Simon
It's from 1978, before you were born.
- Maker
- Milton Bradley
- Type
- Electronic memory game
- Debuted
- 1978
- Note
- Debuted at a disco party at Studio 54
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About
As of 2026, it's 48 years old.
Simon lit up in 1978, a flying-saucer-shaped electronic game with four big color panels that flashed and beeped in ever-longer sequences you had to repeat from memory. It launched with a now-legendary midnight party at Studio 54, instantly making a memory toy weirdly cool.
The escalating tension as the pattern grew — green, red, red, yellow, blue, green... — produced genuine sweaty-palmed focus, and the unforgiving raspberry buzz of a wrong answer was a tiny tragedy. It was an early hint of the video-game future.
Hypnotic, beeping, and quietly stressful, Simon is the electronic toy that turned 'follow the pattern' into an addictive test of nerve.
