History GoodBadBugs / SportsGame

* The UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} rugby game ''International Rugby Challenge'' keeps running the match timer while the game is paused. Stuart Campbell's [[http://amr.abime.net/review_932 review]] in ''Magazine/AmigaPower'' magazine--which awarded a score of 2%, for numerous other bugs--pointed out that it's possible to win any game by scoring an initial try, and then pausing for the remainder of the match.

* The UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}} game ''International Soccer'' features the glitch that you can run the length of the pitch, and score, with the ball bouncing on your head.

*** In Connected Franchise mode, one of the fictional head coaches you can hire is Tomas Single. Sometimes in the middle of the game, [[UncannyValley his face will vertically stretch and his eyes will become blank.]]

A Youtube user by the name of [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq66ERLWztjA4HtgxBV1-zw HelixSnake]] '''relishes''' this trope fully, as he/she has a cornucopia of hilarious Skate 3 videos, along with other videos from other titles such as GTA IV/V and so forth.

* A glitch in ''Skate 2'' allows you to fling yourself into the air under the right circumstances. If you drop your board to send it rolling along angled or uneven ground, then press a set of buttons with the right timing (in the case of the 360 version, it's X to jump, then the left trigger, Y and Right on the left analog stick all at the same time), your skater will grab his board in mid-jump, and his feet will snap onto it like magnets, causing him to hit the ground body-first and bounce high into the air. It doesn't work everywhere and it won't work online, but it makes for some hilarious bails once you get it right.

* ''Skate 3'' is absolutely '''FULL''' of these. There's a glitch to get your board stuck in a piece of plywood which will then lift off like a magic carpet (with you on it) and fly around the map. There's a glitch where you can get your board stuck under a manny pad while doing a setup and take off into the sky. There's a glitch that allows you to launch yourself off any ramp at high speeds and get all sorts of places the developers didn't intend for you to be. There are several pipes with the geometry reversed that your skater can get stuck inside and become a scrambled squirming mess. There's a glitch that makes you shoot off into the sky in a superdude position. There's a glitch that makes your skater explode into a rapidly flailing ball of twisted limbs. There's a glitch that makes you fall through the ground and into an endless void of darkness (or inside a building). There's a glitch where half your board gets stuck underground and pushing off causes your legs to bend and rotate in hilarious ways. There are trash cans that spawn inside of benches and go flying. And there's more. So much more. It's actually possible to identify ''Skate 3'' just from the sound of its physics engine freaking out.

* ''Skate 3'' is absolutely FULL of these. There's a glitch to get your board stuck in a piece of plywood which will then lift off like a magic carpet (with you on it) and fly around the map. There's a glitch where you can get your board stuck under a manny pad while doing a setup and take off into the sky. There's a glitch that allows you to launch yourself off any ramp at high speeds and get all sorts of places the developers didn't intend for you to be. There are several pipes with the geometry reversed that your skater can get stuck inside and become a scrambled squirming mess. There's a glitch that makes you shoot off into the sky in a superdude position. There's a glitch that makes your skater explode into a rapidly flailing ball of twisted limbs. There's a glitch that makes you fall through the ground and into an endless void of darkness (or inside a building). There's a glitch where half your board gets stuck underground and pushing off causes your legs to bend and rotate in hilarious ways. There are trash cans that spawn inside of benches and go flying. And there's more. So much more. It's actually possible to identify ''Skate 3'' just from the sound of its physics engine freaking out.

*** The "Instant Snap Pass", where a series of audibles is used to abuse the AI until the center snaps the ball directly out to a wide receiver in physics-defying fashion, allowing for an easy catch-and-run. Similar is the abuse of the "option" plays while in the Wildcat formation. Simply motion the receiver out wide and then "pitch" the option as soon as the ball is snapped. It results in an unerringly accurate and lightning-fast turning the play into a defacto WR screen pass for easy yardage.

** The series has had a number of persistent examples over the years, with them being "good" or "bad" depending on whether you're the one exploiting them or being victimized. To note some of the more prominent:

*** The "Instant Snap Pass", where a series of audibles is used to abuse the AI until the center snaps the ball directly out to a wide receiver in physics-defying fashion, allowing for an easy catch-and-run. Similar is the abuse of the "option" plays while in the Wildcat formation. Simply motion the receiver out wide and then "pitch" the option as soon as the ball is snapped. It results in an unerringly accurate and lightning-fast turning the play into a defacto screen pass for easy yardage.
** A spreadsheet typo caused one of the players in ''[[ Madden 06]]'' to be ''[[http://news.cnet.com/Madden-bug-makes-NFL-player-tiny/2100-1043_3-5883301.html mere inches in height!]]'' Gamers enjoyed ''Madden'' for the first time in years, but the bug was quickly fixed, killing off the amusement. However, [[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/watch-this-funny-tiny-player-madden-nfl-15-glitch/1100-6422056/ an almost identical glitch]] would later resurface in ''Madden 15''.

** In ''Madden 25'', a glitch causes a quarterback's throw power, ordinarily one of the most expensive stats to improve, to get ''cheaper'' with each rank. While it's still expensive, if a user is good at accomplishing goals a QB can be raised to 99 THP in only a few seasons.
** In Franchise Mode in ''Madden '06'' (and possibly others from around that time), for unknown reasons the game logic largely devalued bad teams' draft picks during the season. If you were doing well, the game considered your first-rounder right before the trade deadline to be equivalent in value to the worst team's first-, second-, and fourth-round picks. The NFL has a fixed reverse draft order, with the worst team getting the first pick, the second-worst the second, etc. While you couldn't guarantee the team you swindled would be the worst overall, as the trade deadline was only a third of the way through the season, they would almost always be one of the five worst by season's end. Having an almost guaranteed top-5 pick every year made it substantially easier to keep your team stocked with top talent.
*** The performance-based stat progression from around this time was also rather messed up when it came to quarterbacks, leading to almost no good [=QBs=] other than those on your team. Every player would get some stat increases or decreases based on their play after each quarter of a season. QB is a very difficult position to play well, and the game had relatively high benchmarks for what constituted good play by a young QB, so virtually every one that would get generated for each year's draft would struggle and not progress much, leading them to continue to struggle and never getting good. Winning consistently was easier when you had some of the only good [=QBs=], but it did make it things less interesting.

* A spreadsheet typo caused one of the players in ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden 06]]'' to be ''[[http://news.cnet.com/Madden-bug-makes-NFL-player-tiny/2100-1043_3-5883301.html mere inches in height!]]'' Gamers enjoyed ''Madden'' for the first time in years, but the bug was quickly fixed, killing off the amusement. However, [[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/watch-this-funny-tiny-player-madden-nfl-15-glitch/1100-6422056/ an almost identical glitch]] would later resurface in ''Madden 15''.

*** The performance-based stat progression from around this time was also rather messed up when it came to quarterbacks, leading to almost no good [=QBs=] other than those on your team. Every player would get some stat increases or decreases based on their play after each quarter of a season. QB is a very difficult position to play well, and the game had relatively high benchmarks for what constituted good play by a young QB, so virtually every one that would get generated for each year's draft would struggle and not progress much, leading them to continue to struggle and never getting good. Winning consistently was easier when you had some of the only good QBs, but it did make it things less interesting.

*** The performance-based stat progression from around this time was also rather messed up when it came to quarterbacks, leading to almost no good QBs other than those on your team. Every player would get some stat increases or decreases based on their play after each quarter of a season. QB is a very difficult position to play well, and the game had relatively high benchmarks for what constituted good play by a young QB, so virtually every one that would get generated for each year's draft would struggle and not progress much, leading them to continue to struggle and never getting good. Winning consistently was easier when you had some of the only good QBs, but it did make it things less interesting.