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 week to try and do it again. They could keep coming back for up to four additional weeks, and potentially could win a combined $50,000. For the 1970s and 1980s "Name That Tune" series, the Golden Medley was played for a grand prize and each tune correctly guessed earned the champion a prize of some sort. As before, with one exception, the goal was to identify seven tunes in thirty seconds to win the grand prize. The champion stopped the clock by hitting a buzzer, which was a cue for the band to stop playing, and could either give an