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Information Science > Computing Methodologies > Software > Video Games
Human Activities > Leisure Activities > Recreation > Play and Playthings > Video Games

Preferred term

Video Games  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Computer Game
  • Computer Games
  • Game, Computer
  • Games, Computer

Scope note

  • A form of interactive entertainment in which the player controls electronically generated images that appear on a video display screen. This includes video games played in the home on special machines or home computers, and those played in arcades.

History note

  • 96; was see PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS 1984-95

In other languages

  • videopelit

    Finnish

  • tietokonepeli
  • tietokonepelit
  • TV-pelit
  • videopeli
  • Videospel

    Swedish

  • Dataspel
  • Datorspel
  • TV-spel

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018910

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