NHL 99

NHL 99 is an ice hockey game developed by EA Canada and published by EA Sports, the successor to NHL 98. It features five game modes, eighteen international teams, commentary by Bill Clement and coaching strategies from Stanley Cup winner Marc Crawford, along with an updated 1998 roster that adds the expansion Nashville Predators.

This copy is the Original release under serial SLES-01445 and is catalogued for Italy and the Netherlands. It was issued on 1 October 1998 in a Full Jewel PAL case with a single disc. The game carries a multilingual selection of English, Finnish, French and Swedish, which reflects the way EA shared one pressing across several smaller territories rather than producing a separate version for each.

The EAN barcode for this variant is 5030935018035, which is useful when separating it from the UK, French, Swedish and Finnish copies that share the same serial. It is one of six NHL 99 variants catalogued on the site, and a good example of how a pan-regional PAL release can be identified through its barcode.