electronic game
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of electronic game
First recorded in 1975–80
Example Sentences
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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
The chance to touch a visitor’s hand elicits pure joy - as the latest electronic game would for a child in the U.S.
From Washington Times • May 16, 2015
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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