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Coachpotato Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

video games

What's the general term for all these machines 'play station', 'X-box', 'nintendo', 'PSP' ...?

Does the word 'platform games' exist in English? What other kind of video games are there?

Thanks in advance. Emotion: smile
  

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the general term for obox, ps2, gamecube is console, together with pc/psp/ds they are all different platforms/systems. obox, ps2, gc games are called console games which are often $10 more then pc games

— Kanonathena

  • the general term for obox, ps2, gamecube is console, together with pc/psp/ds they are all different platforms/systems.
  • obox, ps2, gc games are called console games which are often $10 more then pc games
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the general term for obox, ps2, gamecube is console, together with pc/psp/ds they are all different platforms/systems.

obox, ps2, gc games are called console games which are often $10 more then pc games
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I've only ever heard my kids call them ALL "video games."

Q: What did you do at Matt's house?

A: We played video games on his new PlayStation. (They've never said "console games.")

But they're younger and perhaps not as sophisticated as the real gamers. (And can you tell we don't have one of those at our house? I'm pretty clueless about it all.)
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yea, both pc games and console games are called vidoe games
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G², I think I got what Kanonathena is trying to say. I guess that she calls video games those games that you can play on consoles such as PS2, X-Box and Game Cube, while by saying "console" she means the 'thing' that you use to play them/on which you play them. Then she has just added that both PC (those that you play on PCs) Games and "Console" Games (those that you play on consoles) are commonly
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YoHf - the 'thing' that you use to play them- I can see you're as sophisticated in this as I am! Emotion: smile My d
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Grammar GeekMy daughter got all excited because she got some really rare pokemon thing and I had NO idea what she was talking about.
G², I'll be glad to translate whatever she may tell you into "standard" language, if you like. :lol:

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