[game_preservation] History of "game engine"

[Henry Lowood]

Hi all,

I'm working on a project having to do with the history of the game 
engine (as concept, technology, etc.) and its various impacts on game 
design and other things.  So, here is a question for this group.  Does 
anybody want to make a claim that there was a relevant use of the term 
in game design BEFORE id Software began to use the term.  I've done some 
analysis with the Google database (n-grams, etc.) and I find no evidence 
of anything like that, plus John Romero believes that id coined the term 
as we use it today.   (And I agree.)

Anyway, if you think you have or know of a counter-claim, please let me 
know and I'll check on it.  Source references welcome, of course.

Henry

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