Talk:Handheld electronic game

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A tiny question: How did you call it when you were a kid? I don't believe it was “Handheld electronic game” – there must have been an easier name that people used/use (colloquial/slang). It can also vary region to region of course. I came to this question so that it was only yesterday when I have heard the Czech word digihra for it, that I have never heard before – and am wondering that I am not able to remember any other name (even if we did need to use one obviously). So now I become eager to get to know the words for it in Czech – and even in other languages (that at best are to be written to the Wiktionary). Thanks! --Jiří Janíček (talk) 19:55, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speaking personally, which is a bad way to start for Wikipedia, growing up with Game and Watch, the quarterback game featured in the photo at the top of Handheld_electronic_game, Astro Wars and others, we had no generic term for them but tended to call them by their names, or "game". (UK respondent). --Dweller (talk) 13:00, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I was the same. All just "games", and "football game", "racing game" or "Frogger" when I had to specify. InedibleHulk (talk) 22:12, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Typically by the name of the specific game (in the era of the Nintendo Game and Watch). If there was a need to talk about them in general they'd be "games". 180.149.192.133 (talk) 03:18, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]