“Only boring people get bored.” This was my mother’s retort every time I told her…
Category: Play
When I was growing up and my sister and I got together with our favorite…
One of the most frequently asked questions about video game history is perhaps the simplest:…
Congratulations to sidewalk chalk for earning a place of honor among the three toys inducted…
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…
How do you know if a game will be a hit or a flop with…
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…
In 1959, Roller Derby Skate Company released its Roller Derby Skateboard, the first mass-produced skateboard…
For most of human existence our ability to play together has been circumscribed by our…
Yesterday, August 20th was National Radio Day, “a day to appreciate the AM and get…
The Strong recently released an online exhibit on the early history of Monopoly, and it…