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 He was fed up and went and worked in video games for a while. William Earl, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024 March 10 — or Mar. 10 — serves as the official Mario Day in the video game world, and Nintendo celebrated the occasion Sunday by finally announcing a sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2024 Courtesy of Square Enix There’s no more important death in video games than that of Final Fantasy VII’s flower girl, Aerith. Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2024 Like Janice was, Loren is easily excited, loves the outdoors, and always opts for a book over a video game. Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024 Its anime version is scheduled to be released in the spring on Disney+, along with a video game. Kiuko Notoya, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024 More than manga Toriyama was also celebrated for his contributions to video games, particularly to classic Japanese role-playing video games like the Dragon Quest series and Chrono Trigger. Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 8 Mar. 2024 The first Dragon Quest release, a role-playing video game, was released in 1986 and since then there have been sequels and spinoff games, manga, anime and novels within the long-running franchise. Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024 What’s also remarkable is that Genie generates each frame of the video game on the fly, as the user plays the game. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1973, in the meaning defined above

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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 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

video game

noun
: a game played with images on a video screen

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