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. DJ (2017-02-20). "Toy Fair 2017 - Hasbro Games". Archived from the original on 2019-07-30 . Retrieved 30 July 2019. a b c d US 6086478,Klitsner, Daniel B.&Welch, Robert M.,"Hand-held voice game",published 2000-07-11, assigned to Hasbro Inc. 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) Exclusive First Look of the Bop It! 2016". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21 . 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.210. ISBN 9781591392699. In 2003, this model was one of the top games in the market. [18] Bop It Extreme 2 The Bop It Extreme 2 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: 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. The game was released in Germany in 2002 as Simon Challenge. Although the gameplay remains the same, the commands, scoring, and comments are spoken in German.

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]

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 Killer dude!" (this one is said over the top and is said more clearly than the original Extreme. The original Extreme sounded more like "tuwa due!") 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. 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] Virtue, Graeme (2016-06-13). "How we made Bop It!". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-08-13.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 BATR Electronic Game of the Year Award 2003". 2010-11-30. Archived from the original on 2010-11-30. Earth, Entertainment. "Bop It Keychain Game - Hasbro Games - Games - Games at Entertainment Earth Item Archive".

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] 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.I've been playing Souls games for thousands of hours and wanted a fresh/unique challenge for the game, and after some brainstorming decided combining it with some childhood nostalgia would be the most fun challenge I could do," Swoop Douglas said to PC Gamer.

EA Games has also made Hasbro Family Game Night 4: The Game Show which features Bop It as a playable simulation. [51] The streamer explained that he had never actually defeated all the bosses in the game before attempting the Bop-It run. Although the Bop-It controller only includes five inputs, Swoop said he eventually became more comfortable with it than using a traditional gamepad. 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. 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

Relf, Alex (2019-02-17). "Toy Fair 2019 Hasbro Star Wars Reveals". Laughing Place . Retrieved 30 July 2019. 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 I think it had to do with having no choice but to use more focus while playing on a Bop-It that made me actually better versus a normal controller. And yes, after this run, I held an Xbox controller and it felt absolutely foreign."