{"id":429,"date":"2008-01-22T17:26:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T16:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=429"},"modified":"2008-01-23T01:12:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T00:12:23","slug":"first-use-of-the-term-casual-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/01\/22\/first-use-of-the-term-casual-game\/","title":{"rendered":"First use of the term &#8220;casual game&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been researching the first use of the term &#8220;casual game&#8221; and thought I had struck unexpected gold when this <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/mem\/archive-free\/pdf?res=9A00E4DD153FE533A25754C1A96E9C94649FD7CF\">August 17, 1885 article<\/a> from the New York Times came up in the search results: &#8220;Provisions for an Ocean Steamer&#8221;. I was awaiting the description of the game-playing habits of the passengers, enjoying, probably, a casual session of some card game en vogue at the time.<\/p>\n<p>But the casual game in question is <em>the other<\/em> meaning of <em>game<\/em>, as in &#8220;hunted, non-domesticated animal&#8221;. Not sure what makes it casual though? Small amounts?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/casualgame.gif\" alt=\"Casual Game\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The first use of &#8220;casual game&#8221; relating to <em>game<\/em> as in &#8220;rule-based pastime&#8221; is either 1919 or 1936, depending on how you interpret the 1919 article.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been researching the first use of the term &#8220;casual game&#8221; and thought I had struck unexpected gold when this August 17, 1885 article from the New York Times came up in the search results: &#8220;Provisions for an Ocean Steamer&#8221;. I was awaiting the description of the game-playing habits of the passengers, enjoying, probably, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/01\/22\/first-use-of-the-term-casual-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First use of the term &#8220;casual game&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}