Respect The Game: What does that mean?

I hear this a lot in regards to sports, board games and certain genre of video games but what does that mean?

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Usually I hear "Don't hate the player, hate the game."

I'm assuming yours is a way of saying, "It's not the game's fault you lost."

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It means you lost the game.

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Care to elaborate?

"Analay, an original fan character from a 2006 non canon comic. Do not steal!"

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"I don't know how I do it. I'm like the Mr. Bean of sex." -Drunkscriblerian

To do something a certain way so as to "respect the game" is a matter of sportsmanship, I think. It's more like a kind of "respect the rules and nature of the game, because in that way the game is fair and fun for everyone involved"...or at least that's how I see it.

...what it means in respect to Video Games, I have no idea, though.

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Sportsmanship? So that what it is about?

"Analay, an original fan character from a 2006 non canon comic. Do not steal!"

In respect to video games, I guess it means not enabling cheat codes once you're past a certain skill level, not using such things as that one server of TF2 that got shut down for being a hat-drop-pickup place and nothing else, and not stomping on the newbies for being n00bs.

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A related phrase may be "be a good sport."