feelie

noun

/ˈfiːli/

Etymology

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

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A proposed future entertainment, akin to a film/movie, where the audience can physically…
A proposed future entertainment, akin to a film/movie, where the audience can physically feel what happens to the characters.
- Seven and a half hours of mild, unexhausting labour, and then the soma ration and games and unrestricted copulation and the feelies. What more can they ask for?
- One of our brighter young Utopians, Aldous Huxley, predicts that the movies of the future will include “feelies” and “smellies.”
- TikTok’s endless talent show is so captivating that members of the intelligence community fear China could use the platform to spy on Americans or to disseminate propaganda—feelies as a weapon of war.
An additional physical item packaged with a game (usually interactive fiction) to immerse…
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.

No curated loop yet for feelie. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA