telegaming

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noun

The playing of games by two or more distant participants, especially using telecommunications, such as telephony, that predate the Internet.

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Meanings

nountelegaming (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe playing of games by two or more distant participants, especially using telecommunications, such as telephony, that predate the Internet.

    But there is a lighter side to telecomputing — multiple-player telegaming.

    1986, Compute
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    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

    Multiplayer telegaming, game playing with other people over telephone lines, overcomes this obstacle.

    1985, Jonathan Erickson, William D Cramer, MacTelecommunications

    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

Origin

From tele- + gaming.

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