1989 was the year of the Basel Convention, officially named the Basel Convention on the…
Category: Posts by Nicolas Ricketts
Crayola Crayons were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame way back in 1998,…
Feeble attempts to resurrect a played out brand in a minimal number of stores simply…
I just spent two days jostling with costumed characters and lots of people at the…
“In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang is a … philosophy, describing how seemingly opposite or…
Everybody recognizes a jigsaw puzzle. A national craze in the 1930s, puzzles continue to sell…
In the 1880s the toymaker Charles Crandall invented a dexterity game a player could hold…
Today people find themselves bombarded with ideas, images, and characters from every kind of media.…
What makes a game classic? Part of the answer is longevity. Most people consider chess…
In 2015 David Howe, an avid chess enthusiast in Rochester, donated 40 different variations…
The Strong’s board game collection is unique in all the world. Unlike specialized collectors, the…
In the 1970s, a group of gaming friends added the concept of role-playing to the…
The Strong not only collects playthings, but also acquires significant material related to the invention,…
When Twister’s three developers brought the concept to game publisher Milton Bradley in 1966, the…
The list of Academy Award nominees for 2015 included The Imitation Game, the highest-grossing independent…