Simon
- Date
- 1978 · confidence high
- Place
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Credited to
- Ralph H. Baer
- Field
- Tools
What it is
An electronic short-term memory game that plays a sequence of tones and lights the player must repeat, growing progressively longer; devised by Ralph H. Baer and Howard J. Morrison for Marvin Glass and Associates, programmed by Lenny Cope, and marketed by Milton Bradley.
What it led to
- Popularization of electronic memory toys in the 1980s
- Influence on later design of handheld electronic games
- Consolidation of Milton Bradley (later Hasbro) in the electronic toy market