Simon

The goal is to repeat the sequence Simon gives you. After successfully repeating a sequence, Simon adds one randomly chosen button to the sequence and repeats this until a sequence of sufficient length is completed.

This challenges player's work memory the most as you have to memorize a sequence and modify that by adding one element to it for each successive cycle.

Despite being labelled as rhythm game, player needs not maintain rhythm to successfully beat the game (they can freely choose their rhythm like with any other game that does not require following precisely timed sequences, although this has no effect on the game itself). However, some units and videogames based on them did have a timeout that cannot be exceeded before pressing the next button. So some versions do have a minimum speed.



Personally, I will always remember the game as Super Simon. I was intruduced to it in 1980