List of fictional games
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This is a list of fictional games, that is games which were specifically created for works of fiction, or which otherwise originated in fiction.
Many fictional games have been "translated" to the real world by fans or ludophiles by creating pieces and rules to fit the descriptions given in the source work. For example, unofficial versions of Fizzbin can be found in reality, and Mornington Crescent is widely played in online forums.
Billiards games[edit]
- Dom-Jot - Star Trek: The Next Generation, a game similar to bumper pool played on an irregularly-shaped table
Board games[edit]
- Awkward - Robot Chicken
- Azad - a tactical game featured in the novel The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
- Cyvasse - a strategy game in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, which appears to be a combination of Chess and Battleship[3]
- Dejarik or Holochess - a variant of chess played in the Star Wars setting[3]
- Icehouse - The Empty City by Andrew Looney; an example of a fictional game that now exists as a real-world one
- Jetan - a chess-like strategy game from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel The Chessmen of Mars
- Jumanji - from the book and movie of the same name
- Kadis-kot - a board game first seen in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Endgame"
- Pai Sho - a strategy game first seen in the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "The Desert" (S2E11)[3]
- Stars and Comets - in Andre Norton novels
- Stealth Chess - a chess variant played in the Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild, in which pieces move invisibly; Discworld
- Tadek - a strategy game in the Farscape episode "The Flax" that involves building holographic columns while pushing game pieces around a board; the game can be used for gambling[3]
- Three-Dimensional Chess - a strategy game first seen in the Star Trek episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before", later developed into a real game
- Thud - a chess-like game of Trolls and Dwarves appearing in Terry Pratchett's novel of the same name
- Zathura - from the book and movie of the same name[4]
Card games[edit]
- Cripple Mr Onion - Discworld (fan rules have been created, but are not official, and use ordinary playing cards rather than a Discworld "Caroc" deck)[3]
- Dragon Poker - the MythAdventures books by Robert Asprin
- Fizzbin - Star Trek[3]
- Tongo - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine TV series
- Triad - Battlestar Galactica (2004 series)[3]
Role-playing games[edit]
- HackMaster and its many spinoffs - Knights of the Dinner Table
Sports[edit]
Athletic sports[edit]
- Assassin's Guild Wall Game - " a cross between squash, urban rock climbing and actual bodily harm", Discworld (named after the Eton Wall Game)
- Indoor hang gliding - Geoff Maltby in the television series Benidorm claims to be North West champion of it
- Lifting - popular extreme sport, similar to surfing, but in the air; practitioners ride "reflection boards" on waves of "Transparence Light Particles"; from anime/manga series Eureka Seven
- Taking the Stone - in Farscape, a game played by the youth of an unnamed royal cemetery planet. The game consists of jumping into a deep well, and chanting while falling. A sonic net at the bottom of the well, sustained by the participants' voices, cushions their fall. When the youth reach the age of 22 cycles, rather than grow old and be deformed by the planet's radiation, they stop chanting part way into the leap and die against the rocks. This death is called Taking the Stone.
Combat sports[edit]
- Anbo-Jitsu - Star Trek: The Next Generation, a one-on-one martial arts combat sport wherein the players are blindfolded and use proximity-detector staves to locate the opponent
- Ape Fighting - from Futurama, a fighting sport involving two apes (typically gorillas) engaging in pugilistic combat while adorned with comically-undersized costumes and props
- The Running Man - from The Running Man, the titular television show features convicted criminals fighting for their lives (and pardons) in an arena while being hunted down by professional celebrity mercenaries called "stalkers", presented in the same vein as theme-based pro-wrestlers
Team ball sports[edit]
- 43-Man Squamish - fictional college sport from Mad Magazine
- BASEketball - from the movie of the same name
- Blernsball - 30th-century version of baseball, Futurama, called the "Earthican Pastime"
- Blitzball - Final Fantasy X, a soccer-like game played in a massive sphere of water, also a game created by Phineas in the novel A Separate Peace
- Brockian Ultra-Cricket - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a strangely-violent field sport that involves people "hitting each other with sticks and then running away for no readily-apparent reason", the result of a race memory of a war with an ancient and evil alien race thousands of years ago
- Calvinball - a game where there are only two rules: players must wear masks, and you can never play the same way twice; Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
- HyperBlade - an ultraviolent variant of ice hockey played on an ellipsoidal rink with either a puck or a severed head, from the PC game of the same name
- Moopsball - team sport created by Gary Cohn in Rules for Moopsball (1976), referenced in Legion of Superheroes and in Gene Wolfe's There Are Doors
- Quidditch - Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, a team sport with four balls and seven players on each team who ride around on broomsticks
- Quodpot - Quidditch Through the Ages by J. K. Rowling
- Speedball - futuristic and violent mix of handball and hockey featured in the cyberpunk inspired games of the same name
Non-team ball sports[edit]
- Electro-Magnetic Golf - from Brave New World
- Escalator Squash - from Brave New World
- Igo Soccer - the participants have to do figures with some pebbles and a ball, sport from the Japanese shõnen Nichijō
- Gonnis - A combination of golf and tennis featured in the BBC comedy series Look Around You, a parody of science and technology programming.
Other sports[edit]
- Apopudobalia - encyclopedia fictitious entry
- Bungee Ball - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward
- Futuresport - from the movie of the same name
- German batball - from Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan
- Guyball - ball game played by Green Wing's Dr Guy Secretan.
- Hadaul - from Jack Vance's Demon Princes book The Face
- Hussade - from Jack Vance's Alastor series
- Jugger - the movie The Blood of Heroes
- The Game - From Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept series of novels; includes almost all known games and competitions; winners of the yearly Tourney get to become Citizens
- The Long Walk - from a Richard Bachman/Stephen King book of the same name
- Motorball - from the Battle Angel Alita manga
- Parrises Squares - an athletic, full-contact sport in Star Trek
- Podracing - violent vehicular racing sport from Star Wars wherein the pilots of "pods" - massive, twin-engined hover vehicles - participate in a high-tech version of chariot racing
- Rollerball - from William Harrison's story "Roller Ball Murder", on which the movie Rollerball was loosely based
- Sky-surfing - appearing in numerous Judge Dredd stories
- Transcontinental Road Race - Death Race 2000
Video games[edit]
- Space Paranoids - an arcade game created by Kevin Flynn and featured in Tron
- "The Game" - a head-mounted virtual reality game in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Game" (S5E06)[5]
- Global Thermonuclear War - a military simulation program mistaken for a computer game in WarGames (1983)[6]
- OASIS - a virtual world and MMORPG featured in Ready Player One by Ernest Cline[7]
Other games[edit]
- Chula - in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Move Along Home"[8]
- The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse's novel of the same name
- Mornington Crescent - I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue radio comedy programme
- Poohsticks - Winnie-the-Pooh
- Quis - a building game from the Saga of the Skolian Empire novels by Catherine Asaro involving the laying down of geometric solid shapes (dice) in various combinations; rules contain encoded knowledge of one of the former empires in the novel series
- Sej – a dicing game played in Serpent's Reach
- True American - in New Girl, a game that is 50% drinking, 50% Candy Land, and also the floor is lava
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, British Library
- ↑ Tracy, Larissa (2012), "The Real Price of the Beheading Game in SGGK and Malory", Heads Will Roll: Decapitation in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination, BRILL, pp. 207–232, ISBN 9789004211551
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Whitbrook, James. "12 Games from Science Fiction and Fantasy we'd love Real versions of". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2019-05-26.
- ↑ Entertainment, Larry Evans 2005-10-28T10:54:00Z. "Zathura: A Cosmic Adventure Worth Taking". Space.com. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
- ↑ Anders, Charlie Jane. "10 Suckiest Video Games People Play In Science Fiction". io9. Retrieved 2019-05-26.
- ↑ "'Wargames' tale of computer evil mushrooms into top entertainment - Newspapers.com". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
- ↑ Fink, Charlie. "The OASIS In 'Ready Player One' Runs On Speed And Storage". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
- ↑ Bricken, Rob. "Star Trek: DS9 played the most dangerously idiotic game in the galaxy". io9. Retrieved 2019-05-26.
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