タイムアタック

Japanese

Etymology

English, タイム (time) + アタック (attack), but not used to indicate a playthough of a video game's dedicated mode for achieving fast completions (time attack), as one would expect; instead, it is the dominant terminology for both unassisted speedruns and tool-assisted speedruns in Japan (there is no commonly used loanword deriving from the term “speedrun”).

Noun

タイムアタック (romaji taimuatakku)

1. (video games) speedrun
2. (video games) tool-assisted speedrun

References

• "もりもと", "ホーム ページ", @nifty. URL accessed on May 20, 2006.
• わいわい芸夢館 editors (2006), "わいわい芸夢館", @nifty. URL accessed on May 20, 2006.