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Never thought of Simon as "fast and furious"...times have really changed.

Posted by JoeTModelY@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 50 comments

Never thought of Simon as "fast and furious"...times have really changed.

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User013579@reddit

You weren’t playing it right then. Or maybe you just played alone.
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denzien@reddit

You have to see the back
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PuffDragon66@reddit

My brother got Simon. I got Merlin
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RuggedLandscaper@reddit

Both awesome Magicians
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denzien@reddit

I preferred Tim
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meahern_por@reddit

A couple years ago, my wife found her old Merlin while getting stuff from her parents’ house. Still works, but not nearly as fun as I remembered.
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PuffDragon66@reddit

Yeah, I felt like I got gipped with Merlin. Very basic while Simon was fast dynamic.
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meahern_por@reddit

I think Merlin’s big sell was that it had a variety of games, as opposed to Simon’s one…except that all Merlin’s games were lame AF.
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JoeTModelY@reddit (OP)

Thanks for that memory, totally forgot about Merlin.
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Dirk_Diggler_Kojak@reddit

You might think your parents eventually grew annoyed by the tones that thing emitted. I'm sure they found it comforting because they knew exactly where you were and what the hell you were doing! 😆
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Positive-Attempt-435@reddit

My parents still bring up the hours of sonic the hedgehog music I subjected them too. But my mom said similar, at least she knew I wasn't getting into trouble while she was in the other room. Sonic games held my interest completely.
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jaxbravesfan@reddit

You get far enough and it’s plenty fast and furious.
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GreatGreenGobbo@reddit

Its fun to play with your ![gif](giphy|amg2hcfGDkKt4Q3DpF)
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thelonghauls@reddit

Came for this. Was not disappointed.
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GreatGreenGobbo@reddit

I have never actually seen a Fast and Furious movie.
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thelonghauls@reddit

Neither have I. I just know that they never shut up about family.
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TheProtoChris@reddit

I can hear this picture.
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Tazz_Lover1970@reddit

Loved Simon ... it could definitely become fast and furious
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Enough-Parking164@reddit

It sped up till you can’t keep up.Lights can flash very near simultaneously.
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rojo-perro@reddit

Still have mine! Think it was around ‘78 and we found it in the fire place (like Santa dropped it or something). We only get it out at the holidays… so thanks for the reminder!
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zagafi@reddit

I loved Simon. It got super fast and furious!
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blaspheminCapn@reddit

It's Atari Touch Me
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Br00klynBelle@reddit

Be Be Be borp Be borp Be borp burp Be borp burp Be borp burp burp borp borp be borp burp bop Be borp burp bop ❌❎😵❌❎
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-Viscosity-@reddit

I cheated at Simon once by marking the colors down on a paper with crayon and eventually I must have caused a memory overflow or something because it lost its mind and started flashing randomly until I shut it off …
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camelslikesand@reddit

Do you recall how many colors it was? 64? 256?
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-Viscosity-@reddit

I don't remember how many steps it took to make Simon lose its mind but I would be really surprised if it was 256. I don't think I could have held my own focus that long without screwing up the sequence! 😁 64 seems like a possibility though.
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JoeTModelY@reddit (OP)

same here. paper and pen until the end.
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-Viscosity-@reddit

See how we are? 😁
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fujiesque@reddit

Simon was almost orgasmic when you got to the higher levels.
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stephsthebest@reddit

Omg that was my first handheld game, well that and Blip, if anybody remembers that!
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STLItalian@reddit

My parents still have ours. We play it occasionally during the holidays
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CallingDrDingle@reddit

I’ll stick with this, seems perfect to me.
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Taranchulla@reddit

I kicked ass at Simon. Used to make my older brother so mad. In later years when my daughter had one of those Bop It things I found I still had it. It’s crazy and kind of addictive.
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BunsenBurner6@reddit

One of my great achievements in life was clocking this thing - max 32 sequence if I remember correctly. No cheating, just me. Super proud.
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JoeTModelY@reddit (OP)

Kudos!! I always cheated.
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hiddenhighways@reddit

Playing this in the dark and enjoying all the boops and beeps
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Melodic_War327@reddit

Well, it got faster as you went
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tireworld@reddit

I saw a new one at Target this week. I was surprised how much smaller it is and how flimsy it felt.
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JoeTModelY@reddit (OP)

Mine was from 1978 and was surprised to see "Made in USA"
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Ok_Entrepreneur_8509@reddit

Does anyone else remember the simon-like game at Little Caesar's that would let you win a pizza if you got to a certain level? In high school, my super smart friend ended up getting banned because she could basically beat it every time.
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jaxbravesfan@reddit

I remember playing it while we were waiting for our pizza to be ready, but never got to the free pizza level that I can remember.
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chickenskinduffelbag@reddit

I remember these. I won breadsticks and sodas pretty frequently.
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spatula-tattoo@reddit

We had some knock of version, I don’t remember what it was called
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HyrrokinAura@reddit

There was one called Copycat, with a little version called Copycat Jr
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Slugggo@reddit

as kids doing 4-player, we were smashing the buttons so hard we had to go back to Toys R Us to pick up a replacement Super Simon. 😆
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cqshep@reddit

Dude it’s only slow at first. It gets super fast and crazy furious.
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home_dollar@reddit

With 4 players, when each person is assigned a color, there does feel like more pressure and it can get pretty fast
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NnyBees@reddit

Fast and furious was when we played hot hands
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Moonsmom181@reddit

Great for exercising GenX brains!!
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xerxespoon@reddit

If you're good, it gets really fast and furious.
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