Favorite Fictional Game?

[AlHazred]

What is your favorite fictional game? I asked this question on BoardGameGeek and got some good responses, but they were mainly focused on games that were depicted as interesting to play; I assume people on the RPF will be more focused on games that are interesting to look at, even if we don't know the rules.

For my money, Dabo from Star Trek: Deep Space 9* and Dejarik from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope look visually interesting (even as that second one is impossible to make by current technology) but I'm not as big a consumer of visual sci-fi and fantasy as I used to be. I have probably missed loads of interesting-looking games, or games that were depicted as really fun to play! Please give me your best fictional games! And if you have a relevant prop image you can share, even better!

* If I ever win the lottery and have stupid amounts of money, I'm building a game room that looks like a part of Quark's Bar. That would be fun to play in!

 

[Astyanax]

 

[AlHazred]

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Did anyone ever make a functional dom-jot table?

 

[Astyanax]

I always liked the robot-assisted circular pool game they were playing in Silent Running.

 

[anamorphicWayne]

Battlestar Galactica Pyramid

 

[AlHazred]

Battlestar Galactica Pyramid

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I loved what Ronald D. Moore had to say about it; very self-aware:

...somewhere along the line I transposed the names. I misremembered what they called it and I -- the sort of racquet-ball slash basketball game that they played in the original and that we referred to in this series, I now call Pyramid, and the name of that game in the original which was Triad is now what we sort of call our poker game. So it's one of those "Oh, it's one of the charming differences between the old and the new.", it's either that or it's just a stupid error that the writer made.

 

[dascoyne]

Fizbin.

 

[AlHazred]

Fizbin.

Somebody actually made that, and you could get them a Star Trek conventions in the 70s. Of course, they just used a normal card deck, which is less interesting but probably true to the source material (i.e., Kirk used whatever he had at hand). Nowadays, they'd definitely make a TOS deck or something and doll it up so they could upcharge for it...

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Pazaak from Knight of the Old Republic is fun, but it's basically Blackjack except you try to get to 20 without going over. I also like Gwent from the Witcher games. Well I like the version in Witcher 3, the stand alone wasn't as fun.

 

[userd1402]

-.-

 

[Tan Djarka]

TAG-The Assassination Game

 

[AlHazred]

Pazaak from Knight of the Old Republic is fun, but it's basically Blackjack except you try to get to 20 without going over. I also like Gwent from the Witcher games. Well I like the version in Witcher 3, the stand alone wasn't as fun.

Looks like somebody made Pazaak into a real-life game with game-accurate cards.

I do not understand how a minigame inside a computer game can get popular enough to merit its own standalone game, only to have the company making it make drastic changes that (IMO) made gameplay less fun. I tried to like the standalone Gwent but it played very differently from the version in The Witcher III, and I deleted it after a day.

Rollerball

Looks like there are at least two attempts to make a Rollerball board game so you can play this future sport at home!

TAG-The Assassination Game

Does this still get played? I remember people playing this when I was in college, but it seems, uh, problematic in today's security-conscious society, especially at college campuses where it was most popular...

 

[AJTaliesen]

We were supposed to have Running Man by now.

Also you mentioned Deep Space Nine, but forgot Tongo!

 

[dascoyne]

Find the Fish

 

[dascoyne]

 

[AlHazred]

We were supposed to have Running Man by now.

Uh, there is if you live in Korea, apparently?

Also you mentioned Deep Space Nine, but forgot Tongo!

Funnily enough, this thread was inspired by my viewing Cmdr.Kerner's post about his Tongo cards...

Find the Fish
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I remember that bit of The Meaning of Life from having seen it, what, 30 years ago? And to this day, I have no idea what the point of it was...

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I mean, I would prefer the police not raid my house's game room due to war crimes...

 

[sapper36]

Rick & Morty - I want Downbeat & Don't Punch my Lunch!!!

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

I do not understand how a minigame inside a computer game can get popular enough to merit its own standalone game, only to have the company making it make drastic changes that (IMO) made gameplay less fun. I tried to like the standalone Gwent but it played very differently from the version in The Witcher III, and I deleted it after a day.

Same! I played a couple hours and it was too different.

 

[OzReturner]

Jumanji count?

 

[edge10]

Starfighter from The Last Starfighter