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 DJ (2017-02-20). "Toy Fair 2017 - Hasbro Games". Archived from the original on 2019-07-30 . Retrieved 30 July 2019. 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. 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 a b US 6210278,Klitsner, Daniel B.,"Hand-held voice game",published 2001-04-03, assigned to Klitsner Industrial Design LLC

Right Height – The player must listen to vocal cues from the Bop It! Bounce, calling for higher or lower bounces until the correct height is achieved when a chime sounds. [28] 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. Relf, Alex (2019-02-17). "Toy Fair 2019 Hasbro Star Wars Reveals". Laughing Place . 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) 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]

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a b "Bop It! Rules & Instructions". Parker Bros. 1996. Archived from the original on 2009-10-27 . Retrieved 2016-11-06. Hasbro Family Game Night 2 Wii". IGN. 2010-04-02. Archived from the original on 2010-04-02 . Retrieved 2019-10-20. When a player messes up, the announcer will sound disappointed. But the effect was once the iconic "D'oh!" exclamation of Homer Simpson, at least in the demo that inventor Dan Klitsner showed to Hasbro. Obviously, that was changed before release (via AdWeek). Hasbro and the Tetris Company Announce New Face-to-Face Games Based on World-Famous TETRIS® Video Game (NASDAQ:HAS)". Archived from the original on 2013-11-09 . Retrieved 2013-01-18.

BATR Electronic Game of the Year Award 2003". 2010-11-30. Archived from the original on 2010-11-30. 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 BopIn 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] Bop It! Micro Series Game | Bop It". products.hasbro.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-02 . Retrieved 2019-08-02. a b c d US 6086478,Klitsner, Daniel B.&Welch, Robert M.,"Hand-held voice game",published 2000-07-11, assigned to Hasbro Inc. Solo Bop" is the single-player mode for the original Bop It. This game is substantially similar to "Vox Bop (with voice commands)", except the "Pass It!" command is never issued. Instead, when the player misses a command, the game ends and the score is reported. [5] [21] [43] This mode is also known as "Vox Bop Solo" in Bop It Extreme [16] [17] and Bop It Extreme 2, [19] and simply "Solo" in "Bop It!" [25] and Bop It XT!. [30] Beat Bop Solo

In 2012, Hasbro introduced Bop-It! Smash at the New York Toy Fair. Bop-It! Smash features color-changing lights in a central area called "The Zone". Players score by "smashing" two Bop-It! buttons together when a zone light is either green or blue. Bop-It! Smash has three various game modes: Solo, Pass It and Multi-player. Virtue, Graeme (2016-06-13). "How we made Bop It!". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-08-13. So that's what I did," said Rubino. "There's nothing put-on with the Bop-It voice: it's just me, or maybe me on 10 energy drinks." Based on concepts originally patented by Dan Klitsner, [3] [4] Bop It was licensed to Hasbro [5] [6] and further developed there by a number of designers including Bob Welch. [3] With newer versions, additional inputs have been added or altered such that units like the 2010 Bop-It! Bounce shares no inputs in common with the original 1996 Bop It.

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. Earth, Entertainment. "Bop It Keychain Game - Hasbro Games - Games - Games at Entertainment Earth Item Archive". All the while, the voice of Bop-It has been provided by actor Buddy Rubino, who has been the one barking commands since 2008. In an interview with The Guardian, Rubino recalls not even knowing what the toy was before getting the audition. His only direction with the script was to "just say it really excited." 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.

Bop It BB8". Time to Play Magazine. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019 . Retrieved 30 July 2019. Klara, Robert. "Bop It! Was Supposed to Be a Riff on the Remote Control". www.adweek.com . Retrieved 2019-09-19. 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] 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: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 2017, Hasbro released the follow-up to the Bop It! New Moves called Bop It! Maker. The game was first demonstrated at New York Toy Fair in 2017 and was released in July 2017. The Bop It! Maker has ten slots available on where the player can record their custom moves for the game. The game has four new actions: Bop It, Roll It, Shout It and Squeeze It. The game has three modes: Solo, Party and Basic. In the Solo mode, the game uses the four moves and all the recorded moves. In the Party mode, the game plays like Solo but instead the "Pass It" command is issued. In the Basic mode, the voice says "Bop It to Start!" and plays a little faster than the Solo mode. Each mode can score up to 100 points. [42] Re-release versions Bop It re-release (2000) and (2002) In 2003, this model was one of the top games in the market. [18] Bop It Extreme 2 The Bop It Extreme 2