10 Crazy Sports Video Games That Didn’t Play By The Rules

10. Mutant League Football

Developed for the Sega Genesis in 1993, it had been believed for some time that Mutant League Football was built from the same engine used for Madden '93. The truth, however, is that this was a game built entirely from scratch to stand out from games like Madden.

Set in a post-apocalyptic world where humans have mutated into vicious creatures and the dead have risen from the grave, Mutant League Football most resembles an American football simulator, but only if the NFL were suddenly in the business of allowing things like open fire pits and land mine explosions on their pitches.

Bludgeoning the opposing team is an absolute essential of the game's strategy, with even murder being completely viable on the field. Kill enough of the opposing team and there's not a lot of team to oppose a player after all.

As well as the carnage players can inflict on each other, there's also the added bonus of being able to bribe the referee a couple of times a match or just up and kill him as well, something every Madden or Fifa has wanted to do at least once.