Talk:Simon (game)

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Anybody has an idea of the world record ? I read stuff like 14 http://www.hasbro.com/simon/pl/page.newsguinness/dn/default.cfm or 31 (can't find the URL anymore) but I don't believe a word of it, it's much higher with no doubt. Ukuk 17:13, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The record can't be 14. I personally got 19 just the other day. (Of course, it could just be that nobody ever plays Simon anymore or cares about breaking the record) :)

I'm also surprised that I can't find anything about a record. Maybe it has to do with the fact that some sequences given by the machine are inevitably easier to remember than others (giving 3 in a row of the same color, or a full circle). I found this http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:HURJkCMsfEIJ:boardgames.about.com/b/a/046701.htm+Worlds+Best+SIMON2+Player&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

It says "14 Simon sequences". Maybe a sequence is one of those 31 flashes at the hardest level? So 434? I'd believe that.

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[edit] Older models

Will somebody submit some photos of older model simon games? --SuperDude 08:23, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What does this paragraph add?

Mathematically, the sequence generated is n, n + 1, n + (n + 1), n + (n + 2)..., in which n is the single occurrence of any of the four colors lighting up within a given color sequence. Simon's built-in computer generates which of the four colors is chosen, probably with a random number generator.

I'm not sure what this paragraph adds to the last one. I don't really get what the math expression is trying to say, but it seems like it's just restating that the game adds a new color to the sequence each time. --Allen 07:04, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

This paragraph doesn't make sense, so I removed it. lowercase 05:56, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Losing His Mind

I remember from my youth that instructions said something along the lines of "If you ever manage to beat SIMON, he will lose his mind!". I've always wondered what that meant. FractureTalk   06:42, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

I've wondered that too.Cfive 19:06, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

If you finished the set (different numbers for different levels) all of the lights would flash in random orders and it would make a 'doodley doodley' type noise, if I remember right.
Of course, it was 30 years ago or more that I played with it... --StarChaser Tyger (talk) 06:46, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Flash Version

I have changed the flash version link of the game to the flash coder's own Web site. If anyone should benefit from the traffic it's him. And I'm sure that there's a Wikki rule about commercial gain.

[edit] Bop It-Clone?

I don't think Bop It should be included as a clone. It has a Simon Says style game play, but that's it. Bop It's inputs are all different, and other than 'Bop It' do not involve pushing buttons. It also is not a game where you remember a sequence, but rather do what the game says as fast as you can. It's a clone the same way all platform video games are a clone of Super Mario Bros.- it shares a common element, but is different enough to be considered unique. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TDS18 (talk • contribs) 17:29, 3 January 2008 (UTC)