In Indonesia Football Is Played with a Ball of Fire
Sepak Bola Api, or The Fireball Game, is a unique game Indonesians play to welcome the month of Ramadan. It’s a lot like football only they have to kick a flaming fireball. It seems regular football is pretty boring. At least that’s the feeling I get after discovering similar games like Footdoubleball, Cycle Ball or […]
Game Lets You Play Table Tennis without a Table, Ball or Opponent
“Go with the rhythm! Hyper Ping Pong” is a quirky Japanese video game that allows you to play table tennis without a table, a ball or an opponent. Following in the footsteps of Nintendo – inventors of the popular Wii console – Japanese game developer, Happinet, has decided to take things one step further and take […]
Knokkers – Combining Pool and Bowling in One New Sport
Played on a table four times the size of a regular pool table, Knokkers is a new sport that combines elements from both billiards and bowling. Back in 1985, Steve Wienecke, from Fredericktown, Missouri, was playing in a local pool league, and one day he got it in his head that it would be great […]
The Eton Wall Game
From the country that brought us rugby and soccer comes one of the oldest, hardest and weirdest ball games in the world, the Eton Wall Game. It’s not clear when the Eton Wall Game was invented, but the first recording of a game dates back to 1766. Its rules were changed several times up to […]