Handheld electronic game by less bright dots). In 1978 the Milton Bradley Company entered the handheld market with Simon, a simple color-and-sound-matching game. Simon had no dedicated display, but featured four colored, lighted buttons; the original version was large enough to be used as a tabletop game or a handheld; later versions became increasingly smaller. The same year, Parker Brothers also released Merlin, a more sophisticated handheld which could play six different games using an array of 11 buttons with integrated LEDs. Despite their relative simplicity, each of these early games was highly successful. The initial success of Mattel and Parker Brothers' entries
Improvised Electronic Device leg of the 2011 tour was German electronic music band Digital Factor. "Improvised Electronic Device" garnered some very good reviews, but overall critical reception was only cautiously positive. In light of the band's career spanning decades, critics reflected about how the sound and style of "Improvised Electronic Device" compare to past releases. Mike Schiller of PopMatters emphasized the band's "consistency of sound": "It sounds so much like Front Line Assembly, in fact, that it would have fit right in on just about any Front Line Assembly album since 1994’s "Millennium"." Referring to tracks that borrow elements from songs of earlier