video game

noun

: an electronic game in which players control images on a video screen

Examples of video game in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The restaurant also offers billiards, darts, shuffleboard, foosball, pinball and retro video games. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024 Schiller, who was born on Feb. 21, 1964, pursued a variety of opportunities throughout his acting career, ranging from TV and film to theater and video games. Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024 Lara Croft, the iconic lead of the Tomb Raider franchise, sped past Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog to top a new list of most iconic video game characters of all time. Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024 Three decades of raiding tombs as the titular tomb raider of the Tomb Raider franchise has landed Lara Croft in peak position atop a new list of the most iconic video game characters of all time. Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2024 The environments are created by inhouse Unreal artists, and because the software was developed by Epic Games for the video games industry there is the potential for crossover with games. Leo Barraclough, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024 He’s also tried his hand at streaming video games on Twitch and has shared reviews of movies on his Instagram. Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024 For a long time, the line was there hasn’t been a good dramatic adaption of a video game so the bar for doing that is really low. James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024 The cultural preoccupation with zombies shambles on in The Last of Us and other movies and video games. Neda Ulaby, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1973, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of video game was in 1973

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“Video game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/video%20game. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

Kids Definition

video game

noun
: a game played with images on a video screen

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