unplayable

un- +‎ playable

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unplayable (comparative more unplayable, superlative most unplayable)

1. (of an audio or visual recording) Unable to be played on specified equipment, or at all.
   • 2010, Mark Berresford, That's 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 […]

2. (cricket, soccer, of the delivery of a ball) Impossible to play or to defend against.
3. (video games) 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.