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Tag: Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play

Interior of the Play Lab at The Strong, Rochester, New York.
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Making Space for Play

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on April 7, 2022April 7, 2022

This month we opened our new maker space, Play Lab. It’s a bright, busy place,…

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TV School House I cartridge for RCA Studio II, 1976. Object ID 116.9055, Gift of Raiford Guins. The Strong, Rochester, New York.
  • Computers

The First Female Video Game Designer

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on December 16, 2021December 16, 2021

How did you spend the summer after your high school graduation? Though that was a…

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  • Culture and Society

A Gamut of Games: The Sid Sackson Portal

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on October 20, 2021October 20, 2021

Have you ever wondered how some of your favorite board games were developed? Did the…

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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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  • Culture and Society

The Play of Fortune

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on April 16, 2021April 16, 2021

Is our destiny in our hands, in God’s hands, or are we merely tossed on…

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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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  • Guest Blogger

My Week with Brian: A Conversation with the Collected Works of Brian Sutton-Smith

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on February 5, 2021February 10, 2021

Despite growing up in Rochester and routinely passing The Strong museum en route to the…

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  • Culture and Society

I Hope This Blog Bores You

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on January 15, 2021

“Only boring people get bored.” This was my mother’s retort every time I told her…

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  • Business

Otherwise “Parkerized”: Oral Histories from Parker Brothers

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on January 7, 2021January 14, 2021

Parker Brothers, founded in Salem, Massachusetts in 1883, published more than 1,800 games during its…

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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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  • Catalogs

Digitizing and Preserving Toy Trade Catalogs: The Sacred Duty of the Librarians of Play

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

There are five laws of library science, penned by S. R. Ranganathan in 1931: Books…

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  • Culture and Society

Stories from the Stacks: What You Don’t Know about Stormfront Studios

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on September 17, 2020September 17, 2020

While processing the Don Daglow papers for The Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play,…

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