Comment by coolsunglasses

"Quake terminal" has been a term of art for a regular terminal that drops down from the top of the screen like the terminal in Quake did for the last 20-22 years. I remember this being a thing when I started using Linux back then.

https://github.com/Guake/guake

https://babbagefiles.xyz/quake-drop-down-terminal-history/

Yakuake, Kuake (2003), etc.