Well, konpyûta gêmu and gêmu are now seen as general terms for video game in Japan (the latter mostly in savant circles while it can refer to most any game in general language usage). In Germany, the general term Computerspiel has been largely superseded by Videospiel as a translation of the American video game term. To a lesser degree, it's also used in Japan as bideo gêmu, but it feels like konpyûta gêmu has been around longest when it comes to talking about video games to non-gamers. I'd love to take a deep dive into early sources sometime to see how the terms' usage changed over the years.
But seeing how they got both arcade and Famicom games in the CGM series, you're right, they're probably using it in the general sense. Guess I got carried away by the sheer number of their early Falcom music releases.
Thanks for the other series names. Would be nice to have these implemented in the database somehow.
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