Nolan Bushnell, Shigeru Miyamoto, Ralph Baer, Jordan Mechner, Will Wright, Hideo Kojima, John Romero. These…
Category: Manufacturing
On my first visit to The Strong National Museum of Play in February 2016, I…
For those in manufacturing, there are two major holidays to always plan around – Chinese…
China is classified as a developing nation, however the modernity of its tier-1 mega cities…
The Strong recently released an online exhibit on the early history of Monopoly, and it…
Not long ago—1977, to be exact—in our very own galaxy, moviegoers witnessed the birth of…
There has been no reported outbreak in the factories, and there has been, in the…
The number of migrant workers in China, who do much of Apple’s production, exceed Vietnam’s…
China has almost 33 times the toy manufacturing capacity of Viet Nam. … I, like…
The histories of tabletop games and video games are deeply woven together. Analog and digital…
Several years ago, I was talking with the author Daniel Handler. Handler, who wrote under…
Every year The Strong welcomes new inductees into the World Video Game Hall of Fame,…
At the turn of the 20th century, the toy market in the United States relied…
Think of the ubiquitous crayon—generally a three-inch-long, likely worn down (or possibly broken!) waxy object.…
Plastic was invented in the late 19th century, but not until after World War II…