Inside one of the first electronic games

Sounds good. If it works OK you'll enjoy playing it.

Big Clive

It’s got screw in bulbs 💡

Zane Revai

I recently purchased my first vintage game: Simon Says 1978 Edition w/ TMS1000 Processor!!! I got it in Near Mint Condition for $17+$11shipped off of eBay!!!#BigCliveDotCom https://twitter.com/zrevai/status/1337405416209203200?s=21

Zane Revai

Evil 🦹🏻‍♂️😈

Zane Revai

The game is 2+ years older than I am 😉

Zane Revai

I recently purchased my first vintage game: Simon Says 1978 Edition w/ TMS1000 Processor!!! I got it in Near Mint Condition for $17+$11shipped off of eBay!!!#BigCliveDotCom

Zane Revai

https://twitter.com/zrevai/status/1337405416209203200?s=21

Zane Revai

If you pick one up where the ASIC has failed, you could program a PIC to replace it. Only, add a twist - when repeating the longer sequences, occasionally report that the player was wrong, even if they were correct and watch (or secretly video) their reaction from across the room. Then, when the poor victim protests and claims that your Simon is "faulty", you demonstrate that it works perfectly by wrongly repeating sequences and having report that you got it right (of course, unless you hold a particular button while powering it on, it behaves normally)..

Gordo

Wow a Simon lol that's a blast from the past I had the wizard was a Simon like thing with more lights and modes

I remember seeing a Simon at school in 1978. The kid was the son of the Darth Vader in Star Wars. He had other cool stuff too I think one was a Speak and Spell.

Nuts 'n' Proud

It's very hard to describe how special this seemingly simple game was, to someone who didn't experience the 1970's to 80's electronic revolution. How right you are !!

Once they get underneath the screen there's just no gettin 'em out.

Phil in the kitchen

Pretty sure this is not an "original" version but a later model... I had one of the original ones and it had the old " flashlight" screw in bulbs. These look like typical bulbs that are used in car dashboards or accessories typical slide in contacts on the glass bulbs.

PHIL! I thought i had flees

Michael Gilchrest

You're right. As I said it I was thinking that it didn't sound right.

Big Clive

And on the first take too. The video would still have continued if I'd slipped up and got the sequence wrong.

Big Clive

Beep beep bloop bop 😂👍😂👍

Cerity

The man is no slouch... until the last half hour of the live stream, LOL

Michael Thompson

The last three repeating reds helped, but I was still impressed that you could remember the sequence at the same time as narrating. What does that say about the BC brain?

Phil in the kitchen

Beep beep book beep big Clive says watch my video

As far as I know, SRBP stands for "synthetic" resin bonded paper not, silicone...

Dave Davies

Looks like they included a spare screw too, stuck to the magnet on the speaker. I looked back to see if you dropped it but apparently not, wonder how long that has been there.

Matt Tester

Blimey a blast from the past. I found the Simon says games, really cool as a kid in the 90s.

Strangely enough I just ordered a fault Merlin from eBay with what looks like serious battery contact damage. Hopefully it's not on the PCB too.

Big Clive

Also used a lot in cars, gaming equipment and signage. But that's the first time I've seen this PCB mounting variant.

Big Clive

A true classic never dies. There are loads of 'Simon' variations on the market these days.

Andrew Donaldson

That lamp holder is the same type used in string garden lights in the 80s and 90s as well. They weren't the best for outdoors but for non-humid uses they were pretty damn stable.

Ryan Coleman

I don't think you mentioned it but MB games is Milton Bradley - the brains behind all the major games of the last half of the 20th century

Ryan Coleman

I had one... they were grand - and then it got REALLY fast.

Ryan Coleman

When sales leveled off they came out with one with six buttons. It was too "over the top" and failed. Glad they brought back the original.

Paul Malloy

Velleman Brain Game. It's a kit you solder together yourself. Lacks the colors and nice big buttons though.

Paul Malloy

I was lucky growing up in a house right across from a thrift / op-shop. I used to get all sorts of unwanted electronics for a few dollars. Got one of these in the early 80s, promptly pulled it apart for "inspection". Simon was quite fun but I really enjoyed the VFD space invader style handhelds.

Wim

I remember them when they first came out, and longing for one, but my parents, having three of us kids, couldn't afford to spend that sort of money on "That Rubbish" as my dad called it- he was a technophobe- I did get my Philipps Electronic Engineering kit 1003..? (i think) the following year though!

Mike Hughes

Very cool! Is it just me, or does it look like you had a 'spare screw' stuck to the magnet of the speaker in the video? lol

well played and you got there before I did Which inspired which? Both? They were interesting times, maybe a parallel lysergic experience....

Michael Thompson

I remember as a kid (I'm 54) these were huge. Radio Shack had a knock off version that I was used to seeing around too. Repeat and Pocket Repeat I think. Just last year I asked for one for Christmas and the modern one is very lightweight. They have gotten it down to basics. I bought a couple of other styles and they are now in a drawer (sans batteries!!) But yeah every once in a while I have to dig out Simon, fail after round three and put it away again. Good times... I liked Merlin too.

Michael Thompson

Showing my age, but I remember being presented one of these by my sister in the late 70’s, because my nephew had spilt a drink on his new Christmas present. I think I used nail polish remover (acetone) and a lot of prayer, but it worked again. Must ask her if she still has it, as she keeps everything

Patrick Chivell

That brought back some memories. So which came first, Simon or ELO's Out of the Blue?

You could re-engineer it Clive and make a modern one with LED's

Jeremy Travis

Haynes actually make a kit to build one for yourself.

Neil Tonks

Always wanted one of these as a kid.