Sports Games emulate traditional physical sports playing such as Cricket, Baseball, Soccer , Golf , Basketball, Ice Hockey, Tennis , Bowling , Rugby to name a few.  Most of these games actually emphasize playing the sport whereas some emphasize the strategy behind the sport. Some may emphasize only the comic effect like Arch Rivals.	Product Code:VS110 Price: Rs 1100

A wide variety of game series feature the names and characteristics of real teams and players and updated annually to reflect real-world changes.

They are not electronic sports played as competitive sports. Sports games can be classified under Arcade, Simulation, Management and Fantasy. The best selling sport game is the Madden NFL series.

Pong is the first to emerge in this genre and remains popular even in the modern world. Tennis for Two in 1958 is one of the first video sports game. 

In late 1970s emerged the Baseball written by Don Daglow and later came Intellivision World Series, Earl Weaver Baseball, Tony la Russa Baseball and Old Time Baseball.

In 1990s, the world famous EA Sports was created for 16-bit Systems with the release of Madden Football. Later they launched NHLPA Hockey, NCAA Football and also the FIFA, NHL, NBA Live and Madden NFL series.

With the invention of 3D graphics cards on the PC, 32-bit and 64-bit sports games became popular that made the leap into 3D. Actua Soccer was the first soccer 3D game.

In 1995, Sierra’s FPS Sports Football gained the highest ranking in the PC Sports Games list. Those days have gone when video Sports Games were very costly, now these are available on cheaper rates with modern techniques.

In the Modern world, the EA Sports and 2K sports are the dominators holding licenses to release games based on official leagues like FIFA Soccer series, NBA Live series, Madden Football series, the NASCAR series and the Tiger woods series.

Also EA Games Need for Speed Series is one of the modern best-selling category in the racing genre though not based on a license.