playfield
nounEtymology From play + field.
1
A playing field.
- The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west […]1884, Alexander Maxwell, The History of Old Dundee:
- It has been recommended by some recreational specialists that there should be one such playfield for each 500 children of high school age.1974, Comprehensive Plan for Covington, Kentucky, and Environs:
2
The on-screen area within which a game (especially a video game) is played.
- The game has a tilt feature — tilt Fireball and a tilt sign glows and the scoring stops. The full-sized, full-color commercial playfield even has a special friction silk-screened surface so the ball will roll and not slide.1977, Popular Science:
- In this case, the playfield is more disorienting and feels more like the maze that it is.2007, Friedrich von Borries, et al: Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism:
3
The main surface inside the machine where the ball moves and the game takes place.