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Author: The Strong

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Baby Nancy Inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on November 12, 2020December 22, 2020

It all began following the 1965 Watts Riots in Los Angeles, California. Louis S. Smith,…

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  • Announcement

Block by Block: Leslie Scott’s Jenga Game (or, in Swahili, Zuia kwa kuzuia: Mchezo wa Jenga wa Leslie Scott)

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on November 5, 2020

Born in Tanganyika (now the Republic of Tanzania) in East Africa, English national Leslie Scott…

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Marvelous Menagerie, Boston Sunday Globe, 1895. The Strong, Rochester, New York.
  • Culture and Society

Extra, Extra: Read All About Newspapers and Play

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on October 29, 2020

For more than a century, the newspaper trade has had to determine creative ways to…

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  • Culture and Society

Digital Resources from The Strong’s Women in Games Initiative

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on October 25, 2020October 27, 2020

Nolan Bushnell, Shigeru Miyamoto, Ralph Baer, Jordan Mechner, Will Wright, Hideo Kojima, John Romero. These…

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  • Culture and Society

Carol Kantor: The Video Game Industry’s First Market Researcher

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on October 22, 2020October 22, 2020

How do you know if a game will be a hit or a flop with…

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The History of Black Barbies: From Playthings to Liberation

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on October 1, 2020December 22, 2020

On my first visit to The Strong National Museum of Play in February 2016, I…

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  • Catalogs

Digitizing and Preserving Toy Trade Catalogs: The Sacred Duty of the Librarians of Play

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

There are five laws of library science, penned by S. R. Ranganathan in 1931: Books…

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  • Culture and Society

Stories from the Stacks: What You Don’t Know about Stormfront Studios

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on September 17, 2020September 17, 2020

While processing the Don Daglow papers for The Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play,…

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  • Culture and Society

Skater Girls: A Brief History on Female of Skateboarders

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on September 10, 2020September 10, 2020

In 1959, Roller Derby Skate Company released its Roller Derby Skateboard, the first mass-produced skateboard…

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  • Culture and Society

Toxic Times: The NIMBY Satirical Board Game

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on September 4, 2020

1989 was the year of the Basel Convention, officially named the Basel Convention on the…

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  • Guest Blogger

A Brief History of Online Games

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on August 28, 2020December 22, 2020

For most of human existence our ability to play together has been circumscribed by our…

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A Monopoly on Monopoly: Parker Brothers’ Pursuit of a Game to Call Their Own

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on August 21, 2020December 22, 2020

The Strong recently released an online exhibit on the early history of Monopoly, and it…

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  • Culture and Society

Cute as Button

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on August 14, 2020December 22, 2020

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by buttons. Often small…

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  • Culture and Society

Pin the What?!

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on August 6, 2020

What sort of party games stick in your memory? No, not the ones from your…

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  • Culture and Society

Saving Speedrunning and Digital Communities

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on July 30, 2020July 30, 2020

How do you preserve the history of a community? What even makes up a community?…

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  • Culture and Society

Continuing the Adventure from Home: Tabletop Role-Play Games while Social Distancing

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on July 23, 2020

For most gamers, rolling for initiative has been put on hold for the moment. Presently,…

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  • Culture and Society

Name That Tune

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on July 17, 2020

Like many folks born into musical families, I grew up around people always playing and…

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  • Culture and Society

Costuming for Everyone: Cosplay

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on July 10, 2020

Imagine being able to dress up for more days than just Halloween. You could opt…

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