Bill Willett, writing for his "Atari Arcade" column in the June 1982 issue of Computer Gaming World, called Hockey "a delight to play".

[4] Later that year, also in CGW, Allen Doum stated: The graphics are of the kind that leave George Plimpton flat.

[3]The reviewers in the 1983 book The Creative Atari called the game, "almost fast, never furious, and generally fun".

In Electronic Games, Bill Kunkel wrote: In any case, Gamma's version misses the level of realism attained in Activision's programmable version for the VCS, by quite a bit.

Due to the lack of space, the sport's primary characteristic, speed, is obliterated.