puhekieltä Unable to be played on specified equipment, or at all.
2010, Mark Berresford, Thats Got 'Em!: The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman'' (page 143)
Apparently the Edison company failed to consider, or chose to ignore, the fact that their records were made using the “hill and dale” vertical-cut recording groove and therefore unplayable on standard (and much cheaper) gramophones (..)
puhekieltä Impossible to play or to defend against.
puhekieltä That cannot be played, or is so tedious, complicated, buggy, etc. as to discourage or preclude playing.
1988, Lazer Tag (game review in Your Sinclair issue 32, August 1988)
Unoriginal, unplayable, overpriced and generally unappealing.