# Name Those Fictional Games & Sports **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 9, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611 "2007-09-09T22:03:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/1 "2007-09-09T22:03:16Z")
Mythical games & sports abound. James T. Kirk played Fizzbinn, and _Mad Magazine_ introduced 43 Man Squamish to an unwitting world. > **[Tom Koch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43-Man_Squamish)** > > Thomas Freeman Koch (May 13, 1925 – March 22, 2015) was an American humorist and writer. He wrote for Mad Magazine for 37 years. > Koch (pronounced "Cook") was born in Charleston, Illinois, and spent his youth in Indianapolis before attending Northwestern University. He published a book of poetry, I'll Remember Indiana, in 1948, and a book about Indiana basketball, Tournament Trail, in 1950. Later with Mad he published four books under the magazine's imprint. Koch moved to California in 1957, and ... What fictional sports & games can you name? Board, card & tabletop games **do** count. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/2 "2007-09-09T22:06:25Z")
Rollerball. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/3 "2007-09-09T22:07:52Z")
Cripple Mr. Onion ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/4 "2007-09-09T22:09:50Z")
Centrifugal bumble puppy, Blernball, & Quidditch. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/5 "2007-09-09T22:15:24Z")
Triad/Pyramid from \*\*BSG \*\* (both versions). “Killing For Quatloos” - **ST:TOS** ---
**Author:** ![AmalgramFour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@AmalgramFour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmalgramFour)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/6 "2007-09-09T22:19:13Z")
Global Thermonuclear Warfare. Can’t remember it’s name, but there was a kind of Tennis involving bat-like creatures as the ball in the Iain M. Banks novel _Excession_. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/7 "2007-09-09T22:26:27Z")
DS9: Dabo ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/8 "2007-09-09T22:27:49Z")
Cat juggling. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/9 "2007-09-09T22:28:43Z")
Juggers (from the old Rutger Hauer flick _The Blood of Heroes_). ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/10 "2007-09-09T22:32:46Z")
Blitzball, Triple Triad, Tetra Master (Final Fantasy X, VIII, and IX, respectively - ball sport, card game, card game). An odd case - the Yu-Gi-Oh card game started as the game Duel Monsters in the manga before taking the series over and being made into a real game. Moopsball, Magno-ball (Legion of Super-heroes.) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/11 "2007-09-09T22:33:00Z")
TNG: Parisi Squares ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/12 "2007-09-09T22:44:44Z")
[QUOTE=AmalgramFour] Can’t remember it’s name, but there was a kind of Tennis involving bat-like creatures as the ball in the Iain M. Banks novel _Excession_. [/QUOTE] I think it’s just called batball in the book. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/13 "2007-09-09T23:03:45Z")
[Quintet](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079770/) [Jumanji](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113497/) [Zathura](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406375/) From TOS–“Double Jack” (_Mudd’s Women_ ) ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/14 "2007-09-09T23:06:47Z")
Calvinball. ---
**Author:** ![DataZak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@DataZak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataZak)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/15 "2007-09-09T23:08:40Z")
Does ‘Mornington Crescent’ qualify? ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/16 "2007-09-09T23:12:51Z")
[Burnsball](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgLMyEJZyL4) ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/17 "2007-09-09T23:16:53Z")
Quodpot Ja’La ---
**Author:** ![BACI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@BACI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BACI)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/18 "2007-09-09T23:26:01Z")
Farnarkling… “Dave Sorenson lost his position as captain of the Australian Farnarkling Team when he inadvertantly shot the Gonad across the Umlat during the all important match deciding third Warble thereby allowing the crack East German Farnakling Machine to score and proceed to the semi finals.” You had to be there. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/19 "2007-09-09T23:31:02Z")
I can’t believe I forgot Bouillabaisseball, the Melmacian national pastime. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/20 "2007-09-09T23:41:01Z")
**Churling** (The Kids in the Hall) – Players form a circle, tied together at the wrists, around a basket containing a spitting cobra. **Eschaton** (Infinite Jest) – A global thermonuclear war simulation played on a tennis court. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611.md?page=2)