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Challenge Yourself with Online Sports Games

People have been making sports games for a long time, so there are many different sports to choose from including basketball, football, snowboarding, surfing, sumo fighting, and way more. What ever sport is your favorite, enjoy these top sport games for endless entertainment.

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Sports are important for exercise in real life and they can also be fun way to relax while playing a game. Football, basketball, swimming and other games are available for modern and legacy browsers. Sports related video games are older than you might guess. Pong while a crude simulation of table tennis, was predated by an even older game titled Tennis for Two. back then players could only dream about the variety of sports games available today at Y8.

Origins of Sport Games

In 1958, Tennis for Two was created by William Higinbotham, an American physicist. Amazingly, the game was played on an oscilloscope, an electronic instrument used to display electrical signal voltages in 2D. While discovered later, it is believed that Tennis for Two was the first ever video game. It is similar to Pong except it uses a side view instead of the top view like Pong. In 1967, Taito produced Crown Soccer Special, a coin-operated pinball game. Later in 1973, many new releases came out like Davis Cup, Pro Soccer, and Pro Hockey.

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