Atari BH-100, "Touch Me" Electronic Game
date: label: date made
content: 1978
name: label: maker
content: Atari, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This battery-operated electronic game has a goldenrod yellow / orange case with LED lights, a display, and eight game keys. Four of these keys are the primary game keys in red, yellow, blue and green. The game resembles a 1970s electronic pocket calculator and was recieved with a large collection of these.
label: Description
content: Atarielectronic games, of which this is one, came before and after Milton Bradley's Simon. Touch-Me was first released as an arcade game. Ralph Baer and Marvin Glass saw that version of the game at a trade show and improved upon the concept with the portable game Simon, sold for the home. The handheld home version of Touch Me (Atari changed the name slightly) was released after Simon.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John B. Priser
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0988.153
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.153
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic game
label: Other Terms
content: electronic game; electronic game; Handheld
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 5/16 in x 2 1/2 in x 29/32 in; 13.462 cm x 6.35 cm x 2.286 cm