“Only boring people get bored.” This was my mother’s retort every time I told her…
Tag: The Strong
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…
Congratulations to sidewalk chalk for earning a place of honor among the three toys inducted…
For more than a century, the newspaper trade has had to determine creative ways to…
Nolan Bushnell, Shigeru Miyamoto, Ralph Baer, Jordan Mechner, Will Wright, Hideo Kojima, John Romero. These…
How do you know if a game will be a hit or a flop with…
On my first visit to The Strong National Museum of Play in February 2016, I…
While processing the Don Daglow papers for The Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play,…
For most of human existence our ability to play together has been circumscribed by our…
How do you preserve the history of a community? What even makes up a community?…
For most gamers, rolling for initiative has been put on hold for the moment. Presently,…
Like many folks born into musical families, I grew up around people always playing and…