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telegaming en · NOUN

Etymology

From tele- + gaming.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The playing of games by two or more distant participants, especially using telecommunications, such as telephony, that predate the Internet.
    • A twelve-year-old in Georgia? A grandmother in Walla Walla? But that's interactive telegaming, and I think it's a wave of the future. 1984, Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Software Catalog:
    • But there is a lighter side to telecomputing — multiple-player telegaming. 1986, Compute:
    • Telegaming has been around for a long time. For centuries, people have played long distance chess and backgammon games by messenger and, more recently, by mail or phone. 1999, Julie K Petersen, Data and telecommunications dictionary:
    • Multiplayer telegaming, game playing with other people over telephone lines, overcomes this obstacle. 1985, Jonathan Erickson, William D Cramer, MacTelecommunications: