Robot basketball and absurdist golf: five of the weirdest sports video games
by Jordan Erica Webber from Technology | The Guardian on (#59AS8)
Not all virtual sports games are faithful copies of their real-life counterparts. Here are a handful where developers play fast and loose with the rules
When you think of sports video games you might think of Fifa or Madden, which obsessively mimic their real-life equivalents - or Track & Field, which valiantly if unsuccessfully tries to. But not all developers play by the rules. From impossible athletics to fantasy baseball players with 27 fingers, these are some of the weirdest virtual takes on sport around.
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