megagame

megagame

English

Etymology

mega- +‎ game

Noun

megagame (plural megagames)

1. (informal) A very large, or highly successful, game.
   • 1987, Marcus Berkmann, Hydrofool (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 20

     The graphics and sprites are all wonderfully clear and well thought out, and as usual with Gargoyle/FTL, the design's immaculate. If it's not a megagame, it's only because in gameplay terms it's just a little too similar to Sweevo.

   • 1996, Jonathan Evan Maslow, Footsteps in the Jungle:

     The Voyage of the Beagle is a megagame of "Twenty Questions," played out on jungle trails, over vast pampas, up and down the Andes, and through the eons of time.

   • 2013, Elizabeth LaBan, The Tragedy Paper

     He took the idea from the man who had provided the sleds last year and arranged a megagame of musical chairs. This time they snuck all the chairs out of the dining hall and set them up on the quad in a long oval.