My long-buried desire to play an instrument was reawakened in July 2012 with news from a surprising source: the guy in GAME.
My friend had acquired a Wii gun and wanted to find something destructive to play with it on for as little money as possible. Whilst she hunted for something in the second hand games section, I mused over buying a couple of Guitar Hero games. She finally found something suitably bloodbath-y for a suitably small amount of money, and when we went to pay for our games the guy at the till enlightened us about the latest addition to the play-along-with-the-screen music game genre: Rocksmith, which uses a real guitar as a controller. Alas, release in Europe was being held up by a legal challenge for the name from a band down in Southend, and I forgot about it for a few months.
Then, in January 2013, I was reminded of the game by the fact that my Wii gun friend had bought it. Had a little dabble at her house, then decided to get the game for myself. It was an acquisition that also involved the purchase of a guitar, both of which I got from Argos, and getting it home via a two hour bus ride ... but I had the necessary tools to become a rock star!
Well, maybe not, but I might be able to play Three Blind Mice at parties.
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