Born in 1895, Bertha (Beatrice) Alexander Behrman grew up living above her stepfather’s doll hospital…
Category: Play
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…
Recently I was engaged in a heated match of pickleball. For those not familiar with…
“Only boring people get bored.” This was my mother’s retort every time I told her…
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…