So I see Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is on its way. Kinda funny, since I remember having a computer game a number of years ago, called Quest for Fame, starring Aerosmith. In fact, it was a lot like Guitar Hero, except you didn't have to worry about the frets; it was only matching the strumming rhythms. The game came with a purple plastic pick that attached to the computer's parallel port, and you could strum it against anything (it suggested, and we used, a badminton racket).

It wasn't purely Aerosmith fare. For the first "level" of the game, you had to play Steppenwolf's Born to be Wild. And I never really got much further in the game than that, since one of the challenges was to play a syncopated blues track, which was tricky. Plus, it was a bit of a hassle to set up the game, since it required disconnecting the printer from the parallel port. (In hindsight, we didn't do that much printing back then, so we probably could have left it. But still, the pick interface wasn't all that sophisticated.)

But it makes me wonder now, this is (as far as I know) the second Aerosmith-based rhythm-matching music game. Did Aerosmith remember Quest for Fame when they agreed to do Guitar Hero? How is it Aerosmith is like the go-to band for videogames? You know, aside from being super-famous for the last 100 years.

Labels: Aerosmith, Guitar Hero, videogames

posted by Tim at 11:41 PM