Guitar Hero may have been the first major console success for an instrument based video game, but it was certainly not the first music based video game to utilize an instrument peripheral as a game controller.
Guitar Hero was also responsible for spawning the highly successful Rock Band, as well as a few others, which we will cover below.
Pre Guitar Hero Games
Beatmania (1997)
GuitarFreaks (1998)
DrumMania (1999)
Samba de Amigo (1999)
Donkey Konga (2003)
Taiko: Drum Master (2004)
Post Guitar Hero Games
Rock Revolution (2008)
PopStar Guitar (2008)
Ultimate Band (2008)
Battle Of The Bands (2008)
Wii Music (2008)
Over the next few weeks we will be adding individual pages for each game to our site, providing detailed information.
