An Updated Arcade Hockey Game Could Fill A Niche On Nintendo Switch That game is 2019's Super Blood Hockey, which, with its pixel art graphics and simplistic gameplay, seems to largely serve as an ultra-violent tribute to the aforementioned Ice Hockey. Though it does have a franchise mode, common in games like NHL Hockey, its storyline based around recruiting a team of prison inmates set on murdering opposing players might be a little too off-kilter for hockey purists. When searching the Nintendo Switch eShop for hockey, there is somehow still only one relevant result, now over four years into the console's lifespan.

Related: FIFA 21 & NHL 21 Are Coming To EA Play & Xbox Game Pass Soon And while this game is a charming classic, it doesn't have much to offer in the way of depth or - since it's over three decades old - graphics. Using the Nintendo Switch Online service, players can access the NES library of early Nintendo games, which includes the original Ice Hockey from 1988. If Switch users want some ice hockey action, they really only have one option: go retro. Unfortunately, the one sport that has been mostly lacking on the platform is hockey. Nintendo has even added some noteworthy additions to the genre themselves, in the form of Mario Tennis Aces and the forthcoming Mario Golf: Super Rush.

There are baseball games like RBI Baseball and Super Mega Baseball, basketball games like NBA 2K Playgrounds 2, football games like Mutant Football League, and soccer games like Super Soccer Blast. While the Nintendo Switch isn't really known as a platform for realistic sports games, it does have a great variety of arcade-style, competitive games.

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