video gamen. An electronic game played by manipulating moving figures on a display screen, often designed for play on a special gaming console rather than a personal computer.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.video game n (Electronics) any of various games that can be played by using an electronic control to move points of light or graphical symbols on the screen of a visual display unit Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014vid?eo game` n. 1. any of various games played on a video screen or television set with a microcomputer. 2. any of various games played on a microchip-controlled device, as a toy or arcade machine. [1970?75] Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.