Guitar Hero for the uncoordinated
Guitar Hero is a game of reflexes and coordination. Using a guitar-shaped controller, the player holds the guitar and presses colored buttons matching the patterns displayed on the screen. It is very difficult and causes the player to work up a sweat if done correctly.
Toy maker Jada demonstrated this new Guitar Hero licensed toy that features special picks and a belt buckle hooked up to a miniature amplifier.
When the player strums past his belt buckle in rhythm with the pre-programmed riffs, it looks pretty realistic, except for the lack of an actual guitar.
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What a joke!
Hey, it's a free market, so God bless 'em, I hope they get rich.
But, to me, it looks like the guy in the video snippet is practicing up to mimic Joe Cocker's famous spastic gyrations in his Woodstock version of the Beatles' "With A Little Help From My Friends."
The good news is that this game opens up a whole new line of process-escaping games for the too-lazy-to-do-the-real-work couch-potato crowd.
If Guitar Hero proves to be a huge financial success, how about "Computer Programmer Hero", "Triathalon Hero", or "Find A Cure For Cancer Hero"? The list of possibilities for escaping the process of doing the real brain and body work it takes to actually succeed at something worthwhile is virtually endless. "Virtually", get it?! (Har! Har!)
Hey, if there's a market for helping losers and posers feel good about themselves, who am I to criticize? It's just that the likes of Andres Segovia, Django Reinhardt and Jimi Hendrix must surely be scoffing from their graves.
What was that famous saying again, oh yeh, "It's only a game." I forgot for a second there — but I'm feeling MUCH better now!
Actually I LOVE the new computer technology, along with you guys' super coverage of the CES show. Thanks.
Sorry for my anti-touchy-feely attitude. I guess I'm just getting too old and cranky to keep from letting my inner curmudgeon show in polite society!
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