I've got one lead that suggests it doesn't refer to the kind of game you play at all ("Are you game?") which would be slightly disapponting!
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@avantgame I like "gamer" meaning athlete in the 1620s http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=gamer&allowed_in_frame=0 … -
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@kevinmarks OMG love this: "Gamester is attested from 1590s but meant "prostitute" (cf. old slang the first game ever played "copulation") -
@avantgame lots of good gaming in Shakespeare http://shakespeare.sayit.mysociety.org/search/?q=Game -
@kevinmarks yes -- "The game's afoot: Follow your spirit" is my favorite -
@avantgame that's game as in hunting animals. Whereas gaming in Hamlet is gambling.
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