List of fictional games

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

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
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^[1]
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
Gallipolopoly - a fictionalized version of Monopoly; The Simpsons
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
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 ^[2]
Klin Zha - Klingon game from the Star Trek novel The Final Reflection; not considered part of the current canon^[3]
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!
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
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
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
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"^[4] 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^[5]
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" ^[6]
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

Sports

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 ^[7]
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
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)^[8]
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

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^[9]
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
Fruit Shoot - arcade game in The Simpsons episode "The Book Job"
Galaxy Academy - Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Emancipation Complication"
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
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
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
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 ^[10]
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^[11]
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

↑ Rules (fan-created)
↑ Kaissa
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↑ Missing School
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