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Synonyms

electronic game

American  

noun

  1. video game.


electronic game British  

noun

  1. any of various small hand-held computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of electronic game

First recorded in 1975–80

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Some humans play an electronic game called “Spelling Bee” and we are using it to learn their language.

From Washington Post Sep. 16, 2021

He subsequently left Xerox to join Sun Microsystems and later the pioneering electronic game console maker 3DO.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2020

Reinders and another man used a credit card belonging to Woods to buy an electronic game console, jewelry and clothes, Fort Wayne Police Department investigators said in court documents.

From Washington Times Dec. 15, 2014

Along with Howard Morrison, he invented the electronic game Simon, which was introduced at Studio 54 in Manhattan in 1978 and became a pop culture phenomenon in the 1980s.

From New York Times Dec. 7, 2014

They controlled a vast network of companies; electronic game manufacturers, microwave and appli- ance manufacturers, and notably, acres and acres of Manhattan Island, California and Hawaii.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn

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