[casual_games] Origin of the term "casual games"

[E. D. Bass]

When I saw the post by Wade yesterday evening.. something in the back of 
my mind shifted a bit.
Maybe it was the intravenous feed of illegally produced Jolt 
Cola/Formula 51 extract, pumping directly
into my cranium.....

Or....

It was the fact that the casual games topic would get debated. I think 
it was the latter (although the
IV feed did shift a wee bit). At the very least it would be vigorously 
discussed. I guess thats why I dig
this list.. its like telling a group of mildly excitable howler monkeys 
to shut up... It ain't happening.

Just an observation from a fellow howler monkey.

Stephen Triche wrote:

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> [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Milt Michael

> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:18 PM

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> *Subject:* Re: [casual_games] Origin of the term "casual games"

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> Casual Advergames!

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> [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Todd Sawicki

> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 27, 2007 4:03 PM

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> Oh no!  The dreaded what's a casual game debate sneaks it way in ;-)

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> You just never know when the Spanish Inquisition will show up.

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> - Todd

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> [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Dave Rohrl

> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 27, 2007 3:47 PM

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> Let's not confuse the casual space with the download space.  The two 

> have significant overlap, but the casual space includes a variety of 

> delivery mechanisms and revenue models and there are plenty of core 

> and near-core games available by electronic software distribution.

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> Even PopCap, my current employer, built its original business on 

> advertising supported web-based games (not to mention Pogo, my 

> previous employer).

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> - DaveR

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> [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *David Walls

> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 27, 2007 3:41 PM

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> Whoever made it up (and I certainly think Gabe should have the honor 

> before Joel says he invented it), it is indeed most certainly better 

> than the previous term "Downloadable, Try Before You Buy... No, Not 

> Shareware, Sort Of, But Better... You Get >From Web Sites... No Not 

> Flash... Computer Games That Your Mom Would Like." Which of course was 

> catchy, but alas was a rather lengthy acronym.

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> [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Juan Gril

> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:22 PM

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> *Subject:* Re: [casual_games] Origin of the term "casual games"

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> 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.

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> Gabe, do you remember where you first heard of?

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

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> Hope this helps!

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> Juan

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

> <mailto:wade at largeanimal.com>> wrote:

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> An histor ical/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 w as the first? Did we simply borrow it from 

> the console/retail side of the business?

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> 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.

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> Thanks!

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> Wade

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

> project to spend your abundant free time on. C reate a tool that would 

> allow someone to find the first time a particular word/phrase was 

> cataloged by Google. I would totally use it right now.

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> Wade Tinney

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