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Tag: Atari

  • The Strong

Rethinking the Sound of Early Video Games

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on September 21, 2025September 25, 2025

I arrived at The Strong National Museum of Play hoping to uncover more about the…

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  • The Strong

That’s RAD! Excavating Digital Atari Art

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on February 10, 2023February 10, 2023

As video game graphics became more advanced, the tools required to create them also became…

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Photograph of workers at Exhibit Supply Co. factory, 1949, The Strong, Rochester, New York.
  • Culture and Society

The Strong’s Comprehensive Collection Chronicles More than a Century of Coin-Operated Games

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on June 23, 2022June 23, 2022

When The Strong created the International Center for the History of electronic Games (ICHEG) in…

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Jerry Lawson, Video Soft, and the History of the First Black-Owned Video Game Development Company

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on June 24, 2021June 24, 2021

By 1980, Jerry Lawson was ready for a change. The 40-year-old electrical engineer had spent…

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  • Guest Blogger

The Coin-op Industry Legacy of ICE President Ralph Coppola

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on February 26, 2021February 26, 2021

Have you ever played hockey with miniature stick-wielding players and a thumbnail-sized puck on a…

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  • Culture and Society

Rare Atari Cartridge Is Another Clever Invention of a Video Game Pioneer

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on December 10, 2020December 15, 2020

The first home video game machines were all, as we call them today, “dedicatedʺ systems—that…

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  • Culture and Society

What Was the First Video Game?

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on November 25, 2020December 1, 2020

One of the most frequently asked questions about video game history is perhaps the simplest:…

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  • Culture and Society

Carol Kantor: The Video Game Industry’s First Market Researcher

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on October 22, 2020October 22, 2020

How do you know if a game will be a hit or a flop with…

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