The American Game is not among the fifty-three chicken breeds reported by the National Animal Germplasm Program of the USDA Agricultural Research Service to the DAD-IS database of the FAO,[10] nor is it recognized by the Entente Européenne d'Aviculture et de Cuniculture[8] or by the Poultry Club of Great Britain.

[3] Some stock has been exported to the United Kingdom; in 2002 there were fewer than a hundred birds there.

He cross-bred the wild Red Jungle Fowl with fighting bantams of the type known at the time as "pit game".

[6] The standard-sized American Game is bred in a wide range of plumage colors; cock birds have long sickle feathers.

[5] As with other fighting breeds, for exhibition the comb, earlobes and wattles are cut off ("dubbed").