telegaming
nounEtymology From tele- + gaming.
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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:
- Multiplayer telegaming, game playing with other people over telephone lines, overcomes this obstacle.1985, Jonathan Erickson, William D Cramer, MacTelecommunications:
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- 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: