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ATT has a page called http://allthetropes.miraheze.org/wiki/Magic_Ampersand]Magic Ampersand - it's a list of all those "[Something] & [Something Else That Usually Begins With The Same Letter]" game names. It's also a mess; as of when I started this thread, it looks like nobody's ever done any copy-editing on it. So, I figured: as long as I'm going to clean up the page (unless Bob beats me to it), I may as well make sure I've got all of the notable titles that fit the scheme...

So far, the page has these real games (tabletop and PC/console):
  • Dungeons and Dragons
  • Bunnies and Burrows
  • Castles and Crusades
  • Mutants and Masterminds
  • Villains and Vigilantes
  • Tunnels and Trolls
  • Starships & Spacemen
  • Powers & Perils
  • Might and Magic
  • Swords & Serpents
  • Swords & Sorcery
  • Axes & Arcana

And these made-up games:
  • Mazes & Monsters (the movie)
  • Monsters & Mazes (Dexter's Laboratory)
  • Papers & Paychecks (a one-panel comic in the back of the AD&D DMG)
  • Driveways and Desk Jobs ("one college comedy magazine in the US")
  • Cubicles and Conference Calls (Kingdom of Loathing)
  • Aliens & Asteroids (War of the Worlds TV series)
  • Grottos and Gremlins (Bully)
  • Sewers and Serpents (The Big U)
  • Wizards & Warriors (DC Comics)
  • Houses & Humans (FoxTrot)
  • Dungeons & Vikings (Firesign Theatre)
  • Labyrinths & Lamiae (Werewolf: The Apocalypse)

And these webstrips:
  • Darths and Droids (and all 26 of its "episode number evenly divisible by 50" bonus strips)
  • D&DS9

(I probably missed some, since the page is in such a mess.)

What's missing?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Replying to my own post... I did not see Chivalry and Sorcery on the page.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
There's also "Mecha and Manga", a supplement for Mutants and Masterminds.
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>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
Jutsu and Jinchuriki (a 'Naruto as a tabletop RPG' webcomic)http://jutsuandjinchuriki.thecomicserie ... mics/first
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin
Axis and Allies springs immediately to mind.

And I'll stay off your turf, Rob!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Ogres & Oubliettes, a D&D Parody from the licensed My Little Pony Friendship is Magic comics.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Seraviel

Ratchet & Clank, also.
-People may die, but ideas are forever. Je suis Charlie.
Cities & Cyclists, an RPG played in the Rosario+Vampire/Ranma 1/2 x-over fic Big Human on Campus: After School. The monsters try playing perfectly ordinary human beings going about their daily lives. It goes hilariously wrong.
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
Thanks, all. The page is now cleaned up and updated, so feel free to add more examples there instead of here.

Seraviel, I didn't list Ratchet & Clank, since it's neither a game nor a "campaign comic" that turns a show into a fictional game session. The series does have its own Trope page, so it isn't being ignored...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012