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
Name That Tune from July 29, 1974, to January 3, 1975, with Dennis James hosting; while the second was broadcast from January 3 to June 10, 1977, and was hosted by Tom Kennedy. Both series were lower-paying editions of the concurrent syndicated series and were both produced by Ralph Edwards. In 2017 Polish public broadcaster Telewizja Polska bought a license. The contestants stood across the stage from two large ship's bells as the band started playing tunes. When a contestant knew the tune s/he ran across the stage to "ring the bell and name that tune!" Four tunes were played every game, and