a b c d US 6086478,Klitsner, Daniel B.&Welch, Robert M.,"Hand-held voice game",published 2000-07-11, assigned to Hasbro Inc. Bop It BB8". Time to Play Magazine. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019 . Retrieved 30 July 2019. Mini versions of several Bop It models have also been released throughout the duration of the series to be used as keychain carabiners and pens. Mini versions have been released for Bop It 1996 and 2002, [46] Bop It Extreme, Bop It Extreme 2, Bop It!, and Bop It! XT. [47] Game modes Vox Bop (with voice commands) Philip Orbanes (2004). The Game Makers: The Story of Parker Brothers From Tiddledy Winks to Trivial Pursuit. Harvard Business School Press. p.iv. ISBN 9781591392699. EA Games has also made Hasbro Family Game Night 4: The Game Show which features Bop It as a playable simulation. [51]

Earth, Entertainment. "Bop It Keychain Game - Hasbro Games - Games - Games at Entertainment Earth Item Archive". BATR Electronic Game of the Year 2005 Award 2005". 2010-11-30. Archived from the original on 2010-11-30. In early 2013, the Tetris Company signed a deal with Hasbro to make Tetris-themed games with their brands. Later in 2013, Hasbro launched Jenga and Bop It-themed versions of Tetris. [32] It features a "Marathon" mode and additional modes based around different gameplay styles (Blast, Double Drop and Shuffle). [ citation needed] A special Silver edition was also released in late 2013 only in the United States. In the Marathon mode, the player can take advantage of the bonus rounds to score over 800 points. [ citation needed] Bop It! Beats Exclusive First Look of the Bop It! 2016". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21 . Retrieved 30 July 2019. Bop It! Micro Series Game | Bop It". products.hasbro.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-02 . Retrieved 2019-08-02.

Since 2008, the voice of Bop It has been Buddy Rubino. Rubino has voiced all the modern Bop It games which include: Bop It!, Bop It! XT, Bop It! Smash, Bop It! Tetris, Bop It! Micro (original recordings from Bop It!), Bop It! New Moves and Bop It! Maker. Rubino was unaware of Bop It when recording the voice, and was advised to do it "really excited". [10] Bop It has sold over 30 million units worldwide. [11] Original series (1996–2006) Bop It a b US 6210278,Klitsner, Daniel B.,"Hand-held voice game",published 2001-04-03, assigned to Klitsner Industrial Design LLC DJ (2017-02-20). "Toy Fair 2017 - Hasbro Games". Archived from the original on 2019-07-30 . Retrieved 30 July 2019. Beat Bop Solo" is only available for Bop It Extreme and Bop It Extreme 2. This game is substantially similar to the "Beat Bop (with musical commands)" mode, except that the "Pass It!" command is never issued. Instead, when the player misses a command, the game ends and the score is reported. [16] [17] [19] Light Bop In 2003, this model was one of the top games in the market. [18] Bop It Extreme 2 The Bop It Extreme 2

Philip Orbanes (2004). The Game Makers: The Story of Parker Brothers From Tiddledy Winks to Trivial Pursuit. Harvard Business School Press. p.210. ISBN 9781591392699. BATR Electronic Game of the Year Award 2003". 2010-11-30. Archived from the original on 2010-11-30. De Götzen, Amalia; Serafin, Stefania (July 11–13, 2007). Prolegomena to Sonic Toys (PDF). Proceedings SMC'07, 4th Sound and Music Computing Conference. Lefkada, Greece. p.174 . Retrieved 2009-06-23.The Bop It! Micro Series is a version of Bop It released in 2014 by Hasbro. [35] It uses the three basic commands Bop It, Twist It and Pull It and it has two game modes: Solo and Pass It. The game also has three volume levels. The highest score in the Bop It! Micro is 100 and as the player scores closer to 100 the pitch of the gameplay will speed up. As Hasbro released it as a series of games, several character-themed versions of the Micro Bop It followed which include Bop It R2D2, [36] Bop It BB8, [37] Bop It Groot [38] and Bop It Minion. In addition to these characters, Hasbro have released a Bop It Olaf and a Bop It Chewbacca [39] in 2019. The "Beat Bop" mode follows a similar format as the "Vox Bop (with voice commands)" mode (above) and the rules are roughly equivalent. The game mode is called "Lights Only" in Bop It Beats. The difference in "Beat Bop" mode is that the game uses sounds as commands instead of words. Thus: Relf, Alex (2019-02-17). "Toy Fair 2019 Hasbro Star Wars Reveals". Laughing Place . Retrieved 30 July 2019. Tony Tulathimutte (2004). " Controller Mediation in Human-Computer Play" ( DOC). Stanford University: 91 . Retrieved 2009-06-24. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) In 2009, EA Games released Hasbro Family Game Night 2, a sequel to the earlier-released collection of Hasbro boardgames and toys, Hasbro Family Game Night. Hasbro Family Game Night 2 was released for the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS and both versions featured Bop It as a playable simulation. [48]

Klara, Robert. "Bop It! Was Supposed to Be a Riff on the Remote Control". www.adweek.com . Retrieved 2019-09-19.Virtue, Graeme (2016-06-13). "How we made Bop It!". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-08-13. In 2019, Hasbro released a new version of Bop It called the Bop It Classic. The game was released in the US in July 2019 with a worldwide release expected in the Autumn of 2019. The game has four modes: Solo, Pass It, Beat Bop Solo and Beat Bop Pass It and has three actions: Bop It, Twist It and Pull It. The game's programming is based on the Bop It Micro but it game unit is bigger than the Micro and looks like a Bop It from 2009. The recording of "Beat Bop" was taken from the 2016 Bop It whilst all the other voices were from the Bop It! Micro Series. Each game mode has a maximum score of 100 points. [44] [45] Keychain, pen and caribiner versions In 2011, EA Games released an app for the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. [49] This app features several game modes, commands from the handheld games, X-Move bonuses and newer commands like "Brush It!", "Crank It!", "Squeeze It!", and "Poke It!". [50] a b Szymanski, Marianne, "The Use of Focus Groups in Toy Testing" (PDF), Advertising & Marketing to Children, Winthrop Publications, vol.1, no.2, p.162, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-14 Little-Middle-Big – As with Right Height, the player must listen to vocal cues from the Bop It! Bounce calling for bounces of "big" height, "middle" height, or "little" height. [28]