bad. had a pretty good soundtrack. anything Pre-1996 was good. but yeah, The new games aren't about the fun parts of hockey, more about the technical parts...but why leave fun stuff out of video games...when they're supposed to be fun?
DrPhilMusic 1 year ago
same with NBA Live and FIFA 99
borisbrakalov 1 year ago
@creautz08 No I don't agree, NHL 97 is the best.
MacMivu 1 year ago
@creautz08 can't forget about NHL 98 as well
TAG037 1 year ago
@creautz08 i've just installed NHL 2000 again, gonna so play it again
lpedy 1 year ago
@creautz08 the rest are, but NHL 98 is also good, infact i think nhl 98 was when nhl really started to get good
JOEY3687 11 months ago
@creautz08 well i dk about intro wise but i liked 2005 as a kid and for nhl 2012 there bringing back goaly fights and glass breaking and stuff it should be amazing
LBJordan1 7 months ago
@creautz08 nhl 98 is beast 2!
Slipknot5301 5 months ago
This video brings back old good memories when NHL hockey was at it's pinacle. Nowdays, NHL hockey is played in a more "robotic fashion," In other words, the NHL has lost it's sense of excitement.
KSWA21 2 years ago
Best times! love it
AaronWhiteWinter 2 years ago
I remember when we all play that game... When nobody crying about graphics and reality :) !
eshg44 2 years ago 6
0:58 Bench grind, 4x points Multiplier
RaDa67 2 years ago 5
my thoughts exact!
grandpamoe1 1 year ago
Using big hits in this game was SO addictive!! No doubt the best game I've ever played!!
GarthBeatty 2 years ago
@GarthBeatty...
Yeah, especially AFTER the whistle was blown, because the rest of the team would come after you, and then you get a right mosh-pit on your hands, which was sometimes more fun than the fights themselves. Haven't seen another NHL game that was quite as fun as this one. -It's all about graphics and realism these days (alright for some, I guess). I'd still have this game, and would still play it if I didn't move to Canada - the PS2 was a different format.
Pilot177013 2 years ago
remember the intro like I played it yesterday.. I was like 10 at the time lol
cracktober 2 years ago 6
Propably the best intro , ever. Just shows how great the nhl was in the 90s. 2000 was good at the time , and 2004 was by far the best from the old ones but got to say 2010 is the real deal. I love how hockey the game is 09 was just too scoring fest with very limited defensive play, very nhl i think. But 10 is almost perfect as in real hockey defence cant be forgotten...
Kekkon3n 2 years ago
i remember this... :D good times! :D
cjcj0001 2 years ago 3
patrick roy crease slide...still gives me goosebumps after all these years
legere14 2 years ago 2
Best intro ever for the best hockey game ever.
Sisound 2 years ago 4
This intro just came to my mind - and I remember it as one of the best game intros - great video/audio timing - especially with the slide of 0:59.
Great hockey game!
NelleP2110 2 years ago
great intro!
anybody knows whose were the songs in the soundtrack of this game??
I know it has Garbage (push it), Gearwhore (accelerator), Uberzone (dokta dokta) and Rinocerose (la guitarristic house organisation). but the game has one more song...
graveler181 2 years ago
if anybody knows who slid on the boards at 0:59 tell me please
Mrhockey3031 2 years ago
NHL 99 and 00 is 2 of the best NHL games ever. after NHL 2003 all the NHL games became the same only a couple of minor adjustments. not anything impressing
part3thia 2 years ago
Have you played 09 on Xbox360? I think it's way entertaining.
personM4N 2 years ago
No. 04 is the best nhl game ever. After 04 they have been bad
MglsVnGigls 2 years ago
2003
legere14 2 years ago
thanks for uploading. this brings back soo many memories
XxStylz 2 years ago
oh yea, oh yea. I always watched this intro and I still remember some plays and goals :) That was the best NHL-game.
maturystyka 2 years ago
This was my first NHL game what I got on playstation.. memories...
umpisuoli87 2 years ago
can you get this version of the song?
mwkickflip 2 years ago
great vid and great intro
CThockey9 2 years ago
Best NHL Intro Ever !!!!!!!!!
TheThree9Tray 2 years ago 57
agreed
Doomsdy 2 years ago
it really is!
goPre16 2 years ago
i know lol
this video makes me wanna play hockey
everytime i watch it :)
TheThree9Tray 2 years ago
This and 98
maurikoira07 2 years ago
@TheThree9Tray Yes!!!
Deidarafani11 10 months ago
THIS SONG IS AWESOME! I didn't remember it was in the game... I was like 6 when I played this on ps1...
maurikoira07 2 years ago
at 0:59!!! awesome!
Jdub14000 2 years ago
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Gowolves95 2 years ago
nhl 99 was 10 times better especially the intro.
Gowolves95 2 years ago
best NHL game
nowadays NHL games suck. NHL2004-2009 is the same crap
jaernkaminable 2 years ago
good times good times
sirmonty18 2 years ago
i miss this game was the best
dumptrailer66 2 years ago
The best NHL 2000 by EA. ;-) You must try it!
HammyCZeE 2 years ago
memories...my first PS game...
Callisto3131 2 years ago
my first PC game
Junkyjames23 2 years ago
this game is Legen.... wait for it ...dary xD
ilunnas 2 years ago
whoooooooooaaaaa... old old memories... i shmashed my joystick into the wall when i lost a match:D this intro is so amazing<3<3
yaaaaaaa05 2 years ago
are you kidding me with 0:58?? That's sick!
senorpachangaz 2 years ago
What do u mean? That Pavel Bure s goal or forthcoming along a board slide?
Callisto3131 2 years ago
I meant the slide. That was awesome.
senorpachangaz 2 years ago
it was... :D
Callisto3131 2 years ago
i still have it.
lots of memories.
this is what made me fall in love with video games
triniranger91 2 years ago 26
I have it too!
As games box and it was also one of my first PC games with NHL 99 and Half-Life.
blubb123123123 2 years ago 12
yeah i think this was my first game too when computers were getting popular
triniranger91 2 years ago
this video brings so many memories i´ll have to go and buy this game cause i lost the old one:(
tepee1 2 years ago 3
needs more Leafs
georgenoory 2 years ago
@georgenoory yea totally, I swear I only saw Cujo in there. but thats ok Cujo was great.
waterlizardz123 9 months ago
i've always loved it
TheHellraiser 3 years ago 10
Yes, you are right one of the best Intros of the NHL Series!
bashahansifrei 3 years ago 2
Don't forget the awesome Song Push It :) !
blubb123123123 3 years ago 4
yes. very good song.
acideos 2 years ago