10 Crazy Sports Video Games That Didn’t Play By The Rules
9. Skateball
Before the days of Far Cry, Assassin's Creed and Raving Rabbits (the real moneymaker for the company), Ubisoft were out trying to crack the world of sports video games with titles like Skateball. A 1989 release for various home computer systems at the time, Ubisoft essentially created a whole new sport with Skateball.
In Skateball, two teams of three players are placed on a pitch made out of ice, blocked in with four steel walls around him and are tasked with skating a round ball across the floor to a goal at either end of the court. A combination of football, rugby and ice hockey, the game is, in every sense of the word, completely lawless.
Players are encouraged to chase back and take out their opponents however they can. There are no referees or rules to follow, with players able to slide into their opponents from any direction with their blades showing and completely wipe them out. Games in Skateball are played to five points, but there is also the option to literally kill all three members of the opposition and again pick up the win that way.