Guitar Hero (video game) facts for kids

Guitar Hero is a music video game, released on November 8, 2005 for the PlayStation 2. The game uses a guitar-shaped controller that allows players to simulate the playing of rock music. Guitar Hero has earned comparisons to Dance Dance Revolution played with a guitar. Despite a high price for the guitar/game bundle, Guitar Hero was very successful and had several sequels; Guitar Hero II and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, as well as other games in the music game genre. The game features artists such as David Bowie, Judas Priest, Sum 41 and Deep Purple

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  To play a note, the fret button and strum bar must be pressed when the solid note scrolls through the corresponding ring at the bottom. The interface shows the player's score and score multiplier (left), Star Power meter (right), and Rock Meter (bottom right).

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  The controller that was packaged with the game, an approximately 3/4-scale reproduction of a Gibson SG

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In Spanish: Guitar Hero (videojuego) para niños