Category:Sports video games

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.