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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.

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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

  • Dom-jot - Star Trek: The Next Generation, a game similar to bumper pool played on an octagonal table
  • Grav-Pool - Red Dwarf
  • Intergalactic Bar Billiards - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a game played by cosmic entities using planets as billiard balls, trying to "pocket" them into black holes
  • Pond - Discworld
  • Quantum Pool - Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod
  • Shuggy - Judge Dredd

    • Board games

  • 110th Congress the Game - Last Call with Carson Daly
  • Angela's Ashes the Game - MADtv
  • Awkward - Robot Chicken
  • Azad - the novel The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
  • Battleboat - a parody of Battleship - The Simpsons
  • Cabbage - a parody of cribbage on Green Acres
  • Castles - a board game similar to chess in The Dark Tower fantasy series by Stephen King
  • Chardee MacDennis - a board game made up of every other board game and named after the leads on It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
  • Christian Clue - The Simpsons
  • Citizenship - The Simpsons
  • Clam Traffic Jam - "Grift of the Magi" episode of The Simpsons
  • Cobra Pult - Homestar Runner
  • The Colonizers of Malaar - 30 Rock
  • Color Wheel Roulette Stupid Home Edition! - Homestar Runner
  • Command Board - Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
  • Connect Three - a parody of Connect Four on American Dad!
  • The Cones of Dunshire - board game designed by the character Ben Wyatt in Parks and Recreation
  • Congress: The Home Game - The Daily Show
  • Counter-Feet - Magyk board game played in the Septimus Heap series
  • Coupling - "Bed Time" episode of Coupling
  • Crapple - "The Five Diamonds (aka A Hard Act to Follow)" episode of Stroker and Hoop
  • Crazy Chase - The Whitest Kids U' Know, described as "the only board game with literally one thousand dice"
  • Cyvasse - George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series
  • Dejarik or Holochess - chess played in Star Wars
  • Dodj or Daar- from The Amazing World of Gumball (pronounced "Dodge Or Dare")
  • Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence - Ren and Stimpy
  • Dotcomopoly - from the "Dotcomopoly!" article by Dave Itzkoff in the February 2001 issue of Maxim magazine
  • Double Cranko - a game made up by Hawkeye Pierce and B.J. Hunnicutt on the TV series M*A*S*H, combining checkers, chess, poker and gin rummy
  • Dungeon Dice Monsters - Yu-Gi-Oh!
  • Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons - similar to Dungeons & Dragons; Gravity Falls
  • The Dutchman's Treasure Hunt - SpongeBob SquarePants
  • Edna Krabappoly - a fictionalized version of Monopoly; The Simpsons
  • Eels and Escalators - similar to Snakes and Ladders; SpongeBob SquarePants animated TV series
  • Energy-Shortage Game - The Simpsons
  • Euthanasia - a parody of The Game of Life concerned with controlling the pet population; Robot Chicken animated TV series
  • Exclusive Possession - a fictionalized version of Monopoly; Discworld
  • Foreclosure - Aqua Teen Hunger Force
  • Frontgammon - The Simpsons
  • Gallipolopoly - a fictionalized version of Monopoly; The Simpsons
  • Game The Game - Kirby Buckets Warped
  • The Game of County Seats - "Grift of the Magi" episode of The Simpsons
  • The Game of Fencing - The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
  • The Game of Lent - parody of The Game of Life; The Simpsons
  • Gayle Force Winds - Bob's Burgers
  • Goblin's Teeth - Who's Afraid of Beowulf? by Tom Holt
  • Good Samaritan - The Simpsons
  • Grand Theft Auto: The Board Game - Mad TV
  • Gringo - Mad magazine; board is a combination parody of Monopoly and Scrabble
  • Guess Whom? - American Dad!; parody of Guess Who?
  • Hippo in the House - The Simpsons
  • Hot Monogamy - Family Guy
  • Hungry, Hungry Oprahs - The Man Show; redesigned Hungry Hungry Hippos game with the hippos replaced by Oprah Winfreys
  • Icehouse - The Empty City by Andrew Looney; an example of a fictional game that now exists as a real-world one
  • Immigrants out - MadTV
  • It's Not Jackie Chan - Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job
  • Interstellar Pig - in the novel of the same name by William Sleator
  • 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
  • Jurvy-Skat - Homestar Runner
  • Kadis-kot - Star Trek: Voyager
  • Kaissa - a chess-like game described in John Norman's (Dr. John Lange) World of Gor
  • Klin Zha - Klingon game from the Star Trek novel The Final Reflection; not considered part of the current canon
  • Klunk - Smallville
  • Lab Rats - episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; a pseudo-Clue game
  • Land Baron - a fictionalised version of Monopoly; DC Comics
  • Lakeside Boggle - The Simpsons
  • LIVING - parody of LIFE; South Park
  • Logos - "Bad Words" episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; a pseudo-Scrabble game
  • Mamba - a supernatural board game from the film Open Graves
  • Manopoly - a parody of Monopoly; For Better or For Worse
  • Marshgammon - from How I Met Your Mother episode Game Night
  • Mazes and Monsters - from Mazes and Monsters (film)
  • Misery Date - mentioned on Ren and Stimpy; a parody of Mystery Date
  • Monopolyopoly - mentioned on The Colbert Report, a game where every square is a different version of Monopoly
  • Monotony - a parody of Monopoly; Green Acres TV series; also mentioned on Ren and Stimpy
  • Mouse Catch - a parody of Mouse Trap; The Simpsons
  • Mystery Guy - a parody of Mystery Date; The Simpsons
  • Neurosis - Rugrats
  • No Mo Homos - MadTV
  • Not Sorry! - The Colbert Report
  • Nuke 'Em - RoboCop
  • Organ Harvest - Aqua Teen Hunger Force
  • Pai Sho - Avatar: The Last Airbender
  • Personality Chess - from The Tar-Aiym Krang, by Alan Dean Foster
  • Po'Nopoly - a fictionalized version of Monopoly; Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
  • Prosfair - a game from Blood Blockade Battlefront inspired by chess; the game is so difficult and complex that it drives most humans insane and can cause internal bleeding if played for extended periods of time
  • Purecheesi - Ren and Stimpy; parody of Parcheesi
  • Quintet - Quintet
  • Rasta-Monopoly - a fictionalized version of Monopoly; The Simpsons
  • Ravenous, Ravenous Rhinos - The Simpsons; thinly disguised version of Hungry Hungry Hippos
  • Rai-Net Access Battlers - Steins;Gate, based on the German-made game Geister! die guten und die bösen
  • Research Lab - The Big Bang Theory
  • Regicide - a strategy game within the Warhammer 40,000 background, particularly in Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn series; seems to be similar to chess
  • Rockopoly - The Flintstones' version of Monopoly
  • Rice-a-Roni - MADtv
  • The Running Man home game - The Running Man
  • Satan's Path - The Simpsons
  • The Social Ladder Board Game - Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld
  • Scot Free - board game based on the Kennedy assassination, The Kentucky Fried Movie
  • Scrabbleship - a combination of Scrabble and Battleship; a game Lisa claims makes no sense; The Simpsons
  • Scrabble YG - a version of Scrabble with only Ys and Gs; Jimmy Kimmel Live!
  • Scrapple - a parody of Scrabble; American Dad! TV series.
  • Scribble - a parody of Scrabble; Green Acres TV series; also mentioned on Ren and Stimpy
  • Sha'rah - from The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan; a strategy game involving the capture and manipulation of The Fisher, a neutral piece
  • Shop 'Til You Cook - Mash Up
  • Slides and Stepstools - a parody of Snakes and Ladders; American Dad! TV series.
  • Snakes and Foxes - The Wheel of Time; checkers-like game with both colors having different rules. Similarly to Tic-Tac-Toe the game is impossible to win when played with two competent players, unless one of them cheats. It is revealed to be a parable for dealing with the snake-like Eelfinn and fox-like Aelfinn.
  • 'Snoops & Ladders - Jimmy Kimmel Live!
  • Spank the Monkey - Rocko's Modern Life
  • Stars and Comets - in Andre Norton novels
  • Starchase - in C. J. Cherryh's novel Cyteen
  • Satan's Path - The Simpsons
  • Starving Starving Rhinos - a Hungry Hungry Hippos; American Dad! TV series.
  • Stealth Chess - chess variant played in the Assassins' Guild, in which pieces move invisibly; Discworld
  • Stone the Sinners - MADtv
  • Stones - probably Go, from The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan; known as "no'ri" in the Age of Legends
  • Surgeon - an Operation clone; House
  • Super Twister - Son of the Mask
  • Swisster - a Twister parody made of Swiss cheese; MAD TV series
  • Syria! - The Daily Show
  • Tadek - a game in Farscape that involves building holographic columns while pushing game pieces around a board, as in chess; the game can be used for gambling
  • Tcheran - from The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan; mentioned only once, as a popular game in the Age of Legends
  • THE SHOW! Stupid Home Edition! - Homestar Runner
  • Three Cornered Pitney - Mad magazine
  • Through The Woods - The Family Circus
  • Throws - The White Rose novel by Glen Cook: "Throws was essentially four-player checkers. The board was four times the usual size. Players played from each side. An element of chance was added by throwing a die before each move. If a player’s throw came up six, he could move any combination of pieces six moves. Checkers rules generally applied, except that a jump could be declined."
  • Thud - a chess-like game of Trolls and Dwarves appearing in Terry Pratchett's novel of the same name
  • Tom Sizemore's life - Family Guy
  • Tool Time - Home Improvement
  • Tower of Cows - Arthur
  • Travel-Up - Starship, novel by Brian W. Aldiss (1958) (Non-Stop in British editions)
  • Tri-Dimensional Chess - first seen on Star Trek, later developed into a real game
  • Two Decades of Dignity - Family Guy episode "Petarded"
  • Vivisection - Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories - an Operation-like game where the player dissects real rats
  • Vlet - a strategic sort of game involving a complex landscape board, small figurines, rolls of dice and card draws to determine fates and outcomes, etc.; the novel Triton
  • Waterloo - Psychonauts
  • Welfare - MadTV; a parody of Monopoly
  • What Could Go Wrong?: The Game' - Gravity Falls; a parody of Jumanji
  • White Trash Clue - Saturday Night Live's version of Clue
  • Who Killed Who? - The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy; parody of Clue
  • Wizard Chess - Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling; played exactly the same as real chess, with the exception of the fact the pieces move when given voice commands
  • Whoopsie! - Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything
  • Zaggle! The Fun Phonics Game - from the "Missing School" installment of the webcomic Perry Bible Fellowship
  • Zathura - from the book and movie of the same name
  • Zuffstaffle Geese Fighters - Computer Gaming World

    • Card games

  • 5-Card Air War - the webcomic Erfworld by Rob Balder
  • Arcomage - the Might and Magic series
  • Alliances - Beggar's Banquet (1997, ISBN 0-441-00434-2 ), by Daniel Hood
  • Beastmaker - The Seventh Tower series by Garth Nix
  • Bluff - The Game-Players of Titan by Philip K. Dick
  • Cabbage - a parody of cribbage; Green Acres TV series
  • Caravan - Fallout: New Vegas
  • Card Wars - Adventure Time
  • Carousel Hazard - Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
  • Crabbage - a parody of cribbage; File 13
  • Cripple Mr Onion - Discworld (fan rules have been created, but are not official, and use ordinary playing cards rather than a Discworld "Caroc" deck)
  • Cups - game invented by Chandler as an excuse to give money to Joey - Friends TV series
  • Damage - the Iain Banks novel Consider Phlebas
  • Diamondback - Cerebus by Dave Sim
  • Dos - a parody of UNO; File 13
  • Double Fanucci - Zork computer game
  • Dragon Poker - the MythAdventures books by Robert Asprin
  • Duel Monsters - Yu-Gi-Oh!
  • Exploding Snap - Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
  • Fizzbin - Star Trek
  • Fortune's Tower - Fable 2
  • Go Johnny Go Go Go Go - The League of Gentlemen
  • Gwent - The Witcher 3, a CCG wherein the player chooses themed cards based on one of the factions of that world
  • Hokey Monsters - a parody of the Pokémon Trading Card Game in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy episode "It's Hokey Mon!"
  • Mystic Warlords of Ka'a - fantasy card game from The Big Bang Theory; Sheldon and Raj compete in a Mystic Warlords of Ka'a tournament against Sheldon's "arch nemesis" Wil Wheaton in the episode "The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary"; it is now a virtual online CCG playable via Facebook
  • Mystic The Summoning - fantasy card game from Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything; Conner competes in a Mystic The Summoning tournament against The Rainmaker in the episode "The Penpal"
  • Pazaak - Star Wars; played in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
  • Pontoon Bridge - played in The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard; the name is a pun
  • Pyramid - Battlestar Galactica (1978series)
  • Sabacc - Star Wars; a card game that is associated with high-stakes gambling
  • Speed Card Game - a card game featured in the game Xenogears
  • Sphere Break - Final Fantasy X-2 video game
  • Tall Card - a card game played in the TV series Firefly
  • Tegwar - Bang the Drum Slowly (the novel by Mark Harris, also a film); it is a game basically designed to separate a sucker from his cash. The letters stand for "The Exciting Game Without Any Rules." When the characters in the film play the game, they appear to be making things up as they go along.
  • Tetra Master - a card game in Final Fantasy IX played with cards depicting monsters and characters from the game. It was eventually produced as a real collectible card game in Europe, but made its first appearance as a fictional game.
  • Tongo - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine TV series
  • Tonk - The Black Company series by Glen Cook
  • Tragic: The Garnering - a parody of Magic: The Gathering; Fallout 2
  • Triad - Battlestar Galactica (2004 series)
  • Triple Triad - a collectible card game in Final Fantasy VIII, played with cards depicting monsters and characters from the game
  • Vaccination - a constantly-evolving card game invented by some of the characters in Anne Tyler's novel The Accidental Tourist
  • Watch Me - a card game in The Dark Tower fantasy series by Stephen King
  • Whis - a card game in Tales of Eternia, played with cards depicting the five elements
  • Wicked Grace - Dragon Age
  • Zanabas/Zanabatars/Zinta - Power Rangers; an unnamed poker like card game played with circular cards that feature various colored geometric shapes; possible names for the game are from the hands called

    • Role-playing games

  • Apartments and Accountants - parallel universe version of Dungeons and Dragons; Simon the Sorcerer
  • Battlin' Bakeries - a "roll-playing" game; What's New with Phil & Dixie
  • Black Dog - a parody of White Wolf, a popular role-playing game within the universe it is based on; World of Darkness
  • BURPS, the 'Boring Universal RolePlaying System' (plus the BURPS Blue Collar worldbook and the supplements BURPS Mundane Tech, BURPS Itty Bitty Bestiary, and BURPS Folks) - Roleplayer #23
  • Coin Toss Dungeon - What's New with Phil & Dixie
  • Castles and Cauldrons - Adventures in Odyssey
  • Demons and Dragons - Quantum Leap
  • Druid's Pursuit - Eyes of Prey by John Sandford
  • Dungeon of Soap - What's New with Phil & Dixie
  • Dungeons & Dinobonoids - The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
  • Dungeons & Discourse - Dresden Codak
  • Dungeons & Dungeons - Zork
  • Dungeons, Dungeons, & More Dungeons - Gravity Falls
  • Dwarflord: The Conquest - Lizzie McGuire
  • Fairies & Unicorns - Dexter's Lab
  • Escape From C'thulu - What's New with Phil & Dixie
  • Eternal Sphere - Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
  • Gettysburg - Eyes of Prey by John Sandford
  • Goryhawk - a parody of Greyhawk;Dork Tower
  • HackMaster (and its many spinoffs) - Knights of the Dinner Table
  • Hobby Shop of Doom - What's New with Phil & Dixie
  • Home & Hearth - What's New with Phil & Dixie
  • Loot & Wank VIII - Grand Theft Auto IV
  • Mage: The Ascription - a parody of Mage: The Ascension; Dork Tower
  • Papers and Paychecks - the RPG played in the Dungeons and Dragons universe; players pretend to be "workers and students in an industrialized and technological society"
  • Mazes and Monsters - novel/TV movie of the same name
  • Monster World - Yu-Gi-Oh!
  • Ol' Quadim - a parody of Al-Qadim; Dork Tower
  • Painscape - a parody of Planescape; Dork Tower
  • Pixie: The Stomping - a parody of Changeling: The Dreaming; - Dork Tower
  • Realm of Darthon - Regular Show
  • Sword of Sorcery TripTank
  • Vampire: The Groveling - a parody of Vampire: The Masquerade; Dork Tower
  • Vegetable Wars - What's New with Phil & Dixie
  • Warhamster - a parody of Warhammer; Dork Tower
  • Werewolf: The Apothecary - a parody of Werewolf: The Apocalypse; Dork Tower
  • Wizards and Warlocks - The Greatest American Hero
  • Wizards and Warlords - The Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes
  • Wizards & Warriors - DC Comics

    • Athletic Sports

  • 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

  • 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
  • Baskiceball - from How I Met Your Mother, a game that consist mainly of "wailing on each other" with no real rules
  • B'tduz - a game in which two dwarfs stand a few feet apart and throw rocks at each other's heads; Discworld
  • Pro Bending - Avatar: The Legend of Korra , a football/soccer/MMA hybrid game wherein two teams - each composed of a waterbender, an earthbender, and a firebender - utilize their respective elements in combat to push the other team back and take territory on an elevated, six-sector, hexagonal field in a best-of-three-falls match. Players try to knock each other back or off the end of the field into the water pit below, and the team that wins two rounds or else achieves a "knockout" - wherein all three members of the other team are knocked off the platform in a single round - wins the match.
  • 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
  • Ultimate Robot Fighting - "Raging Bender" episode of Futurama, a 31st Century version of pro-wrestling in that it is done moreso for show than competition, but where the combatants can suffer horrific damage and even destruction, as they are robots and do not fear mortality

    • Team Ball Sports

  • 12 Ball - a game similar to four player ping pong but plays on a table shaped like a + with a player standing at each point and wielding two double ended paddles a hand that comes out of the middle serves the ball then periodically ads more the longer there is no score until there are 12 in play. The Wizards of Waverly Place
  • 43-Man Squamish - fictional college sport from Mad Magazine
  • Aargrooha - Troll football, traditionally played with a human head, Discworld
  • Aeroball - futuristic version of basketball played with jet packs in the 2000 AD strip Harlem Heroes
  • Aerocrosse - variable-gravity game featuring elements of lacrosse, from Orbital Resonance by John Barnes
  • Airball - Avatar: The Last Airbender, a game played by airbender monks who use their art to steer a hollow, slotted ball across a field of upright posts to get it into the goal without falling from the posts
  • Australian Indoor Rules Quiddich - a game created by webcomic MacHall
  • Big Ball - from the Chowder episode of the same name;the full name of the sport is actually "Field Tournament Style Up and Down on the Ground Manja Flanja Blanja Banja Ishka Bibble-Babble Flabble Doma Roma Floma Boma Jingle Jangle Every Angle Bricka Bracka Flacka Stacka Two Ton Re-Run Free For All Big Ball"
  • Blatasmorkian Baseball - from Quack Pack; a foreign version of baseball with sausages for bats and cabbages for balls; other equipment includes goats, accordions and chickens
  • Blernsball - 30th-century version of baseball, Futurama, called the "Earthican Pastime"
  • Blitz – a futuristic, full-contact extreme sport hybrid of hockey and basketball played with a flying disc from the 2002 video game Deathrow
  • 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
  • Blood Bowl - a fictional form of football from the tabletop wargame of the same name
  • 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
  • Crossball - a tennis-like game from The Vorkosigan Saga
  • Deathball - a giant ball maze game played in Futurama
  • Eggboard - a team sport invented by Dada artist Jean Arp, in which both teams leave the field of play
  • Exy - the Lacrosse variant from the All for The Game series by Nora Sakavic
  • Farnarkeling - created by John Clarke, in the 1980s Australian TV comedy show The Gillies Report; played on a field called a grommet in periods called umlauts, with players 'warbling vigorously' with 'the bevelled orb'; Dave Sorensen was 'the hope of Australian farnarkeling'
  • Fennel - cricket style game 'reported' in the spoof newspaper The St Cleve Chronicle and Linwell Advertiser which forms the LP cover for rock group Jethro Tull's 1972 concept album Thick as a Brick
  • Fightball - the basketballish game played by the gangs in the Fightball card game
  • Five Bar Gate - a game reminiscent of both squash and ice hockey from the comic book Cerebus
  • Goblin Football - from Goblins of the Labyrinth by Terry Jones and Brian Froud; the object is to eat the ball, which is made difficult by the fact that the ball is several feet in diameter and made of solid teak
  • Gravball - mentioned by Spartan John-117 in the novel Halo: The Fall of Reach
  • Grifball - Red vs. Blue
  • Hockey Z-9 - "For Your Ice Only" episode of Phineas and Ferb
  • 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
  • Laserball - from the movie The Fifth Element
  • 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
  • Pyramid - a rugby/basketball-hybrid ball game played on a pyramid-shaped court in the new Battlestar Galactica series
  • Quantum soccer - Greg Egan's Border Guards
  • 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
  • Real Foosball - I Am Weasel
  • Slaughterball - a violent bloodsport wherein 2-4 teams of genetically engineered super-athletes clash in a remorseless steel pit and score points by injuring opponents and shooting goals, from the Slaughterball board game set in the world of the cyberpunk novel Dead Dwarves Don’t Dance
  • Triad - a contact sport with elements of football and basketball from Battlestar Galactica (1978 series)

    • Non-Team Ball Sports

  • Croquet using flamingos as mallets - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • Electro-Magnetic Golf - from Brave New World
  • Escalator Squash - from Brave New World
  • Fire Ball - game invented by Chandler and Joey - Friends TV series
  • Fizzball - involves hitting beer cans with bats or other sticks, with no points or competitive elements, popularized in Sam & Max comics
  • Igo Soccer - the participants have to do figures with some pebbles and a ball, sport from the Japanese shõnen Nichijō

    • Other Sports

  • Akilini - Bionicle
  • Apopudobalia - encyclopedia fictitious entry
  • BASEketball - from the movie of the same name
  • Bungee Ball - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward
  • Buttball - a sport made up by the Game Grumps during a play session of Dennis the Menace, described as the future's most popular sport
  • Centrifugal Bumblepuppy - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Eschaton - the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
  • Flonkerton - created by Jim in the Office episode "Office Olympics"
  • Football X-7 - "My Fair Goalie" episode of Phineas and Ferb
  • Frungy - played by the Zoq-Fot-Pik in Star Control II
  • 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
  • Ja'La dh Jin - from Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth series
  • Jiggly Ball - Scrubs' "My Jiggly Ball" episode
  • Jugger - the movie The Blood of Heroes
  • Kasaba ball - the show Jungle Cubs in the episode "Kasaba Ball"
  • Killball - referenced several times in the book The Running Man, but not described much
  • Kolhii - from Lego's Bionicle franchise
  • Koli - Bionicle, a soccer-like predecessor to Kolhii
  • Kosho - the TV series The Prisoner
  • 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
  • The Maze (or Glide) - from The Maze Game by Diana Reed Slattery
  • Motorball - from the Battle Angel Alita manga
  • Nib - an exceedingly violent sport mentioned in the Starship Titanic novel and computer game
  • Obstacle Golf - Brave New World
  • 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
  • Pro Thunderball - Upright Citizens Brigade
  • Rollerball - from William Harrison's story "Roller Ball Murder", on which the movie Rollerball was loosely based
  • Shirling - The Kids in the Hall
  • Skeet Surfing - a combination of skeet shooting and surfing seen in the film Top Secret!, possibly parodying the biathlon
  • Sky-surfing - appearing in numerous Judge Dredd stories
  • Sniffleball - a variation of baseball from an episode of Chowder of the same name
  • Speedball - futuristic mix of handball and hockey featured in the games of the same name
  • Spheda - a golf-like game from the PlayStation 2 adventure game Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2)
  • Springball - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  • Star Racing - low-to-medium altitude hovercraft racing sport from Oban Star-Racers; superficially similar to Podracing
  • Street Football - 2000 AD comic
  • Struggle - Kingdom Hearts II
  • Super Slam Hockey - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
  • Thrashball - a game that sounds similar to American football; Gears of War
  • Thunderball - full contact basketball with a hockey-like playing area, and encouragement of wrestling, fighting and general manhandling of other players
  • Timmyball - Fairly Odd Parents
  • Tourney - Descendants
  • Transcontinental Road Race - Death Race 2000
  • Troll Ball - from supplementary material published for the RuneQuest roleplaying game and other Glorantha references
  • Walnut Hockey - Rose Is Rose comic strip
  • Weltraumball - a funny mix of football and handball with authorized doping and cybernetics enhancements, played in weightlessness, from Roland C. Wagner's novel Mine de rien
  • Whack-bat - Fantastic Mr. Fox (film)
  • Wizard Squash - also called Real Squash (similar to real tennis), a much more leisurely game than ordinary squash, except that the ball may rebound off a wall it hasn't hit; Discworld
  • Yooyuball - a variation of jai alai or lacrosse from Neopets, which is played every year as part of the Altador Cup
  • Zero-G Football - Red Dwarf sitcom
  • Zero-G Kickboxing - Red Dwarf sitcom

    • Video games

  • Alliance Corsair - mentioned by a game seller in Mass Effect 2
  • Applause Applause Revolution - arcade game in Family Guy episode "The Simpsons Guy"
  • Attack of the Non-Toxic® Edible Green Slime - video game in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy episode "Night of the Living Grim"
  • Astro Spacetron X - arcade game in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy movie "Wrath of the Spider Queen"
  • BabyBlast - handheld game in The Simpsons Movie
  • Beasts and Barbarians - role-playing game on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy episode "Beasts and Barbarians"
  • Better Than Life - Red Dwarf total immersion video game shown in Season 2
  • Beetman - video game featured in American Dad!, where the player is a beetroot; the game features levels such as avoiding a chef trying to cut you up, and freezing nuclear rabbits
  • Billy Graham's Bible Blaster - religious video game in The Simpsons episode "Alone Again, Natura-diddily"
  • The Bishop of Battle - arcade game featured in a segment of the film Nightmares
  • Bonestorm - console fighting game featured in The Simpsons episode "Marge Be Not Proud" (Bonestorm 2 was featured in The Simpsons: Hit & Run video game); parody of Mortal Kombat
  • Burgerboss - arcade game in Bob's Burgers; a parody of BurgerTime
  • Cat Fight - arcade fighting game in The Simpsons episode "Bart Star"
  • Cereal Killer - a Game Boy Advance game in The Simpsons episode "Dangerous Curves"
  • Conversation Parade - a video game featured in Adventure Time
  • Cosmos Invasion - arcade game that makes a cameo appearance in LittleBigPlanet 2
  • Crunch Pod - a video game similar to Star Castle in the animated series Pepper Ann
  • Dam Builders - computer game featured in Franklin
  • Dance Dance Riot - Motion game in Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything episode "The Incident". The game is a parody of Dance Dance Revolution
  • Dancy Pants Revolution - Motion game in Gravity Falls episode ""The Inconveniencing". The game is a parody of Dance Dance Revolution
  • Dash Dingo - a video game featured in The Simpsons episode "Lisa Gets an "A""; a parody of Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
  • Death Kill City II: Death Kill Stories - a violent video game featured in The Simpsons episode "Yokel Chords"; a parody of the Grand Theft Auto video game series
  • Death to Mantodeans - console game featured in the Doctor Who novel Winner Takes All
  • Dojo Quest - a 1982 arcade game from the 2015 movie Pixels; though never an actual arcade game, it was turned into a real video game to promote the film
  • Domination - James Bond played this 3-D video game against a villain in the film Never Say Never Again
  • Ducks of the Galaxy - console space-themed game in DuckTales episode "Nothing to Fear"
  • Earthland Realms - online role-playing game in The Simpsons
  • Escape From Grandma's House - video game in The Simpsons
  • Fight Fighters - a parody of Street Fight in Gravity Falls
  • Finest Parmesan - this arcade game makes a cameo appearance in LittleBigPlanet 2
  • Finish Line - this arcade game is similar to Daytona USA. It made a cameo appearance in Wreck-It Ralph
  • First Person Shooter - virtual reality game featured in the X-Files episode of the same name
  • Fix-It Felix Jr. - arcade game featured in Wreck-It Ralph
  • Fleet and Flotilla: Interactive Cross-Species Relationship Simulator - dating game, Mass Effect 2
  • Fruit Shoot - arcade game in The Simpsons episode "The Book Job"
  • Galaxy Academy - Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Emancipation Complication"
  • Galaxy of Fantasy - Mass Effect 2 (parody of Final Fantasy)
  • The Game - MMORPG featured in The Guild
  • Game Over - virtual reality video game in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
  • "The game" in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Game"; a head-mounted virtual reality game
  • Geth Attack: Eden Prime Fundraising Edition - Mass Effect 2
  • Global Thermonuclear War - military simulation program mistaken for a computer game in WarGames'
  • Goody Gobble - The Simpsons episode "Days of Future Future"; a parody of Candy Crush
  • Grim Terminus Alliance - Mass Effect 2 (name acronym, GTA, is a parody of Grand Theft Auto)
  • Hacker Snack - Lost Boys; a video game written by the protagonist, similar to Chip's Challenge
  • Hero's Duty - arcade game featured in Wreck-It Ralph
  • Hockey Dad - fighting game in The Simpsons episode "The Regina Monologues"
  • Hoss Delgado: President Evil - zombie-fighting game for the Lamecube video game system on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy episode "Brown Evil"; favorite game of Mandy
  • Immoral Wombat - take off on Mortal Combat from the Cow and Chicken cartoon series
  • Immortal Wombat - take off on Mortal Combat from the Angela Anaconda cartoon series; a game of the same name appears on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
  • Insert Coin - Arcade game in Gravity Falls
  • Kevin Costner's Waterworld - arcade game in The Simpsons
  • Larry the Looter - arcade game in The Simpsons and The Simpsons: Hit and Run
  • Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge - console game appearing in the Simpsons episode "Marge Be Not Proud"
  • Marching Band - arcade game in The Simpsons episode "The Food Wife"; a parody of Rock Band
  • Michael Douglas's Munch Out - parody of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! in Family Guy episode The New Adventures of Old Tom
  • Moats - arcade game in Bob's Burgers
  • Moon Blaster - arcade game in Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything episode "The Chair"
  • Multi-World - computer game in the Marvel Comics Transformers comic book; Optimus Prime and Megatron battle in the virtual world of this game, ending with Prime's apparent death
  • N7 Code of Honor: Medal of Duty - parody of Call of Duty, Mass Effect 2
  • Ninja Gladiator - fighting game appearing in the Transformers Animated episode "Where Is Thy Sting?"
  • Ninja Ninja Revolution - arcade game played by Scott and Knives in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  • Nort - Tron parody in gravity falls
  • OASIS - MMO featured in Ready Player One
  • Pat the Baker - cooking game for the Lamecube video game system on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy episode "Brown Evil"; favorite game of Billy and Hoss Delgado
  • Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 - a side-scrolling video game depicted in an animated movie of the same name
  • Polybius - an urban legend about an arcade game of the same name with physically impossible effects such as erratic behavior
  • Puddin' Party - in Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything episode "The Puddin' Party"
  • Psycho Zombie Bloodbath - video game in Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything episode "The Psycho Zombie Bloodbath"
  • Ra.One - wireless technology video game featured in Ra.One (2011 film)
  • The Riddle of the Minotaur - computer game designed by Edward Nygma, featured in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?"
  • Robot Resource - arcade game appearing in the Transformers episode "The Immobilizer"
  • Rock Hero 5 - music game in Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything episode "

    • The Rock Band"

  • Rodney's Ride - arcade game in Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
  • Roy: A Life Well Lived - virtual realty game from Rick and Morty
  • Science Diner - a Pong-like game that makes a cameo appearance in LittleBigPlanet 2
  • Scrooge McDuck's Money Mania - an arcade game in the DuckTales episode "Dough Ray Me"; the player plays as the Beagle Boys and tries to steal money from Scrooge McDuck's money bin
  • Sim Sandwich - The Simpsons; a parody of the Sim games
  • Space Paranoids - arcade game featured in Tron
  • Speedy Demons - arcade racing game featured in Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything episode "The Chair"
  • Starfighter - arcade game featured in The Last Starfighter
  • Stay Alive - saupernatural video game from the film of the same name
  • Stickball - arcade game in The Simpsons episode "Lisa's First Word"
  • Strong Johns - arcade and console game featured in Regular Show
  • Sugar Rush - arcade game featured in Wreck-It Ralph
  • Super Mega Blasteroids 9 - scrolling shooter in the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Bye Bye Nerdy"
  • Super Slugfest - recurring arcade and console boxing game in The Simpsons
  • Super Smash Factory 6 - Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Emancipation Complication"
  • Tandem Bike Ride With Your Mom - handheld game from The Simpsons episode "Marge's Son Poisoning"
  • Triangle Wars - arcade game appearing in The Simpsons; a parody of Asteroids
  • Touch of Death - arcade fighting game appearing in The Simpsons and The Simpsons Game
  • Turbo Time - arcade game appearing in Wreck-It Ralph
  • Ultimate Thumb Wrestling starring Ambassador Crazy Fart / Ultimate Thumb Wrestling Challenge - PC game mentioned in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy episode "Waking Nightmare"
  • The World - a popular MMORPG in the .hack anime series
  • Whiffle Boy - video game featured in the Darkwing Duck episode "Whiffle While You Work"
  • Whoopsie! - video game adaption of the board game in Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything episode "The Chair"
  • World of Hackcraft - MMORPG from Knights of the Dinner Table, based on the tabletop role-playing game HackMaster
  • Wrestle Jam '88 - pro wrestling video game, from The Wrestler
  • Yard Work Simulator - a virtual reality game featured in The Simpsons

    • Other games

  • Barbarian Invaders - a clockpunk arcade game, parodying Space Invaders; Discworld
  • Battleroom games in Ender's Game; platoon-sized teams playing laser tag-like game in zero-gravity room
  • Bob-stones - a form of guessing game played by the rabbits in the book Watership Down by Richard Adams
  • Chula - in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Move Along Home"
  • Cock, Muff, Bumhole - in Nathan Barley, a variation of Rock, Paper, Scissors
  • Dabo (a roulette-like game at Quark's) - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  • Deemo - a gambling game from Farscape that is lost if the player does not cheat well
  • The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse's novel of the same name
  • Gobstones - Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling; a marbles-like game where players are sprayed with foul-smelling liquid when they lose
  • House Rules Parcheesi - Ozy and Millie; a game similar to Calvinball but with predefined rules (only it's never explained what they are). The Zen idea that one must learn to let go of concrete ideas and objectives is close to the dragons' hearts, so a game of House Rules Parcheesi only ends when a player accepts the current location of the roll of duct tape as being equally valid to the "goal", and serenely stops trying to move it. Whether the player then wins or is being rewarded for not-winning is ambiguous.
  • Jiggery-Pokery - The Ninth Doctor claims to have come first place in the game
  • Keystone - described as a cross between roulette and craps by designer Peter Molyneux; from Fable 2 and Fable II Pub Games
  • Light Cycles -Tron
  • Mornington Crescent - I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue radio comedy programme
  • Moules - "a game of skill and dexterity, involving tortoises"; Discworld
  • The 'Nonary' Game - Saw-esque game in which nine players must attempt to solve puzzles to escape from a sinking ship alive, used in 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
  • Poohsticks - Winnie-the-Pooh
  • Pretzel Pals - a parody of Twister on SpongeBob SquarePants
  • Questions - verbal game played in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
  • 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
  • The Quizzing Device - a water-driven, clockpunk quiz machine; Discworld
  • Roshambo - while RoShamBo is actually rock-paper-scissors, in South Park, it involves two male competitors kicking each other in the testicles as hard as they can
  • Sej – a dicing game played in Serpent's Reach
  • Shapester - a legal approximation of Twister in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Shibo Yancong-San - tile-based Agatean game, similar to Mahjong, name translates as "Cripple Mr Onion"; Discworld
  • Sink: a game generally played by Discordians (and people of much ilk); rules are defined in the Principia Discordia
  • Skystones - a game played throughout Skylanders Giants
  • Sphere Break - Final Fantasy X-2; a mathematical game in which coins of differing values are used to break a numbered sphere
  • Thou art Dead - Monster House
  • Tumbleweed Terror - a Tumbleweed Terror game in Gravity Falls
  • Trolls and Bridges - a game in the Known Space universe used to recruit military officers into an underground command structure
  • True American - in New Girl, a game that is 50% drinking, 50% Candy Land, and also the floor is lava
  • Universal Baseball - a version of baseball played entirely by dice, from the novel The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., by Robert Coover
  • An unnamed gambling game from Toy Story 3

    • References

    List of fictional games Wikipedia
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