Simon is an electronic toy/game introduced in the late 70’s. It was a simple challenge colored buttons would beep and light up in a sequence, and you would have to repeat exactly what Simon would do.
Some people thought it was fun, but Simon was a real jerk. It would beep and beep and just taunt you if you got it wrong. The beeping would keep going on and on and faster and less forgiving. It would suck you into it’s cold harsh world of electronic perfection flashing lights that would stay with you long after you were finished playing haunting your nightmares and eat away at your very being.
I wasn’t very good at it.
I never had an official Simon. I had this 8-button clone at emitted a sample of a dude saying “You turned me ON!” when you did just that. It had the standard memory game, but I spend more time in the mode where you could program a sequence and make it play it back. I think I mostly programmed it to circle all the way around the scale, then hit the red light repeatedly until it’s memory ran out, so I could pretend it was a flying saucer taking off and thrusting around.
Now I am dressing up like a light-up robot and doing a striptease act. Somehow, nothing has really changed from when I was eight aside from the addition of tits.
Nobody beats Simon.
I LOVE Simon. Nobody could beat my high score.