[game_preservation] Music Game Expert - Need a consultant (the lineage of Guitar Hero)

[Andrew Armstrong]

I'm no specalist, but recently one of the blogs I read posted on 
predecessors, and mind you, he only skimmed the top. I guess you'll know 
all this, but for anyone else who's interest is piqued might want to 
give it a read.

http://www.unfetteredblather.com/guitar-zero/

The USA has had a lot more releases in the peripherals market however, 
and likely there are a ton I've never even seen predating Guitar Hero, 
nevermind the Japanese arcades and home market, who always had some 
wacky stuff and had a huge interest in Karaoke besides - if it is just 
those games, they go way back.

Another sideline was I remember the Preservation SIG round table at GDC 
had someone specially bring up the fact they have a lot of Guitar Hero 
prototypes around, which will probably get lost or broken if they can't 
be preserved (I really need to get the museum  and archives contacts 
done I guess!).

Any specific reason you need an expert? (or I guess, it might be private 

:) ) You'll be, to be honest, unlikely to find one who isn't actually 

employed in a company who currently produces such games, but someone 
here might know enough about general music games or perhaps rhythm games 
in general. Sorry I can't be of more help!

Andrew

Greg Boyd wrote:

> I am actually looking for a consultant with knowledge about music 

> games, especially the predecessors of Guitar Hero.  As a secondary 

> quality, if the person is pretty sophisticated about IP, that would be 

> great.  Ideally, this would be a senior technical person in the game 

> industry or perhaps someone on the business side.

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