{"id":13930,"count":1,"description":"Simon is an electronic game of memory skill invented by Ralph H. Baer and Howard J. Morrison, with the software programming being done by Lenny Cope and manufactured and distributed by Milton Bradley. Simon was launched in 1978 at Studio 54 in New York City and became an immediate success. It became a pop culture symbol of the 1980s.\nRalph H. Baer and Howard J. Morrison were first introduced to Atari\u2019s game Touch Me at the Music Operators of America (MOA) trade show in 1976. Baer said of the product, \u201cNice gameplay. Terrible execution. Visually boring. Miserable, rasping sounds.\u201d The original prototype, built by Baer, included the TMS 1000 microprocessor Texas Instruments chip, which was low-cost and used by many games of the 1970s. Lenny Cope, who was one of Ralph H. Baer\u2019s partners, worked on the programming code for the core of the game, titled Follow Me at the time. Baer developed the tones of the game, inspired by the notes of a bugle. It was when they pitched the demo, an 8...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/simon\/","name":"Simon","slug":"simon","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/13930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=13930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}