What platforms is NHL Hockey on?

NHL Hockey was released on Intellivision.

When did NHL Hockey release?

NHL Hockey was first released on December 31, 1979.

NHL Hockey

Dec 31, 1979SportIntellivision

NHL Hockey — frequently asked questions

What platforms is NHL Hockey on?: NHL Hockey was released on Intellivision.
When did NHL Hockey release?: NHL Hockey was first released on December 31, 1979.

About NHL Hockey

Licensed hockey game for the intellivision

Summary via IGDB.

NHL Hockey on Wikipedia

NHL Hockey is an ice hockey video game developed by Park Place Productions and published by Electronic Arts. Released in the summer of 1991 exclusively for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, the game allows one to two players to play action-oriented hockey matches that include events such as fighting, power plays, and penalties. Officially licensed by the National Hockey League, NHL Hockey features the teams from the 1990–91 NHL season. It was released in Europe as EA Hockey and in Japan as Professional Hockey, with country-based teams due to the lack of a worldwide league license.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

Game details

Platforms: Intellivision
Developer: APh Technological Consulting
Publisher: Mattel Electronics
Game modes: Multiplayer
Themes: Action, Non-fiction
Series: NHL

Details via IGDB.

Collector value & authenticity

Intellivision · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-10-20

Loose

Complete

Sealed

$31

Other releases and variants

Release	Loose	Complete	Sealed
Sold as "Hockey"	$28	$40	$60

How often it sells

Loose: about 6 times a year
Complete: about once a month
Sealed: about 2 times a year

Sales frequency from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, as of 2026-10-20.

Price over time

Loose
Complete

A loose copy sold for about $0.75 in Apr 2009, $8.49 five years ago, and $6.32 as of Oct 2026.

Show as table

Month	Loose	Complete
Jan 2010	$4.50	—
Jan 2011	$0.52	—
Jan 2012	$2.99	—
Jan 2013	$2.49	—
Jan 2014	$5.50	$8.99
Jan 2015	$2.49	$3.50
Jan 2016	$4.95	$6.15
Jan 2017	$3.95	$2.99
Jan 2018	$3.50	$6.60
Jan 2019	$3.79	$9.76
Jan 2020	$6.05	$7.10
Jan 2021	$3.97	$7.50
Jan 2022	$5.19	$11.21
Jan 2023	$8.48	$9.18
Jan 2024	$7.24	$11.99
Jan 2025	$6.66	$8.13
Jan 2026	$6.32	$13.46
Oct 2026	$6.32	$9.24

Monthly price estimates from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, sampled quarterly, through Oct 2026.

Release record

Territory	Product #
North America Mattel Electronics	1114
North America Sears (Tele-Games)	49 75204

North America: Product number confirmed by Mattel's own catalogue.
North America: Sears catalogue number, printed on the Sears Tele-Games box.

Source: Product numbers: each confirmed by the game's own manual, a publisher-prefix UPC that encodes it, a box scan, or INTV Funhouse's collector list where Mattel's own 1979–83 catalogues or manual order forms print the same number; barcodes from PriceCharting, check digits verified

Region: NA
Released: 1980
Players: 2 (two players required)
Authenticity: Low

Modern re-releases are not tracked for the IntellivisionLow look-alike risk

Intellivision prices, all games & how to spot a fake

A landmark early hockey game that is cramped and two-player only; buy it for the history and a friend.

NHL Hockey puts three skaters and a goalie on each side in an angled side view. A 1991 Video Games and Computer Entertainment retrospective described it as the first electronic hockey simulation drawn in that perspective. A 1992 look back from the same magazine called it something of a disappointment: with no scrolling, the action is compressed onto one screen, and it has no solitaire version. It added that people seemed to like it anyway.

That missing solo mode is the point to know before buying. The game is also known as Hockey, and INTV Corporation later made Slap Shot, which does have a computer opponent.

What the press said at the time

“Add a simple-to-use passing and shooting system, appealing visuals and appropriate sounds, and the result is a hockey buffs delight.”
— VIDEO (Arcade Alley), February 1981

“The computer controls the goalies, and it does an excellent job. The netminders will stop almost any simple shot except for a point-blank slapper.”
— Electronic Games, December 1981

Before you buy

Two players are required, so you need a second person and both controllers. Mattel's copies came with two keypad overlays. Copies sold as Hockey and the Sears Tele-Games release are listed as separate versions, and the Hockey-titled copies sell for noticeably more than the standard NHL Hockey box. For solo play, look at INTV's Slap Shot instead.