Video Games
This game was inspired by a missing slice of pizza
What is Pac-Man?
This sweet game was invented by Eleanor Abbott in 1949 to entertain children with polio
What is Candyland?
The name of the new neighborhood created as a result of the museum's expansion and the filling in of the Inner Loop
What is the Neighborhood of Play?
The year the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum opened to the public
1982
This program, launched in 2019, provides $5 admission to the museum and has served over 44,000 individuals to date
What is the SNAP/EBT program?
This game Russian-created game was once bundled with every new Game Boy
What is Tetris?
This iconic toy was created by a former pro baseball player to help his son throw a curve ball
What is the Wiffle Ball?
The two new indoor exhibit spaces will be dedicated to the history of __________
What is video games?
Digital Worlds will house two new exhibits:
High Score- the home for the World Video Game Hall of Fame
Level up- an interactive life-sized video game full of re-playable experience rooms
The name of the multi-disciplinary academic journal published by The Strong
What is the American Journal of Play?
True or False, the museum provides free admission to foster families in Monroe and Wayne Counties?
What is True?
In an average year, the museum provides over 1,300 free admissions through this program
This game launched in 2000 and became the most popular game ever created
What is The Sims?
Shindana Toys, created through Operation Bootstrap to provide economic uplift to the segregated Black community of Watts in California, produced 130,000 of these dolls in her first year of production
What is Baby Nancy?
The theme for the outdoor play garden
What is tabletop games?
What is False?
This event, held several Sundays a year prior to the museum's opening hours, provides reduced light, sound, and attendance for museum guests who may be overwhelmed by a busier day
What is Sensory Friendly Sunday?
Mario debuted in 1981 on Donkey Kong with this original name
What is Jumpman?
This game was originally designed by Elizabeth Magie to highlight the perils of great concentrations of wealth
What is Monopoly?
The projected annual attendance after the expansion opens
What is 1 million?
We also project an estimated $130 million economic impact for Western New York through increased tourism and job creation in the neighborhood.
ICHEG stands for
What is the International Center for the History of Electronic Games
Our partnership with Monroe County provides a place for care providers to use this kind of therapy to work with children at a high risk of delay in development
2022 World Video Game Hall of Fame inductees
What are Dance Dance Revolution, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Ms. Pac-Man, Sid Meier's Civilization?
The number of items in the museum's collection
What is over 520,000?
The planned outdoor play exhibit will (hopefully) house a 5-headed dragon, the dragon goddess of this tabletop RPG
What is Dungeons and Dragons?
Early investing in this company gained Margaret's family their wealth
What is Kodak?
This program, launched last year, allows children in hospitals around the country to drive a controllable robot through the museum, letting them interact with the exhibit and other guests from their hospital beds
What is the WeGo program?