Overview
- The honorees will go on permanent display at the National Toy Hall of Fame inside The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.
- They were chosen over a finalist field that included Catan, Connect Four, Spirograph, the Star Wars lightsaber, Furby, Tickle Me Elmo, scooters, cornhole, and snow.
- Battleship began as a pencil-and-paper game, hit big with Milton Bradley’s 1967 plastic edition, was computerized in 1979, and later inspired a 2012 film.
- Trivial Pursuit, created in 1979 by Chris Haney and Scott Abbott and now owned by Hasbro, stays current with specialty editions and a daily online quiz, and along with Battleship has sold more than 100 million copies.
- Slime, commercially introduced in 1976, thrives through DIY recipes and is cited by curators for stress relief and fine motor-skill benefits.