Blades of Steel, later released in Japan as Konamic Ice Hockey (コナミック アイスホッケー, Konamikku Aisu Hokkē), is an ice hockey video game released by Konami for North American arcades in 1987, and ported to the Family Computer Disk System and Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988.

The NES version was re-released on Nintendo's Virtual Console service on December 24, 2007.

The arcade version was re-released on Microsoft's Game Room service on November 24, 2010.

[2] The two players will stop skating and engage in pre-fight confrontation where they are able to exchange punches if they choose.

[2] If the score is tied at the end of the game, a shoot out (similar to a penalty shot) is used to determine the winner.

The arcade version has a greater variety of sound bites and commentary owing to the hardware's better speech faculties and extra memory.

[citation needed] Blades of Steel differs from the professional game in the NHL in the late 1980s in that it has no offside rule, and its interpretation of penalties does not correspond to the rules of real ice hockey.

Players who lose a fistfight are penalized for two minutes, an abstract reworking of the five-minute offsetting majors normally assigned in the event of a fight.

Should a fight break out in front of one team's net, then the player on offense gets a penalty shot.

Marcel van Duyn of Nintendo Life opined that the game has aged fairly well compared to other Konami sports titles on the NES such as Double Dribble.

[5] Dan Whitehead of Eurogamer was more critical of the game, stating that "The graphics aren't particularly good, even by 1987 NES standards, with the same model repeated over and over for the players, and some garish colour combinations are used to tell the teams apart.