Milton (game)

Milton is an electronic talking game made and distributed by the Milton Bradley Company in 1980 and invented by Jeffrey D. Breslow and Erick E. Erickson. According to its patent it was the first electronic talking game that let two people play against each other; earlier talking devices such as the Speak and Spell were known mainly as teaching tools. The game is a single unit powered by an AC adapter, with seven red and seven yellow colored buttons. At the start it recites seven correctly completed three-word phrases. Players then take turns pressing a red button to hear the beginning of a phrase and a yellow button to hear the end. A correct match scores a point, while a wrong one draws a sarcastic laugh, a razz sound or a remark such as Garbage or No Way. Milton is essentially a game of memory skill, with similarities to Simon from 1978, but it did not meet with the same level of success.