Posts of videogames about sports using a ball with ovoidal form.
Usually these sports are popular in english-language countries, and in their dynamics include trying to put the ball (often the ball has the shape of an ovoid) in a certain zone of the field to add up the score.
According to the sport, there can be other ways to score points.
American Football 🏈
Really popular in North America, even when there have been attempts to popularize the sport in Europe.
Rugby 🏉
More spread in more countries, being the main powerhouses the teams from the United Kingdom of the Great Britain, and some former colonies of this nation in the Southern Hemisphere.
Other sports using a ball with the shape of an ovoid are Canadian Football and Australian Football. Even when possibly there are no videogames about them.
Bill Walsh College Football
One of the first titles set in the highly competitive college football of the USA.
Joe Montana Football (Genesis)
American football videogame which probably being too close in time to a milestone hampered its popularity.
Tecmo Super Bowl
One of the best videogames of American Football for the NES having a really enthusiastic community.
4th & Inches
American football videogame succesfully adapting a control schema of a baseball videogame.
John Madden Football (Genesis)
With real solid bases from the computer versions, came these versions for 16bit consoles, which gave the legend status to the saga.
International Rugby (Genesis)
Astonishing videogame of Rugby, with one of the most intuitive control schemes I have seen for a videogame of this sport.
Super Rugby (Super NES)
Hard and good-looking videogame of rugby, where it's interesting playing with more real situations of rugby matches.
Super Rugby (NES)
Curious japanese videogame of rugby, really basic and where the pace of the game (you can say so) plays an important role.