Six ancient characters in salmon river, fun they're too old for? (5,4)
I believe the answer is:
video game
'for?' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'six ancient characters in salmon river fun they're too old' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'six' could be 'vi' (Roman numerals) and 'vi' is found in the answer.
'old' could be 'o' (common abbreviation eg in OE for Old English) and 'o' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for video game that I've seen before include "Visual entertainment" , "entertainment on screen" .)