Boardgame - The Beginning

Simon – The board game

Simon's a computer, Simon has a brain, you either do what Simon says or else go down the drain

The Simon board game is an electronic device that uses four coloured buttons to produce different tones when it is activated. The game is set into various rounds or stages. Each round is harder than the last as the device lights up one or more buttons in a random order, after which the player/user must repeat the order by pressing each of the buttons. As the game goes on, the number of sequences increases making it harder for the player to guess.

The Simon board game is based on the children’s game – Simon Says, however the game play of this electronic board game is based on Atari’s Touch Me Arcade from 1974. The Simon game was developed by Ralph H. Baer, Howard J. Morrison and Lenny Cope. In 1978, the company – Milton Bradley built and distributed the Simon game.

News and the Media

Giant conglomerates and corporations own the Media and decide on how it’s run day by day. All over the world, countless news channels, websites and applications have been established to deliver constant, up to date news every second to everyone. However, the problems facing this heavy bombardment of information constantly streaming into our televisions and websites are becoming more chosen to what the big bosses at the corporations want us to hear and see. Some information can be referred to many times within a space of a week or even a few months. This information becomes altered and manufactured towards the bias opinions of the news corporation that is sending the information.