Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
An early type of video game, the predecessor of modern games consoles, consisting of a unit with a built-in controller that plugged into a television set.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: video-games
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noun
A home console game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
Qualifier: usually non-native speakers' English
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History
NNSE sense is borrowed from Japanese テレビゲーム (terebi gēmu), from English TV + game.
