What game coined the term "map" to denote the areas players play in?

What game coined the term "map" to denote the areas players play in?

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I don't know. It might have been programmer terminology. They might say a data structure is a "map" of something because it shows what goes where. So it might be really hard to say what game started that when it's kind of common speech.

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It stands for Multiplayer Arena Preset

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I think the first time I saw a level denoted as map, was in Doom. When pressing the Tab button, the map would come up, and the level name was literally MAP01, MAP02 etc.

DOOM did this, I also remember. Goldsrc counter strike doing it as well but i cant remember exactly when.
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Wolfenstein too.

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A map is more like a math function.

Age of Empires

I think Doom is what popularized it, what with multiplayer and people finding which maps to deathmatch in.
But Wolfenstein referred to them as maps, before that Ultima Underworld referred to them as rooms. Who knows what those old Ray-casting games like catacombs called them.

when i was a kid we used to call them boards.

World Map?

Actually, I think Ultima and Wizardry referred to them as maps.
That's 1981, it might be the first instance.

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DOOM. Wolfenstein 3D was probably the first game to use the term, but DOOM is the one that popularized the term.

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It's in fact very old, you can find it very early on, where it refers mostly to "tile mapping", which is the process of constructing a world by repeating small tile patterns, for lower memory usage and higher performance compared with storing full size worlds. The resulting definition of the world is a "table of numbers", each number refering a tile stored in a "tile index", which "maps" numbers to tile graphics.

Very early that term leaked from the software development world into the gamers world, through developer interviews, and most notably, rom hacks: it used to be very easy to identify the "map" part of a game in its binary data and modify it.