Atari Touch Me

Atari's Touch Me began as a 1974 arcade machine, the memory game that gave Ralph Baer the idea for Simon. Atari later shrank its own original into this yellow handheld, with four colored pads under a red display, once Simon had become a hit; sources date it to 1978 or 1979. It is often mistaken for a Simon clone, when the order of influence actually ran the other way.