As a child, I used to frequent The Strong museum and its many exhibits. I…
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This month we opened our new maker space, Play Lab. It’s a bright, busy place,…
A recent addition to The Strong museum’s collection got me thinking about how gender intersects…
We’ve recently opened Skyline Climb, a high adventure ropes course that soars high in our…
“I love a parade.” Or at least that’s what the rousing chorus of Harry Richman’s…
In the summer of 2020, The Strong museum was approached by two veteran producers of…
Recently, I had an opportunity to design a case layout for High Score, one of…
In a recent American Journal of Play article, psychologist Peter Gray draws on surveys with…
Every year we induct new games into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, and…
Have you ever played hockey with miniature stick-wielding players and a thumbnail-sized puck on a…
“Only boring people get bored.” This was my mother’s retort every time I told her…
Parker Brothers, founded in Salem, Massachusetts in 1883, published more than 1,800 games during its…
This fall I donated three digital collections to The Strong museum: the LGBTQ Video Game…
The first home video game machines were all, as we call them today, “dedicatedʺ systems—that…
When I was growing up and my sister and I got together with our favorite…