also, owning the first two/three games just made everyone in your extended family go “well that’s cute, but why don’t you learn a REAL instrument” causing everyone to drop the series like a hot potato out of embarrassment in order to pick up 4 months of guitar lessons, then quit that too.
Saw this too in my teen years over Guitar Hero. For about a year, all my friends suddenly wanted to play guitar, then they gave up after the summer.
I kinda had a soft spot for the first game, cause before that, I was just a Metal head. Guitar Hero introduced me to David Bowie, The Ramones and Edgar Winter. Suddenly I had these awesome classic rock songs I was hearing which led me to go and look for albums by Bowie and others, which radically steered my musical interests in new directions and learned stuff outside heavy metal on guitar.
Saw this too in my teen years over Guitar Hero. For about a year, all my friends suddenly wanted to play guitar, then they gave up after the summer.
I kinda had a soft spot for the first game, cause before that, I was just a Metal head. Guitar Hero introduced me to David Bowie, The Ramones and Edgar Winter. Suddenly I had these awesome classic rock songs I was hearing which led me to go and look for albums by Bowie and others, which radically steered my musical interests in new directions and learned stuff outside heavy metal on guitar.