I brought the Rock Band and Guitar Hero games to a workplace employee appreciation event…
We had an employee appreciation day at work last weekend and I brought my Xbox 360, a TV, two guitars and the microphone, and all of the Rock Band and Guitar Hero games. It was so much fun finally playing some of those games multiplayer again for the first time in forever, but the thing was all of the employees (mostly ~17-19 year old teenagers) were TERRIBLE at it. Like, they can’t even hit most notes on Easy. I was rolling through Hard and Expert and they were awestruck. It’s weird how we went from these games being so huge and everyone of a certain age learning how to play them and appreciate some classic and popular rock, to them becoming played out and worthless as people abandoned their plastic instruments en masse, to now being valuable again because of how many were junked and now people are wanting to experience them again. I feel like every generation should get to experience this sort of musical euphoria (feeing like you’re playing) and learning at least something about musical scales and compositions, but instead the burnout made an entire generation miss out on learning anything about that generation of music and the appreciation of knowing how to play an instrument. And as it stands now, these musical games may never make their comeback.
