# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/41 "2007-09-10T02:56:05Z")
[BASEketball](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseketball) Also from Mad Magazine: BaseBrawl ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/42 "2007-09-10T02:59:30Z")
Tall Card, from _Firefly_ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/43 "2007-09-10T02:59:35Z")
Calvinball ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/44 "2007-09-10T03:02:14Z")
[QUOTE=AmalgramFour] How about _The Long Walk_ and _The Running Man_? [/QUOTE] No, but in “The Running Man,” King refers to a sport called “Killball.” ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/45 "2007-09-10T03:10:01Z")
Battlestar Galactica has the ball game (pyramid?) and a card game (whose name escapes me) the “I’ll buy that for a dollar” gameshow from Robocop Holochess (or whatever it was) from Star Wars That basketball like game from Asprin’s Myth series Brian ---
**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 10, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/46 "2007-09-10T03:22:25Z")
[QUOTE=N9IWP] Battlestar Galactica has the ball game (pyramid?) and a card game (whose name escapes me) [/QUOTE] See Post #5. ---
**Author:** ![stanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@stanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stanger)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/47 "2007-09-10T03:41:34Z")
Kosho - A game involving trampolines, a water tank and a box glove - from “The Prisoner” TV series ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/48 "2007-09-10T04:15:31Z")
“Blitzball”, _Final Fantasy X_ “Cups”, _Friends_ “Gobstones”, _Harry Potter_ series “Marshgammon” and “Xing hai shi Bu Xing?” (or something like that, from the Atlantic City episode), _How I Met Your Mother_ “Pazaak”, _Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic_ and a bunch of similar card games from the _Final Fantasy_ series that I don’t recall right now “Warhamster”, _Dork Tower_ ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/49 "2007-09-10T04:43:32Z")
No fair! **detop** stole mine! So I’ll just offer up Counterchance from the Liaden Universe novels instead. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/50 "2007-09-10T09:02:04Z")
The Game of Blood and Dust, from the story of the same name. Two superior beings manipulate human history to produce either a dead Earth ( Dust ) or a live one ( Blood ). “This time I’ll be Dust, and you’ll be Blood.” Ballistic Golf : Played by robots; the distance between holes is generally about seven miles. Sky Polo, played on flying riding robots. All-Out : Two guys beat the hell out of each other, until one surrenders, falls unconscious, or dies. Rules are no weapons, no biting, no eye gouging, and no hitting the referees; that’s it. The rules are enforced by hitting the violator with a hammer until he stops. The True Game, from Sheri S. Tepper’s True Game books. IIRC, basically war played as a game, with weird powers tossed in. I can’t find my copy for the name of the game, but the game in _Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse_, which transported it’s players/gamepieces across worlds with each “move”. Poisonball : A ball played in a court divided by a force field, using a ball that at a set time explodes, spraying that side of the court with agonizingly painful toxins. The goal is to make sure it’s on the other side when it goes off. Drownball, the parody of Blitzball from 8-bit Theatre. “Two teams enter, **no one** leaves !” Variable gravity vollyball, where the gravity randomly changes as you play. Four dimensional chess, from a Star Trek novel. Pieces can be “timed out” via a mini-transporter ( which leaves them unusable, but untouchable ), to reappear after a chosen number of moves. S’yang-stones, an undescribed gambling game from the Vlad Taltos books. Water spider races, from the Garret books. ---
**Author:** ![orinoko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b4bc9f/32.png) [@orinoko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orinoko)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/51 "2007-09-10T09:14:22Z")
The hot nurses and I are gonna go play Jigglyball. Later JD. ---
**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 10, 2007, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/52 "2007-09-10T10:55:50Z")
Does Happy Fun Ball count if there’s no sport explicitly organized around it? ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611/53 "2007-09-10T11:28:00Z")
Jack Vance invented [Hussade](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussade) in his far future Alastor Clustor books. I believe it’s being developed as a computer game… He also described a multi-participant wrestling match, played on a set of concentric circles called the Robles. Details in his book _The Face_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-those-fictional-games-sports/418611.md?page=2)