telegaming

English

Etymology

tele- +‎ gaming

Noun

telegaming (uncountable)

1. The playing of games by two or more distant participants, especially using telecommunications, such as telephony, that predate the Internet.
   • 1984, Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Software Catalog:

     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.

   • 1985, Jonathan Erickson, William D Cramer, MacTelecommunications:

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

   • 1986, Compute:

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

   • 1999, Julie K Petersen, Data and telecommunications dictionary:

     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.