Dictionary

arcade game en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

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
   • It's not an arcade game—there is no crack of the bat or roar of the crowd or even much in the way of a screen display—but for the true fan, there is the excitement of mathematically structured matchups of real current and past teams with a more-than-passing resemblance to real-life outcomes. 1985, PC Mag, volume 4, number 14, page 51:

Forms

Deriveds

simcade

Relateds

penny arcade · pinball

Translations (23)

es juego de arcade (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · fi peliautomaatti (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · nn arkadespel (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · da arkadespil (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · ko 아케이드 게임 (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · pl gra w salonie gier (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · ja アーケードゲーム (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · vi trò chơi điện tử (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · fr jeu d'arcade (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · cmn 街機 /街机 (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · bg арка́дна игра́ (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · fi kolikkopeli (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · nl arcadespel (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · sv arkadspel (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · nl speelautomaat (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · el βιντεοπαιχνίδι (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · et mänguautomaat (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · nb arkadespill (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · cmn 大型遊戲機 /大型游戏机 (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · pl automat (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · mk флипер (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · ru арка́дная игра́ (A coin-operated video game or amusement device) · fi arkadipeli (A coin-operated video game or amusement device)