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netplay en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From net + play.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Multiplayer gameplay over a network.
    • most emulators support netplay, like SNES9x or RockNes. is anyone interested? 2002, Mark Canavan, “netplay”, in alt.games.video.emulation (Usenet):
    • Can somebody help me? I have a PowerMac^([sic]) 6100/60 and a Powerbook^([sic]) 1400 Localtalk^([sic]) networked. I can't get Abuse to work in netplay. Both machines have 16 MB of RAM but when I try to start a netgame, the loading screen comes up then the ocmputer^([sic]) quits... Any ideas? 1997, Kip, “Abuse netplay problems!”, in comp.sys.mac.games.action (Usenet):