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Category: Games

  • Culture and Society

I Hope This Blog Bores You

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on January 15, 2021

“Only boring people get bored.” This was my mother’s retort every time I told her…

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  • Business

Otherwise “Parkerized”: Oral Histories from Parker Brothers

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on January 7, 2021January 14, 2021

Parker Brothers, founded in Salem, Massachusetts in 1883, published more than 1,800 games during its…

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  • Games

This Week: The Resurgence of Chess and Resources to Celebrate the Game

  • by Todd Coopee
  • Posted on November 26, 2020

In addition to setting viewership records for Netflix, The Queen’s Gambit has led to a…

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  • Culture and Society

What Was the First Video Game?

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on November 25, 2020December 1, 2020

One of the most frequently asked questions about video game history is perhaps the simplest:…

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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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  • Art

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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  • Advertising

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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  • Games

Chess is Hot? Yes it is! What you need to know.

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on September 10, 2020September 10, 2020

“From March through August, people watched 41.2 million hours of chess on Twitch.” Kellen Browning,…

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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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  • Design

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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  • Advertising

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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  • Games

This Week: Anniversary of the Patent Behind the Operation Game

  • by Todd Coopee
  • Posted on August 7, 2020August 13, 2020

This week marks the anniversary of the patent that would become a wildly popular “wacky…

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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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