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  Re: When Idle Hands Were the Devil's Workshop: Did Early Game Manufacturers Overcome A Gaming Prejudice?

  Thanks for the comment

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  Nicolas Ricketts National Museum of Play at The Strong

  Wednesday, June 27, 2012 — 8:36 pm

  Michael, your comment is both thought-provoking and timely. There are certainly many parallels between early games and today's electronic games. And I think today's games, and sales figures, could be said to have a similar effect and/or cause on ...
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  Re: When Idle Hands Were the Devil's Workshop: Did Early Game Manufacturers Overcome A Gaming Prejudice?

  Great comments

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  Nicolas Ricketts National Museum of Play at The Strong

  Wednesday, June 27, 2012 — 8:42 pm

  I too have always been fascinated by games that teach, and what they say about the game industry. It is so difficult to understand what Mr. or Mrs. America was like 100 or 150 years ago without jumping onto generalizations about things like culture and ma ...
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  Re: Atari Commercials and the Boy Culture of Video Games

  Slaves to the common advertiing average

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  Nicolas Ricketts National Museum of Play at The Strong

  Wednesday, June 27, 2012 — 8:55 pm

  Great topic! We try to cope with the sexist nature of games and game advertising all of the time in our museum exhibits and programming. Isn't there some television rule that nearly everything is geared to the mindset of a boy in his late teens?  Gam ...