[casual_games] Origin of the term "casual games"

[Juan Gril]

The first time I heard the word "casual games" was in a meeting with Gabe
Zichermann while he was at Trymedia (now Macrovision) and I was at Yahoo!,
back in april/may 2003. I was using the term "coffee-break games"
internally, and Gabe mentioned "casual" as another possible term to name the
downloadable games we were offering.

Gabe, do you remember where you first heard of?

I think at the same time Joel Brodie heard it from somewhere else.

Hope this helps!

Juan


On 2/27/07, Wade Tinney <wade at largeanimal.com> wrote:

>

>

> An historical/etymological question that a writer recently posed to me;

> what is the origin of the term "casual games"? When was it first used to

> describe this particular industry/genre? Perhaps some person or company on

> this list was the first? Did we simply borrow it from the console/retail

> side of the business?

>

> Note that the last thing I want to do with this question is provoke a

> discussion about the definition of casual games, or how it's not a great

> name, et cetera. Beat that horse if you must, but I can assure you…it's

> already dead.

>

> Thanks!

>

> Wade

>

> p.s. If someone from Google is on this list, this might be a good project

> to spend your abundant free time on. Create a tool that would allow

> someone to find the first time a particular word/phrase was cataloged by G

> oogle. I would totally use it right now.

>

>

>

> Wade Tinney

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