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speedgame

speedgame noun: a video game that one speedruns.

Noun

speedgame (plural speedgames)

  1. A video game that one speedruns.
    • The best speedgames are relatively short, not too luck-based, and have a very high skill ceiling.
    • No one had really speedrun that game [Rage] yet ... It's what got me into speedrunning, not what my first speedgame was.2016 January 6, Chris Daniel Grant, quoting Halfcoordinated, “How a gamer with a disability speedruns some of the world's fastest games”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2022

Examples of speedgame in a sentence

  • Generations is the speedgame among speedgames, eschewing even the technical aspects of Adventure 2 in favor of levels meant to be blazed through and conquered in as short a time as possible.2021 July 13, Caleb Pisoni, “In Defense of 3D Sonic”, in Paste (magazine), Decatur, G.A.: Paste Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...
  • With Minecraft rising up the ranks and becoming the most popular speedgame of all time, there is no doubt this record will be heavily contested in the months to come.2022 April 7, Sam Reaves, “Minecraft: Fastest Speedruns”, in The Gamer, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023:

Forms of speedgame

pluralspeedgames

Origin of speedgame

Compound of speed + game.

Questions about speedgame

What does speedgame mean?
Speedgame means a video game that one speedruns.
How do you use speedgame in a sentence?
Generations is the speedgame among speedgames, eschewing even the technical aspects of Adventure 2 in favor of levels meant to be blazed through and conquered in as short a time as possible.
What part of speech is speedgame?
Speedgame is a noun.
What is the plural of speedgame?
The plural of speedgame is speedgames.

Words near speedgame in the dictionary

  1. speedfreak
  2. speedfreaks
  3. speedful
  4. speedfully
  5. speedfulness
  6. speedgame
  7. speedgames
  8. speedgun
  9. speedguns
  10. speedhump
  11. speedhumps

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