I know I've mentioned on here before that I am not a video game person. The combination of a relatively slow reaction time, lack of hand eye coordination, and a general lack of understanding of video game mechanics make for a relatively terrible time. Well it's generally considered funny for my friends and family to watch me fail, until they realize they need to pull my weight in the game if they have any hopes of succeeding. Luckily this inability of mine isn't usually a huge hindrance, especially since a majority of my group of friends are bigger board game fans than they are video game fans. Or at least they will typically go for the physical game when a group is involved before trying to find something electronic to play. The only time my inability proved to be rather problematic for me was during college.
A good portion of my freshman year was spent hanging out in people's rooms, like everyone's is I'm sure. We would watch movies, TV, play card games, hang out talking, and occasionally actually study. But one of the biggest things we did was to hang out in my friend Mat's room since he had a playstation. I don't remember what games he had at the time but the main thing we played was Guitar Hero. I think a big reason for this was the fact that it was still fairly new, since it was released at the end of 2005 and I started college in 2006. It was also an easy game to get a group of people to participate in. Even if you weren't playing you could still sit around and listen to the music at least. After a while I did end up getting a bit of a handle on how to play the game, eventually mildly mastering the easy level. Unfortunately this wasn't quite enough for the group and got teased into attempting to play the game on medium. I have no idea what it was about adding the pinky into the game play, but I could not for the life of me figure out how to pull it off. In the end I generally sat around and played audience to my group of friends, which I was generally cool with. A couple of years later, the group's obsession with Guitar Hero was replaced by Rock Band. Again I think it was heavily influenced by the fact that it was a relatively new product and there was a new element to the game. While Guitar Hero focused on the bass and guitar sections of the music, Rock Band brought in the drums and vocals of a song. So you could get a larger group to play the game and you had a couple of different elements to try to master. It also seemed to have a wider selection of songs that you could play. I don't think I ended up playing it often, if at all, and there definitely weren't as many evenings spent playing the game as we had my Freshman year. Rock Band was certainly still a big part of my college experience, which this sticker reminded me of. I don't know if the sticker is really tied to the game, since it's called Rock Band and this sticker is WII Rock. There is also the fact that Rock Band hasn't released a product that works on the WII since Rock Band 3 in 2010. Although this may also be because these types of games seem to be on the way out. I know they're still mildly popular but it seems like they have fallen out of favor over the years. Although I am certainly the last person to make that judgement call.
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