Sports games emulate the playing of traditional physical sports such as Association football, American football, Australian rules football, baseball, boxing, basketball, Cricket, golf, ice hockey, tennis, bowling, rugby, skateboarding, wrestling, etc. Some emphasize actually playing the sport, while others emphasize the strategy behind the sport (such as Championship Manager or Baseball Mogul). Others satirize the sport for comic effect (such as Arch Rivals). This genre emerged early in the history of video games and remains popular today and is extremely competitive, just like real-world sports. Some Sports games also sometimes fall under The category of fighting games including those of wrestling, boxing and mixed martial arts though not to be confused or compared with games such as Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, or Tekken as those are in the Subgenre of action video game genre as to boxing, mixed martial arts, and wrestling are subgenres of sports games . Racing games also sometimes fall under the category of sports games.
Subcategories
This category has the following 60 subcategories, out of 60 total.
A
- ABC Sports video games (4 P)
- Air hockey video games (6 P)
- Athletics video games (19 P)
B
- Bowling video games (45 P)
C
- Cheerleading video games (8 P)
- Cycling video games (34 P)
D
- Darts video games (9 P)
- Dodgeball video games (13 P)
E
F
- Fishing video games (74 P)
G
- Gaelic games video games (4 P)
H
- Hunting video games (28 P)
I
J
- Judo video games (4 P)
K
- Karate video games (14 P)
L
- Lacrosse video games (2 P)
M
- Muay Thai video games (16 P)
N
- NBC Sports video games (1 P)
- NCAA video games (63 P)
P
- Paintball video games (9 P)
- Parachuting video games (13 P)
R
S
- Softball video games (1 P)
T
- Table tennis video games (15 P)
V
W
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Pages in category "Sports video games"
The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.