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    Guitar Hero for the Commodore 64 Sort of

    The rise in popularity of Guitar Hero, Rock Band and other fake-plastic-instrument music games has led to a golden age of videos of those games being played on YouTube. Indeed, we are seeing a virtual renaissance of watching a video screen display color bars to music and now we have an entirely new medium ready to set the world ablaze: Guitar Hero for the Commodore 64.

    Tony Westbrook of Synthetic Dreams has created Shredz64, a Guitar Hero sort of game for the Commodore 64 (which he dubs "the best selling computer of all time"). Here we see a video of young Tony, straight off of his job as an extra in Miami Vice apparently, explaining how using a controller works to move around in menus and other boring things. Then at around 4 and a half minutes things get exciting when he demonstrates a suspiciously familiar theme song...

    Shredz64 boasts the ability to load new and user-generated music and also the ability to make you look really nerdy and awkward when you talk about it at parties. Check out the video and enjoy.

    [link via Joystiq]

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    Nick says:

    posted March 11, 2008 5:41 PM

    You know what I realized I really miss?

    The old theme music. As much as I love Cicada, I really, really miss the cute, sort of sesame-street-esque music.

    /rant

    Sitnalta says:

    posted March 12, 2008 1:02 AM

    Oh, you know, you could just buy a PS2 for $50 off ebay.

    I mean, this is sort of cool in a proof of concept sort of way, but the big "WHY?" question quickly follows. It's utterly useless.

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