Senso (game)

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Senso / Simon
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Game data
author Ralph H. Baer ,
Howard J. Morrison
publishing company Milton Bradley Company
Publishing year 1978
Art Electronic game
Teammates 1 to 4
Duration 1-10 minutes
Age from 7 years

Awards

Game of the year 1979: shortlist

Senso (in the English-speaking area Simon ) is an electronic game developed by Ralph Baer - the developer of the first TV game console, Magnavox Odyssey , released in 1972 - and Howard J. Morrison and patented in several countries , which was published by Milton Bradley in 1978 and is particularly popular in enjoyed great popularity in the 1980s . In 1979 it was on the shortlist for Game of the Year . The game has recently also been sold as Simon in Germany .

Mini Senso from MB
Game play by Senso

idea

Senso can be played alone or with several people. The game consists of four large fields in the colors red , blue , yellow and green . These light up alternately and emit a short, individual signal tone for each color. The player must remember this order and repeat it after the game has completed the task. A further color-tone combination is added with each round. With increasing difficulty, the fields light up in faster order.

Arcade game

Touch Me, Handheld 1978

1974, four years earlier, there was already the arcade game Touch Me from Atari with four black keys. In 1978 a Senso clone was released as a handheld Touch Me (with 4 colors, notation without hyphen). The English name Simon comes from the Odyssey game Simon Says , but Senso is based on the unsuccessful Touch-Me .

While the "original" Senso was designed as a table game, the portable Mini-Senso and the Super-Senso, which can be operated by 2 players at the same time, soon appeared.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patent US4207087 : Microcomputer controlled game. Filed September 19, 1977 , published June 10, 1980 . ‌

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