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[edit]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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
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The redirect Game Watch has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 October 15 § Game Watch until a consensus is reached. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 16:43, 15 October 2026 (UTC)