The DJ Hero.

I remember the first time I ever played Guitar Hero. It was back in two thousand and six, and it was the first Guitar Hero game, back on Playstation two. Going down the songs that were available on the game, I picked the first song that I saw that I knew; Iron Man by Black Sabbath. I picked the Easy difficulty and the game continued through to the loading screen. I prepared myself as the game loaded, putting my fingers in place by the coloured buttons. The game started, and the guitar neck got close to the screen, fading off into the distance. It was scrolling down, ever so slowly. The first note came down, a red one, and it was a long one. It was a circle that stretched out into a line behind it, so I assumed that I had to hold it down. I was nervous, but I hit the red button just as the red circle on the screen hit the bottom of the guitar neck. For some reason, I missed it, and the stroke of guitar that is played at the start of Iron Man was missing from the version playing through the speakers. The red line wasn’t red, it scrolled down the screen in this dull grey colour. Even though I pressed red at the right time, the game thought I missed it for some reason.

I could see the second note coming down, it was the exact same thing, it was another red one coming down, a long one, I placed my finger over the red button and pressed it but the game thought I missed it, again. This was when the crowd started booing, and it wasn’t soon after this when the audience hated me so much that they kicked me off the stage, I looked behind me at the people watching me, laughing. I was so sad, I was so excited to play the game but I failed. The next person grabbed the guitar from my failure hands, he pressed retry song. I should have told him that the guitar was broken or the song was broken, but I didn’t, and I watched him, and I knew that his fate was to fail, just as I did. The first note comes down the screen, that same red one that I should have hit, as it hits the bottom, he hits it, making the sound that I should have made it make. I look at him, stunned; I look at his guitar and watched the second red note, watching to see what he does differently. As the second note hit the screen, he held down the red button and pressed down on this black thing on the head of the guitar.

I was so sad, surely someone could have told me that I had to press down on that thing and at the same time press the coloured button that the screen told me to press, but no. The second time I played Guitar Hero, I tried the same song, Iron Man by Black Sabbath. I get ready for the red note, I have my finger over it ready to press, and at the same time I have my right hand over the black bar ready to press it downwards so it makes the right sound, not the clunking of failure that I heard. The red note hit the bottom of the screen, and I held the bar down as it came past, and I pressed the red button, keeping it held down, the note played through, and I hit my first ever note in Guitar Hero. The second one came down, it was the same red one again, and I got it perfectly again. In my eyes I was getting good, but this was only the beginning. It was when other coloured notes started coming down the screen that I started to miss them, the clunking sound of failure came back to haunt me again and the audience, again, booed me off stage.

As bad as I was at Guitar Hero, I had fun with it; and the more I played it the better I got, and the more notes I hit. The first song I passed wasn’t Iron Man; it was More Than a Feeling by Boston. It was a song even harder than iron Man, and I passed it. It took me around about eight tries before I finished the song in full but I did it, and the first time I passed that song, it was probably the most fun I had ever had when playing a video game. I felt like Guitar Hero was a game custom built for me, I mean I loved games, and it was a game, and I loved rock music, and the game featured nothing but rock music. It wasn’t long after this first encounter with it that the second Guitar Hero came out, and it was called Guitar Hero II. It wasn’t soon after the release of this game that I ended up buying an Xbox 360, and then it wasn’t long after that when Guitar Hero II came out on Xbox 360.

The year is two thousand and nine, and music games have gone crazy trying to implement new things into Guitar Hero games. Guitar Hero five, the latest one lets you play Guitar, Bass, Drums and you can sing. I thought that music games wouldn’t get any more expensive than when I first bought Guitar Hero II at one hundred and thirty odd dollars, but now the games are coming with drums and guitars and microphones and can cost upwards of three hundred dollars. It was also in this year when the newest music game came out, and it is called DJ Hero. DJ Hero is made by the Guitar Hero people, but instead of it coming with a guitar or drums, it comes with a turntable, the only downside to it all is that it costs one hundred and eighty dollars; two hundred and eighty dollars if you want the deluxe edition.

Boxing Day sales are meant to be amazing, I mean they are like Christmas sales, but even cheaper because they didn’t sell out of it all before Christmas so they mark it all down extremely to get rid of everything and get in new stock. I mean, like, that’s what I think or assume, I don’t actually know really. I saw that DJ Hero was ninety eight dollars at EB Games, and I was extremely excited, that is a mark down of like eighty dollars, and I had just played the game at Dick Smiths and it was extremely fun. I went home and got my Christmas money, only to realise that the shops were closing. I went on the internet and did some research, only to find out that the two hundred and eighty dollar version of the game was also on sale, and it was down to ninety nine dollars.

Skipping to the present, as in present times, as in like skipping to now, I currently have DJ Hero, and it is actually amazing, I am having more fun with it than I was having with Guitar Hero when I first got that, and I was having too much fun with Guitar Hero. I am currently playing DJ Hero on hard mode and I am getting good at it, five starring most songs. I almost feel like the music game genre is built around my likings, I mean I am growing old of rock music and I am enjoying listening to dance and techno a bit more now, and as soon as that happens, DJ Hero comes out, full of techno and dance beats. Words can’t describe how much fun DJ Hero actually is, so instead of using words, I am going to use nothing, stop writing this and go back and play some more DJ Hero.