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, 13 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 The luxury mountain resort and 2023 World’s Best Awards winner offers activities like archery lessons and snow tubing, a pub with arcade games and a bowling alley, a kids club, and direct access to hiking paths and groomed slopes. Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2024 Arcade giant Dave & Buster's is set to allow adults 18 and older to place real-time bets with friends on arcade games. Noah Osborne, NBC News, 30 Apr. 2024 Plus More Stars Who Share the Same Birthday McRae shared clips of his own to his Instagram Stories chronicling their festivities, which included his wife breaking glass and expertly shooting some hoops at a basketball arcade game. Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 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 18 May. 2024.

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