D2 vs Aow:SM

[Elmo]

I agree that the term came before computer games. Since I started playing beer and pretzels board games back in the 60's I feel somewhat qualified to post on the subject. IMO it referred more to the rules difficulty than anything else. Such games had easy to learn rules even if the play of the game wasn't always trivial. A game like Risk comes to mind as a good example. Very easy rules but it could still be a cutthroat game between skilled players.