arcade game

noun

: a usually coin-operated game designed for play at an amusement arcade

Examples of arcade game in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Get our free daily crossword puzzle, sudoku, word search and arcade games. Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024 The best places to play arcade games in Charlotte.] With locations in Atlanta, New Jersey, Houston and Chicago, each Activate location offers a variety of gaming rooms with over 700 levels for players to compete and track achievements online. Mari Pressley, Charlotte Observer, 23 May 2024 The Apple spot featured a hydraulic press shown crushing instruments, paint buckets, an arcade game and other objects, seemingly to demonstrate that the latest iPad is at once powerful and compact. Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 17 May 2024 Yes, Round 1 is a chain of entertainment centers that originated in Japan and offers arcade games, bowling, karaoke, billiards and more. Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2024 In an interview with the Smithsonian Institution in 2017, Mr. Bushnell said his background in arcade games, which sold for about $1,500 to $2,000 per machine, sparked his desire to open a pizza joint with the games, each of which would collect up to $50,000 in coins in their lifetime. Jesus Jiménez Jackie Molloy, New York Times, 11 May 2024 The ad, which was released by the tech giant Tuesday, shows a hydraulic press crushing just about every creative instrument artists and consumers have used over the years — from a piano and record player, to piles of paint, books, cameras and relics of arcade games. Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 9 May 2024 Students learn design by building cardboard arcade games like Skee-Ball for their classmates. Terry Spencer, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2024 There are cell-phone screens, computer screens, arcade games, glimpses of movies at multiplexes, and, of course, above all, televisions. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1960, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of arcade game was in 1960

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“Arcade game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arcade%20game. Accessed 28 May. 2024.

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