One of the great challenges for play scholars or anyone thinking seriously about play is…
Category: Play
By 1980, Jerry Lawson was ready for a change. The 40-year-old electrical engineer had spent…
The Japanese culture of kawaii—loosely meaning cute—emerged in the 1970s when teenage girls with extra…
Recent home repair and renovation has made me wonder: is demolition play? On the surface…
StarCraft (1998) Released in March 1998, StarCraft was more than just “World of Warcraft in…
Welcome two new inductees into The Strong’s World Video Game Hall of Fame: Animal Crossing…
Every year we induct new games into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, and…
“Barbie quite simply changed my life.” Many of us can say that, in one way…
During the first few years after the introduction of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) in 1973,…
Born in 1895, Bertha (Beatrice) Alexander Behrman grew up living above her stepfather’s doll hospital…
Who doesn’t love a good treasure hunt? Whether we’re children or adults, there’s something irresistible…
Ride-on toys, or kiddie cars, first appeared on the paved sidewalks and driveways of America…
Have you ever played hockey with miniature stick-wielding players and a thumbnail-sized puck on a…
Born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1931, Charles Harrison spent his childhood playing with model airplanes…
Despite growing up in Rochester and routinely passing The Strong museum en route to the…