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arcade games

arcade games is the plural of arcade game.

Meaning of arcade game

Noun

arcade game (plural arcade games)

  1. A coin-operated video game or amusement device.
    • Luckily for fans, these arcade games (as the good old classic titles are now called) used to have rather simple mechanics, and most players could learn to play them, despite their poor or non-existent knowledge of English.2014, Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino, Translation and Localisation in Video Games
  2. A game for a computer or console that shares traits of coin-operated video games, such as short levels, simple and intuitive controls, and rapidly increasing difficulty.
    • ‘They’re Twitch Games,’ he grinned, ‘arcade games. An adventure game is one where you use your mind; if you can type, you can play an adventure. If you require anything other than that, you’ve got a twitch game — an arcade game — where your skill of movement is more important than your thinking. […]1985, Scott Adams, quoted in Graeme Kidd, Great Scott!, in Crash issue 15

Questions about arcade games

What is arcade games the plural of?
Arcade games is the plural of arcade game.

Words near arcade games in the dictionary

  1. ARCA
  2. arcade
  3. arcade adventure
  4. arcade adventures
  5. arcade game
  6. arcade games
  7. arcaded
  8. arcadeless
  9. arcadelike
  10. arcader
  11. arcaders

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