Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars

• Title — Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars • Developer — Atari Games (Genesis) Cygnus Multimedia Productions (SNES) • Publisher — Time Warner Interactive • Composer — Andy Armer • Released — December 1995 • Genre — Sports • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Platforms — Super NES, Genesis, MS-DOS

Players can play in exhibition mode, regular season mode, playoff mode, and even listen to stereotypical music of each nation in the sound test mode (country music for Canada, rock and roll music for Team USA, for example). In the Sega version, the players' names are formalized (Thomas instead of Tom, David instead of Dave, Steven instead of Steve, etc.). Players can also have the CPU play some or all of their regular season, but the computer will lose more games than win them so it's important to play as many games as possible manually. In addition to American cities corresponding to real NHL teams, the player can also play as international teams (Sweden, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Russia, United States and Canada). The game lacks the NHL license, meaning that teams are represented only by their corresponding city, rather than official name and logo. On default settings, teams do not feature their appropriate colors, but the game can be customized so that each team's uniforms resemble their NHL counterparts.

In late 1994, Time Warner Interactive signed hockey star Wayne Gretzky to a three-year deal for a line of signature video games. Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars was the first game to result from this deal, with Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey being the second. The original Genesis version was to be followed by versions for the SNES and PC. Cygnus Multimedia Productions, the company will go on to become Saffire, was hired to develop the SNES version of the game. An Atari Jaguar CD version was also in development and planned for a November 1995 release, but it was never published. Producer Mitzi McGilvray of Time Warner Interactive recounted: