Born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1931, Charles Harrison spent his childhood playing with model airplanes…
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It all began following the 1965 Watts Riots in Los Angeles, California. Louis S. Smith,…
Born in Tanganyika (now the Republic of Tanzania) in East Africa, English national Leslie Scott…
For more than a century, the newspaper trade has had to determine creative ways to…
Nolan Bushnell, Shigeru Miyamoto, Ralph Baer, Jordan Mechner, Will Wright, Hideo Kojima, John Romero. These…
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On my first visit to The Strong National Museum of Play in February 2016, I…
There are five laws of library science, penned by S. R. Ranganathan in 1931: Books…
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While processing the Don Daglow papers for The Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play,…
Star Trek began as a failed 1960s television series only to become a cult-classic during…