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Category: Posts by Nicolas Ricketts

Illustration of Darklands, MicroProse Software, 1992, gift of Douglas Watley. The Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.
  • Posts by Nicolas Ricketts

Game Influencer: The Career of Arnold Hendrick

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on April 7, 2023April 7, 2023

Game design is learned by doing. Get a game with a level editor or a…

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Image of Dungeons & Dragons, Tactical Studies Rules, 1974, The Strong, Rochester, New York. Shown with student booklet “Dungeons and Dragons.”
  • Culture and Society

Teaching Medieval History with Dungeons & Dragons

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on March 3, 2023

In the Autumn, 1975 issue of Strategic Review, the precursor to Dragon Magazine, Gary Gygax…

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  • Announcement

Risk: Playing War with Family and Friends

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on November 18, 2021November 19, 2021

On November 4, 2022, the board game Risk joined the other celebrated toys and games…

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Clank-A-Deck-Building-Adventure-board-game-Renegade-Game-Studios-2016-The-Strong-Rochester-New-York.-Gift-of-Paul-Dennen.
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Board Game Prototypes and a Gift of Clank!

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on September 23, 2021September 28, 2021

We receive lots of donations every year at The Strong, from single items to accumulations…

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  • Business

Cease-and-Desist: Don’t Mess with Tolkien

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on April 22, 2021May 20, 2021

During the first few years after the introduction of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) in 1973,…

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  • Disruption Report

The Disruption Report #7: Plastic Prices Spike, More Containers Overboard, and the Suez Canal is Unplugged

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on March 29, 2021April 22, 2021

Plastic Prices Near Record Highs In The Disruption Report #6, I wrote that Texas’s deep…

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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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  • 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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  • Culture and Society

Coloring Fun: National Toy Hall of Fame Inducts Coloring Book

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on January 17, 2020

Crayola Crayons were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame way back in 1998,…

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