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]
