Milton Bradley Simon (1978)

The Simon toy (not the BellSouth/IBM Simon Personal Communicator, #41) began flashing its lights in 1978, at the height of Saturday Night Fever disco-mania. Appropriately, Milton Bradley premiered its memory game at one of the most famous discotheques of all time, Studio 54 in New York. Trying to remember Simon's sequences of lights (and blips) was a lot of fun--and frustrating. The game has far outlasted the disco era: An updated version of Simon is still sold today. Happily, the polyester leisure suit remains an endangered species.