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Tag: Games

  • Breaktime @ GTN

Breaktime: The Fli-Back Paddle

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on September 7, 2023September 7, 2023

Original Paddle Ball Patent No. 1,529,600 This article originally appeared in 2019. I am running…

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  • Breaktime @ GTN

Toy Fair 1903; What Was Happening in the World

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on September 4, 2023September 4, 2023

1903 was the year that the American toy industry came together for its first Toy…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Movie Character Overload: What Is A Kid (Or An Adult) To Do?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on August 3, 2023August 9, 2023

  “Audiences are growing bored with the seemingly unending number of superheroes, spinoffs and sequels…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

WS Game Company – Our Interview with Co-Owner, Kerry Addis

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on July 5, 2023July 7, 2023

Author Bio: Kerry Addis is co-owner and VP of Product Development at WS Game Company.…

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Image of Rook deck, about 1930. The Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.
  • Culture and Society

Let’s Play!—From Rook to D&D

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on June 13, 2023June 13, 2023

I was born into a game-playing family. While we spent plenty of evenings watching television,…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Jump Rope Chants; Are They Becoming Extinct?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on April 18, 2023April 18, 2023

One of the earliest play platforms was the jump rope. It and the ball were…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Dangerous Games – A Reminiscence

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on April 17, 2023April 17, 2023

I grew up in a relatively small coastal city in Virginia. Our play was unsupervised,…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

The Slow Demise of Street Games

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on April 17, 2023April 18, 2023

Remember when we were kids and we played outside with no supervision? That’s when we…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

What Do Morse Code, Baseball and Scrabble Have in Common?

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on April 13, 2023April 13, 2023

Whether or not you believe Scrabble or Baseball are perfections, take a moment and appreciate…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

What Netflix and Gutenberg Have in Common; More Than You Think

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on April 11, 2023April 13, 2023

  “Gutenberg’s printing press spread literature to the masses for the first time in an…

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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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101 BASIC Computer Games. The Strong, Rochester, New York
  • Computers

David Ahl: Getting Creative with Computers

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on January 20, 2023January 20, 2023

Play begins in anticipation. This is true not only for play generally but also specifically…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Hasbro Has Angered Its D&D Fans; Does It Matter?

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on January 18, 2023January 20, 2023

All is not well in the land of Dungeons & Dragons. Wizards of the Coast,…

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Courtesy of The Strong, Rochester, New York
  • Culture and Society

Playing to Conquer Fears and Tame Anxiety

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on November 4, 2022November 7, 2022

Your hands are shaking as you fumble with the small, plastic pieces, eyes scanning the…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

“Really Bad Chess” and Games that Aren’t Fair

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on May 31, 2022May 31, 2022

Have you heard about a game called “Really Bad Chess”? I hadn’t either until I…

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