sports game
English
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Noun
[edit]sports game (plural sports games)
- A video game or arcade game that simulates a sport.
- 1950 October, “Sensational baseball game [advertisement]”, in My Friend Irma, number 5, page 29:
- Greatest Sports Game Sensation. Approved and played by Spec Shea, Johny Pesky, Bobby Doerr, Rogers Hornsby, others. NO DICE OR SPINNERS – Hit a Grounder, Pop Fly, or a Home Run Over the Fence
- 1979, Bill Kunkle, “Arcade Alley”, in Video, page 43:
- BASKETBALL (CX2624) is sure to delight electronic sports game fans. It offers the most exciting four minutes of one-on-one hoop action we’ve seen so far.
- 1997 October, “Madden 64: The game that shocked the world”, in Game Informer, page 15:
- There is nothing cooler than playing a sports game for months on end, only to see something you’ve never seen before. Madden is chock full of one-handed grabs, leaping catches, and bone crunching hits.
- 2010 February, Rolf Kretschmann, “Developing Competencies by Playing Digital Sports-Games”, in US-China Educational Review, page 68:
- Kayali and Purgathofer (2008) tried to differentiate the genre of digital sports games into sub-genres: extreme sports game, fun sports game, sports simulation, team sports simulation and deep sports simulation.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sport, game.
- 1971, Mac Davis, Football’s Unforgettables, page 34:
- a sports game came into existence which is now played all over the world, […] The game is basketball—America’s only true native sports game.