THE many unexpected game OF SIMON YOU’VE EVERY PLAYED

how does one take a game of Simon and make it incredibly awesome? The people at the North street Labs — a Hackerspace in Portsmouth, Virginia — have found the secret and it’s all in the execution. They turned this chair-desk into a coin-operated Simon game that hides a substantial surprise.

We expect you ought to be able to guess the secret. many coin-operated walkway attractions are rides, and so is this. As their Red Bull creation entry the team developed a base for the desk around a 2000 Watt floor buffer. These are the kind of things that you’d see a janitor in the 1980’s using to polish the tiles of your middle-school.  This one just happens to shake the bejesus out of a player who makes a mistake. To help suck you into the game this won’t happen best away. You have to make it past at least four rounds before making the mistake.

The rest of the game is as expected. The playing area is well milled from a piece of wood with acrylic windows serving as the buttons. apparently the most significant problem with that part of the build is finding a way to hold everything together despite the intense vibrations. See for yourself in the clip after the break.