Fictional games?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_games

Decide which genre/artform interests you most from the examples above, and compile a list to add to a relevant discussion thread. Do these artists represent the games in ways that are familiar, or totally unfamiliar? Is a particular fictional game unfamiliar because of the rules, the strategies used, the purpose, the design, the artifact, or what? Have any of these fictional games produced actual versions that you can now buy, and are these still in the same form (a board game) or have they been translated into digital format?
Post your findings to the discussions forum in your journals or in the weekly discussion forum where relevant.



Fictional games? (Brainstorm list)

"Jumanji" from Jumanji (book/movie)
"The World" in Hack//Sign (anime)
"Liar Game" in Liar Game (Japanese drama series)
"Blitzball" in Final Fantasy 10 (video game)

Area that interests me?

"The World"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hack//Sign
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hack//fragment
Role playing games interest me the most, since I enjoy those sorts of video games. I particularly liked "The World" in .Hack//sign because it was familiar to me. The design of it reminded me a lot of my favourite game, Phantasy Star Online. There have been .hack games created but they aren't really like the game within the manga/anime. "The World" is presented as an MMORPG and the games based on the .hack franchise were far from this model of game. The games moreso simulated the idea of an MMORPG and the player journed through the story of the .hack series. One game for online play was created for the Playstation 2 but was only released in Japan and lasted for one year before the servers were closed.

"Hanufuda"
http://hanafubuki.org/
I saw it in an anime called "Summer Wars"