Meaning of telegaming | Babel Free

Definitions

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

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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