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Milton Bradley's Battleship, a strategy game that challenges
players to strike an opponent's warships, and Trivial Pursuit,
which tests players' knowledge in categories like geography and
sports, have each sold more than 100 million copies over several
decades, according to the Hall of Fame.
Battleship started as a pencil-and-paper game in the 1930s, but
it was Milton Bradley's 1967 plastic edition with fold-up
stations and model ships that became a hit with the public. Its
popularity crested when Universal Pictures and Hasbro, which now
owns Milton Bradley, released the 2012 movie, “Battleship,”
loosely based on the game. Battleship was also among the first
board games to be computerized in 1979, according to the Hall of
Fame, and now there are numerous, electronic versions.
Trivial Pursuit lets players compete alone or in teams as they
maneuver around a board answering trivia questions in exchange
for wedges in a game piece. Canadian journalists Chris Haney and
Scott Abbott came up with the game in 1979 and eventually sold
the rights to Hasbro. Frequently updated, specialty versions
have emerged for young players, baby boomers and other segments
and an online daily quiz keeps players engaged, chief curator
Chris Bensch said.
Slime's appeal is more about squish than skill.
It was introduced commercially in 1976 and has been manufactured
under various brand names, but it is even more accessible as a
do-it-yourself project. The internet offers a variety of recipes
using ingredients like baking soda, glue and contact lens
solution.
“Though slime continues to carry icky connotations to slugs and
swamps — all part of the fun for some — the toy offers
meaningful play," curator Michelle Parnett-Dwyer said, adding
that it's also used for stress relief and building motor skills.
The honorees will be on permanent display at the Hall of Fame
inside The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New
York.
This year's inductees were voted in over other nominees
including the games Catan and Connect Four, the Spirograph
drawing device, the “Star Wars” lightsaber, Furby and Tickle Me
Elmo. They also beat out classics including scooters, cornhole
and snow.
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