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I spent months as a teenager lost in that game. All music games were hard, back then, but also tantalisingly conquerable with practice and pattern recognition, like the arcade shmups that fascinated the generation before mine.Īmplitude, in 2003, was my next great music-game obsession, a club-inspired beat-matcher where you layered drums and instruments together by matching their rhythms until a song blossomed from those disparate tracks. I played it over and over for two years until I finally finished it on Master mode, an achievement I am still proud of. I’ve never played such a musically creative game its Legendary Theme was one of the first things I ever learned to play on an actual guitar. I did not stop at Easy I defeated every song on Expert and became phenomenally good at playing pretend instruments – a talent that has garnered me admiration at parties but has absolutely no use in the year 2022.īefore Guitar Hero, my first experiences with music games was 2001’s Gitaroo Man, the unlikely heroic tale of a teenaged boy who is transformed into an anime superhero by the power of everything from rock and jazz to J-pop and electro-funk – every level changed genre, sending you off to fight musical battles with maraca-wielding skeletons or giant bee-men with saxophones, and culminating in an epic guitar solo trade-off with a rival superhero in space. Those toy guitars were just close enough to real ones to make you feel good when you were playing, and far enough away to make anyone feel like they could actually be a rock star, at least when you’re playing on Easy.

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From 2007 until 2010 or so, my living room was full of plastic instruments: drums and guitars for Rock Band, DJ decks from DJ Hero. For a while in the late 00s they were everywhere, after Guitar Hero proved an unlikely breakout hit. Trombone Champ has reminded me how much I miss music games. Being good at Trombone Champ is not only possible, but aspirational. And, as I discovered when trying to get the highest possible score, an S-rank, on a few songs – motivated by some deep need to conquer the game – it is challenging to wring anything higher than a B out of the game’s scoring system.

The act of moving a mouse up and down and pressing a button has just enough in common with the act of playing a trombone to make this a legitimate interactive approximation.

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