Simon (game) - Clones

Clones

As a popular game, Simon inspired many imitators and knockoffs. Most notably, Atari released a handheld version of Touch Me in 1978, with multicolored buttons and pleasant musical tones. Despite being named for their older arcade game, the handheld Touch Me contained Simon's three game variations and four difficulty levels, albeit with limits of 8, 16, 32, and 99 instead of 8, 14, 20 and 31. Even its button layout mirrored Simon's, with blue in the upper-left, yellow in the upper-right, red in the lower-left, and green in the lower-right, the same layout as Simon turned upside-down. Its only unique features were a LED score display, similar to the one its arcade counterpart had, and its small size, similar to a pocket calculator.

Other clones include:

• A Simon clone called Monkey See, Monkey Do which featured a similar casing as that of Simon, except that the buttons were oval-shaped.
• Tiger Electronics' Copy Cat in 1979, re-released with a transparent case in 1988
  • Also released as Copy Cat Jr. in 1981
• Copy Cat was re-packaged and released by Sears as Follow Me
• Copy Cat Jr. was similarly released by Radio Shack as Pocket Repeat
• Castle Toy's Einstein in 1979
• Space Echo by an unknown company.
• Makezine has a DIY version called Gamekit that requires soldering.
• The "Game A" mode of the second game in the Game & Watch handheld series, Flagman (Silver, 5th Jun 1980). "Game B" is the same, but doesn't play in a sequence, while the player has a limited time to press the corresponding number lit up.
• A Star Wars version featuring R2D2 sounds by Tiger Electronics, 1997.
• Vtech's Wizard
• it was used in World of WarCraft as a Quest as metioned in WowHead details on it as follows... An Apexis Relic and The Relic's Emanation, photo shot.here
• A side quest in both the SNES and Game Boy Advance versions of Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! involves freeing creatures called "Banana Birds" using this method, pressing the corresponding buttons on each system's controller.

The same gameplay also appears on multi-game handhelds such as:

• Mego Corporation's Fabulous Fred (Game 3, The Memory Game)
• Parker Brothers' Merlin (Game 3, Echo).
• Atari also included a nine-button version of Touch Me as game variations 1-4 (out of 19) on the 1978 Brain Games cartridge for the Atari 2600.
• It also appears in season 3 episode 7 of the TV series Cougar Town, as an old 80' game that young people are completely unaware of. (in this case Laurie)