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[familyadventuresinnewyorkstate]

𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙈𝙐𝙎𝙀𝙐𝙈 𝙊𝙁 𝙋𝙇𝘼𝙔 𝙄𝙎 𝙁𝙐𝙉 𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝘼𝙇𝙇 𝘼𝙂𝙀𝙎! Recently, I returned with my 21-year-old daughter and my dad, a gentleman in his 80s. If you think this museum is just for little kids, you’re wrong. We had just as much fun as any little kid. This museum has exhibits that are captivating for all ages. 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚: https://adventuresny.com/museums/finger-lakes-area-museums/strong-museum-of-play-rochester/ #museumofplay #strongmuseumofplay #museum #playtime #roc #thisisroc #rochesterny #funwithkids #childrensmuseum #playingislearning #makingmemories #explorenewyork #ilovenewyork #i❤️ny #springbreakfun #familyfun #mustvisit https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqa9qaQOyv7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[teragames]

Revelan los títulos que entran al 'Salón de la Fama del Videojuego'

El 'Salón de la Fama del Videojuego' (@museumofplay) le da la bienvenida a cuatro grandes títulos que son The Last of Us, Wii Sports, Barbie Fashion Designer y Computer Space.

El Salón de la Fama del Videojuego (Video Game Hall of Fame, en inglés) es un museo que honra a los videojuegos que han tenido un impacto significativo en la industria y la cultura de los videojuegos en general. Fue creado en 2015 por el Museo Nacional de Juego y Juguetes The Strong en Rochester, Nueva York, Estados Unidos. Cada año, el Salón de la Fama de los Videojuegos elige un nuevo conjunto…

[viralcorex7f]

Yummy! That is some good steak pizza lol #fakefood #museumofplay #wegmans (at Strong Museum of Play) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8mkRZpn2bh/?igshid=gfrniwmo7fp2

[lifewfourgirls-blog]

Off to Rochester w the littles, on this rainy day! #lifewfourgirls #arurallifestylebrand #rainydays #sundaydrives #labordayweekend #offonanotheradventure #museumofplay #strongmuseum #funforthelittles

[dhanyaasher]

And then God created the butterfly 🦋, to remind us that change is a beautiful thing. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #butterfly #change #garden #koipond #nature #butterflygarden #rochester #newyorkstate #museumofplay #throwback #usa #thisisroc #585 #roctownlive #whatisee #theuncommonbox #igers #igersusa #beautiful #shotoniphone6s #explorerochester #blogger #life #snapseed (at The Strong Museum)

[fideliscare]

#Repost @museumofplayroc with @repostapp ・・・ Spring in Rochester! #museumofplay #spring2017 #visitrochester #exploreroc

[recentanimenews]

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Joins This Year's Video Game Hall of Fame Inductees

  This year's inductees have been revealed for The Strong museum's Video Game Hall of Fame, and one of Nintendo's most beloved games is among them. There were 12 finalists in total for 2022, and the four chosen to be inducted were 1982's Ms. Pac-Man, 1991's Sid Meier's Civilization, 1998's Dance Dance Revolution and 1998's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

  RELATED: Animal Crossing Inducted into World Video Game Hall of Fame

  Here's the official induction video:

    Congratulations to the 2022 World Video Game Hall of Fame Inductees—Ms. Pac-Man, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Dance Dance Revolution, and Sid Meier's Civilization! pic.twitter.com/bYzanU3uSz

— The Strong Museum (@museumofplay) May 5, 2022

  Among the full list of 12 finalists were Assassin’s Creed, Candy Crush Saga, Dance Dance Revolution, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Minesweeper, Ms. Pac-Man, NBA Jam, PaRappa the Rapper, Resident Evil, Rogue, Sid Meier’s Civilization and Words with Friends.

    Last year's inductees included Animal Crossing, StarCraft, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and Microsoft Flight Simulator

  Source: The Strong Museum via Anime News Network

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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine and the Editor-in-Chief of Sci Fi Magazine. You can read his comics at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.

By: Joseph Luster

[actionfigureinsider]

@@museumofplay Announce 2018 National Toy Hall of Fame Finalists

@@museumofplay Announce 2018 National Toy Hall of Fame Finalists

The following 12 toys are finalists for 2018 induction into The Strong’s National Toy Hall of Fame. Only two or three will take their honored places in the hall this year when they are announced at a ceremony at The Strong on Thursday, November 8, at 10:30 a.m.

American Girl Dolls

Created in 1986 by educator and newscaster Pleasant Rowland, the 18-inch American Girl dolls (and their…

[kohai]

RT @Borman18: 👀👀 @museumofplay https://t.co/j0tLgNxz3l

[rochesterny]

AMAZING skies over the Butterfly Garden at the @museumofplay 🦋🍭 Photo by @JamesMontanus. #thisisroc #roc #rochesterny #ispyny #iloveny #iheartroc #westernny (at The Strong Museum)

[fishing-exposed]

@museumofplay: RT @TheSiouxzy: I colored this polka dot fish, scanned it and then it turned into a swimming fish in the aquarium at Strong Museum of Play. His name is Gill and he likes wearing red lipstick. Don’t judge, it’s 2019. 💄💋🐟 https://t.co/x8U3wEuNl6

[caitlinmcthd104-blog]

Question 22 research:time periods and industry changing games

1958

-Before this, games were text driven

-William Higinbotham built a tennis game to entertain his co-workers, this was one of the first games

-Higinbotham's’ “Pong”, “Spacewars” and “Asteroids” were a huge influence on the industry

1977

-Higinbotham's’ Space wars *Very Important breakthrough*

-Space wars used vector graphics, used in modern 3D principles

1979

-Higinbotham's’ Asteroids

1993

-Doom, showed that games could have an immersive experience, like movies

1996

-Lara Croft, Critics believe that Lara Croft was the most successful “…attempt to create an iconic video game star”

-Lara Croft is an excellent example of Britains influence on the gaming industry

-Lara Croft displayed a strong female character, that is action packed. It showed that a female protagonist could be athletic, intelligent and beautiful 

-Resident Evil, one of the most popular zombie games

-Resident evil is a great example of japans influence as it made zombies more popular (call of duty zombies)

1997

-Grand theft auto became a smash hit of 2001, it is a great example of America influence 

-GTA showed things you couldn’t do in real life, such as: Joining the criminal life

-GTA also had a great story, character design and a Hollywood cinematic presentation style that started a trend of movie video games

1983

-Video game crash, due to businessmen wanting to make the gaming industry into more of a business whether than an entertainment industry

2000

-Will Wright releases The Sims, the best selling computer game ever and most popular among female players

2002

-U.S army releases America’s army video game to help recruit future soldiers 

2004

-The Nintendo DS is released and Nintendo continue to maintain dominance on the handheld market 

-World of Warcraft is released and is one of the biggest MMOs of all time

2010

-The indie game movement comes of age

-Minecraft is released and becomes extremely addictive and popular to this day

2009

-Wolfenstein showed that games could have an immersive experience, like movies

2013

-Games such as’ The last of us and going home give players “…tough emotional choices…” to deal with

2016

-Pokemon Go is released and become extremely popular around the world. Shown on the news and also immerses players so much that accidents happen

Key dates:

1945- Japan rebuilding society based around tech

1958- first game America

The 1960s- space war, influenced by the space race with Russia

1972- video game industry made with pong, by Atari in Japan

1978- space invaders trend, a bad influence on kids

1980-Pac man, the game industry's first protagonist

1983- video game crash and Mario was made

After this, Japan kept going up

America didn’t recover really till 1993

Discovery Channel (2007) Youtube, The rise of the video game. Available at:                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u3Hc13wzHE&list=PL7pR4VQWTJJGa9FNLBrD5PzSidIsg_L8T (23/03/2019) 

Museumofplay. Video game history timeline. Available at: https://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline (11/04/2019)

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The latest Mingo Boys Nerdstuff News! https://t.co/7ENFgUcNU2 Thanks to @museumofplay @SKYTEK_RS @ageoffeargame #videogames #tactical

— Mingo (@MBNerdStuff) March 6, 2020

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@Borman18 @museumofplay I didn't know you worked there! I've been there before years ago!

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[babiestobookworms]

When it comes to reading, do your kids consider it part of playtime? We visited the Museum of Play yesterday and I was so happy to see themed books in every section of the museum. 📚 There were food and cooking books in the @wegmans store area, train books near the ride-on train, and reading nooks scattered throughout. There were even books in Big Bird’s giant nest! Not to mention an entire area dedicated to storybooks, and another dedicated to the @berenstainbears 🐻 Thank you @museumofplayroc for reminding kids and adults that books and reading are a part of play too! #reading #readingismagic #readtoyourkids #familyreading #playbasedlearning #learningthroughplay #kidsbooks #booksonthego #bookschangelives #readingisplaying #readingtime #readingisfun #booksforkids #kidsbookstagram #museumofplay #museumofplayrochester — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2OiTZvS

[kidsviral-blog]

These Awfully Dangerous Toys Are Off The Market, Thank Goodness!

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These Awfully Dangerous Toys Are Off The Market, Thank Goodness!

When you’re a kid, playing with toys is pretty much a guarantee. I know I played with a load of toys from age 2 until about 2 weeks ago. What unfortunately happens to those toys sometimes is that they are made quite haphazardly and even dangerously. That makes play time a little bit riskier than the ordinary play time. Lawsuits and injuries are way less fun than a barrel of monkeys.

Some of the more dangerous toys have been recalled and deemed too dangerous for production, like these…

1.) These throwing stars should never be introduced into a child’s play time.

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2.) Easy Bake Ovens have been known to cause a lot of burns to the users. The oven actually gets very hot and if kids stick their fingers inside, they can get torched.

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3.) If you’ve ever seen any kind of glass blowing, you’ll know that it require a lot of heat/fire. Not too smart to hand to children.

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4.) Bucky Balls were a toy intended for adults who are bored at the office, but children got their hands and mouths on them and started swallowing them. The magnetic balls would cause intestinal problems because they’d stick together inside the swallower’s bowels.

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5.) These fun beads used to make rad designs on surfaces contained a dark secret. If swallowed (which is a given) the children found a very unwelcome surprise. The aqua dots contained GHB, a date rape drug.

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6.) These Creepy Crawlers would bake on a stove that got pretty extremely hot and caused burns to the kids playing with them.

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7.) Sky Dancers would twist and twirl in the air launching from the ground. Also they would ram into children, knocking out teeth, bruising eyes, and even breaking ribs.

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8.) This is a gun, guns are not toys. This little diddy would shoot pellets at the other children that would leave burns along with a very nasty sting.

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9.) Snack Time Cabbage Patch Kids had a pretty horrific flaw in their design. They would eat anything placed in their mouths, pulling it down into the doll which is good for the play food given with the toy, not so good for kids who put their fingers or hair in the mouth.

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10.) Kinder Surprise candy came with a doll inside the large egg, which is a delightful choking hazard!

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11.) This is a knife. Don’t give children knives to play with.

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12.) The Atomic Energy Lab seems pretty cool, but apparently it contained real Uranium Ore. For the villainous dictator in all of us.

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13.) The gun would shoot out spark, which in turn would set things aflame. Not fun for children or adults.

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14.) Sharp objects meant for throwing never end well with adults, let alone kids.

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15.) The little cannon would shoot play cannon balls around 35 feet. That’s pretty insane and require a lot of velocity, leading to injuries.

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16.) Slip n Slides are a summer time treat for kids who wish to have some water fun. Not so much for teens and adults who wish to join in on the fun. The toy can’t support the weight of larger bodies, and that sometimes leads to tragic incidences of paralysis and broken bones.

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It’s hard to say how any of these products made it past the research teams (but judging by some of their vintage qualities, some of these companies probably didn’t believe in safety laws at the time). Glad I didn’t play with any of those when I was a kid. Dodged that bullet…or dart…or slip n slide. Share this post if you ever played with any of these toys or know someone who did.

Read more: http://viralnova.com/dangerous-toys/