While there are nine games to play with NEOS, each with various levels of difficulty, the basic game pits two players against one another. It?????s a contest of speed. One player waits to see a flashing green light somewhere on one of the panels. The other player is looking for the red light. The green and red lights flash on intermittently and by pushing the light you score a point, then quickly move to push the next flashing light, and so on. It?????s a timed event, the score is kept electronically, and all the while there is a sound track playing.

We mention this because NEOS got some national attention Dec. 13, 2007 on the Ellen DeGeneres Show in a segment called ???NEOS to Meet You.?????(R) We missed the show, because we were busy working to put out a magazine, but we did catch it on the show?????s website: https://ellen.warnerbros.com/EllenMediaPlayer.

Ellen, 49, and Jim, 23, a staff member competed, then two members of the audience. Ellen and Jim played ???Light Grabber,?????(R) which lasts for only 45 seconds but feels like about twice that long when you play it (we know because we played it at the ASLA Expo). The action is quick and there?????s plenty of bumping into one another and reaching around.