feelie

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A proposed future entertainment, akin to a film/movie, where the audience can physically feel what happens to the characters.
  2. An additional physical item packaged with a game (usually interactive fiction) to immerse the player in the game world and provide hints to solving the game.

Pronunciation

/ˈfiːli/

Word forms

feelie feelies

Etymology

From feel + -ie. In the video game sense, introduced by the game publisher Infocom in the 1980s.

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