Mikko-Heikki Heinonen is a cofounder of the Finnish Museum of Games and continues to volunteer for the museum. He has spent more than thirty years collecting, cataloging, and exhibiting various gaming-related artefacts and has also contributed stories about them to various media outlets. The exhibition The Joy of Sticks was based on his personal collection of game controllers.

Niklas Nylund is a museum researcher and curator working for the Finnish Museum of Games in Tampere, Finland. His doctoral thesis, “Game Heritage: Digital Games in Museum Collections and Exhibitions” (2020), deals with the heritagization of games in museums and hobbyist heritage communities. His research interests include game preservation, game history, exhibition design, and questions of cultural heritage and inclusivity.