In 2006, it was re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console service in Japan, North America, and some PAL regions.

The objective for both teams is to hit a black puck with a hockey stick into the opponent's goal.

For the PAL versions, Nintendo removed Japan from the team roster and included Sweden instead.

The PAL team lineup is thus: the United States (USA), Sweden (SWE), Czechoslovakia (TCH), Canada (CAN), Poland (POL), and the Soviet Union (URS).

Mark Bozon praised it for being the most addictive of Nintendo's early sports titles, commenting that it was in his NES as often as Super Mario Bros. 3 was.

[8] Aaron Thomas of GameSpot also commended the Virtual Console re-release for being "one of those rare NES sports games that's almost as much fun to play today as it was when it was released.