Fictional games Fictional games Anbo-Jitsu (also known as anbo-jytsu) as is a fictitious Japanese sport shown in Star Trek: The Next Generation. In it, two armored opponents facing each wear a solid visor, rendering them blind, and fight with a large staff. A proximity sensor is worn by each combatant, alerting them to their opponent's location with an audio signal. A protective cushion is worn on one arm and can be used to shield or deflect attacks. It is called "the ultimate martial art" in the context of the show, but all the required paraphernalia seems counter-intuitive to the very nature of most martial arts (which train the body and mind). ...more on Wikipedia about "Anbo-Jitsu"
Apopudobalia (a fictional sport) is the subject of a famous nihilartikel (a mild or humorous hoax in a reference work). Although no such sport actually existed, the German-language Der neue Pauly. Enzyklopaedie der Antike, edited by H. Cancik and H. Schneider, vol. 1 (Stuttgart, 1986, ISBN 3476014703) gives a deadpan description of it as an ancient Greco-Roman sport that anticipates modern football (soccer). The article goes on to cite suitably sparse documentation for the non-existent sport, and to assert that a Roman form of the game enjoyed a certain popularity amongst the Roman legions, and consequently spread throughout the Empire as far afield as Britain, "where the game enjoyed a revival in the 19th century." (It also notes that the game was frowned upon by some early Christian writers, such as Tertullian.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Apopudobalia"
Azad is a fictional game played in the Empire of Azad in the book The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks. The word Azad translates to mean "machine" or "system", but is applied in the Empire to any functional entity such as animals, plants or artificial machines. ...more on Wikipedia about "Azad"
BASEketball is a 1998 David Zucker comedy feature film starring Trey Parker and Matt Stone (the creators of South Park) and Dian Bachar. Robert Vaughn, Yasmine Bleeth, and Jenny McCarthy co-star. The movie follows the history of the sport (Created by Zucker years earlier) of the same name, from its invention by the lead characters as a game they could win against more athletic types, to its development as a nationwide league sport and a target of corporate sponsorship. ...more on Wikipedia about "BASEketball"
Blernsball is a game from the Futurama fictional universe. It is a "jazzed up" version of baseball, which was "as boring as mom and apple pie." Steroid injections are mandatory for all players. Leela was the first woman to play blernsball, but was only a gimmick to draw in fans. Players (at least those on the New New York Mets team) have fractions on their jerseys because all the natural numbers have been retired. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blernsball"
Blitzball is a fictitious, vaguely rugby-like sport played by characters in two games of the Final Fantasy video game series, Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2. It is heavily based on the Captain Tsubasa video game series. It is an underwater game, played in a large sphere of water. In the interest of sportsman-like conduct, even races of Spira who might normally not get along with each other are allowed to compete. It is Spira's favorite sport, allowing fans to take their minds off the ever present threat of Sin, and the only mainstream form of entertainment. Interestingly, many teams seem to be co-ed. Two of the game's main characters, Tidus and Wakka, are skilled blitzball players. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blitzball"
Brockian Ultra-Cricket, described as "a curious game which involved suddenly hitting people for no readily apparent reason and then running away", is a fictional sport from the novel Life, the Universe and Everything, written by Douglas Adams. The sport is first named in the first novel; the name comes from Jonny Brock, a friend of Adams's. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brockian Ultra-Cricket"
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Cripple Mr Onion was originally a fictional card game played by characters in Terry Pratchett's novels Wyrd Sisters and Witches Abroad. This was used by Dr Andrew Millard and Prof. Terry Tao as the basis for an actual card game. The complete rules and design of this game were posted on USENET around 1993. It contains elements of blackjack and poker. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cripple Mr Onion"
In the fictional Star Trek universe Dabo is a Ferengi game of skill and chance of which the rules are not exactly known. The game relies on the spinning of a "dabo wheel" similar to a roulette wheel. During various betting hands (similar to poker) each player either "buys" or "sells" or "converts" their gold-pressed latinum (money) in preparation for the next spin of the dabo wheel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dabo (Star Trek)"
The Degenatron is a fictional games console. It was first mentioned in the popular video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and again in its sequel Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Degenatron"
Double Fanucci (or just Fanucci) is a fictional card game in the Zork series of computer games, and the official national sport of Quendor. It is a joke game - the rules are designed to be extremely complicated, but even the rules that have been written down are always marked as "abridged". It is speculated that a complete rulebook for the game would be larger than the entire Encyclopedia Frobozzica. Thus it is described in the aforementioned encyclopedia as "a game of tremendous complexity and almost infinite rules" ** . ...more on Wikipedia about "Double Fanucci"
Fizzbin is a fictional playing-card game created by Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek episode " A Piece of the Action". ...more on Wikipedia about "Fizzbin"
Gobstones is one of the many magical games played by young wizards in the Harry Potter books, along with Wizard's chess and Exploding Snap. Gobstones is similar to the game of marbles played by non-magical persons, except that in Gobstones the balls shoot a foul smelling liquid in the face of the opposing player when they lose a point. Hogwarts students are seen playing Gobstones throughout the books, and there is even a Gobstones club at the school. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gobstones"
HackMaster is a role-playing game produced by Kenzer & Company. It started out as a fictional game, a parody of Dungeons & Dragons played by the characters of the Knights of the Dinner Table comic strip by Jolly R. Blackburn. The characters in the comic play HackMaster 3rd Edition, and it has been hinted the name of the game was changed for copyright reasons. ...more on Wikipedia about "HackMaster"
Hussade, a team game played throughout the Alastor Cluster, ‘a whorl of thirty thousand stars in an irregular volume twenty to thirty light-years in diameter’, long colonized by humans in a far-future age imagined in three novels by the American science-fiction writer Jack Vance. Play is most fully described in Trullion: Alastor 2262 (pub. 1973) where the game is an important element of the plot. It is also glancingly referred to in some of his ‘Gaean Reach’ novels, which may be presumed to take place in an adjacent region of space in about the same era. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hussade"
Illuminatus was a fictional computer game for the Atari ST computer platform, invented by the Finnish computer magazine MikroBitti as an April Fool's joke in 1989. ...more on Wikipedia about "Illuminatus (computer game)"
Interstellar Pig is a book by William Sleator, published in 1984. It's about a boy named Barney on vacation in a cottage. He's staying in a room where an insane person lived for twenty years, but it had been a pretty boring week until the neighbors came. ...more on Wikipedia about "Interstellar Pig"
Kadis-kot is a fictional board game in the Star Trek universe. It is played on a six-sided board with three sets of coloured stones. Visually the game appears to be a variant of Reversi or Othello. It appears to be a game of logic and strategy for 2 players but it may allow 3 players to play together. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kadis-kot"
Kill the Prez was a fictional computer game, seemingly for the Amiga computer platform, invented by the British home computer magazine Amiga Power. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kill the Prez"
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Kosho is a game or martial art conceived by Patrick McGoohan for the highly admired 1967 television series The Prisoner. The exact significance of the name is not clear, though 'Kosho' (which translates as 'old book, rare book' in online Japanese-English dictionaries) is apparently a word applied to certain ancient martial arts that were practised in secret at the time when karate was forbidden. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kosho (The Prisoner)"
(List of fictional electronic games) Duplicated in these subsections include: ...more on Wikipedia about "List of fictional electronic games"
This is a list of fictional games, that is games specifically created for works of fiction. Games such as Star Trek's three-dimensional chess or Discworld's Thud do not count as they existed as real games before their fictional appearances. (Although 3D chess did not exist exactly as portrayed in Star Trek and Thud was based on the Discworld novels, they both still had a real existence first). ...more on Wikipedia about "List of fictional games"
Mornington Crescent is a game of strategy created and popularized by the BBC Radio 4 programme I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Named after the Mornington Crescent tube station, it consists of moves between stations on the London Underground, the winner being the first to reach Mornington Crescent. The game's secretive, complex-sounding rules and dramatic manner of play are thought by some who are unfamiliar with the game's rules as being a parody of strategy games and the deep analysis in which their players engage. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mornington Crescent (game)"
Only You Can Save Mankind ( 1992) is the first novel in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy of children's books by Terry Pratchett. ...more on Wikipedia about "Only You Can Save Mankind"
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