Meanings
plural cocktail games
- A video game built into a cocktail table.
Atari sold it as a cartridge, upright video, and as a cocktail game.
1993, Gene N. Landrum, Profiles of Genius: Thirteen Creative Men who Changed the World1 more example
Accordingly, cocktail games were commonly programmed either for cooperative play or to rotate between multiple competitors in turns.
2015, Nathan Altice, I Am Error, page 20
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