Play Oozumou Tamashii Online

Oozumou Tamashii came out on the Super Nintendo in 1993 from Bottom Up. It was part of that wave of quirky, smaller Japanese games that never left the country, so you had to track down a reproduction cart or use an emulator to try it. It doesn't try to be a serious sports sim; it's more of a party brawler dressed up in a mawashi.

You control a sumo wrestler, and the goal is simple: shove your opponent out of the ring or make any part of their body besides their feet touch the ground. The mechanics are built on shoving and slapping, but the real fun comes from the interactive stages. You can knock your rival onto slippery ice or into a crowd of spectators who will then pelt you both with garbage. Matches are incredibly fast, often lasting only a few seconds, and the physics are completely unpredictable. It feels like trying to win a fight inside a pinball machine.